OMR to replace CBT in CUET: UGC chief

Chairman of the University Grants commission
(UGC) Jagdish Kumar
has said that the issues faced by
the candidates in the previous
edition of Common University
Entrance Test (CUET) will be
addressed this year.
“There were some issues
faced by the students and those
have been addressed. Last year,
it was a computer-based test but
now we are introducing OMR and the CUET will be conducted in
hybrid mode so that colleges and
schools are used as centres and our
students get an opportunity to
appear in the exam nearby,” he told
media persons on the sidelines of
national conference on New
Education Policy at IIM Jammu,
here today.
It may be recalled that
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha
had last year raised the issue of lack
of CUET examination centres in
Jammu and Kashmir with the Union
Education Minister Dharmendra
Pradhan, saying various candidates
were allotted centres outside the
Union Territory, which were over
300 kms away.
Stating that earlier admissions
in universities were based on
board marks and that put a lot of
stress on the students, the UGC
Chairman claimed that stress level
has gone down with the introduction
of CUET and all the students
are now getting a level-playing
field. “CUET has brought complete
transformation and strengthened
national integration,” he
added.
The UGC Chairman also batted
for appointment of ombudsman in
universities and colleges, as well as
grievance redressal committees, to
address the students’ problems.