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  • West Bengal state universities not using CUET model for UG course admissions

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: None of the state universities in West Bengal has adopted the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG model for admission to undergraduate courses, authorities said on Sunday.

    Vice Chancellor of Diamond Harbour Women’s University Soma Bandyopadhyay told PTI, “We have conducted the entrance test as directed by the state higher education department. Being a state university. We devise the admission criteria going by the directives of the state higher education department. There is no way we can adopt the CUET method or prepare any new merit list,” she said. 

    The state-run Jadavpur University has already conducted its own entrance tests for UG courses for various departments, Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association spokesperson Partha Pratim Roy said. 

    “No way we can adapt the CUET path for an institution like Jadavpur University which follows rigorous high-level admission procedure. All our disciplines – science, arts and engineering – maintain high academic standards due to this admission process by JU. The uniform CUET route is not applicable for JU,” he said.

    Private St Xavier’s University also held it’s own entrance tests offline this year.

    St Xavier’s University Vice-Chancellor Father Felix Raj said, “We are not going by the CUET route.”

    Officials of Presidency University, Vidyasagar University, Bardhaman University, MAKAUT, North Bengal University, West Bengal University of Technology also said they have adhered to their own admission process as envisaged by the state higher education department.

    There will not be any CUET-UG merit lists or counselling for state varsities, officials said.

    A Visva-Bharati University spokesperson said the Central university, having UG courses in different disciplines, has adopted the CUET route.

    “The CUET eligibility criteria will be followed both for students of Patha Bhavan and Siksha Satra (higher secondary level educational units run by Visva Bharati) and students from outside. But there will be a little bit lowering of cut-off mark for internal students (those having studied here up to 12th level,” the spokesperson said.

    Spokesperson of Presidency University Students Union, Debnil Paul said, “We oppose the attempt to thrust one uniform admission test criteria on all higher educational institutions across the country. This does not take into account the academic autonomy issue of institutions like Presidency.”

    The results of the CUET-UG were declared on September 16 by the National Testing Agency (NTA).

    “The merit lists will be prepared by participating universities who will decide about their individual counselling on the basis of CUET-UG score card,” said Sadhana Parashar, Senior Director (Exams), NTA.

    KOLKATA: None of the state universities in West Bengal has adopted the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG model for admission to undergraduate courses, authorities said on Sunday.

    Vice Chancellor of Diamond Harbour Women’s University Soma Bandyopadhyay told PTI, “We have conducted the entrance test as directed by the state higher education department. Being a state university. We devise the admission criteria going by the directives of the state higher education department. There is no way we can adopt the CUET method or prepare any new merit list,” she said. 

    The state-run Jadavpur University has already conducted its own entrance tests for UG courses for various departments, Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association spokesperson Partha Pratim Roy said. 

    “No way we can adapt the CUET path for an institution like Jadavpur University which follows rigorous high-level admission procedure. All our disciplines – science, arts and engineering – maintain high academic standards due to this admission process by JU. The uniform CUET route is not applicable for JU,” he said.

    Private St Xavier’s University also held it’s own entrance tests offline this year.

    St Xavier’s University Vice-Chancellor Father Felix Raj said, “We are not going by the CUET route.”

    Officials of Presidency University, Vidyasagar University, Bardhaman University, MAKAUT, North Bengal University, West Bengal University of Technology also said they have adhered to their own admission process as envisaged by the state higher education department.

    There will not be any CUET-UG merit lists or counselling for state varsities, officials said.

    A Visva-Bharati University spokesperson said the Central university, having UG courses in different disciplines, has adopted the CUET route.

    “The CUET eligibility criteria will be followed both for students of Patha Bhavan and Siksha Satra (higher secondary level educational units run by Visva Bharati) and students from outside. But there will be a little bit lowering of cut-off mark for internal students (those having studied here up to 12th level,” the spokesperson said.

    Spokesperson of Presidency University Students Union, Debnil Paul said, “We oppose the attempt to thrust one uniform admission test criteria on all higher educational institutions across the country. This does not take into account the academic autonomy issue of institutions like Presidency.”

