CUET UG 2023 registration to begin in February: UGC Chief

The second edition of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) UG is scheduled for May 2023 for which the registration will commence in February. As per the NTA announcement, the CUET UG 2023 will be held from May 21 to 31 next year. The National Testing Agency has released the NTA Examination Calendar for Academic Year 2023-24 mentioning the exam dates for JEE Main 2023, NEET 2023, CUET 2023 and ICAR AIEEA 2023. 

The undergraduate admission process in universities will be completed by July 2023 and the new academic session can begin on August 1 of next year. The University Grants Commission (UGC) in March last year announced that undergraduate admissions will be conducted in all central



universities through a common entrance test and not on the basis of class 12 marks. According to UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar, the application process for the CUET-UG will start in the first week of February 2023.

"The number of subjects and pattern of question papers will remain the same. A candidate can take as many as 6 domain subjects in addition to one or two languages and the General Test. The test would be conducted in the following languages--Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu," he said. Kumar said the NTA is working on preparing 1,000 test centres across the country, out of which 450 – 500 centres will be used per day.