The National Testing Agency (NTA) is now going to conduct the CUET Re Test 2024 on July 19, 2024 after considering all the grievances of the affected candidates. The examination authority in its official notification released on July 14 said that they are going to conduct the Re Test for all those candidates who have submitted their grievances before June 30.
Why CUET Re-Test 2024?
Earlier, NTA conducted the CUET 2024 between May 15 and 29 in 379 cities including 26 outside of India. As the exams concluded there were several reports of candidates claiming that there were discrepancies in the CUET Answer Key 2024. Also, candidates claimed they were unable to complete their CUET UG exams as the centres didn’t provide enough time and many other allegations.
As per the media reports, there are over 1000 affected candidates who are now going to appear in the Common University Entrance Test or CUET Re-Test 2024. This is for the first time, that the Re CUET Exam 2024 is conducting.
Hazaribagh School Centre under scrutiny
The Hazaribagh school centre in Jharkhand State, under scrutiny for an alleged NEET-UG paper leak, is back in the news. Out of 1,000 CUET-UG aspirants for whom National Testing Agency (NTA) is conducting a retest on July 19, 250 candidates are from Oasis Public School in Hazaribag. According to NTA sources, the retest is necessary due to the distribution of question papers in a language not chosen by the candidates and issues with missing data for some aspirants.
NEET-UG paper leak case linked to Hazaribagh
The NEET-UG 2024 paper leak that has put a question mark over the future of nearly 24 lakh students has its origins in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh and has strong links to officials from one of its most prominent schools, a CBI investigation has revealed.
Delay in CUET-UG 2024 result
As per NTA officials, now CUET UG Result 2024 will be announced after the conduction of the retest on July 19. Earlier, the CUET UG Result 2024 was going to be released on June 30. But due to the collection of grievances from the affected candidates, the CUET UG Result 2024 got delayed, now, it is expected that CUET Result 2024 will be released on July 22, 2024 at the official website.
Delay in academic calendar of 262 universities:
Delhi University has already indicated that a three-week delay in results would delay the university's academic calendar by two weeks. It now appears the delay will extend to nearly four weeks, further affecting the academic calendar for the first year undergraduate students for the 262 participating universities including various central universities and institutions.