{"id":1163,"date":"2026-05-30T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:14:18","slug":"national-testing-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/national-testing-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"National Testing Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>National Testing Agency<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>National\u00a0Testing Agency (NTA) has been\u00a0established\u00a0as an<strong>\u00a0autonomous and self-sustained testing organization\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>conduct<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>entrance examinations for admission\/fellowship in higher educational institutions.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NTA was\u00a0established\u00a0by the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Education<\/strong>\u00a0following the Union Cabinet\u2019s approval in\u00a0<strong>2017.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a<strong>\u00a0registered society<\/strong>\u00a0under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and is\u00a0<strong>under the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To conduct<strong>\u00a0efficient,\u00a0transparent\u00a0and international standards tests<\/strong>\u00a0in order to\u00a0assess the competency of candidates for\u00a0admission,\u00a0and recruitment purposes.\u00a0\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NTA administers several prominent entrance exams, including JEE-Main for\u00a0engineering, NEET-UG for medical courses, and CUET-UG for various undergraduate programs. Additionally, it conducts exams like CUET-PG for postgraduate admissions, UGC-NET, and CSIR UGC-NET for research fellowships and PhD admissions, among others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>undertake research<\/strong>\u00a0on educational,\u00a0professional\u00a0and testing systems to\u00a0identify\u00a0gaps in the knowledge systems and take steps for bridging them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To\u00a0identify\u00a0experts and institutions in<strong>\u00a0setting examination questions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Testing Agency About Objectives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}