NTA Patents and Designs Examiner 2024 Final Answer Key Released: How to Check?

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the final answer key for the Patents and Designs Examiner recruitment 2024 exam. Candidates who appeared for the mains exam can now go to the official website of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade recruitment at exams.nta.ac.in/DPIIT to check the final answer key. The recruitment drive is being conducted to fill a total of 553 vacancies in the department.

The main exam results will be announced by the third week of April while the interview will commence on April 1. “As soon as the evaluation is completed, the results of the Mains Examination (Paper I and Paper II) will be declared by the third week of March 2024. The cumulative marks obtained in Paper-I and Paper-II will be assigned 80% weightage in the final list of qualified candidates,” the NTA stated.

Those candidates who will qualify for the mains exam will be called for the interview process. The number of candidates to be eligible for interview will likely be about five times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled. The process of the interview will continue for the next 25 days (tentatively). The interview will carry 100 marks. The marks obtained in the interview will be given 20% weightage in the final list of qualified candidates, the agency added.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the Patents and Designs Examiner Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2 for various disciplines on January 25. Candidates who qualified for the preliminary test (phase 1) were entitled to take the main examination (papers I and 2). Over 89,657 candidates took the preliminary exam for the recruitment process at 260 centres located in 103 cities around the country on December 21, 2023.

NTA Patents and Designs Examiner 2024: How to Check Final Answer Key?

Step 1 – Go to the official website — exams.nta.ac.in/DPIIT

Step 2 – Click on the answer key link

Step 3 – A PDF file containing the final answer key will be displayed on the screen

Step 4 – Download and save for further use.

Step 5 – Review the answers.

As per the recruitment notice, this campaign aims to fill vacancies in General Central Service, Group ‘A’ Gazetted (Non-Ministerial) post. Selected candidates can expect a salary ranging between Rs 56,100 and Rs 1,77,500.