Ahead of first CUET, varsities to tweak their admission processes
NEW DELHI: With the Centre set to conduct the first-ever common entrance university exam (CUET) for undergraduate admission this year, universities will be tweaking their admission processes. While the admission process will completely change for universities basing admissions on performance in the school-leaving exam, the changes will be minimal for those admitting people on the basis of entrance exams.
While NTA will conduct the exam, the universities will be preparing their own merit lists and conduct counselling sessions based on the scores provided by the testing agency. That has required changes in existing admission process.
For instance, in Delhi University (DU), which has received the maximum number of applications under CUET, over 6 lakh as of now, colleges will no longer prepare their individual cut-off lists.
DU registrar Vikas Gupta said that the university will open its portal in July.
“We will receive the CUET score of the students who have applied for DU from NTA. We will prepare a consolidated merit list on the basis of the marks scored by that pool of students, and conduct online counselling to allot seats.”
In Banaras Hindu University (BHU), officials said they plan to prepare a merit list on the basis of the scores that NTA provides. “NTA will provide us the score of candidates who have applied for admission to BHU. We will prepare a merit list based on those scores and publish it on our website and call the students for counselling,” said BHU controller of examinations SK Upadhyay.