Common Entrance Test, Not Class 12 Marks, To Drive College Admissions

The CUET will be conducted in the first week of July and the application process will start in the first week of April, the UGC chairperson told NDTV.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday said all central universities funded by it, including Delhi University, will have to use the new Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores to admit students to undergraduate programmes. Speaking to NDTV, UGC Chairperson M. Jagadesh Kumar said, "Speaking strictly from the students' perspective, the introduction of the CUET will be a great relief for students across the country".

He said the CUET will be conducted in the first week of July when most of the board exams would have been completed. The application process for the common entrance exam will start in first week of April. 

The entrance test will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Mr Kumar said that the UGC had made it compulsory for all the central universities and is also asking all state, deemed-to-be, private universities to use CUET scores for admissions to undergraduate programmes across the country.

"As a result of this, students need not have to write different kinds of entrance tests. Ultimately, we would like to make the CUET one entrance test in one nation for all UG programmes," he said.