Over 19,865 students scored 100 percentile in the Common University Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (CUET-UG) in its inaugural year. With over 8,236 students scoring 100 percentile, students scored the most in English, followed by Political Science (2065) and Business Studies (1669).
The exam was scheduled for over 14,90,000 candidates, with 8,10,000 candidates in the first slot and 6,80,000 candidates in the second slot. The exam was held in 13 languages across 444 centres across 239 cities.
CUET-UG was held in 13 languages and candidates had applied for 54,555 unique combination of subjects across 90 universities. There were 2219 question Papers and 50476 questions.
“Performance of every candidate has been evaluated using equi-percentile method wherein normalized marks of each candidate have been calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject,” the National Testing Agency said.
The candidates can download the marks card from the official CUET UG website, cuet.samarth.ac.in. Earlier, the result was scheduled to be announced by Thursday afternoon.
On the basis of the result of CUET UG, various universities and colleges will prepare their cut-off list. Based on the cut-off list, students will get admission in the colleges. Students who want to be a part of various undergraduate courses have appeared for the said examination.
The sixth and final phases of CUET UG 2022 concluded on August 30. The first phase of the examination was held on May 15.
Other than India, the examination was held in Muscat, Riyadh, Dubai, Manama, Doha, Kathmandu, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait, among others.
The admissions in all the central universities including DU will be done on the basis of CUET UG score.
DU is India's biggest central university housing 80 departments.
The DU offers graduation, post graduation, PhD and certificate courses.
The DU has around 79 colleges, in which every year, more than 70,000 students take admission in science, commerce and humanities streams.
Jamia Millia Islamia also has also decided to implement CUET UG results for admission in select graduation courses from the current academic session.
(With IANS inputs)