The National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed the common university entrance exams for undergraduate admission or CUET-UG, scheduled to be held on Wednesday in centers across Delhi, to May 29, while the exams will continue as scheduled in all other centers across the country. Will be organized as per. at home and abroad, the agency announced on Tuesday.
The third edition of the country’s biggest test, which will be conducted in hybrid mode for the first time, is scheduled to begin from Wednesday. Exams for four subjects including Chemistry, Biology, English and General Test are scheduled on Wednesday.
A day before the exams were to begin, the testing agency announced that due to “unavoidable reasons” the exams which were earlier scheduled on May 15, 2024, have been postponed only for candidates appearing in centers across Delhi.
“The examination will now be conducted on May 29, 2024. Revised admit cards will be issued for candidates appearing in centers across Delhi,” the agency said.
However, the exam will be conducted as per schedule in all other cities across the country and abroad including Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Noida.
“Further examinations scheduled on other dates will be conducted as per schedule at all centers including Delhi,” NTA announced.
For the first time this year, the exams for the 15 subjects with the highest number of registrations will be conducted in offline mode, while those for the rest will be computer-based.
Each exam will be conducted in one shift or one day, unlike the previous two editions of CUET, when tests in the same subject were held in different shifts on different days. This year 1.34 million students have registered for the exam. Offline tests will be conducted first between May 15 and May 19 and then computer-based tests for other subjects will be conducted between May 21 and May 24.
In pen and paper mode using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) format for high registration subjects including Chemistry, Biology, English, General Test, Economics, Hindi, Physics, Mathematics, Geography, Physical Education, Business Studies, Accountancy. Tests will be conducted. , History, Political Science and Sociology.
