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Reading Week in Kerala: This Kochi school got grandmothers to school as storytellers
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UGC NET June 2025 Exam Updates: The National Testing Agency(NTA) is expected to release the UGC NET 2025 provisional answer key anytime soon. The examination for the UGC NET 2025 June session was held between June 25 to June 29, 2025. The provisional response sheets will be available on their official website, given as follows – At present, NTA has not released any date or time for the declaration of the UGC NET Answer Key. Steps to check the answer key- After declaring the results, the candidates can follow the given steps to access their provisional answer key. Step 1: Go the the NTA's official UGC NET website – – Step 2: Candidates are required to enter necessary credentials like their application number, date of birth, and captcha code. Step 3: You may now download the answer sheet and also your answer scripts. Step 4: Candidates can match their answer scripts using the corresponding question IDs disclosed beforehand. Step 5: Candidates can object questions if they find any discrepancy in the given objection window. Step 6: Candidates are required to pay the fees for raising objections and may download the receipt for future use. Additional information- Notably, any objections raised by the candidates will cost them a non-refundable fee of Rs. 200 per question, in case the objection is found right. The UGC NET examinations are conducted in about 83 different subjects, which include subjects like Hindi, English, French, Spanish, sociology, visual arts, mass communication and journalism,etc. The exams were conducted in both Hindi and English except for the language papers. These exams allow candidates, if selected, to be eligible for junior Research Fellowship (JRF), or be appointed as an assistant professor in colleges, or take admissions in PhD courses in India.
