Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET) to be conducted in multiple languages

NEW DELHI: The Central Universities Common Entrance Test, or CUCET will be held in more than one language, minister of state for education, Subhas Sarkar told Rajya Sabha today. The government has declared that all national level exams in the country will be held in scheduled languages.

“It has also been decided to conduct the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for Central Universities in the scheduled languages,” said the ministry of education told Parliament during the winter session.

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The official statement informed that the National Testing Agency (NTA) has conducted major competitive exams in the following scheduled languages:

• NEET UG 2021 in Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Punjabi
• JEE Main 2021 in Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, and Gujarati
• All India Sainik School Entrance Examination (AISSEE) 2021 for Class 6 in Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Punjabi, Telugu and Urdu.

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This year, 12 central universities including Assam University in Silchar, Central University of Gujarat, Central University of Punjab, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Central University of Jharkhand and Central University of Kerala conducted the CUCET 2021.

Recently, the University Grants Commission (UGC) had asked vice-chancellors of Central universities to take appropriate measures to conduct the CUCET exam which will be administered by NTA.

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“After detailed deliberations, it was resolved that the common entrance for UG and PG may be conducted from the academic session 2022-23. For admissions to PhD, NET score will be used, wherever feasible,” the UGC letter said.

Last year, in the month of December UGC had created a 7-member committee to inquire about the procedures of CUCET for admission to all the UG programmes offered by central universities as recommended by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

Meanwhile, the Delhi University Academic Council (AC), on December 10, approved holding a common entrance test for Delhi University admissions from 2022 onwards.