In a significant development, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, during today’s winter Parliament session, announced that starting 2025, the National Testing Agency (NTA) will no longer conduct recruitment examinations. Instead, it will focus solely on entrance examinations for higher education institutions. He further stated that the government plans to introduce computer-adaptive testing, a tech-driven approach for entrance examinations, in the future.
Additionally, the Minister revealed that the NTA will undergo restructuring in 2025, with the addition of 10 new posts. He also mentioned ongoing discussions with the Health Ministry regarding whether the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Undergraduate programmes (NEET UG) will be conducted in pen-paper mode or online mode. The key question now is: What led the education ministry to announce such drastic changes? Before delving into those issues, let’s first examine the major entrance examinations conducted by the NTA, both for recruitment and higher education institutions.
NTA Exams: Major entrance and recruitment tests The National Testing Agency is responsible for conducting several national-level entrance examinations for higher education institutions as well as recruitment exams. Here are the major examinations conducted by the agency. NTA conducts several other examinations also apart from these.
Higher Education Institutions Entrance Tests Recruitment Entrance Tests Joint Entrance Mains (JEE Main.
