CUET will not make board exams irrelevant: UGC Chairman

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will begin the CUET 2022 application process on April 2. The NTA will be conducting the exams and it is mulling holding the CUET twice a year from the next session, the UGC chairman said. 

University Grants Commission Chairman Jagadesh Kumar has said that the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) will neither make the board exams irrelevant nor will give a push to coaching culture. He also assured that all those students who belong to state boards will not be at a disadvantage in the undergraduate admissions process. 

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will begin the CUET 2022 application process on April 2. The NTA will be conducting the exams and it is mulling holding the CUET twice a year from the next session, he added. 

"CUET will not just be limited to admissions in Central Universities as several prominent private universities have indicated that they would like to come on board for using the scores from the common entrance exam for undergraduate admissions," he said in an interview with PTI.

"To begin with, CUET will be conducted once this year but NTA will consider conducting the exam at least twice a year from the next session. The entrance exam will not just be limited to Central Universities but also private ones. Several prominent private universities have indicated that they would like to come on board and admit students through CUET," he said.

"Eight deemed-to-be universities including the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Jamia Hamdard have also expressed a desire to use CUET scores to admit students to undergraduate courses. I held a meeting yesterday with Vice-Chancellors and directors of these eight deemed universities which receive maintenance grants from UGC," he said.

He, however, did not name the private universities that have expressed interest in adopting CUET.

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