a large number of teaching aspirants who appeared for the national eligibility test net of the university grants commission ugc recently are disappointed with the commissions decision to change the qualifying criterion post publication of the results a number of candidates are planning to file a petition against the commission for the alteration of the criteria postresult as per the original ugc notification anyone in the general category who scores 155 marks would be eligible for consideration for the final result however the 155 marks score used to be the qualifying total of all the three papers 100 100 and 150 marks respectively and not the aggregate but now only those with an aggregate of 65 for the three papers which means 2275 marks will make the cut for the scst category the new qualification cutoff will be 1925 and for obc candidates it is 210 marks we are discussing with others to move to the court against the commissions decision i have scored above the qualifying criterion of 155 marks and my aggregate is above 60 but not 65 as per the new criteria this is unfair they cant change the rules after conducting the exam and publishing the results just a day next to the announcement of results they had put up an undated notification on the website about the new criteria says supriya gulati a teaching aspirant who appeared for the exam the ugc net exam is conducted twice a year comprising three papers papers i and ii used to be objective while paper iii was subjective but june 2012 onwards all the three papers have been made objective surender singh deputy secretary ugc net says there is no new criterion the ugc had already notified during inviting applications that the minimum eligibility marks scored by candidates in each paper would be considered for the preparation of the final result the methodology for qualifying after making the exam totally objective had to change which we had notified the aspirants must have interpreted it in their favour the notification as mentioned by singh on the ugc website wwwugcnetonlinein states the final qualifying criteria for junior research fellowship jrf and eligibility for lectureship shall be decided by the ugc before the publication of the result in all 575000 candidates took the exam of which 43957 have qualified it