    The results of the CUET-UG were declared on September 16 by the National Testing Agency (NTA).

    “The merit lists will be prepared by participating universities who will decide about their individual counselling on the basis of CUET-UG score card,” said Sadhana Parashar, Senior Director (Exams), NTA.

  • CUET-UG 2022 results declared| ‘Normalised’ score to decide admission, not percentile or raw marks: UGC chairman

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The much-awaited debut CUET-UG 2022 results were finally announced early Friday, with the UGC chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar stressing that the admission to undergraduate courses in central universities in India would be through the ‘normalised’ marks and not percentile or raw marks.

    Speaking with this newspaper, Kumar said that students should not worry if they see the difference in their normalised marks and answer keys. 

    He also hoped that the 90 universities would come up with a merit list to start admission for undergraduate courses within ten days based on normalised marks. 

    His clarification came after the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that 21,159 – 12,799 girls and 8360 boys – students scored 100 percentile. 

    Maximum students (8236) scored 100 percentile in English, followed by Political Science (2,065) and Business Studies (1,669). The other subjects that got substantial 100 percentile scores are – Biology/Biotechnology (1,319), and Economics/Business Eco. (1,187), Psychology (1,186), Sanskrit (1,166) History (893), Hindi (875) Sociology (261)

    The news of the high percentile led to panic among students and parents, who spent an anxious long night awaiting the result, which was announced at 4 am Friday instead of 10 pm Thursday, and started bombarding social media on whether the percentile would decide admissions into universities. Many complained that their scores have been downgraded in the name of ‘normalisation.’

    Most of them posted their scorecards which reflected the difference between their normalised scores and the raw marks they had received from the NTA, which had conducted the exam in six phases from July 15 to August 30. The NTA had earlier shared the answer key with the students.

    Clarifying the doubts, the University Grants Commission had told this newspaper, “The normalised marks will take into account the difference in the difficulty levels across the sessions.”

    He further explained that students in two different sessions might have the same percentile, but when the normalisation is done, the difficulty level of each session is considered. So, the normalised marks will be different from the percentiles. 

    “Some say they got 80 percentile, but in normalised marks, it has come down to 60. They have to understand that the normalised marks are different from the percentile. If one gets 82 percentile, 82 people get less than his marks. It is then converted into normalised marks, which are the real marks considering the difficulty level,” he said. 

    “Students need not worry if they see that their normalised marks are different from the percentiles. Without normalisation, the ranking list will be highly skewed because of the difficulty levels. We have used the scientific method of normalising the performance of the students who gave the exams in different sessions,” he said, adding that it was done to provide a level playing field to all students who took the debut exam on the same subject on different days or shifts.

    The performance of every candidate was evaluated using the equi-percentile method wherein normalised marks of each candidate were calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject.

    The process was carried out by a committee headed by a senior professor from Indian Statistical Institution, Delhi and comprising senior professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Delhi University, he said, adding that results have been shared with the universities.

    The need for normalisation arose because the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG were conducted in different shifts and as the question paper for each shift was different, it was not possible to maintain equivalence in various question papers, or to assess their difficulty level, as some students would have got a relatively difficult question as compared to others. So to keep parity, the need was felt for normalising the marks.

    Technical glitches, last-minute changes in exam centres, uninformed changes in exam dates and delay in issuing admit cards, some even mentioning past dates, were some of the many issues faced by students during the exam.

    With 14.9 lakh registrations, the CUET is now the second biggest entrance exam in the country, surpassing JEE-Main average registration of nine lakh. Sixty per cent attendance was recorded in the CUET-UG exam. NEET-UG is the most prominent entrance test in India, with an average of 18 lakh applicants.

    NEW DELHI: The much-awaited debut CUET-UG 2022 results were finally announced early Friday, with the UGC chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar stressing that the admission to undergraduate courses in central universities in India would be through the ‘normalised’ marks and not percentile or raw marks.

