CUET UG 2023 Result: UGC Chief Explains CUET UG Score Normalisation Process. See Details

The UGC Chairman has said that the normalisation of marks is done for CUET UG Exam and not other exams since other exams have fewer exam subjects.

UGC Chairman Explains CUET UG Score Normalisation Process

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the result of the CUET UG 2023 Examination. Candidates who appeared the CUET UG 2023 Exam can check their result on the official website - cuet.nta.nic.in. Clear the clutter around minds of CUET UG 2023 aspirants though, UGC chairman M Jgadesh Kumar has said that the marks indicated in the CUET UG Scorecards are normalised marks evaluated following the ‘equi-percentile method. Notably, with the NTA conducting the CUET Exam over the past six weks in multiple sifts and phases, questions around the individual candidate evaluation do make their way in. 

"We need to ensure that the admissions are made based on a score that accurately compares the performance of the students," Jagadesh Kumar was quotes as saying on the matter by news agency PTI. Since other exams have fewer exam subjects, the mormalisation based evaluation is doen for CUET UG and not other exams, he was further reported as saying. 

"In single session entrance tests, one common statistically established method is to transform the raw marks into a common uniform scale using the percentile method so that the performance of students can be compared to each other. "But in entrance tests such CUET-UG since the test is conducted on different days and in multiple sessions for the same subject, it will give rise to multiple percentiles for each group of students. In addition to the above difficulty another problem with using only percentiles is that in subjects such as Sports or Fine Arts, some weightage is given to the skill component by some universities," he was further quoted as saying. "But, addition of raw marks in the skill component and the remaining weightage (75 pc) of percentile cannot be done to prepare the rank list because it would be similar to adding oranges to apples," he further added. The equi-percentile method draws the percentile of each candidate using their raw marks compared to the raw marks of other candidates in the same session. The normalisation is done for every session across multiple days for the same subject. The percentiles of such candidates are then equated, and converted into normalised marks. However, for exam sessions which had a lower number of candidates, the normalisd percentiles are clubbed with bigger sessions. 

"In which session they have appeared in a given subject making their performance comparable across sessions. These normalised marks of the candidates, obtained using equipercentile method, in different sessions in a given subject can be used in the same way we use the raw marks of a conventional single session examination. "Therefore, in a particular university, if the raw marks of the skill component has certain weightage it can be added to the remaining weightage of the normalized marks to prepare the rank list," the UGC Chairman was further reported as saying. 

Notably, the CUET is the second single-largest exam in the country interms of number of applicants. In the first addition of the exam, around 12.5 lakh candidates reportedly registered, and around 9.9 lakh candidates appeared for the exam. In its second edition, the CUET UG Exam witnessed over 14 lakh applications, a 41% increase over previous year.