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The National Testing Agency has been mandated by the Ministry of Education and UGC to conduct a Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission into all Postgraduate Programmes in all Central Universities, other participating Universities / Institutions / Organizations / Autonomous Colleges since 2022.
The CUET (PG) was introduced in the country for the first time in 2022. The CUET (PG)
provides a single window opportunity to students seeking admission in any of the Central Universities (CUs) or other participating organizations (including State Universities, Deemed and Private Universities) across the Country.
The NTA conducted the CUET (PG) – 2024 on 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, and 28 March 2024 completely in CBT mode in 572 different centres located in 262 cities including 09 cities outside India i.e. Manama, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat, Riyadh, Ottawa, Abu Dhabi, Vienna, and Qatar.
For the Academic Session 2024-25, the Common University Entrance Test (PG) – 2024 [CUET (PG) – 2024] was conducted for about 4,62,603 unique registered candidates who were administered 7,68,414 tests. A total of 190 Universities (Central/State/Private and others) are participating in CUET (PG) – 2024. Details for the same are given below:
i. Central Universities – 39
ii. State Government Universities – 39
iii. Government Institutions – 15
iv. Others (Private and Deemed Universities) – 97
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A list of participating universities is enclosed in Annexure 1.
The CUET (PG) – 2024 provided access and flexibility in the following ways:
- The candidates applied for various courses which were tested under 157 Question
Paper Codes. - The total number of Question Papers was 240 in different mediums and the number
of Questions was 18000. These were used over 15 days and in 44 Shifts. - CUET (PG) – 2024 was conducted in bilingual mode (English and Hindi)
Humanities, Sciences, and Common Papers (76). The language papers were
conducted in the concerned language, M.Tech subjects in English only (13), Acharya papers (27) in Sanskrit and a few subjects were held in trilingual mode (English,
Hindi, and Sanskrit). - Grievances of individual students based on their experience in CUET (PG) – 20234
have also been considered. - For the preparation of Question papers, about 950 subject Experts and 200
translators were involved in the massive exercise of preparing the Question Papers
for CUET (PG) – 2024.
Category-wise registered and appeared candidates:
Category | Registered | Appeared |
EWS | 68910 | 53434 |
General | 289039 | 214637 |
OBC | 269830 | 204781 |
SC | 84661 | 63866 |
ST | 55974 | 40682 |
Total | 768414 | 577400 |
Gender-wise registered and appeared candidates:
Category | Registered | Appeared |
Female | 415350 | 315788 |
Male | 353044 | 261608 |
Third Gender | 20 | 04 |
Total | 768414 | 577400 |
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The Examination was monitored in the following ways:-
- A Central Control Room was opened to monitor and facilitate the smooth conduct of the
Examination on the ground. 02 National Coordinators, 18 Regional Coordinators, 303 City - Coordinators, 650 Observers, and 150 Deputy Observers were deployed.
- Live CCTV Surveillance was planned in all examination centres to curb malpractices in the examination. The NTA also made arrangements for live viewing of remote locations of all examination centres from the Control Room located in the NTA premises of New Delhi. Recording of CCTV Systems was also done.
- The examination centres were also monitored using AI-based Video Analytics and Virtual Observers.
- In order to stop cheating using mobile networks, Jammers were installed in all the Centres to prevent unfair practices by the candidates during the examination through mobile or any other electronic device. The latest 5G Jammers were installed at all examination Centres for the first time.
This year, the CUET (PG) – 2024 was conducted in 44 shifts which is 16 shifts less than the
previous year. From the following table, it is evident that the attendance percentage has
considerably increased this year because candidates were allotted examination city near their present or permanent address, and the examination calendar mentioning the dates for CUET (PG) – 2024 were announced in advance.
Examination | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
CUET (PG) | Registered – 607648 Appeared – 334997 %age – 55.13% |
Registered – 877492 Appeared – 539776 %age – 61.51% |
Registered – 768414 Appeared – 577400 %age – 75.14 |
The CUET (PG) being one of the most sensitive examinations, NTA made elaborate
arrangements at various levels and took help from State Authorities for the smooth conduct of the examination.
To make the candidates and their parents aware of the rules and regulations of the examination, candidates were sent various e-mails on their registered e-mail numbers.
In order to make the system transparent, the Candidates were given an opportunity to see their responses to the Question Papers and to challenge the Answer Keys from 05 to 07 April 2024. Challenges received online were placed before the concerned Subject Experts for verification. The result will prepared based on the Final Answer Keys and the same will be declared on the website https://pgcuet.samarth.ac.in/.
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