Admission to undergraduate courses in all the Central Universities will be solely based on the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) score conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
Salient Features
- Class 12 Board marks will not carry any weightage, UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar announced on March 21.
- The universities can, at best, use the Board exam marks as an eligibility criterion for the test.
- This effectively means that performance in the Class 12 Board examination will no longer be a factor in admissions across Central universities.
- The rule will be applicable to 45 Central universities funded by UGC. It will be applicable from the 2022-23 academic session.
- 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.
- 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 2022.
- The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) is a computerised exam and will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
- Following the CUET, each university will admit students based on a merit list prepared by NTA, and there will be no common counselling.
- The entrance exam, Common University Entrance Test (CUET), will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in 13 languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and English.
- The syllabus of the exam will be based on the Class 12 NCERT syllabus.
- The exam will be conducted in two shifts. In the first shift, candidates will appear for Section I (languages paper), two chosen domain subjects and the general test.
- In the second shift, they will appear for the other four domain subjects and an additional language test, if opted for.
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