The application process for the CommonUniversity Entrance Test (CUET) for undergraduate courses in centraluniversities will commence from April 2, the National Testing Agency has announced.
In a public notice issued on Saturday, the agency announced that the CUET will provide a single window opportunity to students toseek admission in any of the Central Universities (CUs) across the country.
The CUET (UG)-2022 will be conducted in a Computer Based Test (CBT)Mode, it said. Aspirants should refer to the information bulletin for admission to undergraduate programmes of the desired Central Universities for admission into undergraduate programmes, it said. The details of the programmes offered by by the universities willbe available on their respective portals.
The online application forms for undergraduate programmes will beopen from April 2 and the the link will be made available on theofficial website https://cuet.Samarth.Ac.In/. The application process will be on till April 30.
The NTA advised the candidates to go through the required eligibilityof the desired university or universities for selecting the optionsfrom UG programmes being offered. The exam will have four parts with Section IA (13 Languages), SectionIB (19 Languages), Section II (27 Domain specific Subjects) and SectionIII(General Test). "Choosing options from each section is not mandatory. Choices shouldmatch the requirements of the desired university.
A candidate canchoose a maximum of any three languages from Section IA and Section IB taken together," the public notice said, adding that one of thelanguages chosen needs to be in lieu of domain specific subjects. Section II offers 27 subjects, out of which a candidate may choosea maximum of six subjects while Section III comprises a General Test.
All questions in various testing areas will be benchmarked at thelevel of Class XII only, it said. "Students having studied Class XII Board syllabus would be ableto do well in CUET (UG)–2022," it said. UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar had said last week that the syllabus will be modelled on the Class 12 NCERT syllabus. "If any University permits students of previous years of Class XIIto take admission in the current year, such students would also beeligible to appear in CUET (UG–2022. "Generally the languages/subjects chosen should be the ones thata student has opted in his latest Class XII Board examination.
However, if any University permits any flexibility in this regards, the samecan be exercised under CUET (UG) -2022 also," it said. If the subject to be studied in the Undergraduate course is notavailable in the list of 27 domain specific subject being offered,the candidate may choose the subject closest to his choice, it added.