    Speaking with this newspaper, Kumar said that students should not worry if they see the difference in their normalised marks and answer keys. 

    He also hoped that the 90 universities would come up with a merit list to start admission for undergraduate courses within ten days based on normalised marks. 

    His clarification came after the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that 21,159 – 12,799 girls and 8360 boys – students scored 100 percentile. 

    Maximum students (8236) scored 100 percentile in English, followed by Political Science (2,065) and Business Studies (1,669). The other subjects that got substantial 100 percentile scores are – Biology/Biotechnology (1,319), and Economics/Business Eco. (1,187), Psychology (1,186), Sanskrit (1,166) History (893), Hindi (875) Sociology (261)

    The news of the high percentile led to panic among students and parents, who spent an anxious long night awaiting the result, which was announced at 4 am Friday instead of 10 pm Thursday, and started bombarding social media on whether the percentile would decide admissions into universities. Many complained that their scores have been downgraded in the name of ‘normalisation.’

    Most of them posted their scorecards which reflected the difference between their normalised scores and the raw marks they had received from the NTA, which had conducted the exam in six phases from July 15 to August 30. The NTA had earlier shared the answer key with the students.

    Clarifying the doubts, the University Grants Commission had told this newspaper, “The normalised marks will take into account the difference in the difficulty levels across the sessions.”

    He further explained that students in two different sessions might have the same percentile, but when the normalisation is done, the difficulty level of each session is considered. So, the normalised marks will be different from the percentiles. 

    “Some say they got 80 percentile, but in normalised marks, it has come down to 60. They have to understand that the normalised marks are different from the percentile. If one gets 82 percentile, 82 people get less than his marks. It is then converted into normalised marks, which are the real marks considering the difficulty level,” he said. 

    “Students need not worry if they see that their normalised marks are different from the percentiles. Without normalisation, the ranking list will be highly skewed because of the difficulty levels. We have used the scientific method of normalising the performance of the students who gave the exams in different sessions,” he said, adding that it was done to provide a level playing field to all students who took the debut exam on the same subject on different days or shifts.

    The performance of every candidate was evaluated using the equi-percentile method wherein normalised marks of each candidate were calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject.

    The process was carried out by a committee headed by a senior professor from Indian Statistical Institution, Delhi and comprising senior professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Delhi University, he said, adding that results have been shared with the universities.

    The need for normalisation arose because the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG were conducted in different shifts and as the question paper for each shift was different, it was not possible to maintain equivalence in various question papers, or to assess their difficulty level, as some students would have got a relatively difficult question as compared to others. So to keep parity, the need was felt for normalising the marks.

    Technical glitches, last-minute changes in exam centres, uninformed changes in exam dates and delay in issuing admit cards, some even mentioning past dates, were some of the many issues faced by students during the exam.

    With 14.9 lakh registrations, the CUET is now the second biggest entrance exam in the country, surpassing JEE-Main average registration of nine lakh. Sixty per cent attendance was recorded in the CUET-UG exam. NEET-UG is the most prominent entrance test in India, with an average of 18 lakh applicants.

  • Apply for admission in English medium schools from today, see date

    The process of application for admission in English medium schools for classes I to XII is being started from today. Due to Corona, this year, offline applications can be applied in addition to online.
    The process of application for admission in 172 English schools of the state is being started. Please tell that 119 more English schools are starting in this session. It was started in just 52 schools last year. Admission will be given on vacant seats from class I to XII. At the same time, children with English medium will be given priority in admission from class II to 12th. At the same time, the lottery will be removed from the lottery. Applications can be made from 15 May to 10 June.

  • Eight lakh cheated in the name of getting admission in RIMS Medical College

    A case of cheating of nearly eight lakh rupees has come in the name of admission in the medical college. The thugs cheated that he will get the student’s admission to MBBS in Rims College. The report of this entire case has been lodged at Pandari Police Station. According to the Pandari police station, it has been reported by Babita Sahu, a resident of Swamp Seoni.

