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(An Autonomous Organization under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India)
PRESS RELEASE
25 August 2023
Subject: NTA declares the Results/NTA Scores of the National Common Entrance Test (NCET)
2023 – Reg.

The National Testing Agency has been entrusted with the responsibility of conducting the National
Common Entrance Test (NCET) for admission to the 04-Year Integrated Teacher Education
Programme (ITEP) in selected Central/State Universities/Institutions including IITs, NITs, RIEs,
and Government Colleges for the Academic Session 2023-24.

The National Common Entrance Test [NCET]- 2023 was conducted in 127 Cities and 13 mediums
across India in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode for the Academic Session 2023-24 on 09 August
2023 from 02:oo to 05:00 P.M. for 16004 candidates. A total of 42 Central/State
Universities/Institutions including IITs, NITs, RIEs, and Government Colleges participated in NCET
2023.

The NCET 2023 provided access and flexibility in the following ways:

▪ The total number of Question Papers was 63 and the number of Questions was 45875.

▪ The medium of the Question Paper was Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi,
Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

▪ The candidates who were not able to select Language 2 as they had not studied the other
language in their Class 12, so they were unable to apply for the same. In order to support these
candidates, an opportunity was provided to the candidates to select either English or Hindi
languages twice with different subject codes.

▪ In order to ensure more participation from the candidates throughout India and to facilitate
them, NTA opened NCET 2023 Examination Help Centres to ensure awareness and to help
provide equal opportunities to the candidates, especially from rural and remote areas.

▪ The Centres were opened in Kamrup, Amritsar, Kota, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Mumbai,
Ernakulam, Trivandrum, Durg, Khurda, Chennai, Chittoor, Ambikapur, West
Champaran, Ghaziabad, Bengaluru, Malajgiri, Kurnool, Malda, Kangra, Vijayawada,
Leh, Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Pulwama, Ahmedabad, Kollam, Bilaspur, and
Narsinghar.

▪ Each Centre had one dedicated Technical person in charge who helped the candidates in filling
the Application Form online. The candidates could go to their nearest Help Centre with the
required documents and fill in the form. This Helpline service was provided free of cost.

सम्पर्क सूत्र /Helpline Number: +91-11-40759000, e-mail: ncet@nta.ac.in

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▪ The candidates were given an opportunity to challenge the Answer Key from 14 August to 16
August 2023 along with the Provisional Answer Key, Question Paper, and Recorded
responses. In this duration, about 91 Answer Key challenges were received out of which 40
were the unique challenges. Those were shown to the concerned Subject Experts. Based on
their feedback and after incorporating the changes, the Final Answer Keys were prepared which
were used in preparing the Result of NCET 2023.

Highlights of NCET 2023

Category Registered Appeared

EWS 849 594 Gender Registered Appeared
GENERAL 5564 3623 Female 10568 6613
OBC 5635 3668 Male 5435 3523
SC 2455 1468 Third Gender 1 0
ST 1501 783 Grand Total 16004 10136
Grand Total 16004 10136

Details of subject-wise registered and appeared candidates are given below:

Code Test Paper Name Registered Appeared

101 English 1 15352 9659
102 Hindi 1 8962 5662
103 Assamese 184 120
104 Bengali 86 48
105 Gujarati 4 0
106 Kannada 44 34
107 Malayalam 1564 846
108 Marathi 41 30
109 Odia 2255 1548
110 Punjabi 377 298
111 Tamil 239 123
112 Telugu 879 428
113 Urdu 285 203
114 English 2 1045 809
115 Hindi 2 178 127
201 Arabic 101 69
202 Bodo 0 0
203 Chinese 0 0
204 Dogri 0 0
205 French 22 14

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Code Test Paper Name Registered Appeared
206 German 3 1
207 Italian 0 0
208 Japanese 1 0
209 Kashmiri 0 0
210 Konkani 0 0
211 Maithili 4 2
212 Manipuri 10 5
213 Nepali 2 0
214 Persian 0 0
215 Russian 1 1
216 Santhali 3 1
217 Sindhi 2 1
218 Spanish 0 0
219 Tibetan 1 0
220 Sanskrit 364 241
301 Accountancy/Book Keeping 565 360
302 Agriculture 606 312
303 Anthropology 115 72
Biology/Biological
304 6234 3865
Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry
305 Business Studies 686 437
306 Chemistry 8704 5523
307 Environmental Studies 1317 772
Computer Science/Informatics
308 990 542
Practices
309 Economics/Business Economics 1986 1271
310 Engineering Graphics 19 4
311 Entrepreneurship 98 54
Fine Arts/Visual
312 Arts(Sculpture/Painting)/ 221 125
Commercial Art
313 Geography/Geology 2275 1514
314 History 3510 2299
315 Home Science 756 499
Knowledge Tradition Practices in
316 79 47
India
317 Legal Studies 79 48
318 Mass Media/ Mass Communication 93 50
319 Mathematics/Applied Mathematics 4464 2831
320 Performing Arts 65 43

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Code Test Paper Name Registered Appeared
Physical Education/National Cadet
321 1171 778
Corps(NCC)/ Yoga
322 Physics 8299 5331
323 Political Science 3728 2425
324 Psychology 592 350
325 Sanskrit 292 208
326 Sociology 1067 645
327 Teaching Aptitude 16004 10136
501 General Test 16004 10136

The Examination was monitored in the following ways:-

• A Central Control Room was opened to monitor and facilitate the smooth conduct of the
Examination on the ground. 02 National Coordinators, 19 Regional Coordinators, 127 City
Coordinators, 115 Observers, and 52 Deputy Observers were deployed.

• Live CCTV Surveillance was planned in all examination centres to curb malpractices in the
examination. The NTA also made arrangements for live viewing of remote locations of all
examination centres from the Control Room located in the NTA premises of New Delhi.
Recording of CCTV Systems was also done.

• The examination centres were also monitored using AI-based Video Analytics and Virtual
Observers.

• In order to stop cheating using mobile networks, Jammers were installed in all the Centres.

The role of NTA is confined to the registration of candidates, the conduct of the test, hosting answer keys,
inviting challenges, finalizing answer keys, preparing and declaring results, and hosting ScoreCard.
Merit list will be prepared by the aforesaid participating Universities/ Institutions/ Government Colleges,
they may conduct their individual counselling on the basis of the Score Card of NCET 2023 provided by
NTA.

The results of candidates have also been shared with the Central/State Universities/Institutions
including IITs, NITs, RIEs, and Government Colleges where the candidates had applied.
Candidates are advised to be in touch with the respective universities and Institutions for further
details.

The result was prepared based on the Final Answer Keys and the same is being declared today i.e. 25
August 2023 on https://ncet.samarth.ac.in/

सम्पर्क सूत्र /Helpline Number: +91-11-40759000, e-mail: ncet@nta.ac.in

वेबसाइट /Website www.nta.ac.in , https://ncet.samarth.ac.in/
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(An Autonomous Organization under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India)

For the NCET 2023, NTA made elaborate arrangements at various levels and took help from State
Authorities for the smooth conduct of the examination.

To make the candidates and their parents aware of the rules and regulations of the examination, “Important
Advisory and Instructions to the candidates for NCET 2023” was sent through e-mail to all candidates.
Moreover, the NTA took various steps to ensure candidates were facilitated at every stage of the
examination.

(Dr. Sadhana Parashar)

Senior Director, NTA

सम्पर्क सूत्र /Helpline Number: +91-11-40759000, e-mail: ncet@nta.ac.in

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