New Delhi: The Delhi high court has directed an expert review of four disputed answers in the UGC-NET June 2026 examination. The order came on on November 5, in which Justice Jasmeet Singh observed that errors in answer keys could affect candidates’ merit rankings and eligibility. The UGC-NET determines eligibility for assistant professor positions and junior research fellowships.The order released on Thursday, November 12, directs a subject expert committee to examine the four questions and pass a reasoned order within three weeks, reports the Hindustan Times. The court was hearing five petitions filed by candidates challenging discrepancies in 10 answers in the provisional and final answer keys.Of the 10 disputed questions, the court declined to intervene in six, accepting the University Grants Commission’s submission that subject experts had examined them and that no apparent errors had been established. However, it referred the remaining four questions, two from Education, one from Urdu and one from Geography, for fresh examination.“An error of this kind should not be suffered by the candidates,” the court observed, adding that even a single mark could determine whether a candidate crossed the qualifying cut-off.The latest judicial intervention comes amid a series of controversies surrounding the National Testing Agency (NTA)’s conduct of the examination. In August 2026, the agency announced fresh examinations for English, Commerce and Sociology after an internal committee identified multiple factual, typographical and translation errors in the question papers.The Wire had previously reported that the NTA’s committee had flagged misspelt names of prominent scholars, garbled book titles, left behind grammatical errors and repeated a significant number of questions from previous examinations. The English and Commerce papers were rescheduled for September 9, while the Sociology paper had been rescheduled for September 10.The problems in the NTA paper had come to light less than a month after the youth movement triggered by the NEET undergraduate exam paper leak had led to the resignation of then Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. However, questions were raised about its performance prior to NEET protests.In the aftermath of the protests, NTA fired 47 officials as part of a “major overhaul.” In late July, Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar told Rajya Sabha that 15 out of 39 sanctioned posts in the agency remain vacant.