Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
NTA is taking applications for RMS CET 2026, for admission to Classes 6 and 9 at the five Rashtriya Military Schools for 2027-28. Fee ₹1,000 (₹750 for SC, ST and wards of personnel killed in action). The pen-and-paper exam is on 13 December.
NTA has issued the e-certificates for UGC-NET June 2026, covering all four outcomes: JRF only, JRF plus assistant professor, assistant professor plus PhD admission, and PhD admission only. They are on ugcnet.nta.nic.in.
DU’s Financial Support Scheme 2026-27 is open. Family income up to ₹4 lakh gets a 100% fee waiver (up to ₹15,000); ₹4 to 8 lakh gets 50% (up to ₹10,000). Engineering, five-year law, SOL and NCWEB students are excluded.
IBPS has released admit cards for the Probationary Officer main exam on 4 October. It is 170 questions for 200 marks in 160 minutes, with sectional timing, and English carries 40 questions for only 20 marks.
After a count of chapters suggested lines and angles and Euclid’s geometry had gone, NCERT says both are integrated into other chapters of the new Class 9 book, and that algorithms have been added. The final syllabus is due in October.
MAFSU Nagpur has affiliated five private veterinary colleges (80 seats each) and three private dairy technology colleges (40 each). Government college BVSc fees are ₹27,500 a year; the private fee is set at ₹5.5 lakh.
The Directorate of Education has published the final draw for EWS, DG and CWSN admissions in private unaided schools for 2026-27: 1,309 in Nursery, 587 in KG and 2,248 in Class 1. Lists are on edudel.nic.in.
Odisha’s Higher Education Department has released ₹14.34 crore, 15% of approved support, under the Gyanodaya scheme, taking the total to ₹23.90 crore. Covered students pay only the exam fee.
The two-year HEADS project, with LGBRIMH Tezpur and Wellcome funding, will interview 4,500 people in Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese and English. The AI summarises and scores; the psychiatrist decides.
IIT Kharagpur and the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur, have signed a five-year pact for residential training in traction, propulsion, train control and electrical safety.
Andhra Pradesh’s revised Class 1 and 2 textbooks now show household chores split equally between men and women, replacing illustrations in which women did all of it. The state says the aim is to avoid gender stereotyping from the first year of school.
Every private university in India has been directed to disclose five years of audited accounts, fee structures, fund utilisation and surplus investments. States must file affidavits within six weeks; the next hearing is 19 November.
On 21 September the testing agency put the Union government’s affidavit on its website, on the Supreme Court’s direction, so that stakeholders can see what has actually changed since the exam-leak cases. The next hearing is 9 October.
A High-Powered Task Force under the former UIDAI chairman has been constituted to recommend reforms to NTA’s examinations, anchored in technology. It sits alongside a 101-recommendation expert report already being implemented.
The published affidavit lists what has changed in how question papers are set, moved and opened: a dedicated Chief Information Security Officer, third-party cyber audits, and standard operating procedures covering the whole paper lifecycle.
The medical regulator’s seat matrix for 2026-27 puts capacity at 1,40,664 seats across 839 colleges. Private colleges account for a clear majority, and of the 13,000-plus seats added this year, most are private.
The medical regulator’s state-wise matrix puts Gujarat at 4,250 government seats in 23 colleges and 3,550 private seats in 19. Every one of the 250 seats Gujarat gained this year is a private seat.
Circulating its 2026-27 seat matrix, the National Medical Commission has told every medical college that admissions may be made only against approved seats, and that excess admissions will attract regulatory and penal action.
Agartala Government Medical College has been cleared for 100 additional MBBS seats from the 2026-27 session, taking it to the maximum intake permitted under national norms and lifting Tripura’s total to 500 seats.
From 2027-28, students can enter NID straight after Class 12 for an 11-semester integrated MDes across 15 disciplines at Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Bengaluru. DAT Prelims is on 20 December 2026.
Sample question papers and marking schemes for the Class 10 and 12 board examinations 2027 are on the board’s academic site. The board has confirmed there is no change in question paper design or assessment pattern this session.
GSEB runs a subject-wise question bank portal for Standards 9 to 12 that costs nothing and is published by the board that sets the paper. Most students preparing for the Gujarat boards have never opened it.
The Gujarat State Open School registration portals for the November to December 2026 Standard 10 and Standard 12 general stream examinations are live on the board’s site. It is a second chance that does not cost you a year.
Class 10 and 12 supplementary examinations run from 1 to 22 October across 140 centres, in a single afternoon shift. Nearly 39,537 students are enrolled, and the admit card came out today.
