JNU CUET PG 2022: JNU is appealing to the govt. to change MCQ format of the entrance test.

Jawaharlal Nehru University’s vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, said that the institution has been appealing to the union government to change the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) format for postgraduate admissions. 

Pandit said that admissions to master’s programmes cannot be conducted through Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) tests and spoke of the impact on student intake in the absence of qualitative testing.

Referring to the university’s decision to follow the CUET for admissions, she said, “The acceptance to join (CUET)was done by the previous administration… If I was there, I would have put these concerns in writing. Because it’s very important, I think, that we tell the government because the bureaucracy does not understand.”

She added, “So, it is important that as a teacher, stakeholder within the system, we have to make them understand that these are the difficulties that we have in reality,” adding: “We are not opposing the system, per se, but the implementation of the system can be disastrous if we are going to have this kind of uniformity.”

The CUET-PG is a new entrance exam that many central universities have decided to use for the academic year of 2022-2023. It is a computer-based exam that will be taking place in 500 different cities across India, as well as 13 different centers located abroad. The test will happen over the course of eleven days, with two different sessions each day.