The College Grants Fee on Monday directed that admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate classes presented in Central Universities must be strictly finished at the foundation of the Commonplace College Front Take a look at (CUET). The brand new choice does away with the factors for bearing in mind Elegance 12 marks for UG admissions from the consultation 2022-23.
The Commonplace College Front Take a look at or the CUET shall be carried out within the first week of July through the Nationwide Take a look at Company (NTA). UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar whilst saying the examination mentioned that the computer-based examination shall be carried out in 13 regional languages together with English, Hindi, Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. The check shall be necessary for looking for admission into 45 central universities within the nation.
Speaking to the Press, M Jagadesh Kumar mentioned, “Admissions to all undergraduate programmes in the entire centrally funded universities and their affiliated faculties shall be finished only at the foundation of the CUET rating from the 2022-23 consultation. For postgraduate programmes, many universities also are keen to make use of the CUET rating. We are hoping that every one central universities will in the end use CUET for his or her postgraduate admissions additionally.” The Delhi College previous had already introduced that admissions for the 2022-23 consultation shall be only in line with CUET ratings.
The Universities were given the freedom to arrange their particular person minimal eligibility standards with regards to elegance 12 marks for undergraduate admissions. The verdict does now not have an effect on the person admission standards of a few universities together with their reservation insurance policies. “As an example, if any college reserves a undeniable proportion for native scholars or inner scholars, it’ll proceed to try this. The one distinction is that those scholars will even have to return thru CUET like scholars to be admitted to basic seats. The reservation insurance policies and ordinances of the schools will stay unchanged,” the UGC chairperson mentioned.
Universities with minority grants such because the Aligarh Muslim College (AMU), the Jamia Millia Islamia and St Stephan’s School are allowed to proceed to order 50% of the seats for college kids belonging to the respective minority communities. The CUET does now not entail the admissions of global scholars whilst they’ll be admitted on a supernumerary foundation to Indian Universities, added M Jagadesh Kumar. The Universities also are allowed to order a undeniable weightage for sensible checks along CUET ratings for admissions into classes like tune, portray, sculpture and theatre.
How will CUET be carried out?
M Jagadesh Kumar detailed that the three-and-a-half hour-long examination shall be carried out in two stages in line with the Elegance 12 NCERT syllabus. CUET shall be a computer-based examination with multiple-choice questions. “Applicants can come to a decision the selection of area topics they wish to strive all the way through the examination. They are able to seem for as much as six area topics out of the basket of 27 topics similar to accountancy, biology, trade research, chemistry, geography historical past, economics, arithmetic, amongst others,” he added.
Pointers for the conduction of the CUET shall be launched quickly through the College Grants Fee.