    He himself transferred the money to the thugs in his account in the name of admission of his daughter Anchal Sahu. The accused against whom the report has been filed include Surendra Kamat, Vidhanand Verma and Vishwajit Shah. The accused approached the student before taking the NEET exam and even after the result.

    At the same time, the student’s admission was done in another state’s medical college. However, the victim got caught in the trap of thugs in the fascination of Medical College, Raipur. Pandari police station in-charge Yakub Memon has said in this case that the accused are from nearby Delhi. Police is preparing a strategy for his early arrest.

  • If you want to enroll under the Right to Education Act, then get ready, the application will be submitted in March

    The School Education Department has started the process for admission under the Right to Education Act (RTE). Online applications will be called for free education from across the state from March 1 to 30 for the session 2020-21. Directorate of Public Education will soon issue an order for this.

    Parents will be able to apply for 80 thousand seats in more than 12 thousand private schools of the state. In urban areas, applications will be made available to private schools falling within a radius of three kilometers from their home and in rural areas this scope can be extended up to five km as and when required. For this, publicity will be done in every street and village in the city.

    Those children whose parents are BPL card holders, SC, SST, mental or physical handicapped, HIV victims, orphans and others are deprived of admission to private schools. There are 46 lakh BPL card holders in the state. 40 percent of mentally challenged persons will have to give a certificate issued from a government or private hospital.

    The process of application, change, district-wise seat determination etc. will be completed by the end of February. District wise number of seats, information about schools can be obtained from the website. Under the Right to Education, private schools across the state are admitted from nursery to first class.

  • Three talented students of Dantewada got admission in private medical college: Bhupesh Baghel

    With the sensitive initiative of Bhupesh Baghel, the dream of becoming a doctor of three talented students of the remote region of Dantewada will now be realized. PET And these three students of Balod Residential School, Balud and Kanya Residential School, Karli, Dantewada, for the coaching of PMT, have been admitted to the private medical college JNU Institute of Medical Sciences and Richers Center, Jaipur, on government expenditure. For the admission of these three students, a fee of one crore 36 lakh 74 thousand rupees has been deposited by the District Administration Dantewada. This is the first time in the history of the state of Chhattisgarh that a government is going to get students from far-flung areas to complete private education at a private college at government expense.
    It is known that PET by the district administration. And due to technical error of these students, who have qualified for the coaching of PMT for Chambs 2020 from Balod Residential School Balud and Kanya Residential School Karli, Dantewada, due to technical error, these students were not registered in the State Counseling – Students were denied admission to medical college. As soon as this information came to the notice of Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel, he took a sensitive initiative and instructed the District Administration Dantewada to get the students admitted in private medical colleges at government expense. In compliance with the instructions of the Chief Minister, the district administration, taking action, ensured that three students, Mr. Sudhir Kumar Rajak, Mr. Jayant Kumar and Kumari Aishwarya Nag, got admission in private colleges. MBBS course fees have been deposited in the private medical colleges of these three students out of Rs 3 crore 32 lakh 25 thousand, a total amount of Rs 1 crore 36 lakh 74 thousand.

  • Government will get tribal students admitted in private medical colleges

    Due to network and other technical reasons, the tribal students who could not register for counseling, due to network and other technical reasons, will now get government admission in private colleges in the state. This is the first time since the creation of Chhattisgarh state that children will be admitted to the payment seats of private colleges for MBBS at the expense of the state government.

    After the first counseling, two students Kumari Padma Made and Piyusha Beck are eligible for admission to MBBS. Following the instructions of the Chief Minister, Collector Dantewada is processing the admission of these girl students in private colleges of the state. The Chief Minister also said that further if any of these students are found eligible for admission after the cut-up, then they too will be admitted to the payment seats of private colleges and the state government will bear the expenses.

  • Sainik School Entrance Exam Application

    All India Sainik School Entrance Exam will be held on January 10, 2021 for admission in class 6th and 9th at Sainik School Ambikapur in session 2021-22. The online application for admission in Sainik School Ambikapur can be filled at the official of the National Examination Agency by 19 November.