In a critical instance, NTA, the National Testing Agency, has declared that the CUET-UG exam at a center in Uttar Pradesh, at Kanpur, will be repeated on May 29 as the students were handed the wrong question paper.
The NTA has refuted the reports of the paper leakage and only explained that invigilators mistakenly issued the English medium question papers to Hindi medium students, not the ones who were supposed to take the Hindi medium paper. The DSE decided to re-run the exam for nearly 220 students in the spotlight after the mistake was exposed on May 15.
It is not the first time such an incidence has occurred during the ongoing CUET-UG exams, no doubt. A complete mess up was done in the last MEdium. In Rajastha’s Sawai Madhopur, Hindi-medium students were given English-medium question papers for the NEET exam that was held earlier in the month. Their assessment was to be made the same day as well.
Unlike the previous editions of the CUET-UG, the current edition is for the first time conducted offline, enabling students to appear in an exam center of their choice. The schedule for the exams of four subjects – Chemistry, Biology, English, and General Test – was on May 15 as three overlapping tests were conducted through offline testing mode on the dates of May 15 to May 19, followed by the other subjects to be completed on computer-based tests from May 21 to May 24.
However, despite the evident reasons behind logistics constraints, some 81 % of all CUET-UG examinations has been conducted within three days since the examination’s start, noticeably boosting attendance figures.
