CUET UG to be held from May 21 to 31 next year

The second edition of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG will be conducted from May 21 to 31 next year, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Friday. The undergraduate admission process in universities will be completed by July 2023 and the new academic session can begin on August 1 next year.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) in March last year announced that undergraduate admissions will be conducted in all central universities through a common entrance test and not on the basis of Class 12 marks.

According to UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar, the application process for the CUET-UG will



start in the first week of February, 2023.

"The number of subjects and pattern of question papers will remain the same. A candidate can take as many as 6 domain subjects in addition to one or two languages and the General Test. The test would be conducted in the following languages--Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu," he said.

Mr Kumar said the NTA is working on preparing 1,000 test centres across the country, out of which 450 – 500 centres will be used per day. The dates for the CUET-PG are also expected to be announced next week.