CUET Result Declared: 104 candidates score 100 percentile in four subjects, max high-scorers in English paper

Results statistics released by the NTA Friday night shows that the English paper has the maximum number of candidates (8,236) with 100 percentile score. Then political science has the second highest number (2,065) of 100 percentile scorers followed by business studies (1,669) and biology (1,319). 

Over 7.56 lakh students took the exam in English medium and over 2.16 lakh students took the examination in Hindi. Tamil was the third widest chosen language with 2,785 candidates appearing for the exam in that medium.

As the results have been declared for CUET UG 2022 some students have complained that despite writing the exam they have been marked absent in one or two papers. NTA DG Vineet Joshi has assured that they will look into the grievances of the students.

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Meanwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal felicitated toppers of JEE and NEET. During the event, he said that due to the quality of education provided in Delhi government schools 1,141 students have cleared JEE and NEET exams. Read full story here

This year, JMI has adopted CUET exam for eight undergraduate programmes including six BA (Hons) programmes– Sanskrit, Hindi, French & Francophone Studies, Spanish & Latin American Studies, Economics, and History and one BSc programme– BSc Biotechnology and one BVoc programme– BVoc (Solar Energy). For the remaining courses the annual entrance exams were conducted. Read the full story by Deeksha Teri on IndianExpress.com

As the CUET UG 2022 results have been announced, the universities might be dealing with an event of a tie during admissions. In such a case, Jamia Millia Islamia will prefer the older candidate said university Registrar Nazim Hussain Jafri Read full story by Deeksha Teri

Steps to register for DU admissions:

Step 1: Go to official website of DU admissions admission.uod.ac.in

Step 2: Go to the CSAS 2022 dashboard

Step 3: The candidate  will also fill in the Program and College Combinations preferences for every Program selected by them.

Step 4: The candidate must confirm the order of preferences for the Program and College combinations by clicking on 'Submit' on/before the last day of the Preference-Filling phase, reported PTI

Delhi University has launched its admission portal, Common Seat Allocation System. The admission process in DU will be conducted in three phases, submission of the CSAS-2022 application form, selection of programmes, and filling of preferences, and seat allocation and admission. The CUET scores will be required in the second phase. In the coming days, the university will open a ‘preference-filling’ phase.

Subject-wise percentile scores and normalised scores also called NTA scores are mentioned on the scorecards of candidates. The normalised scores have been calculated using raw scores of each candidates via equipercentile method for parity across sessions in which they gave their exams, reported PTI.

The Delhi University merit list for admission to undergraduate programmes will be prepared on the basis of normalised CUET scores. The results for CUET were declared in the wee hours of Friday. The merit lists will be prepared by universities participating in CUET and they will conduct their own counselling process, reported PTI

UGC chairperson has said that CUET normalisation formula decided by panel of professors from Indian Statistical Institute, IIT Delhi and Delhi University

Universities to use normalised scores for CUET and not percentile or raw marks for admissions in the undergraduate programmes, said UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar. He said that the scores have been normalised to provide to provide level playing field to students who wrote the exam in the same subject. Read full story here

The National Testing Agency’s role in the admissions process for undergraduate programmes is now over as the CUET results have been announced. Now, the universities participating in CUET will conduct the counselling process on their own. Read the full story on indianexpress.com

The National Testing Agency will use a method called equipercentile method, in this method, normalised marks of each candidate are calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject. Read full story on indianexpress.com

As the admission process has started students are likely to get confused between choosing the various courses offered by the universities. For instance many students face a dilemma whether to go for BCom Hons or BA Hons Economics. Both courses provide a variety of career options. Read here to find out

With the CUET results being out, it would be difficult for school students preparing to join college to choose between a course they want to pursue and the college/university they want to study. There is a dilemma when it comes to choosing it, a professor explains how to make the right choice. Read it here

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The race to Delhi University (DU) is set to get difficult as more candidates have scored 95 percentile in English than any other paper in the CUET exam. A total of 8,236 candidates have scored 100 percentile in English, the highest number of 100 percentile across all CUET subjects. Read full report on indianexpress.com

Once the Delhi University (DU) registration window closes on October 3, the university will calculate a candidate’s merit (for a specific programme or a group of programmes) by simply adding the normalised marks of the four subjects/papers stated under the eligibility criteria of a given programme or programmes. Read the full report to find out more

UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said that universities who will admit candidates on the basis of their Common University Entrance Test score for undergraduate programmes will begin their new academic year for first year from October end or beginning of November. Read full story on indianexpress.com

Utkarsh Pant from Navi Mumbai added another feather to his hat when he became one of the 13 candidates who have scored 100 percentile in PCM group of MHT CET. The results were declared on Thursday. Utkarsh already has secured AIR 45 in JEE Advanced and he obviously likes computers. Read full story on indianexpress.com

"Candidates had registered for our undergraduate courses for which we need CUET result. So, we will the registered candidates to send us their CUET score tomorrow and on the basis of that, we will issue the final list of selected candidates. We will try to begin our academic year for these students as soon as possible, because our academic year for other programmes has already begun and we do not want our students to suffer because of the delay caused by CUET as this is not students' fault," Nazim Hussain Jafri, Registrar of Jamia Milia Islamia told indianexpress.com.

