Overview
- The National Testing Agency has issued an Expression of Interest to empanel schools, colleges, universities and private test providers as exam centres and to recruit observers; centre and observer applications close on December 6, 2026.
- For computer-based tests the EoI sets a standard minimum of 285 workstations per shift with limited exceptions for resource-constrained locations, and it requires pen-and-paper centres to provide at least 250 seats per shift.
- The agency is inviting serving and retired government educators, retired officers above Pay Level 8 and retired Armed Forces or CAPF personnel to apply as observers to ensure on-site oversight and standardised conduct.
- NTA has formalised a two-part translation process that runs bulk translation on an air-gapped AI platform at NTA premises and then requires human translation reviewers to verify, certify and quality-check the output.
- The move follows the NEET paper leak and is framed as a system-wide security revamp that could widen candidate options and speed multilingual processing but will depend on rigorous human review and more vetted centres to reduce leak risk.