Joint CSIR-UGC NET Examination – June 2024 for JRF, Assistant Professor, and Admission to PhD

CSIR June 2024 Registration is Live at https://csirnet.nta.ac.in (Last Date 21st May 2024).

Joint CSIR-UGC NET  for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Lectureship

Timeline

Eligibility Criteria

1. Essential Educational Qualifications

*: without rounding off

NCL: Non creamy layer

M. Sc or equivalent degree/Integrated BS-MS/BS-4 years/BE/B Tech/B Pharma/MBBS with at least 55%* marks for General (UR)/General-EWS and 50%* for OBC (NCL)/SC/ST, Third gender, and Persons with Disability (PwD) candidates.

Candidates enrolled for M.Sc. or having completed 10+2+3 years of the above qualifying examination as on the closing date of online submission of Application Form, are eligible to apply in the above subject under Result Awaited (RA) category on the condition that they complete the qualifying degree with requisite percentage of marks within two years from the date of declaration of Joint CSIR-UGC NET Test result, failing to which they shall be treated as disqualified. Such candidates will have to submit the attestation form duly certified by the Head of the Department/Institute from where the candidate is appearing or has appeared (Annexure-VIII).

B.Sc. (Hons) or equivalent degree holders or students enrolled in Integrated MS-PhD Program with at least 55%* marks for General (UR)/General-EWS candidates; 50%* marks for OBC (NCL)/SC/ST, Third gender, Persons with Disability (PwD) candidates are also eligible to apply. Candidates with bachelor’s degree will be eligible for CSIR fellowship only after getting registered/enrolled for PhD/Integrated PhD program within the validity period of two years.

Candidates possessing only Bachelor's degree are eligible to apply only for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and not for Lectureship (LS)/Assistant Professor.

B.E./B.S./B.Tech./B.Pharma/MBBS final year/result awaited candidates are eligible to apply for fellowship only. These candidates will not be eligible for Lectureship/Assistant professor.

B.Sc. (Hons.) final year/result awaited candidates are not eligible to apply.

Specification of degrees (whether Bachelor's or Master's) as notified by UGC in its Gazette Notification No. F. 5-1/2013 (CPP-II) dated 5th July, 2014 and as amended from time to time, shall apply.

The eligibility for Lectureship/Assistant Professor of NET qualified candidates will be subject to fulfilling the criteria laid down by UGC. PhD degree holders who have passed Master’s degree prior to 19th September 1991, with at least 50%* marks are eligible to apply for Lectureship/Assistant Professor only.

Candidates belonging to the Third gender category are eligible to draw the same relaxation in fee, age, and eligibility criteria for NET (i.e. JRF and Assistant Professor) as are available to SC/ST categories. The subject-wise qualifying cut-offs for this category would be the lowest among those for SC/ST/PwD/OBC-NCL/General-EWS categories in the corresponding subject.

Upper Age Limit

JRF:  Not more than 30 years (previously it was 28 years) as on the 1st day of the month in which the examination is concluded i.e. June, 2024. A relaxation of upto 5 years is provided to the candidates belonging to OBC-NCL (refer www.ncbc.nic.in)/SC/ST/PwD/Third gender categories and to women applicants. 

Assistant Professor: No upper age limit

Admission to PhD: No upper age limit

Exam Resources

• Pattern of the Question Paper for Life Sciences
• CSIR-UGC NET Life Sciences Syllabus
• Previous Year Question Papers
• Important Topics

Detailed Notification is available at CSIR NTA Website.