various advantages
Surendra, Head of Department (HOD), Department of Yoga, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, says, “Two advantages of adopting CUET will be attracting a large crowd of quality students, hence less chances of vacant seats and less emphasis on class Is. Twelfth board marks for admission, which does not guarantee a good group of students joining the institute. ,
Manju Chhugani, Dean, School of Nursing Sciences and Allied Health, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed-to-Be) University, says, “When the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was introduced, it was introduced to include admission in Nursing. was considered a developmental step. Course through test. Earlier, with our only entrance test, we used to receive around two applications per seat, but after the inclusion of admission through NEET, this number increased to around five applications per seat. With a tried-and-tested formula like this, the adoption of CUET holds great promise, she adds.
Jamia Hamdard also faced the problem of merit-based admission, but the results were disappointing. “The batch of students we enrolled in this way participated in the Delhi Nursing Council exam. Out of 60 students who participated in it, 46 failed. This highlighted the quality of students who come through the merit-based admission process,” says Chhugani.
Jain (deemed-to-be-university) vice-chancellor Raj Singh says that a common entrance test will take the burden of students performing exceptionally well in their board exams. “With the existence of multiple education boards within the country, it is unfair to put everyone on a par by considering their board exam scores for admission. With the NEP focusing on strengthening competency rather than domain knowledge, a common entrance test is the obvious solution. ,
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PK Shahjahan, Dean of Academic Affairs, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), says, “Through our own entrance test, TISS-NET/TISS-BAT, we offer admission to Postgraduate (PG) and some UG programmes. Huh. Since the exam has questions of general aptitude for UG courses, transfer to CUET for UG admission should not be a problem, as long as we have round 2 conducted at the institute level to check the candidate’s aptitude and interest in the course. likely to do. ,
Jain University has also decided to adopt CUET from this academic session but will conduct its own entrance exam as well. Singh says, “In the initial few years, since the trend of CUET for admission to HEIs beyond central universities has not become popular among the students, we will take admission through our own test as well. Slowly, as CUET has become the accepted criterion for admission in HEI, we can make a complete change. ,
Chhugani says that in order to ensure the quality of the students, the CUET exam should check the inclination of the student towards a particular field, particularly one as nursing. “The section of the paper dedicated to checking domain specific knowledge of a candidate needs to be aligned with the courses so that institutions get quality students,” she says.