The exam has witnessed significant increase in the participation this year even as it continued to remain optional for central universities.
At least 142 universities, including 38 central varsities, are participating in the Common University Entrance Test for admissions to postgraduate courses or CUET-PG this year, officials privy to the matter said on Tuesday.
The number has gone significantly up in comparison to last year when only 66 universities had participated in the exam, the officials added.
The National Test Agency (NTA) initiated the registration process for the second edition of the CUET-PG late on Monday night and will continue till April 19. The agency is yet to announce the examination dates.
The exam has witnessed significant increase in the participation this year even as it continued to remain optional for central universities, unlike the CUET exam for undergraduate admissions or CUET-UG which is mandatory in nature. In fact, some prominent central universities that had not participated last year, including Delhi University (DU) and Jamia Millia Islamia, will also consider CUET-PG for admissions to many of their postgraduate programmes.
Meanwhile, University Grants Commission (UGC) chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said that since the schedule for both CUET-UG and CUET-PG was announced well in advance this year, universities got enough time to adopt it. “It helped Universities to have a clear picture of when they can conduct the admission process. Universities have understood that CUET is planned well this time, and the academic calendar can return to the pre-COVID situation if they adopt it. In the coming years, we will see even more universities participating in CUET, making it a sizable national entrance test,” he said.
Among the other central universities that have adopted CUET-PG this year, are Jamia Millia Islamia, Mizoram University, Assam University, Visva-Bharati University, and Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, among others. Read More..
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