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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: The UGC-NET paper meant to test sociology candidates has itself come under scrutiny, with aspirants alleging that the June 30 exam was riddled with spelling errors, garbled names of key thinkers, awkward Hindi translations and questions that appeared disconnected from the prescribed syllabus.Candidates alleged that names and terms central to sociology were mangled in the question paper: \u201cRitzer\u201d appeared as \u201cPutzer\u201d, \u201csocial\u201d as \u201coval\u201d, \u201cParsons\u201d as \u201cParsow\u201d, \u201cGhurye\u201d as \u201cGhunye\u201d, \u201cA R Desai\u201d as \u201cA K Desai\u201d and \u201cNussbaum\u201d as \u201cNusbaut\u201d. They claimed the errors were not isolated typos but part of a larger problem of poor paper-setting and inadequate quality checks in a national eligibility examination conducted by NTA<\/a>.Several candidates who appeared for the sociology paper alleged that the questions had spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, weak Hindi translations and confusing phrasing, making parts of the paper difficult to comprehend.Candidate Antara Chakrabarty took to X to allege that the paper had \u201ccrossed all limits of academic deceit and accountability\u201d. She claimed the paper asked questions that appeared AI-generated and included \u201crandom thinkers and books\u201d not associated with the syllabus.\u201cNot even getting started on the irregularity of the paper asking AI-generated questions, random thinkers and books not even remotely associated with the syllabus provided. This is where the last nail in the coffin comes. 50% of the paper had terrible spelling errors and grammatically disastrous sentence formation,\u201d she wrote.Listing the alleged errors, she added: \u201cThinkers like \u2018Ritzer\u2019 was replaced as \u2018Putzer\u2019, \u2018social\u2019 was given as \u2018oval\u2019, \u2018Parsons\u2019 as \u2018Parsow\u2019, \u2018Ghurye\u2019 as \u2018Ghunye\u2019, A R Desai as \u2018A K Desai\u2019, \u2018Nussbaum\u2019 as \u2018Nusbaut\u2019 and many more. The Hindi translation of the questions was framed as if translated by a 5-year-old. Students could not even understand the questions, let alone attempt them.\u201d\u201cHalf the time went in literally making sense of what nonsense was scribbled in the name of a paper like NET, which is literally supposed to make you eligible for Asst Prof\/PhD admissions. Is this some joke? Call the profs who framed this paper to sit and attempt,\u201d she wrote.Another X user alleged that the paper was \u201cfilled with spelling errors, arbitrary questions, and the omission of many foundational sociological thinkers in favour of content that appeared outside the prescribed syllabus\u201d. The user also questioned a question asking candidates to arrange former education ministers in chronological order, arguing that it did not meaningfully assess critical thinking in sociology.The complaints come even as the UGC-NET English paper has drawn criticism after 67 of 150 questions were found to be identical to questions asked in the 2024 exam, with the sequence of answer options also reportedly unchanged.NTA did not respond to TOI\u2019s queries on the matter till the filing of this report.<\/div>\n