"Merger of NEET and JEE with CUET is an idea we are floating, so that there is wider discussion among stakeholders, there is no formal decision that we have taken on this...nothing will be imposed on students from the top that from next year there will be a joint exam," Kumar said.
Merger of NEET, JEE with CUET is not yet decided, nothing will be imposed: UGC Chairman
University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar has said that no formal decision has been taken on the merger of engineering entrance test JEE, medical entrance test NEET with Common University Entrance Test (CUET) UG. He also assured that nothing will be imposed on students.
His comments came two days after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said "there are no plans to merge JEE and NEET with the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for the next two years." It must be noted that last month the UGC Chairman had announced that the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be merged with the CUET in future.
"Merger of NEET and JEE with CUET is an idea we are floating, so that there is wider discussion among stakeholders, there is no formal decision that we have taken on this...nothing will be imposed on students from the top that from next year there will be a joint exam," Kumar said.
He announced this during a round table on Enhancing Competitiveness and Quality Revolution in Indian Higher Education.
"Even if a decision is taken, it should not affect the current students who are in class 11 and 12. We need to give them sufficient time, it will not be implemented in next two years at least. It will be done after enough consultations have been done and feedback has been taken into account," he added.
The very first edition of CUET-UG began in July and has been in the news because of the glitches students faced which prompt the National Testing Agency (NTA) to cancel the exams at multiple centres. NEET-UG is the biggest entrance test in India with an average of 18 lakh registrations. While JEE-Mains is a Computer-Based Test (CBT) conducted twice a year, NEET is conducted in pen-and-paper mode. On Wednesday, NEET answer key 2022 was released on the NTA website. All the candidates who have appeared can now go and check it on the official website.
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