The UGC NET 2021 May examination has been postponed by the National Testing Agency, NTA amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in the country. The new dates for the UGC-NET 2020 cycle examinations will be announced later and 15 days prior to the examination. The UGC-NET was scheduled to take place from May 2, 2021, to May 17, 2021. Earlier, the UGC-NET was scheduled to be held in December 2020 and has been postponed multiple times since then due to the COVID-19 situation in the country.
UGC-NET is conducted twice every year. However in 2020 due to the pandemic, the June 2020 examination got delayed and was deferred to September 2020 until November 2020 to cover all the subjects. The December 2020 cycle had to be postponed till March-April 2021 then again till May and has been postponed yet again.
All candidates who have applied for the examination are advised to keep a check on ugcnet.nta.nic.in and nta.ac.in for latest updates regarding the date for the examination.