West Bengal State Universities Not to Consider CUET 2022 Score for UG Admissions; Check Details Here

New Delhi: The state universities in West Bengal have not taken the Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET) UG model for admission to undergraduate courses, authorities informed on Sunday, September 18.

“We have conducted the entrance test as directed by the state higher education department,” Soma Bandyopadhyay, vice chancellor, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, said. “Being a state university, we devise the admission criteria going by the directives of the state higher education department. There is no way we can adopt the CUET method or prepare any new merit list,” she added.

Jadavpur University, a state run university, has already conducted its own entrance exam for Undergraduate admissions for the different departments. Jadavpur University Teachers Association spokesperson Partha Pratim Roy when speaking to media representatives said

"The state-run Jadavpur University has already conducted its own entrance tests for undergraduate courses for various departments. No way we can adapt the CUET path for an institution like Jadavpur University which follows a rigorous high-level admission procedure. All our disciplines – science, arts and engineering – maintain high academic standards due to this admission process by JU. The uniform CUET route is not applicable for JU."

Another private university St Xavier's also conducted their own entrance examinations and the Vice-Chancellor Father Felix Raj said: "We are not going by the CUET route.”

The officials of the Presidency University, Vidyasagar University, Bardhaman University, MAKAUT, North Bengal University and the West Bengal University of Technology also have taken to their own admission process and have said that they will not be adhering to the CUET UG merit list.

According to a Visva-Bharati University spokesperson, the Central university, having UG courses in different disciplines, has adopted the CUET route.

“The CUET eligibility criteria will be followed both for students of Patha Bhavan and Siksha Satra (higher secondary level educational units run by Visva Bharati) and students from outside. But there will be a little bit of a lowering of the cut-off mark for internal students (those having studied here up to 12th level,” the spokesperson said.

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