CUET 2022: Several Concerns Of Students, Parents Remain Unresolved As Exam Date Approaches

The CUET exam will be conducted between July 15 and August 10 across 500 cities in India and ten outside the country.

Several CUET aspirants are stressed about a lack of time to prepare for the examination. (Representational Image)

New Delhi: As the Central University Entrance Test, CUET 2022 date approaches, errors on the admit cards issued for the examination have left students stressed.  The "city intimation slips" were issued to the students on Monday but there seems to be no clarity over the examination centre as the "city intimation slip" only mentions the city's name, not that of the centre, according to the news agency PTI. The exam will be conducted between July 15 and August 10 across 500 cities in India and ten outside the country.

An aspirant Himanshu, 16, told PTI, "It is written on the website that the examination city can also be changed in case of a large number of students. There is a lot of uncertainty". 

Meanwhile, National Testing Agency (NTA) officials say, students should not get worried as they have been issued the "city intimation slips" for the examination centre.

"Advance intimation slips for the examination city to all candidates with the date of the examination and the city of the examination are being issued. The City Intimation Slip for each candidate has information relating to the subjects, language and medium offered in Slot 1 and Slot 2 as well as the date and the city allotted," a senior NTA official told PTI.

"The admit card of the first phase, showing the details of the examination centre, has been available for download from 6 pm on July 12," he added.

Students are also concerned about the unique date-sheet that the National Testing Agency, NTA, said was made for each candidate. Students say papers of some subjects are either falling on the same day or in the first few days of the examination.

Lack of guidance 

Parents have also expressed displeasure with the confusion created among students over the examination centre and dates. 

"It is quite confusing and convoluted. We are among the educated class and our children used to look up to us for guidance. Now, we have no idea about the examination. We are equally clueless," said Jyoti, whose daughter is scheduled to appear in the CUET in August.

For Ramya Shukla, 18, the lack of guidance is adding additional pressure on her. She told PTI a major problem is that the syllabus is not just what they have studied in Classes 11 and 12 but contains "extra" elements too.

"I have not taken any coaching. I am employing the hit-and-run method. I have no idea what questions will come in the examination. The only relief is that my examination is in August. But I feel bad for my friends, many of whom have an examination in the first few days," she told PTI.

"The syllabus of the CUET also includes the part that was removed by the NCERT from the Class 11 and 12 examinations," she added.

However, Shukla said she is glad that all her subject exams are on the same day.

"I don't know whether to take it as blessings or bad luck. But I am so done with examinations – first CBSE Class 12, then a few entrance tests and now the CUET – I just want to be done with it," she said.

Added financial pressure 

Parents feel that these exams have become an additional financial pressure because of the coaching fees.

"If they want to end the importance of the CBSE boards, they should have prepared the children accordingly, because now we are paying extra for the coaching classes. The CBSE exams ended last month and now the students have to prepare for this examination. The parents are paying a large sum of money for the entrance tests," Shukla's friend Juneesha Agarwal told PTI