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Integration of NEET, JEE and CUET by UGC

Dr.M.Ramachandran

The University Grants Commission is in the thought process of initiating a case study for merging India’s premier under graduate entrance tests such as JEE, NEET and CUET into a single entity to be administered by NTA(National Testing Agency). This proposal is going to benefit millions of professional and university college admission seekers and aspirants in more than one way.

• NEET and JEE:

Lakhs of students after 10+2 attempts NEET for taking admission in medical and allied courses like BDS. Three electives, ie. Biology, Physics and Chemistry questions are included in NEET examinations.

Similarly for JEE Main and Advanced Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry syllabus are covered. Physics and Chemistry subjects are common for both entrance tests. The only difference is Maths and Biology electives are separate for JEE and NEET. Altogether four 10+2 subjects are covered for both JEE and NEET.

The University Grants Commission is planning to make a common question paper in physics and chemistry for bothNEET and JEE and an optional Maths paper for JEE and another biology paper for NEET examinations.

It means a common admission test for medical and engineering aspirants comprises four subjects that is Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Chemistry. For medical admission a merit list is prepared on the basis of Biology Physics and Chemistry scores. Similarly for IITs in and NITs admissions score sheet prepared on the basis of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry scores.

• CUET (Common University Entrance Test)

The common University Entrance Test earlier known as the Central Universities Common Entrance test is an all India qualifying test conducted by National Testing Agency for admission to various UG, PG, Integrated, Diploma, Certification and Research programmes. Its notification for 2022-23 meant for admission to hundreds of undergraduate courses in 53 Central Universities, 11 Deemed universities, 12 State Universities, 19 Private universities and dozens of Autonomous Colleges. The CUET also covers mainly Maths, Physics Chemistry and Biology along with 27 domain specific subjects apart from general knowledge, general mental ability, numerical ability, quantitative reasoning and logical and analytical reasoning.

• Merger of NEET, JEEand CUET into one test.

The UGC has proposed to conduct a common test after merging JEE, NEET and CUET for admission to the undergraduate courses like Medical, Engineering, Law, Arts, Commerce and various integrated courses for all those affiliated institutions across the country. Even foreign universities are expected to consider NTA’s scoresheet for Admission to their UG programmes. For all these above mentioned courses, 10+2 students needs to attend only a single examination.

The marks scored by candidates will be treated as eligibility criteria for granting admission to multiple disciplines. At present, in India, there are hundreds of entrance tests being conducted regularly by different establishments.

The JEE,NEET, IIT JAM, CUSAT, KEAM, IISC, IISER, COMEDK, AIIMS, JIPMER, CAT, CLAT, BITSAT, MAT, GMAT, etc. are very few examples.

• Benefit for students:

If there is only a single platform for multiple admission choices students and parents are benefited in many ways including saving of money (exam fees), travel ,time and accommodation to locate different exam centres, stress free single exam which reduces confusion. Moreover, a common admission time scheme will be followed by all institutions pan India.

• CUET and GATE scores:

The CUET scores are similar to GATE scores. The GATE is an assessment that basically test the comprehensive understanding of various UG subjects in engineering and science for admission to PG programmes and also to show case credit scores for employment purpose in few public undertakings. GATE is not an entrance test but an assessment one.

Like GATE scores, CUET scores can be used for claiming merit seats in UG programmes including medical, engineering and other general university higher education courses.

• Integrated courses after 10+2.

Integrated courses are those academic programmes a candidate can pursue both UG and PG subsequently. These courses enables students to focus on a particular degree and end up with a PG or professional certification like BEd. or LLB. These integrated programmes are offered in all streams such as arts, science and commerce or professional courses.

• Concerns

No doubt, UGC’s plan to amalgamate NEET, JEE and CUET is a welcome measure. The same postulate is underlined in NEP 2020. But the concerns are to be well addressed prior to showcasing such a huge endeavour in Indian higher education scenario. Issues like standard contents of biology in NEET, advanced mathematical concepts in JEE, average learning outcomes of 10+2 passed out students at all India level, combined syllabus (XI & XII)for NEET and JEE, more weightage for 12th in CUET, different difficulty levels of questions in CUET, NEET and JEE etc are to be seriously debated and the discrepancies needs to be solved.

Though South Korean CSAT exam - College Scholastic Ability Test is the one imported model which is researched by UGC to transplant in Indian context should not ignore the fact that the registered number of candidates for CUET -2022 is 10 times larger than Korean CSAT exam 2022.

Moreover, South Korea is a country already launched the services of 5G internet technology with effect from first of December 2018 and now established research centres for 6G technology at three universities two years back. At the same time in India the technical glitches stood in the way of smooth conduct of much awaited CUET 2022.

The third phase of CUET is yet to be conducted. Meanwhile, the JNU faculties demanded the university authorities to withdraw from CUET for avoiding further delay in admission processes for the academy session 2022-23.

(The author is Secretary General, UN volunteers for the cause of education-Indian chapter)

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