The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday released the guidelines for Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate (CUET-UG) admissions.
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday released guidelines for the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate (CUET-UG) admissions in central universities. The online registration process for the test will begin from April 2. The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday made it mandatory for all central universities to conduct undergraduate admissions only on the basis of CUET-UG. However, the universities will be allowed to keep some minimum eligibility criteria for applying with them in terms of class 12 marks. The NTA notification issued on Saturday said CUET-UG will be a computer-based, objective-type test and will be conducted in 13 languages including English, Hindi, Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. The last date of the submission of forms will be April 20 (on cuet.samarth.ac.in). The test is likely to be conducted in the first week of July over multiple days. The exam will be strictly based on the class 12 NCERT syllabus. “All questions in various testing areas will be benchmarked at the level of Class 12 only. Students having studied Class 12 board syllabus would be able to do well in CUET-UG,” the agency said. NTA has advised the aspirants to refer to the information bulletins of respective universities for their eligibility criteria and for selecting the courses being offered by them. Structure of CUET The CUET-UG will be divided into four sections i.e I-A, I-B, II, and III. Section I-A and I-B will consist of language subjects. Section II will be domain specific and section III will be a general test. It is not mandatory for the candidates to choose options from each section. They can choose the sections based on the requirements of the desired University. A candidate can choose a maximum of any three languages from Section I-A and Section I-B together, and up to six domain subjects. However, the third language can only be chosen as the sixth domain subject. It means, overall, candidates can take a test in a maximum of nine subjects i.e 2 languages + 6 domain specific subjects + one general test or 3 languages + 5 domain specific subjects + one general test. “Flexibility being provided to help a candidate apply for many universities depending on their eligibility conditions,” NTA said.
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