NTA Exam Calendar 2025: JEE Main, NEET, CUET, UGC NET dates soon; websites to check

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency will soon issue the NTA exam calendar 2025 for the major national entrance exams for the upcoming academic year. The testing agency releases an examination calendar every year to inform aspirants about the tentative exam dates on its official website, nta.ac.in. Last year, NTA published the exam calendar on September 14.

Based on previous years’ trends, the NTA exam calendar 2025 PDF will notify the exam dates and mode of examination for the Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main) 2025 session 1 and 2, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2025, Common University Entrance Test - Undergraduate (CUET UG) 2025, CUET PG 2025, and the University Grants Commission - National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) 2025.

The NTA exam calendar 2025-26 will also inform candidates about the tentative result dates. In its previous calendar, the testing agency said that the specific details about the exams will be made available through the respective information bulletins which will be published at the time of commencement of the registration process.

JEE Main is conducted for determining the student’s eligibility for admission to the engineering programmes while NEET is held for MBBS admissions. CUET has been introduced in recent years for university admissions, replacing the old system of admitting students based on their Class 12 scores. UGC NET has multiple uses including awarding of the research fellowships, appointment of assistant professors in colleges, and admissions to the PhD programmes starting from the 2024-25 session (a decision taken by the commission in March year).

Also read Delay in UGC NET result 2024, PhD admission leave aspirants dazed

The ministry of education has been mulling to merge JEE Main, NEET, and CUET into a single entrance exam under its ‘one nation, one exam’ policy, in order to reduce the stress amongst students. UGC chief and Union education minister have talked about the possibility in the past, however, there is no such update yet.