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CUET UG 2024 Retest: The National Testing Agency on Sunday announced that it will conduct a re-exam for over 1,000 candidates of CUET UG on July 19. Even after the new dates have been revealed, the testing body is silent about the date of the result, which has already been delayed by two weeks.
On July 7, NTA released the provisional answer key of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 and announced that it would conduct a re-exam for CUET UG candidates. The re-exam was scheduled to be held between July 15 and 19 only if any of the complaints raised by students about the conduct of the exam were proved to be true, PTI reported.
Question papers were distributed in languages other than the ones chosen by the candidates. This is also one of the reasons for the re-examination as there are more than 1,000 such candidates from six states.
“Some of the complaints also included wastage of time due to distribution of wrong question paper,” a source told PTI.
About 250 out of 1,000 candidates CUET-UG The candidates appearing for CUET-UG re-examination are from Oasis Public School, Hazaribagh.
The school is currently under investigation due to the alleged leak of the NEET-UG question paper.
The official notification issued on Sunday said that all the complaints received from the candidates till June 30, 2024 and those sent to rescuetug@nta.ac.in between July 7-9 by 5 pm have been reviewed.
According to the notification, “Based on these complaints, re-examination will be conducted for the affected candidates on July 19, 2024 in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode.”
CUET UG Re-examination: What we know so far
CUET-UG exams conducted in hybrid mode for the first time across the country Cancelled Logistical reasons were cited for conducting the exam in Delhi a night before the scheduled exam day. The exam was later held in the national capital.
The NTA had earlier announced that the third edition of CUET-UG would be completed in seven days, without any normalization of scores as all the exams were to be conducted in a single shift.
The exams were conducted in pen-paper mode for 15 subjects and in computer based mode (CBT) for 48 subjects.
This year, over 13.4 lakh candidates registered for the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate courses in 261 central, state, deemed and private universities.
The first edition of the exam was conducted in 2022, which faced several technical glitches. The scores had to be normalized as the exam was conducted in multiple shifts.
(With agency inputs from PTI)
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