July 14th 2024.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced that it will be conducting a retest for over 1000 candidates who appeared for the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) UG on July 19. This decision was made after the agency released the provisional answer key on July 7 and stated that a retest will be conducted if any grievances raised by students are found to be valid. The retest is scheduled to take place between July 15 and 19, while the final answer key and results are yet to be notified, causing a delay of over two weeks.
However, this delay in the results is not the only issue plaguing the NTA. The agency has been facing criticism for alleged irregularities in other competitive exams such as NEET and NET. Sources reveal that one of the reasons for the CUET retest is the distribution of question papers in a language that was not chosen by the candidates. These 1000 candidates are spread across six different states, with some of them reporting time loss due to the wrong question paper.
One particular school, Oasis Public School in Hazaribagh, has 250 candidates among the 1000 who will be retested. This school is also under scrutiny for the alleged leak of the NEET-UG question paper. The NTA has reviewed the grievances received from candidates up to June 30, 2024, and complaints sent to
[email protected] between July 7-9, and has decided to conduct a re-examination for those affected on July 19, 2024, in the Computer-Based Test mode.
The issue of distributing the wrong question paper was also seen during the NEET-UG exam on May 5, which resulted in the NTA granting grace marks due to the loss of time. However, this decision was later cancelled following protests and litigation in the Supreme Court. The NTA then announced an optional retest for the 1,563 affected candidates, out of which 813 appeared for the exam on June 23.
Initially, the results for the CUET-UG exam were supposed to be declared on June 30, but due to the NTA dealing with allegations of paper leaks in other exams, the results were delayed. A source reveals that it was initially decided to announce the results for the remaining candidates before the retest, but a final decision is yet to be made.
The CUET-UG exam, which was conducted in a hybrid mode for the first time across the country, faced a setback in Delhi when it was cancelled a night before the scheduled exam day due to logistical reasons. The exam was later conducted in the national capital. The NTA had previously announced that the third edition of CUET-UG would be completed in seven days and there would be no normalization of scores as all exams would be conducted in a single shift. Out of the 63 subjects, 15 were conducted in pen-paper mode while the rest were held in computer-based mode.
This year, over 13.4 lakh candidates had registered for the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate courses in 261 central, state, deemed, and private universities. In the first edition of the exam in 2022, technical glitches had caused problems, and scores had to be normalized due to tests being conducted in multiple shifts. The NTA had promised a smoother process this time around, but it seems like they are still facing challenges in conducting these exams.
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