Dharmendra Pradhan announces NTA overhaul with recruitment Exams ending by 2025

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.