A NEW GATEWAY TO THE CAMPUS

BOARD RESULTS WILL NO LONGER DECIDE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. BUT CAN THE COMMON ENTRANCE TEST LEVEL THE FIELD FOR STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS?

- Kaushik Deka

Come May and every aspirant to an undergraduate course in the Delhi University student starts losing their sleep over the impossibly high cutoffs for admission into a college and course of their choice. Not this academic session. This summer, nearly 180,000 students will get admission to undergraduate courses in the Delhi University and 44 other central universities based not on marks in the 10+2 board exams, but on the basis of the score in the Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET). “It’s mandatory for all central universities,” says Professor M. Jagadesh Kumar, chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC). “We believe once they see merit in this test, state universities and deemed universities too will soon adopt it for admissions.”