Overview
- The National Testing Agency cancelled the English, Commerce and Sociology papers and scheduled fresh exams for September 9–10 after an expert committee reported multiple defects.
- The committee flagged repeated questions, factual errors and poor translations that made some items unusable and undermined answer key certification.
- Candidates reported concrete errors such as dozens of repeated questions in English and Commerce and garbled scholar names in Sociology, including George Ritzer printed as 'Putzer' and Talcott Parsons as 'Parsow'.
- New reporting on August 20 cites anonymous subject experts who say generative AI was used extensively to set and translate the disputed papers, a claim NTA director general Abhishek Singh rejects and says papers underwent human review.
- The delayed cancellation by the NTA, pressure from Education Ministry sources to act earlier, and these AI allegations have widened scrutiny into what tools were used, who authorised them, and how academic review failed, with clear consequences for candidates' careers and exam trust.