NTA has stated that the exam commenced on November 20, 2021, and end on December 27, 2021, as announced by the National Testing Agency. The UGC NET December 2020 and UGC NET June 2021 Exams was held on the same dates, with a total of 12.67 lakh candidates expected to apply. According to NTA, the UGC NET exam will be held in 213 cities across 469 test centres for 81 test papers, with information regarding the venue and centre included on the candidates’ hall tickets.
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The UGC NET admit cards are usually released a fortnight to 10 days before the date of the exams.
That said, the UGC NET admit cards can be downloaded from the NTA’s official website anytime from the date of its release to the date of the exam.
Talking about the physical nature or form in which the admit card is required to be carried to the exam halls, you’re required to take a printed copy of your admit card to the exam centre. On your admit card you will have details like your name and application number etc.
Therefore, it is imperative that you download your UGC NET admit card and take a print out of it, as only hard copies of it will be considered to be legitimate by the exam authorities.
To put things in perspective, the UGC NET admit card will basically serve the purpose of validating your presence in the UGC NET exam hall, meaning that the UGC NET admit card is essentially your entry pass to take your UGC NET exam.
With that said let us look at the release dates of the 2021 UGC NET admit cards.
UGC NET Admit Card 2021 Release Date
The admit cards for the 2021 UGC NET Exam (i.e., December 2020 Cycle + June 2021 Cycle merged) began to be released from 13th November 2021 onwards.
Moreover, you should note that the 2021 UGC admit cards were released in phases. The first phase of admit cards, i.e., of most of the exams were released on 13, 16 & 25 November 2021.
Then the Phase 2 admit cards for exams such as Bengali, Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit & Home Sciences, were released, on 21st December 2021.
Note: The admit card for Phase 2 Kannada paper was still not released on 21st December 2021. Although NTA has released an official notification on 2nd January 2022 stating that the Kannada exam was to be held on 4th January 2022 and the admit card for the same was also released on 4th January 2022.
After that, the Phase 3 admit cards were released on 29th Dec 2021 for the 4 subjects (Social Work; Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/IR/Labour and Social welfare/HRM; Odia, Telugu) of Phase 1 (which could not be conducted due to cyclone Jawad) and 2 subjects (Geography & Sociology) of Phase 2.
To help you understand the dates better, I have tabulated the information below:
| Exam Events | Important Dates |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 | 13, 16 & 25 November 2021 |
| Phase 2 | 21 December 2021 and 4 January 2022 |
| Phase 3 | 29 December 2021 |
| NTA UGC NET Exam Dates | 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29,30 November 2021, & 01, 03, 04, 05, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 December 2021 [(Postponed in a few cities of Odisha & Andhra Pradesh) 4 & 5 Jan 2022] |
In order to download the UGC NET admit card 2022 for the Phase III exam, all the candidates need to follow the below-mentioned steps:
- Log on to the website — ugcnet.nta.nic.in
- On the homepage, click on, “Download Admit Card using Application Number and DOB” or Download Admit Card using Application Number and Password”
- Enter your UGC NET login details
- Click on submit
- Your UGC NET admit card 2021 for phase 3 exam will be displayed
- Download and take the print out of the same
Direct link to download the UGC NET 2021 admit card https://ugcnet.nta.nic.in/WebInfo/Page/Page?PageId=1&LangId=P
Source: https://www.anujjindal.in/nta-ugc-net-admit-card-hall-ticket/