Delhi University which had the highest number of CUET UG 2022 applicants marking DU as their preference, is the first to launch a common registration portal. So how will DU now draft its merit list for different courses? Find out here

Delhi University (DU) will begin the first semester for newly admitted undergraduate students on November 1, regardless of whether all rounds of allocating seats to candidates through its new admission process are completed, Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh said on Tuesday. Read more here

"Once the CUET-UG scores are announced, universities may typically take about 6 weeks to finalise the results as they may issue first list, second list and so on until most of the seats are filled. Either in October last week or November first week, most universities may attempt to start their new academic session," Kumar told The Indian Express.

With a novel process in place for undergraduate admissions, the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) results released Friday morning might not yet give aspirants a strong idea of their chances of getting admitted to their preferred college and programme at Delhi University. 

Allocation of colleges and programmes to candidates will be done by Delhi University based on the college-programme preferences listed by candidates and the programme group merit lists created by the university based on the CUET scores released today. Read more here

Step 1: Go to the official website — cuet.samarth.ac.in.
Step 2: Click on the link reading results CUET-UG 2022
Step 3: Enter your credentials such as application number, date of birth, security pin, etc.
Step 4: View the result and download for future reference.

"Kudos to the NTA team which worked very hard until late night yesterday and released the CUET-UG results by 4.00 am. Congratulations to all the students who can now use these CUET scores for their admissions," UGC Chairman, M Jagadesh Kumar, tweeted.

"Results of candidates are being shared with the Universities where the candidates had applied. Candidates are advised to be in touch with the respective Univesities and Institutions for further details," an official NTA notice stated.

A large number of candidates in the high percentile band generally means a more competitive admission process. According to Delhi University Dean (Admissions) Haneet Gandhi, until all students submit their CUET scores and their preferences, it will be hard to gauge what a candidate’s chances for a particular programme and college may be.

The cut-off marks to have scored 95 percentile in physics and maths is much lower than English. In order to secure 95 percentile in physics, a candidate should have scored 52.5% or 105 marks out of 200. The cut-off marks for 95 percentile in maths is much lower at 51.5% or 103 out of 200 marks. English, in stark contrast, has its 95 percentile cut-off pegged at 92.5% or 185 out of 200 marks. Read the full report here

Of the top five subjects, physics has the smallest number of 95 percentile scorers, while English the highest. In English, 33,627 candidates scored 95 percentile. This was followed by 24,030 candidates with 95 percentile in general test, 12,179 in chemistry, 11,942 in mathematics and the least, that is 11,329, in physics.

The Indian Express looked at the results data of top five subjects with the highest number of examinees or candidates — English, general test, chemistry, mathematics and physics — and found that physics and mathematics were the toughest papers and English, the easiest. About 4.85 lakh appeared for the English paper, 4.5 lakh took the general test, 2.3 lakh chemistry, 2.29 lakh mathematics and 2.2 lakh physics. CUET UG 2022 covered a total of 61 subjects.

Last year, a total of 3,100 students had taken admission in the BA English (Honours) progammes across 46 DU-affiliated colleges based on their performance in the Class 12 board exams. However, the competition is set to be tough this year as English also has the highest number of 100 percentile scorers (8,236 candidates) across all CUET subjects.

The CUET UG 2022 result was declared around 4 am on September 16. The common entrance exam was scheduled for approximately 14,90,000 candidates.

More candidates have scored 95 percentile in English than any other paper in the Central University Entrance Test (CUET), according to the results data accessed by The Indian Express. English also has the highest number of 100 percentile scorers (8,236 candidates) across all CUET subjects, indicating that admission to Delhi University’s BA English (Honours) programme is set to be tough this year.

Last year, a total of 3,100 students had taken admission in the BA English (Honours) progammes across 46 DU-affiliated colleges based on their performance in the Class 12 board exams.

