The Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) on Tuesday began the registration course of for the frequent college entrance check for undergraduate admissions, or CUET-UG 2024, and introduced key adjustments within the check this yr, together with a swap from a computer-based to a hybrid mode examination, and discount within the variety of topics a candidate could select.
HT on February 18 reported that the company can be introducing these adjustments within the entrance examination for undergraduate college programs from this yr.
In keeping with the notification issued by NTA, the final date of filling within the type is March 26, and the check can be performed between Could 15 and Could 31. The company has introduced June 30 because the tentative date for declaring outcomes, topic to the schedule of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
On the hybrid mode, officers stated that for topics having a excessive variety of registrations, the examination can be performed in pen and paper mode utilizing the optical mark recognition (OMR) format, and for others it can proceed to be computer-based.
“NTA will resolve which exams to be performed in pen and paper mode as soon as the registration course of is accomplished,” stated NTA director common Subodh Kumar Singh.
The company has additionally decreased the utmost variety of topics a scholar can select from 10 to 6. “It should assist the company to conduct the examination of 1 topic on sooner or later. Due to this fact, the method of normalisation of marks scored by the scholars over completely different shifts on completely different days in a topic is not going to be required this time,” Kumar stated.
The company will conduct examinations in 33 languages and 27 topics. In addition to, it conducts a common check for any undergraduate programme being supplied by universities the place a Basic Take a look at is getting used for admission.
The exams can be performed in 13 languages i.e. English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
Like final yr, the examination can be performed on a number of days in two or three shifts, relying on the variety of candidates and topic decisions. The candidates can be allowed to go for a most of 4 cities as their choices for examination centres.
In the meantime, the company on Tuesday additionally introduced the schedule for CUET examination for submit graduate admissions that can be performed in computer-based format in India and overseas from March 11 to March 28.