NTA likely to conduct AU entrance exams
PRAYAGRA: : National Testing Agency (NTA) may conduct the entrance exams for Allahabad University (AU) in days to come. A proposal in this regard has been received by AU, said varsity officials.
University Grants Commission (UGC) has sent a missive in this regard to registrar of AU, Prof NK Shukla, wherein the apex higher education regulator of the country has proposed that the entrance exam at AU could be conducted through NTA, they added. If implemented, AU would be holding a common entrance test with all the central universities of the country for UG and PG programmes or any one of it, they explained.
However, varsity authorities have not yet taken a final call on the UGC’s proposal as to whether to conduct the entrance test through NTA which has been conducting entrance test for institutions, including Delhi University or Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). This would be decided by the second week of April when AU would be releasing its calendar of admission process for the new session. “Any decision would be taken only after holding talks with the vice-chancellor Sangita Srivastava as it has to be seen what information has been conveyed to her by the UGC or NTA authorities in terms of holding the entrance test along with all the central universities of the country,” said Prof IR Siddiqui, director of admission cell for session (2021-22).
Till last year, admissions in constituent colleges and AU were undertaken by the AU authorities on the basis of common merit list prepared with scores in admission tests conducted by AU. Admissions are granted at AU’s main campus and constituent colleges on its basis, barring Ewing Christian College and Hamidia Girls Degree College. For holding the undergraduate admission test (UGAT) and postgraduate admission test (PGAT), AU administration conducts the entrance process from Pravesh Bhawan located at Chaitham Lines.
Till now, admissions at central universities are conducted either on the basis of cut-off marks of class 12 or the entrance test conducted by the university concerned. However, after this arrangement, a common entrance test could be made mandatory in all 54 central universities across the country.