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  • CUET-UG: Exams started late in 2 per cent of examination centres: UGC Chairman

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG ) exams, which began Sunday, started late in two per cent of the centres on account of diversified causes akin to vitality fluctuations, talked about UGC Chairman Prof M Jagadesh Kumar.

    He talked about exams started late in 12 out of 450 examination centres, however, the first day of the second model of the CUET-UG went off simply.

    Giving particulars, Kumar talked about: “In 2% of amenities (roughly 12 out of 450 instantly), the examination started later than scheduled nevertheless was effectively completed.”

    “The exam started late due to a couple of reasons, such as power fluctuations in some centers and, in others, students needing to follow staggered entry. Students were informed in the admit cards to enter the center in a staggered manner. But in a few centers, since they came late, there was crowding and subsequent delay in the start of the exam,” he talked about.

    He requested faculty college students to henceforth can be found a staggered approach to stay away from a repeat of such a situation.

    “We have now taken administrative measures to prevent such situations in the future. In many cities, we have also taken help from the traffic police to minimize traffic jams around the centers,” he instructed this paper.

    This time, the National Testing Agency (NTA), which is conducting the examination, held the exams in three shifts.

    “All three shifts in the first phase (21 – 24 May) have been completed successfully, with a total number of candidates scheduled today, around 2,65,248,” he talked about.

    Shift 1 (from 8.30 am to 10.30 am) concluded successfully in all 271 cities and 447 amenities, he talked about.

    The full number of candidates scheduled in shift 1 was 87,879.

    The shift 2 (12-2 pm) of CUET-UG moreover went off successfully in all 272 cities and 448 amenities. The full number of candidates scheduled in shift 2 was 87,903.

    Shift 3(6.30 to 10.30 pm) moreover concluded successfully in all 271 cities and 458 amenities. The full number of candidates scheduled in shift 3 was spherical 89,466.

    In the first two shifts, there was 77 per cent attendance, whereas throughout the third shift, the proportion stood at 74 per cent.  “Today’s attendance was 76%, a significant jump from last year, around 62%,” he added.

    As there have been complaints from faculty college students and folks that they’ve been made to face throughout the scorching photo voltaic sooner than the commencement of the examination, the UGC chief talked about they provided basic amenities like water, refreshments, and coated shelters/prepared areas to candidates and their dad and mother/guardians.

    “Candidates and their parents were also regularly informed about the steps taken and the exam start status in the centers where there was a delay in starting the test. We will continue to take measures to provide a better experience to the students sitting for CUET-UG,” he added.

    For the second half (25-28 May), he talked about, they’re working to supply admit taking part in playing cards by May 22 or May 23.

    The NTA will announce city information slips for the third half (May 29-June 2) on May 23. In the first half, May 21-24, 8 lakh faculty college students are slated to appear for the examination for admission to undergraduate packages.

    This yr, an entire of 16.85 lakh faculty college students have registered for the doorway examination, out of which 13.95 lakh paid the making use of worth and submitted the form. This yr seen a 41 per cent improve in scholar numbers from the debut model last yr. 

    NEW DELHI: The Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG ) exams, which began Sunday, started late in two per cent of the centres on account of diversified causes akin to vitality fluctuations, talked about UGC Chairman Prof M Jagadesh Kumar.

    He talked about exams started late in 12 out of 450 examination centres, however, the first day of the second model of the CUET-UG went off simply.

    Giving particulars, Kumar talked about: “In 2% of amenities (roughly 12 out of 450 instantly), the examination started later than scheduled nevertheless was effectively completed.”googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The exam started late due to a couple of reasons, such as power fluctuations in some centers and, in others, students needing to follow staggered entry. Students were informed in the admit cards to enter the center in a staggered manner. But in a few centers, since they came late, there was crowding and subsequent delay in the start of the exam,” he talked about.

    He requested faculty college students to henceforth can be found a staggered approach to stay away from a repeat of such a situation.

    “We have now taken administrative measures to prevent such situations in the future. In many cities, we have also taken help from the traffic police to minimize traffic jams around the centers,” he instructed this paper.

    This time, the National Testing Agency (NTA), which is conducting the examination, held the exams in three shifts.

    “All three shifts in the first phase (21 – 24 May) have been completed successfully, with a total number of candidates scheduled today, around 2,65,248,” he talked about.

    Shift 1 (from 8.30 am to 10.30 am) concluded successfully in all 271 cities and 447 amenities, he talked about.

    The full number of candidates scheduled in shift 1 was 87,879.

