CUET UG 2023 Exam Dates: Application process to start in first week of February

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

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The University Grants Commission (UGC) in March last year announced that UG admission for all central universities will be conducted based on the CUET scores. Earlier, the admission was done by universities through Class 12 marks or through entrance exams conducted separately by the universities.

The UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar today announced that the CUET 2023 application process 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.

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.

"CUET-PG is expected to be held in the first or second week of June 2023. Results of CUET-UG are planned to be announced in the third week of June 2023 and those of CUET-PG in the first week of July 2023. With the decided schedule of CUET-UG and CUET-PG, universities can complete their admission process by the end of July 2023 and begin the academic sessions by August 1, 2023," Kumar said.