The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday announced that the first ever compulsory Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission in the Undergraduate programs in all the UGC-funded Central Universities for the academic year 2022-2023 will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in the first week of July.
This announcement was made by UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar.
Admissions to the undergraduate courses will solely be based on the CUET sore and hence the class 12th board marks will no longer carry any weightage, Kumar further said.
“The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission in Undergraduate programs from the academic session 2022-2023 in all UGC funded Central Universities will be conducted in 13 languages namely Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and English by the National Testing Agency (NTA),” a public notice by UGC said.
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Some of the central universities which will now be conducting admissions vis CUET are Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Indira Gandhi National Open University as well Banaras Hindu University in UP.
There are in total 45 central universities funded by the UGC. The syllabus of the CUET will be similar to the class-12 syllabus of the NCERT, UGC chairman M Jagdesh Kumar further said.
The examination will occur in two shifts. The first shift includes Section I (languages) along with two chosen domain subjects as well as a general test.
The second shift includes four other domain subjects and an additional language test (optional).
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The CUET will provide equal opportunities to children across all the boards, especially from the northeast and rural areas.
Given that the candidates will have to write only one exam, the CUET is expected to reduce financial burden on parents of the aspiring students.
Applications begin in the first week of April.
The central government has effectively done away with the admissions which were based on class 12th marks across boards. Given the difference in evaluation methods across boards, the cutoff marks has reached full 100 in a total of 10 programmes across 7 DU colleges.
