Recently, the Delhi High Court has directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to set up an expert committee to examine alleged discrepancies in the History paper of the UGC NET December 2025 cycle.

The direction comes in the wake of controversy surrounding the History paper conducted between December 2025 and January 2026. Several candidates alleged that nine questions and two translated portions contained errors. They claimed that although objections were submitted after the provisional answer key was released on January 14, no clarification was issued before the final results were declared on February 4.

Candidate named Kartikey Kahol, moved the High Court, contending that he fell short of qualifying for the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by two marks due to allegedly incorrect answer options provided by the NTA.

During the proceedings, the Court observed that certain answer choices were so closely worded that they were likely to create confusion among examinees. Taking note of this, the Court directed the NTA to award two additional marks to the petitioner. With the revised score, he now qualifies for the JRF