    The shift 2 (12-2 pm) of CUET-UG moreover went off successfully in all 272 cities and 448 amenities. The full number of candidates scheduled in shift 2 was 87,903.

    Shift 3(6.30 to 10.30 pm) moreover concluded successfully in all 271 cities and 458 amenities. The full number of candidates scheduled in shift 3 was spherical 89,466.

    In the first two shifts, there was 77 per cent attendance, whereas throughout the third shift, the proportion stood at 74 per cent.  “Today’s attendance was 76%, a significant jump from last year, around 62%,” he added.

    As there have been complaints from faculty college students and folks that they’ve been made to face throughout the scorching photo voltaic sooner than the commencement of the examination, the UGC chief talked about they provided basic amenities like water, refreshments, and coated shelters/prepared areas to candidates and their dad and mother/guardians.

    “Candidates and their parents were also regularly informed about the steps taken and the exam start status in the centers where there was a delay in starting the test. We will continue to take measures to provide a better experience to the students sitting for CUET-UG,” he added.

    For the second half (25-28 May), he talked about, they’re working to supply admit taking part in playing cards by May 22 or May 23.

    The NTA will announce city information slips for the third half (May 29-June 2) on May 23. In the first half, May 21-24, 8 lakh faculty college students are slated to appear for the examination for admission to undergraduate packages.

    This yr, an entire of 16.85 lakh faculty college students have registered for the doorway examination, out of which 13.95 lakh paid the making use of worth and submitted the form. This yr seen a 41 per cent improve in scholar numbers from the debut model last yr. 

  • CUET-UG 2022 outcomes declared| ‘Normalised’ rating to resolve admission, not percentile or uncooked marks: UGC chairman

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The much-awaited debut CUET-UG 2022 outcomes had been lastly introduced early Friday, with the UGC chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar stressing that the admission to undergraduate programs in central universities in India can be via the ‘normalised’ marks and never percentile or uncooked marks.

    Speaking with this newspaper, Kumar stated that college students shouldn’t fear in the event that they see the distinction of their normalised marks and reply keys. 

    He additionally hoped that the 90 universities would give you a advantage record to start out admission for undergraduate programs inside ten days based mostly on normalised marks. 

    His clarification got here after the National Testing Agency (NTA) introduced that 21,159 – 12,799 ladies and 8360 boys – college students scored 100 percentile. 

    Maximum college students (8236) scored 100 percentile in English, adopted by Political Science (2,065) and Business Studies (1,669). The different topics that bought substantial 100 percentile scores are – Biology/Biotechnology (1,319), and Economics/Business Eco. (1,187), Psychology (1,186), Sanskrit (1,166) History (893), Hindi (875) Sociology (261)

    The information of the excessive percentile led to panic amongst college students and oldsters, who spent an anxious lengthy night time awaiting the end result, which was introduced at 4 am Friday as an alternative of 10 pm Thursday, and began bombarding social media on whether or not the percentile would resolve admissions into universities. Many complained that their scores have been downgraded within the identify of ‘normalisation.’

    Most of them posted their scorecards which mirrored the distinction between their normalised scores and the uncooked marks they’d acquired from the NTA, which had carried out the examination in six phases from July 15 to August 30. The NTA had earlier shared the reply key with the scholars.

    Clarifying the doubts, the University Grants Commission had advised this newspaper, “The normalised marks will take into account the difference in the difficulty levels across the sessions.”

    He additional defined that college students in two completely different classes might need the identical percentile, however when the normalisation is completed, the issue stage of every session is taken into account. So, the normalised marks shall be completely different from the percentiles. 

    “Some say they got 80 percentile, but in normalised marks, it has come down to 60. They have to understand that the normalised marks are different from the percentile. If one gets 82 percentile, 82 people get less than his marks. It is then converted into normalised marks, which are the real marks considering the difficulty level,” he stated. 

    “Students need not worry if they see that their normalised marks are different from the percentiles. Without normalisation, the ranking list will be highly skewed because of the difficulty levels. We have used the scientific method of normalising the performance of the students who gave the exams in different sessions,” he stated, including that it was executed to supply a stage enjoying subject to all college students who took the debut examination on the identical topic on completely different days or shifts.

    The efficiency of each candidate was evaluated utilizing the equi-percentile methodology whereby normalised marks of every candidate had been calculated utilizing the percentiles of every group of scholars in a given session throughout a number of days for a similar topic.

    The course of was carried out by a committee headed by a senior professor from Indian Statistical Institution, Delhi and comprising senior professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Delhi University, he stated, including that outcomes have been shared with the colleges.

