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The CUET-UG results have been delayed amid an ongoing controversy over alleged irregularities in the competitive exams. (Representative image)
The delay in CUET-UG results has come at a time when there is controversy over alleged irregularities in competitive exams including NEET and NET
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to conduct the re-exam on July 19 for over 1000 candidates of CUET UG.
The NTA had released the provisional answer key of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 on July 7 and announced that it will conduct a re-exam for CUET UG candidates between July 15 and 19 if any of the complaints raised by students regarding the conduct of the exam are found to be true.
The agency on Sunday issued a notification regarding the re-examination schedule but remained silent on the declaration of results, which has already been delayed by over two weeks and the final answer keys are yet to be notified.
The delay in CUET-UG results has come at a time when there is controversy over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including NEET and NET.
According to NTA sources, distribution of question papers in languages not opted by the candidates is one of the reasons for the re-examination, and around 1,000 candidates are spread across six states.
“Some of the complaints also included wastage of time due to distribution of wrong question papers,” a source said.
Of the 1,000 CUET-UG candidates for whom the NTA is conducting re-exam, 250 are from Oasis Public School in Hazaribagh, which is also under investigation for the alleged leak of the NEET-UG question paper.
According to the official notification released on Sunday, the complaints received from candidates till June 30, 2024, regarding the CUET (UG) 2024 exam, as well as those sent to rescuetug@nta.ac.in between July 7-9 (before 05:00 PM), have been reviewed.
“Based on these complaints, re-examination for the affected candidates will be conducted on July 19, 2024 in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode,” the notification said.
Even during the NEET-UG exam held on May 5, wrong question paper was distributed due to which NTA awarded grace marks due to wastage of time.
However, following protests and litigation in the Supreme Court, the agency cancelled the grace marks and announced an optional re-examination for 1,563 candidates, of whom 813 appeared for the exam on June 23.
Originally, the results of the undergraduate entrance exams were scheduled to be released on June 30, but the NTA delayed the results as it grappled with allegations of paper leaks involving NEET-UG, UGC-NET, and CSIR-UGC-NET.
“Initially, it was decided that the results of the remaining candidates would be declared before the re-examination and the rest of the results would be declared later. However, we are yet to take a final decision on this,” a source said.
The CUET-UG exam, which was conducted in hybrid mode for the first time across the country, was cancelled in Delhi a night before the scheduled exam day citing logistical reasons. The exam was later held in the national capital.
The NTA had earlier announced that the third edition of CUET-UG will be completed in seven days and there will be no normalization of marks as all the exams will be conducted in a single shift.
The exams for 15 subjects were conducted in pen-paper mode and for the other 48 subjects, the exams were conducted in computer-based mode.
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 held in 2022 was marred by technical glitches. Also, as the exam for one subject was conducted in multiple shifts, the marks had to be normalised during the declaration of the result.
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