DU Admission 2022: Delhi University to conduct sports and ECA trials

NEW DELHI: After a gap of two years, Delhi University will hold sports and ECA trials this year for candidates willing to seek admission through the route, officials said on Tuesday. However, the applicants will have to take the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), they said. The university had not conducted trials for admissions under the sports and extracurricular activities (ECA) quota in the last two years on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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"This year, if the Covid situation remains fine and there is no increase in cases, we will conduct sports and ECA trials. While giving admissions to students, 25 per cent weightage will be given to CUET scores and 75 per cent to their performance in the trials," Delhi University Vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh told reporters here. There will be centralised trials by the university, the officials said.

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The registration for the CUET will be commencing from Wednesday. As per the university's existing guidelines, the colleges are allowed to admit up to five per cent of its students under the sports and ECA quota.

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh on Tuesday released DU admission policy for the academic year 2022-23. Calling the new admission a landmark policy, he said that the DU admission process will be done through CUET 2022 issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for all the central universities of India.

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Yogesh Singh said that for admission through Sports and Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA), a candidate will have to appear for a performance-based tests along with the CUET. Merit for this will be made on the basis of combined score of CUET and performance-based test.

Briefing about DU UG admissions, he said that except for the School of Open Learning (SOL) and National Collegiate Women's Education Board (NCWEB), admission to all undergraduate programmes would be done through CUET 2022 only. The Vice Chancellor informed that the detailed information on DU admission 2022 is available on admission.uod.ac.in.

“It is mandatory for all the candidates to appear in CUET 2022, including those seeking admission to supernumerary seats,” he informed.

(with inputs from PTI)