Let us pray to the Court to Scrap the June /Dec 2012 exam

The important thing to note is that the NET had objectivity built in to its evaluation even before the June 2012 NET exam. Before the UGC will evaluate only the objective papers of Paper 1 and Paper 2 to decide the result. The non objective Paper 3 will be evaluated only for those who have cleared Paper 1 and Paper 2. Therefore it is wrong for the Committee to have deliberated on changing the pattern of the exam and thus to have changed the pattern of Paper 3 from the earlier pattern that has been decided by an expert committee. The employers had the feel of the candidates versatility to detailed answers in the earlier pattern that is necessary in Humanities subjects. The Paper 2 and Paper 3 are different in CSIR, though both may be objective. But that is not the case with June 2012 NET exam pattern. There is a strong reason to believe that this change has been done to effect certain malpractices. The best way out now is to completely declare the June 2012 and December 2012 examinations as 'sub standard' and to discard these results. Let the UGC conduct the examination in the old pattern again to these aspirants without taking any application fee

The right solution to this fiasco is possible only if the UGC is pressurized to scrap the June 2012 and Dec 2012 examination. Of course there will definitely be a lot of broken hearts. But the verdict of Kerala High Court is not a comprehensive one and so will be stoutly resisted by UGC by all means. If the Judgement of Kerala HC is made applicable to non petitioners then the pass percentage will be touching 80% and that is several lakhs of candidates. That will dilute the value of UGC and thus will make it easy for the NET review committee to scrap all the NET scheme. Then again it will be a Court proceeding and this time the UGC will say, "UGC has been permitted earlier by Court to dump MPhil and PhD. Then why not NET and SET?"

June 2012 and Dec 2012 NET examination is an aberration and so the Court should also be given a option to scrap it with due penalties to UGC.