The technical glitches encountered within the preliminary phases of the Widespread College Entrance Check (CUET) won’t have an effect on growth plans for the essential examination which features a proposal to merge it with JEE and NEET, based on UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar.
“The technical glitches in preliminary phases of CUET-UG should not setbacks however classes. They are going to be ironed out within the close to future and can on no account deter scaling up or growth plans for the essential examination,” he informed PTI in an interview.
Kumar had earlier stated that in future the engineering entrance examination JEE and medical entrance examination NEET may also be merged with CUET.
“As per the NEP, the plan is to have a typical entrance examination to cut back the burden on college students of showing in a number of entrances. Nonetheless, we can’t hurry as much as introduce it as we have to plan properly. It’s a large train,” he stated.
Requested when the merger is predicted, Kumar stated the modalities are but to be labored out.
“An professional committee will probably be arrange by finish of this month. It’s going to examine all-important entrance exams being carried out within the nation in addition to overseas. If we’ve got to introduce the examination subsequent yr, the preparation has to start out now contemplating the huge train and the totally different disciplines concerned.
“There additionally must be a consensus amongst stakeholders and the 2 major points we have to handle is the syllabus in addition to the issue stage as every self-discipline has its personal peculiarities,” he stated.
The debut version of CUET-UG started in July and has been marred with glitches prompting the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) to cancel exams at a number of centres. Whereas a number of college students had been
knowledgeable about cancellation an evening earlier than the examination, lots of them had been turned away from centres citing cancellations.
Kumar had stated the examination at sure centres have been cancelled following reviews of “sabotage”.
The fourth part of the CUET-UG is about to start on Wednesday.
With 14.9 lakh registrations, the CUET, the frequent gateway for undergraduate admissions in all central universities, is now the second greatest entrance examination within the nation, surpassing JEE-
Foremost’s common registration of 9 lakh.
NEET-UG is the most important entrance take a look at in India with a mean of 18 lakh registrations.
