New Delhi: Over 10 lakh students have written the Common Undergraduate Entrance Test or CUET, which has so far been conducted in four phases, with two more to be held.
In a tweet on Monday, University Grants Commission chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar said that the phase 5 of the examination was on and the admit cards for phase 6 (24, 25, 26 August) were issued on August 21.
National Testing Agency is conducting the Common University Entrance Test [CUET (UG)] – 2022 to 15 July 2022 at 489 examination centers located in 259 cities across India and 10 cities outside India as per the following schedule: pic.twitter.com/opnsJdpAwo
— mamidala jagdish kumar (@mamidala90) 22 August 2022
Around 2.36 lakh students have registered for Phase 5 between August 21 and 23.
It got off to a good start on Sunday and 77,156 candidates registered in two slots. The second day on 22nd August was also scheduled in two slots for 79,459 candidates in 347 exam centers across 234 cities. Phase 5 is ending on 23 August 2022 (Tuesday).
In both the slots on Monday, Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of candidates with 36,036 in 91 exam centers and 11,252 in 22 centres.
The National Testing Agency has conducted the exam from July 15 at 489 centers in 259 cities across India and 10 cities outside the country.
exam issues
The examination, which is supposed to be the common test for undergraduate admissions in central universities across the country, has been plagued by technical and logistical glitches from day one.
Recently, many CUET-UG candidates Claimed That the exam dates mentioned on their admit card were different from what was stated by them. Actually, the dates were gone.
second stage On the first two days of CUET, August 4 and 5, students complained that they were not informed about the change in exam schedule in time.
In the first phase, there was a lot of confusion regarding the last minute change in the examination centers.
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