What Is The National Testing Agency (NTA) And How Does It Function

The Ministry of Human Resource Development which has been renamed the Ministry of Education, Government of India (GOI), established the (NTA) is an independent, autonomous, and self-sustaining premier testing agency under the Society Registration Act 1860 for conducting efficient, transparent, and international standards-based tests to assess candidates’ competency and will conduct almost all national level examinations in different domains.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) was formed as a leading, specialized, autonomous, and self-sustaining testing body for the purpose of administering entrance examinations for admission or for fellowship in postsecondary educational institutions.

Assessing candidates’ competency for admissions and recruiting has always been a difficulty in terms of conforming to research-based international standards, ensuring efficiency, transparency, and ensuring error-free delivery. The National Testing Agency is tasked with resolving all such challenges by utilizing the best practices in every discipline, from exam preparation through test administration and marking.

To promote educational equity and quality through the administration of research-based, valid, reliable, efficient, transparent, and fair assessments at the worldwide level. The top subject matter experts, psychometricians, and information technology delivery, and security professionals will ensure that existing assessment system deficiencies are effectively identified and closed.

The National Testing Agency will establish professional standards for assessments in the country, as well as to conduct research on education and professional development.

Due to the vast diversity of India, theNational Testing Agency will successfully communicate with numerous state governments, universities, state education boards, the UGC, AIU, NCTE, NCERT, CBSE, CISCE, and NIOS, among others, to ascertain students’ skills and higher education institution requirements.

The main objective of the National Testing Agency (NTA)

• To conduct quick, transparent, and worldwide standards-based exams to determine a candidate’s competency for admission and recruitment purposes.
• To conduct research on educational, professional, and testing systems in order to discover knowledge gaps and provide strategies for bridging them.
• To assist in the development of examination questions by identifying specialists and institutions.
• To generate, share information, and research about educational and professional standards.

List of National level Examination Conducted by NAT in different domains

The national level examinations conducted by NAT in each section are listed below and this list was most recently updated in 2021 and will be updated on a regular basis thereafter.

JEE Main

The Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (now-renamed Ministry of Education) Department of Higher Education has entrusted the NTA with the responsibility of conducting the Joint Entrance Examination JEE (Main) beginning in 2019.

The Joint Entrance Examination for Mains (JEE Main) is divided into two sections. Paper 1 is used to determine eligibility for admission to undergraduate engineering programs (BE / B.Tech) is used by NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs), and state-funded institutions/universities, as well as JEE IITs to determine the Advanced Entrance Test.

CMAT

The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is a national-level entrance examination for admission to management programs offered by institutions around the country. This Test enables AICTE-accredited participating institutions to identify qualified graduate applicants for admission to their management programs.

Until 2018, the All India Council for Technical Education administered the Test (AICTE) and since 2019, the NTA has been administering this Test.

The NTA will conduct the CMAT-2021. The CMAT is a three-hour computer-based online test that assesses candidates’ competence in a variety of areas, including quantitative techniques, logical reasoning, language comprehension, and general awareness.

All AICTE-Approved Institutions / University Departments / Constituent Colleges / Affiliated Colleges accept the CMAT score.\

UGC NET

The National Eligibility Test (NET) is administered by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to determine Indian citizens’ eligibility for Assistant Professorships, Junior Research Fellowships, or a combination of the two, in Indian Universities and Colleges.

Until June 2018, CBSE administered the NET in 84 subjects across 91 cities in the country. Following that, beginning in December 2018, the National Testing Agency will administer read more