Sunday 3 April 2022

What is Common University Entrance Test (CUET)?

 Registration process for Common University Entrance Test (CUET) 2022 kicked off Saturday under India’s ambitious ‘One Nation, One Test’ programme for central universities. Let’s take a peek into it

The University Grants Commission has now decided to hold a mandatory Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for undergraduate admission to 45 of the 54 centrally funded universities from the upcoming academic year. This means that Class XII board results will be superseded for determining university admission in favour of an all-India exam.

The test will be conducted in 13 languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi by the National Testing Agency (NTA). To begin with, CUET will be conducted once this year but NTA will consider conducting the exam at least twice a year from the next session. The application window for the 2022-23 academic session will start from 2nd of April.

To save students from appearing in multiple entrance examinations, conducted on different dates, sometimes coinciding with each other, and to also provide equal opportunity to all students from different boards, UGC has invited all state universities, deemed to be universities, private universities and other Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to adopt and use CUET scores from 2022-23 onwards for admission of students in their UnderGraduate programmes….Read More

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