824. That is how many candidates have qualified for a Junior Research Fellowship across the three UGC-NET papers that had to be sat twice.
The story so far
In August, the National Testing Agency announced that it would re-run three UGC-NET June 2026 papers — English, Commerce and Sociology — after complaints of several errors in them. We covered that decision when it was taken, in UGC-NET June 2026: English, Commerce and Sociology Go Again on September 9 and 10. Results for the other 84 subjects had already been declared in late August; these three candidates were left waiting.
The re-tests were held as scheduled: English on 9 September, 9 AM to 12 noon; Commerce on 9 September, 3 PM to 6 PM; Sociology on 10 September, 9 AM to 12 noon.
What is new
NTA declared the re-exam results on 18 September 2026, on ugcnet.nta.nic.in. Across the three papers, 35,588 candidates qualified in total, split across the three categories the NET awards:
824 qualified for Junior Research Fellowship — the category that carries a monthly stipend and is the one most candidates are actually chasing.
11,610 qualified for Assistant Professor eligibility.
23,154 qualified for PhD admission only.
Final answer keys and category-wise cut-offs were published alongside the results, under an NTA notice dated 17 September.
How to pull your scorecard
Go to ugcnet.nta.nic.in.
Under Candidate Activity, open UGC-NET June 2026 Score Card (Re-Exam).
Log in with your application number and date of birth.
Download the PDF and keep a copy — you will need it for PhD applications and for assistant-professor recruitment paperwork.
Why this matters here
English, Commerce and Sociology are among the most-taken NET papers at the University of Jammu, Cluster University Jammu and Central University of Jammu. For a candidate in Jammu, NET is the gate to three separate things at once: a funded PhD place, eligibility to apply for assistant-professor posts in J&K's colleges, and the JRF stipend that makes a research degree financially survivable. A ten-day wait past everyone else's result is not trivial when PhD admission windows are open.
One thing that has not been published: any J&K-specific breakdown of how many candidates qualified. NTA does not release state-wise counts for the NET, so there is no figure to quote for Jammu, and we are not going to estimate one.
