CUET 2022: Registration process begins for universities to hold common entrance exam

Central Universities can register to hold CUET 2022 or CUCET 2022 exam for undergraduate admissions for academic year 2022-23. 

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has started the registration process of central universities along with state, private, deemed and others for the upcoming Central University Entrance Test (CUET) 2022. All the interested central universities can now register by visiting the official website; i.e. nta.ac.in. Central Universities can register to hold CUET 2022 or CUCET 2022 exam for undergraduate admissions for academic year 2022-23. 

It must be noted that the CUET 2022 application process for students will begin tomorrow; i.e. April 1. As per reports, NTA is also mulling holding CUET exam twice a year from the next academic year, the University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar recently announced. 

Several central universities such as Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have decided to admit students for academic year 2022-23 through CUET 2022. Earlier in the week, Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) also announced that it will conduct CUET 2022 for eight selected courses. The admission to other remaining courses will be conducted as per the earlier admission procedure. 

Meanwhile, Eight deemed-to-be universities including the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and Jamia Hamdard have expressed a desire to use Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores for undergraduate (UG) admissions 2022, Kumar said.

CUET 2022 Exam Pattern

The table below brings the broad structure of the exam in terms of the number of questions in each section along with the duration.

Section	Number of Questions	Duration	Question Types
Section IA	40 questions to be attempted out of 50 in each language	45 minutes for each language	Language to be tested through Reading Comprehension based on different types of passages–Factual, Literary and Narrative, (Literary Aptitude and Vocabulary)
Section IB
Section II	40 Questions to be attempted out of 50	45 Minutes for each Domain Specific Subjects	Input text can be used for MCQ Based Questions MCQs based on NCERT Class 12 syllabus only
Section III	60 Questions to be attempted out of 75	60 minutes	Input text can be used for MCQ Based Questions General Knowledge, Current Affairs, General Mental Ability, Numerical Ability, Quantitative Reasoning (Simple application of basic mathematical concepts arithmetic/algebra geometry/mensuration/s tat taught till Grade 8), Logical and Analytical

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