Common entrance test for UG admissions in central universities, Class 12 marks won’t count
Following the CUET, each university will admit students based on a merit list prepared by NTA, and there will be no common counselling.
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New Delhi, March 22: The first ever mandatory common entrance test for admission to undergraduate programmes in all the 45 Central universities will be held in the first week of July, UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar announced.
This effectively means that performance in the Class 12 Board examination will no longer be a factor in admissions across Central universities. This year, seven DU colleges had asked for 100 per cent marks in the first list to admit students to a total of 10 programmes.
Following the CUET, each university will admit students based on a merit list prepared by NTA, and there will be no common counselling.
CUET will carry multiple choice questions based on NCERT textbooks and students will be marked negatively for incorrect answers. The entrance test will have three sections. The CUET 2022 will be offered in 13 languages, namely Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and English.
The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) is a computerised exam and will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which will announce the test pattern on Tuesday. The application window for the examination will open in the first week of April.
Admission to undergraduate courses in these universities will henceforth be solely based on the CUET score, and Class 12 Board marks will not carry any weightage. The universities can use the Board exam marks as an eligibility criterion for the test, he said.
This effectively means that performance in the Class 12 Board examination will no longer be a factor in admissions across Central universities. This year, seven DU colleges had asked for 100 per cent marks in the first list to admit students to a total of 10 programmes.
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The Government did not favour using Board marks for admission because of the “diversity” in evaluation methods. “Some Boards are more generous than others in marking and this gives their students an unfair advantage over others,” said an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Following the CUET, each university will admit students based on a merit list prepared by NTA, and there will be no common counselling.
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Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Indira Gandhi National Open University in the national capital, and Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu University in UP, are among the well-known Central universities that will now be covered by CUET.
CUET will carry multiple choice questions based on NCERT textbooks and students will be marked negatively for incorrect answers. The entrance test will have three sections. The CUET 2022 will be offered in 13 languages, namely Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and English.
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