    The want for normalisation arose as a result of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG had been carried out in numerous shifts and because the query paper for every shift was completely different, it was not doable to take care of equivalence in varied query papers, or to evaluate their problem stage, as some college students would have gotten a comparatively troublesome query as in comparison with others. So to maintain parity, the necessity was felt for normalising the marks.

    Technical glitches, last-minute modifications in examination centres, uninformed modifications in examination dates and delay in issuing admit playing cards, some even mentioning previous dates, had been among the many points confronted by college students throughout the examination.

    With 14.9 lakh registrations, the CUET is now the second largest entrance examination within the nation, surpassing JEE-Main common registration of 9 lakh. Sixty per cent attendance was recorded within the CUET-UG examination. NEET-UG is essentially the most outstanding entrance check in India, with a mean of 18 lakh candidates.

    NEW DELHI: The much-awaited debut CUET-UG 2022 outcomes had been lastly introduced early Friday, with the UGC chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar stressing that the admission to undergraduate programs in central universities in India can be via the ‘normalised’ marks and never percentile or uncooked marks.

    Speaking with this newspaper, Kumar stated that college students shouldn’t fear in the event that they see the distinction of their normalised marks and reply keys. 

    He additionally hoped that the 90 universities would give you a advantage record to start out admission for undergraduate programs inside ten days based mostly on normalised marks. 

    His clarification got here after the National Testing Agency (NTA) introduced that 21,159 – 12,799 ladies and 8360 boys – college students scored 100 percentile. 

    Maximum college students (8236) scored 100 percentile in English, adopted by Political Science (2,065) and Business Studies (1,669). The different topics that bought substantial 100 percentile scores are – Biology/Biotechnology (1,319), and Economics/Business Eco. (1,187), Psychology (1,186), Sanskrit (1,166) History (893), Hindi (875) Sociology (261)

    The information of the excessive percentile led to panic amongst college students and oldsters, who spent an anxious lengthy night time awaiting the end result, which was introduced at 4 am Friday as an alternative of 10 pm Thursday, and began bombarding social media on whether or not the percentile would resolve admissions into universities. Many complained that their scores have been downgraded within the identify of ‘normalisation.’

    Most of them posted their scorecards which mirrored the distinction between their normalised scores and the uncooked marks they’d acquired from the NTA, which had carried out the examination in six phases from July 15 to August 30. The NTA had earlier shared the reply key with the scholars.

    Clarifying the doubts, the University Grants Commission had advised this newspaper, “The normalised marks will take into account the difference in the difficulty levels across the sessions.”

    He additional defined that college students in two completely different classes might need the identical percentile, however when the normalisation is completed, the issue stage of every session is taken into account. So, the normalised marks shall be completely different from the percentiles. 

    “Some say they got 80 percentile, but in normalised marks, it has come down to 60. They have to understand that the normalised marks are different from the percentile. If one gets 82 percentile, 82 people get less than his marks. It is then converted into normalised marks, which are the real marks considering the difficulty level,” he stated. 

    “Students need not worry if they see that their normalised marks are different from the percentiles. Without normalisation, the ranking list will be highly skewed because of the difficulty levels. We have used the scientific method of normalising the performance of the students who gave the exams in different sessions,” he stated, including that it was executed to supply a stage enjoying subject to all college students who took the debut examination on the identical topic on completely different days or shifts.

    The efficiency of each candidate was evaluated utilizing the equi-percentile methodology whereby normalised marks of every candidate had been calculated utilizing the percentiles of every group of scholars in a given session throughout a number of days for a similar topic.

    The course of was carried out by a committee headed by a senior professor from Indian Statistical Institution, Delhi and comprising senior professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Delhi University, he stated, including that outcomes have been shared with the colleges.

    The want for normalisation arose as a result of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG had been carried out in numerous shifts and because the query paper for every shift was completely different, it was not doable to take care of equivalence in varied query papers, or to evaluate their problem stage, as some college students would have gotten a comparatively troublesome query as in comparison with others. So to maintain parity, the necessity was felt for normalising the marks.

    Technical glitches, last-minute modifications in examination centres, uninformed modifications in examination dates and delay in issuing admit playing cards, some even mentioning previous dates, had been among the many points confronted by college students throughout the examination.

    With 14.9 lakh registrations, the CUET is now the second largest entrance examination within the nation, surpassing JEE-Main common registration of 9 lakh. Sixty per cent attendance was recorded within the CUET-UG examination. NEET-UG is essentially the most outstanding entrance check in India, with a mean of 18 lakh candidates.