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  • 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.

  • ICSE class 10 results declared, 4 students share top spot

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) announced class 10 results on Sunday, with four students sharing the top rank with a score of 99.8 per cent.

    The four toppers are — Hargun Kaur Matharu (Pune), Anika Gupta (Kanpur), Pushkar Tripathi (Balrampur) and Kanishka Mittal (Lucknow).

    The second rank has been shared by 34 students with a score of 99.6 per cent, while 72 are on the third spot with 99.4 per cent mark.

    The pass percentage for girls (99.98) is marginally higher than that for boys (99.97). The overall pas percentage was 99.97.

    NEW DELHI: The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) announced class 10 results on Sunday, with four students sharing the top rank with a score of 99.8 per cent.

    The four toppers are — Hargun Kaur Matharu (Pune), Anika Gupta (Kanpur), Pushkar Tripathi (Balrampur) and Kanishka Mittal (Lucknow).

    The second rank has been shared by 34 students with a score of 99.6 per cent, while 72 are on the third spot with 99.4 per cent mark.

    The pass percentage for girls (99.98) is marginally higher than that for boys (99.97). The overall pas percentage was 99.97.

  • NEET-PG 2022 results announced in record 10 days

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) Post Graduate-2022 results were announced on Wednesday in a record ten days.

    The examination, mired in controversy as thousands of junior doctors had sought postponement because of the unfinished counselling process of the previous year, was conducted on May 21. The result is now available on natboard.edu.in and nbe.edu.in.

    Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted, “NEET-PG result is out! I congratulate all the students who have qualified for NEET-PG with flying colours.”

    He lauded the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) for announcing the results in a record ten days. “I appreciate @NBEMS_INDIA for their commendable job of declaring the results in record ten days, much ahead of schedule,” he said.

    NEET PG 2022 cut-offs have also been released. The merit list for the same would be released separately by NBE, officials said. A total of 1,82,318 candidates had taken the exam in 849 centres.

    NEET-PG result is out!I congratulate all the students who have qualified for NEET-PG with flying colours.I appreciate @NBEMS_INDIA for their commendable job of declaring the results in record 10 days, much ahead of the schedule.Check your result at https://t.co/Fbmm0s9vCP
    — Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) June 1, 2022
    The exams were held in the backdrop of an aggressive social media campaign launched by the junior students. Many student associations and federations had appealed to the union health minister and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi to postpone them as they said that they were not ready to take the exams due to the delayed counselling process of 2021. 

    Junior doctors also approached the Supreme Court, which dismissed the plea. In a notice, NBEMS said the merit position for All India 50 per cent quota seats would be declared separately. Now, the selected candidates would have to register for counselling.  Officials said the counselling schedule for NEET-PG 2022 examination would be released by the Medical Counselling Committee soon. 

    Officials said the union health ministry is expected to announce the schedule soon. It intends to cover up the lost time and the gap caused in postgraduate medical education due to the two years of the pandemic.

    India has about 38,000 post-graduate seats for about 78,000 MBBS graduates. There are 50 per cent All India quota seats, and the remaining 50 per cent are the state quota seats, which offer 19,000 MD/MS seats.

  • Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education releases exam results, students can see on website

    Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education has released the examination results of High School Certificate Complementary Examination-2020 and DeLed First Year Main Examination 2020 on Monday. Secretary Prof. VK Goel said that a total of 44512 candidates had appeared in the High School Supplementary Examination. Out of these, the examination results of 44390 students have been declared. A total of 33173 candidates have passed out of the declared result. This is 74.73 percent of the total candidates. Among the passed candidates, 7573 students have passed first class, 24525 students have passed second class and 1075 students have passed in third class. Similarly, a total of 5317 candidates appeared in the DLEd first year main examination. Out of these, the test results of 5312 candidates were declared. In the total declared result, 3605 candidates passed, which is 67.86 percent of the total passed candidates.