Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced that from 2025, the NTA will stop conducting recruitment exams and focus solely on higher education entrance tests. Reforms follow controversies like NEET UG leaks and UGC NET irregularities.

"NTA will be limited to conducting only entrance exams for higher education and will not conduct any recruitment exams from next year," Pradhan told reporters. The Minister also clarified that the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG will continue to be conducted once a year.

In a significant policy shift, the NTA will stop conducting recruitment exams from 2025, concentrating solely on higher education entrance tests. This change comes after controversies surrounding exam integrity,

The Ministry is also discussing with the Health Ministry whether the exam should be conducted in the traditional pen-and-paper format or transitioned to a Computer-Based Test (CBT), details below.

NTA will not conduct any recruitment exams starting 2025 and will focus on only higher education entrance exams, Union Education Minister said on Tuesday.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will focus on conducting entrance exams for higher education institutions, as announced by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.