For the first time, 55,872 candidates qualified for the eligibility for the post of assistant professor in the University Grant Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC- Net 2018) exam plus Junior Research Fellowship. Candidates who qualified for JRF were 3,929. Last year the number of candidates who could clear UGC Net test were 38,000.
Breaking the trend this year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results in a record of three-weeks time. The exam was conducted on July 8 and announced the results yesterday, July 31. Earlier, the declaration of the results used to take more than three months

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