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Of the at least 13.5 lakh students who have registered for the Common University Entrance Test or CUET-UG this year, the largest number are from Delhi. However, the total number of applicants this year is less as compared to around 15 lakh students who applied last year. Nevertheless, this figure is higher than the first edition of the test, for which 9.9 lakh candidates had registered.
UGC Chairman Professor M. Jagadish Kumar said that in terms of number of candidates, Noida and Greater Noida rank second after Delhi in the National Capital Region (NCR). news18, This year, CUET-UG will be conducted between May 15 and 31 for admission to undergraduate courses in central universities of India. Many state universities are also accepting CUET-UG score as one of the eligibility criteria. The examination is conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA).
This year, it will be the third edition of CUET-UG, which after record applications last year, became the country’s second biggest entrance exam after the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which is conducted for admission . Medical course.
Delhi-NCR, UP, Jharkhand Top Registration
According to Kumar, this year the maximum number of registrations have come from Delhi, followed by Noida and Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh. Ranchi in Jharkhand, Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) in UP, Patna in Bihar, Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Lucknow (UP), Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) and Gurugram (Haryana) are the top 10 cities in terms of number of candidates applying. Are included in. for inspection.
Noida, Greater Noida and Gurugram are all satellite cities adjacent to Delhi and are part of NCR. Broadly speaking, this year also the maximum registrations are from Delhi, UP, Jharkhand and Jammu. Last year, NTA received an unprecedented number of registrations from Jharkhand as well as Jammu and Kashmir, which were 6.7 times more than those registered in the previous year.
Due to the high number of applications from these areas it became difficult for the testing agency to find more and more centers and ultimately, the exam schedule had to be delayed. This year, the entrance examination will be conducted in both pen-and-paper mode as well as computer-based testing (CBT) to resolve the long-drawn schedule issue.
UGC had earlier announced that all subjects, which have more than 1 lakh registrations, will be conducted in pen-and-paper mode (Optical Mark Recognition). Kumar said that since all the papers will be conducted in a single session on one day this year, the raw score will be taken instead of the normalized score (which was the practice for the last two editions) to give the CUET score.
English remains the top choice
Kumar said English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit are the top choices for subject papers and have seen the highest number of registrations this year. “This year, since the examination schedule is shorter, we hope that the results will be declared in the second or third week of June so that the universities can start their academic session in July,” he said.
Even in the last two years, languages including English and Hindi remained the top choices, apart from other subjects like Biology, Physics, Business Studies, Economics and Accounting.
The entrance exam will be conducted in 380 cities in India and 26 cities abroad – Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Colombo, Doha, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos/Abuja, Muscat, Manama, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore, Brasília. Canberra, Cape Town, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Moscow, Oslo, Ottawa, Port Louis, Vienna and Washington DC.
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