West Bengal Universities to not use CUET 2022 score for UG admissions

“We have conducted the entrance test as directed by the state higher education department,”  Soma Bandyopadhyay, vice chancellor, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, said. 

The Universities in West Bengal will not adopt the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) UG scores for admission to undergraduate courses. “We have conducted the entrance test as directed by the state higher education department,”  Soma Bandyopadhyay, vice chancellor, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, said. 

“Being a state university, we devise the admission criteria going by the directives of the state higher education department. There is no way we can adopt the CUET method or prepare any new merit list,” Bandyopadhyay said, as reported by Financial Express.

Partha Pratim Roy, Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association spokesperson said, "The state-run Jadavpur University has already conducted its own entrance tests for undergraduate courses for various departments.  No way we can adapt the CUET path for an institution like Jadavpur University which follows a rigorous high-level admission procedure. All our disciplines – science, arts and engineering – maintain high academic standards due to this admission process by JU. The uniform CUET route is not applicable for JU."

As per the official statement, private St Xavier’s University has also conducted its own entrance tests in offline mode this year.  “We are not going by the CUET route,” Father Felix Raj, St Xavier’s University vice-chancellor said.

It further added that the officials of Presidency University, Vidyasagar University, Bardhaman University, MAKAUT, North Bengal University, West Bengal University of Technology will follow their own admission process as envisaged by the state higher education department. "There will not be any CUET-UG merit lists or counselling for state varsities," officials said.

As per the Visva-Bharati University spokesperson, "the Central university, having UG courses in different disciplines, has adopted the CUET route."

“The CUET eligibility criteria will be followed both for students of Patha Bhavan and Siksha Satra (higher secondary level educational units run by Visva Bharati) and students from outside. But there will be a little bit of a lowering of the cut-off mark for internal students (those having studied here up to 12th level,” the spokesperson said.

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