CUET 2022: Single window opportunity for admission to all central universities
Vishwas Garia | March 31, 2022 | 05:48 PM IST | 2 mins read
UGC has sent a letter to the vice chancellors of all universities urging them to adopt CUET scores for UG admissions.
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Try NowNEW DELHI: With the official announcement of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), it is now clear that starting this year, the admissions to UG programmes in all the central universities will be done through a common entrance test.
University Grants Commission (UGC) has also asked state and private institutions to adopt the scores of CUET for admitting students in the undergraduate courses. M Jagadesh Kumar, chairman, UGC said the report by PTI that 8 deemed universities including Jamia Hamdard and Tata Institute of Social Sciences have also shown their interest to adopt CUET exam for undergraduate admissions.
The move is expected to disrupt the way admissions are done in higher education institutions. It puts an end to the existing cut-off system of the University of Delhi and Class 12 marks now play no major role in the admission process, except the minimum percentage marks required by university as the eligibility conditions. Several other universities are going to experience similar changes.
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The application process of CUET 2022 will begin from April 2. The participating universities will also announce the eligibility criteria for their offered programmes on their respective websites. The last date to fill the CUET application form is April 30.
Jamia Millia Islamia, one of the universities who has decided to become a part of CUET 2022 had already laid down its eligibility criteria for admissions to 8 undergraduate courses - BA Hons Hindi, BA Hons Sanskrit, BA Hons History, BA Hons French and Francophone Studies, BA (Hons) Spanish and Latin American Studies, BA Hons Economics,BSc Biotechnology and BVoc Solar Energy.
The CUET exam 2022 will be conducted in the first week of July in computer based mode. The CUET entrance exam will be divided into four sections. The question paper will include a language test, general test and two domain specific tests.
The syllabus of CUET 2022 will be mirrored with the Class 12 NCERT syllabus and no questions will be asked even from Class 11 syllabus. There will be no common counselling and universities can set their own criteria for drawing up the merit lists
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