CUET UG: Universities to use 'normalised' scores for preparing merit lists, not percentile, says UGC chief

UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Friday clarified that universities will prepare the rank list on the basis of "normalised" scores and not percentile or "raw marks" for undergraduate admissions. He said, "CUET scores normalised to provide level playing field to students since they wrote test in same subject on different days".

UGC chief told PTI that normalisation of CUET scores done separately for each subject for which exam was held in multiple shifts.

On the normalisation formula, he said, "CUET normalisation formula decided by panel of professors from Indian Statistical Institute, IIT Delhi and Delhi University."


The results for the debut edition of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG were declared earlier in the day.

Sadhana Parashar, senior director (exams), NTA said that the merit lists will be prepared by participating universities, who will decide about their individual counselling on the basis of the CUET-UG score card".

Notably, the examinations were conducted for admission in 91 universities, including all the central universities of the city.

While the series of tests began on July 15, the sixth and final phase was completed on August 30. A total of 14.90 lakh students had registered themselves and around 60 per cent attempted it.

Besides, CUET-UG exams were also conducted in foreign cities like Muscat, Riyadh, Dubai, Manama, Doha, Kathmandu, Sharjah, Singapore and Kuwait.

In India, the tests were conducted in 444 centres spread across 239 cities.

With inputs from PTI