From the academic session of 2021-22 widespread entrance test will be performed for the admission to all the central universities, reported TOI.
Earlier, throughout the virtual conference organised by FICCI, Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare had informed about the exact same. “You will see some of the key alterations in 2021 itself.
Talking about the National Education Policy 2020’s suggestions, he had mentioned, “If I could list out, for example, the common admission test for entrance to all central universities that are coming in 2021.”
As per the report by TOI, the selection has been taken to finish the tyranny of reduce-off marks primarily based on Class XII Board and to tackle the difficulty in UG admission procedure due to distinction in evaluation scheme of a variety of Boards. Usually, the greater-scoring science stream students get an edge in admissions to these universities, on the other hand, the new aptitude test will provide a widespread ground for every person.
The exam, as per the report, will be laptop or computer-primarily based and will involve aptitude tests and topic-certain tests. As per UGC, as of June 2020, there are 54 central universities in the nation.
At present, there is no widespread admission test for undergraduate courses in the basic stream. Most universities admit students primarily based on their Class XII marks, even though central universities hold entrance test for some of the courses.
The NEP 2020 had encouraged a national widespread aptitude entrance test to be performed by the National Testing Agency twice a year. However, in the upcoming year, the entrance will be held 1 time a year.
(With inputs from agencies)