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CUET results for admission in DU, other universities announced

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The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday released the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET-UG) results.

About 20,000 students have scored 100 percentile in 30 subjects in these examinations taken for admission to undergraduate courses.

According to NTA, the highest number of 100 percentilers were in English at 8,236, followed by Political Science (2,065), Business Studies (1,669), Biology (1,324) and 1,188 Economics.

As many as 2,92,589 students appeared in these examinations from Uttar Pradesh, 1,86,405 from Delhi, while only 583 students from Meghalaya took the exams.

The result has been released on NTA’s official website where the students can view and download their marks from. The result of the examination will be available on the website for 90 days.

Notably, the examinations were conducted for admission in 91 universities, including all the central universities of the city. Now that the results are out, the universities and colleges will prepare their cut-off list.

CUET (UG) Exam.(photo:Twitter)

While the series of tests began on July 15, the sixth and final phase was completed on August 30. A total of 14.90 lakh students had registered themselves and around 60 per cent attempted it.

Besides, CUET-UG exams were also conducted in foreign cities like Muscat, Riyadh, Dubai, Manama, Doha, Kathmandu, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait.

In India, the tests were conducted in 444 centres spread across 239 cities.

This time, admissions in all central universities, including Delhi University, are based on the CUET scores only. Delhi University is the largest central university in India with about 80 departments under its umbrella. These include postgraduate degree, PhD, certificate courses, degree courses etc.

It has about 79 colleges offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Every year, more than 70,000 students take admissions in these colleges and departments for graduation in science, commerce and humanities.

Among the minority educational institutions, Jamia Millia Islamia has also decided to implement CUET for admission to several undergraduate courses from the current academic session 2022-23.

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court has ordered St. Stephen’s College, Delhi to adopt the admission process on the basis of CUET.

 

KCET 2018 Document Verification Postponed, New Dates to be Announced Shortly

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The Karnataka Coomon Entrance Test 2018 has withdrawn the proposed schedule dates for verification of documents for admission to engineering and allied courses in the state. The new schedule will be announced on its official website, said Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) in a statement.

“Schedule published for commencement of verification of documents at all the helpline centres from 7-06-2018 for CET-2018 is withdrawn. The document verification will not be commenced from 07-06-2018. The revised document verification schedule will be published shortly on the KEA Website,” said the KCET exam authority KEA.

It further advised candidates to keep visiting KEA Website http:/kea.kar.nic.in for revised schedule for verification of documents for CET-2018. Around 1,25,000 candidates will be called for the counselling process in phases spread over two weeks.

KCET 2018 results for admission to engineering seats in Karnataka had been announced on Friday, June 1, two days after COMEDK, the other entrance test for private engineering colleges, was announced on Monday, May 28.

Usually, the KEA usually conducts its counselling first for the government seats in engineering and other government quota seats in the state’s aided and unaided private colleges.

KCET takes into account 50 percent of Class 12 or state Pre-university Course (PUC) marks and another 50 percent from the marks scored by candidates in respective subjects in KCET 2018. Now that the final ranking is also known, candidates can seek admission based in respective colleges at government-fixed fee at approximately Rs.60,000 which is one-third less than the COMEDK fees at Rs.200,000 per annum for these seats.

KCET 2018 was held from April 18 to 20 this year and more than 1.98 lakh candidates in Karnataka had appeared for the exam seeking admission to B. Tech or BE programmes in various state universities, government colleges and private institutes. The top college RV College of Engineering usually has cutoff at around 74 in computers for the toppers, followed by PES University and others.

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CBSE to hold re-exam on April 25 for Class 12 Economics, Class X Undecided

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Battered CBSE has announced a re-test for Class 12 Economics paper on April 25 throughout the country. It has further clarified that the Class 10 Maths paper re-test will be held, if required, in July, that too in Delhi, Haryana and NCR region and not all over the country, giving relief to many Class 10 students elsewhere in the country.

The ambiguity over Class X mathematics paper is due to the fact that the leak was confined to Delhi and Punjab, and once the enquiry is completed, the board will decide whether to hold the exam or not, said Anil Swarup, Secretary, School Education, in the Union Human Resource Development Ministry.

“The leak was restricted to Delhi and Haryana. If at all a re-exam will happen, it will happen only in these states in July. A decision will be taken on this in the next 15 days,” Swarup told reporters.

Referring to the Class 12 economics paper, the re-test will be held on April 25 not not outside the country as the leak confined to India only, said the HRD official. He further clarified that there will be no delay in the publication of results in May as per the schedule.

Replying to protests and demands that the CBSE chief should be removed, he said only after the enquiry, the responsibility on people who are behind the paper leak. “Action will be taken against whoever is responsible. But you cannot pre-empt the inquiry. Without inquiry action will not be possible,” he said and added that there will be two levels of inquiry, one is the police inquiry and the other is a departmental inquiry.

It may be recalled that in 2014, Class 12 physics paper was leaked in one of the northeastern sates and the CBSE pleaded in the apex court that a re-test was not required since the leak was limited to a region and the online access was not visibly seen in other places.

CBSE cancels Class 12 Economics & Class X Maths papers, orders re-exam

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Amid complaints that Class 12 Economics paper was leaked, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has cancelled the exam and decided to hold the re-exam for which the date will be announced within a week, said the board. Even the Class 10 mathematics paper, which was described tough by many students, stands cancelled and a re-exam will be held but the board did not give any specific reason for this.

This is the second time that the CBSE has admitted that its question paper for Class 12 was leaked, after the leak of physics paper in the north-east in 2014. Despite clear evidence, the board refused to re-hold the exam. But this time, confronted with WhatsApp everywhere, it has agreed to hold the exam again.

"With the view to uphold the sanctity of the Board Examinations and in the interest of the fairness to the students, the Board (CBSE) has decided to reconduct the examinations in the following subjects. Dates for fresh examinations and the other details shall be hosted on the CBSE website within a week," the board said on its website.

Class 12 Economics paper was conducted on Tuesday, March 26, 2018 but soon reports appeared that a hand written question paper had been leaked on WhatsApp a day before the exam. When some teachers found the question paper with the same questions, they were stunned and alerted the Board.

Earlier, Delhi government’s Depty CM Manish Sisodia too raised complaints on the purported leakage of Accountancy paper of Class 12 exam but CBSE denied the paper leak. "There has been no leakage of the question paper. All the seals have been found intact at all the exam centres," the Board said. It said later that "at local level, some miscreants tried to play mischief by circulating messages through WhatsApp and other social media to disturb the sanctity of examinations."