New Delhi: Results of the first Common University Entrance Test or CUET for undergraduate courses will be announced around 10 pm on Thursday night.
University Grants Commission Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said the results would be put up by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
Candidates who appeared in any of the six phases of the entrance exam can download their marksheets from the official CUET UG website, cuet.samarth.ac.in.
The NTA conducted the first-ever common entrance test to the country’s central universities in July and August this year. An attendance of 60 percent was recorded in the exam.
A retest was conducted on 11 September for candidates who had grievances. A provisional answer key was released on 8 September, and candidates were given till 5 pm on 10 September to challenge it.
The NTA on 13 September opened the application-form correction window of CUET-UG to allow candidates to make amends to their forms online.
The correction window was open till 10 am on September 15.
The fields where corrections could be made included the candidate’s name, mother’s or father’s name, date of birth, gender, category, and choice of universities.
According to official data, Uttar Pradesh had the highest turnout among all states with 2,92,589 students; the second was Delhi with 1,86,405, followed by Bihar with 84,425.
Only 583 of 5,634 registered candidates took the test in Meghalaya, marking the lowest attendance at 6.02 per cent.
The entrance exam was held in 547 cities within India and in 13 cities outside India — Sri Lanka, Qatar, Doha, Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sharjah and Singapore.
The test was conducted in the following languages — English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, and Odia.
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