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A senior National Testing Agency (NTA) official spoke to hundreds of school administrators on Thursday to apprise them of the common entrance exam for Central universities, and told them that it would not take away from the importance of senior secondary schooling.
Parashar began the session by saying that the introduction of CUET should not be seen as taking away from the importance of schools or class 12 examinations. “I would like to say that the CUET is completely designed based on the syllabus of just grade 12. So it is nowhere taking away from the board exam. In fact, it is supplementing. And the only reason the ministry has got this into being is not just because it was part of the National Education Policy, but because there was so much of variation across the boards in the country in terms of the way the evaluation was done, the way the question papers were made, (and) the typology of the questions. So, sometimes, meritorious students got left behind…” she said.
She also told school authorities that the reduction in pressure on students to score very high marks in board exams could be seen as an opportunity.
