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Tamil Nadu Assembly passes resolution urging Centre to withdraw CUET

Chief Minister M K Stalin moved the resolution, urging the Central government to withdraw the entrance test.

GUJCET 2022 Admit Card released, know how to download

Students who have successfully registered themselves for the Gujarat Common Entrance Test will be able to download the GUJCET 2022 Hall Ticket through online mode from official website-gujcet.gseb.org

JEE-Main first session postponed to June, second session to July

Engineering entrance exam JEE-Main's first session has been postponed to June and the second session to July, officials of the National Testing Agency said on Wednesday

TN CM Stalin terms CUET 'regressive', asks PM Modi to scrap proposal

Denouncing CUET for central universities, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin dubbed the proposed exam as 'regressive' and 'undesirable' and urged PM Modi to withdraw the move to hold the national level test

UGC asks central universities to use only CUET scores for UG admission

University Grants Commission asked all central universities to only use CUET scores for admission in various undergraduate courses except some activity-oriented programmes

What is Common University Entrance Test (CUET)?

Registration process for Common University Entrance Test (CUET) 2022 kicked off Saturday under India's ambitious 'One Nation, One Test' programme for central universities. Let's take a peek into it

Hijab issue: 40 Muslim girls abstain from PU exams in Karntaka's Udupi

Forty Muslim girl students from the Udupi district of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination over Karnataka HC's order on hijab ban.

NTA considering CUET twice a year from next session: UGC chairman

The Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET) will neither make the board exams irrelevant nor give a push to coaching culture, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Jagadesh Kumar said

India's CUET likely to be largest university entrance exam in the world

In 2019-20, as per UDISE data, 12.7 million students were enrolled in Class XII across the country

NEET-PG 2021 cut-off reduced by 15 percentile for all categories

The decision has been taken to prevent "wastage of seats"

Postpone NEET PG 2022 by 6-8 weeks: Health Ministry tells NBE

On January 25, six MBBS graduates had filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking postponement of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) scheduled on March 12

SC refuses to postpone GATE examination scheduled for February 5

The bench said that it is a matter of academic policy as to when the examination should be held and the court cannot enter this arena

Over 23,000 candidates appearing for GATE demand postponement of exam

Over 23,000 candidates appearing for the GATE examination in February have joined a petition demanding the exam be postponed in view of the third wave of COVID-19. The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an examination that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in engineering and science for admission to the masters programme and recruitment by some public sector companies. This year the exam is being conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kahargpur from February 4-13. "With the current third wave, COVID-19 due to its new variant Omicron has spread severely in several states, cities. Several studies including one done by IIT Kanpur predict that the peak of the 3rd wave is expected in early February and the wave will end by April. Therefore, the peak is most likely to coincide with the usual exam dates of GATE," the petition read. "If the exam dates are not postponed, the candidates appearing for GATE 2022 run an

Railway Ministry clarifies candidates' concerns over shortlisting process

The Ministry of Railways issued a clarification after some candidates raised concerns over the process of shortlisting candidates for the second stage of the ongoing recruitment examination

Supreme Court allows NEET admission with 27% quota for OBC

Also upholds 10% reservation for EWS category in All India Quota seats

GATE admit cards not released, exams likely to be postponed

Candidates wishing to get admission to M. Tech, other PG courses or PSUs can do it by qualifying the GATE examination

Bihar's Shubham Kumar tops civil services exam examination 2020

Shubham Kumar has secured the 1st position. He has graduated in B Tech (Civil Engineering) from IIT Bombay

Women can take NDA exam in Nov, why wait till May 2022: SC to govt

As the hearing began, senior advocate Chinmoy Pradip Sharma told the bench that there are two exams that take place in a year - NDA I and NDA II

JEE (Advanced) 2021: Supreme Court grants liberty to a group of students

The Supreme Court Tuesday granted liberty to a group of students, who are aggrieved by a clause in the JEE (Advanced) 2021 information brochure

JEE-Main result: 44 candidates score 100 percentile, 18 share top rank

A total of 44 candidates have scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main this year while 18 candidates have shared the top rank, Ministry of Education (MoE) officials said