National Testing Agency to hold entrance exams for 180 courses

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National Testing Agency to hold entrance exams for 180 courses

Friday, 31 May 2019 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

National Testing Agency (NTA) which comes under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), will be conducting entrance exams for more than 180 courses, including undergraduate programmes, of the Delhi University.

According to Vinay Gupta, dean of examination of varsity, the exams will take place in three sessions per day and there will be jammers and CCTV surveillance at the centres.

“The two-hour written entrance examination will consist of multiple choice questions (MCQs) (four choices each) designed to evaluate the aptitude of applicants through areas as relevant to each subject,” said Gupta.

“There will be 100 questions and each correct answer will get a score of plus four marks, each wrong answer will get minus one mark and a question left unanswered will get a score o of zero marks,” said Gupta.

“The entrance exams will most likely happen between June 20-July 1 and the final schedule will be uploaded on the portal. Students will be given the first preference while choosing their examination centres,” Gupta added.

“The answers to the question paper will be uploaded within 24 hours and 48 hours will be given for airing any kind of grievance or challenge in the answers,” he said.

The concerned board will declare entrance exam results within a week.

Admission to undergraduate courses based on entrance examinations —wherein admissions will be made based on marks scored in the entrance test and qualifying class 12 examination.

There are 11 undergraduate courses to which admissions happen on the basis of entrance apart from MPhil, PhD and Masters programmes.

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