The Indian Express looked at the results data of top five subjects with the highest number of examinees or candidates — English, general test, chemistry, mathematics and physics — and found that physics and mathematics were the toughest papers and English, the easiest. About 4.85 lakh appeared for the English paper, 4.5 lakh took the general test, 2.3 lakh chemistry, 2.29 lakh mathematics and 2.2 lakh physics. CUET UG 2022 covered a total of 61 subjects. Click To Read More

The National Testing Agency (NTA) declared the results for the Common University Entrance Test (CUET UG) in which almost 20,000 candidates have scored 100 percentile across 30 subjects. The result link is now active at the official website – cuet.samarth.ac.in

English has the maximum number of candidates (8,236) with 100 percentile score, followed by political science (2,065), business studies (1,669), biology (1,324) and economics (1,188). Click To Read More 

The National Testing Agency (NTA) today declared the results for Common University Entrance Test undergraduate (CUET UG) 2022. The result link is now active at the official website – cuet.samarth.ac.in. Performance of every candidate has been evaluated using equi-percentile method where normalised marks of each candidate have been calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject.

“We have dispatched the results data to NIC. It should be uploaded on the CUET Samarth website soon,” a senior NTA official told The Indian Express

Did you know that men outnumbered women candidates in CUET UG. Out of the total 9.9 lakh registered candidates 5.5 lakh were men and 4.34 lakh were women. This is in contrast to NEET, where female candidates usually outnumber men. 

While DU has launched its admission (CSAS) portal, there are other central universities that are waiting for CUET results before announcing their admission process. Banaras Hindu University is among them. 'We will need at least another day or two to finalise our admission process. We are waiting to first receive the result data from NTA. My suggestion to candidates is to keep checking our official website — bhuonline.in — for all latest updates on admission to our undergraduate programme,' a senior official of BHU told The Indian Express. BHU has received the second largest number of applications, after DU, under CUET. 

NTA is expected to announce CUET UG Results in an hour. Candidates waiting for results should keep their admit cards ready to check scorecards online at cuet.samarth.ac.in

A total of 9.9 lakh unique candidates had registered for the exam. Since some of the candidates sat for more than one paper, NTA  conducted the exam for roughly 15 lakh candidates in all. Of these, 2.49 lakh students took the exam in the first phase (July 15 to July 20), 1.91 lakh in phase 2 (August 4 to August 6), 1.91 lakh in phase 3 (August 7 to August 10), 3.72 lakh in phase 4 (August 17 to August 20), 2.01 lakh in Phase 5 (August 21 to August 23) and finally 2.86 lakh in the last phase (August 24 to August 30).

CUET UG was conducted in two phases between July 16 and August 30. The undergraduate admissions to all 45 central universities funded by the UGC will be carried out through the CUET scores from this academic session. Meanwhile, international students seeking admission to Indian universities are exempted from CUET. Their admissions will be carried out on an existing supernumerary basis.

Here’s what your CUET Scorecard will reflect:

1. Candidate’s name, roll number, application number and photograph

2.  Candidate’s father’s name and mother’s name

3. Category (General, OBC, EWS, SC, ST, PwD)

4. Gender

5. A table that will carry the name of the domain subjects in which the candidate was assessed. The percentile score and the absolute (but normalised) score

6. Signature of the NTA official

7. A set of usual disclaimers and footnotes

Step 1: Go to the official website– cuet.samarth.ac.in.
Step 2: Click on the link reading results CUET-UG 2022
Step 3: Enter your credentials such as application number, date of birth, security pin, etc.
Step 4: View the result and if needed, download for future reference.

It’s going to be a long night for CUET aspirants waiting for their entrance test results as NTA is expecting to release the result around 2 am. “It’s a huge database given the large number of papers and subject combinations. The candidates have applied for 54,555 unique combination of subjects. The results should be up by around 2 am,” a senior NTA official told The Indian Express. NTA is currently in the process of normalising absolute marks of candidates, which is the last leg of result preparation. Read more

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A total of 90 universities participated in the Central University Entrance Test (CUET) in its first year. Check their NIRF Rankings. 

Since there is no common counselling or common admission process to fill seats, the action will now move to the participating universities. “As soon as we release the results, the same data will also be simultaneously available to the 90 universities that adopted CUET for admission to their undergraduate programmes. From this point, the NTA has no role,” said a senior official of NTA.

There are a total 90 universities that are participating in CUET UG including 44 Central Universities. All the universities have received a total 58.5 lakh applications for the various programmes. For information on the number of seats, you will have to refer to the universities individually.

To check CUET UG result, candidates would need to key in their application number and date of birth after clicking on the 'candidate login' option.

The National Testing Agency will not release a merit list of students who appeared for CUET UG. NTA will only release scorecards. Universities will be releasing merit lists based on the result and applications they have received

The score cards will soon be released at the official CUET website —  cuet.samarth.ac.in