NEW DELHI: Over four lakh students took the Common University Entrance Test (CUET PG) 2024 exams in 565 centres, including nine outside India, the University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar said Friday.
“CUET (PG) concluded successfully on March 28 as planned. CUET-PG allows students to apply for multiple central and other universities using one test,” he said.
For the 2024-25 academic year CUET-PG had around 4,62,603 candidates and 768,414 tests. As many as 190 universities participated.
In 2023, 4,59,083 students participated in CUET-PG.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the CUET-PG exam on March 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, and 28.
It was conducted completely in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode in 565 different centres located in 253 cities.
Exams were also conducted in Manama, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Ottawa, Abu Dhabi, Vienna, and Qatar.
Prof. Kumar said that candidates applied for 4,597 courses with 157 different question papers.
The exam was conducted over 15 days, in 44 shifts. There were 240 papers with 18,000 questions used.
Exams were conducted in English/Hindi for humanities, sciences, and common papers, and some subjects had papers in other languages too.
As many as 950 experts and 200 translators prepared the question papers, he said.
The result will be announced within three weeks of the last test, the UGC chief had announced earlier.
CUET-PG was introduced in 2022 for admission into various PG Programmes in central and state universities/institutions and participating deemed/ private participating universities/institutions.
It aims to provide a common platform and equal opportunities to candidates across the country, especially those from rural and other remote areas and help establish better connect with the Universities, the UGC chief said.