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An unexpected, exponential surge in the number for applicants for the undergraduate chapter of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) from Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand this year has left the National Testing Agency (NTA) scrambling to arrange enough centres in these states, forcing it to extend the last date for the exams till June 6 across the country...
According to NTA officials aware of the matter, nearly 1.5 million students have applied for the national common entrance test this year, as against around 990,000 students last year...
University Grants Commission (UGC) chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar, who is monitoring the CUET with NTA, said the agency is trying to allot students their first or second preference of examination centres...
The nascent troubles with CUET this year are a troubling reminder of the litany of glitches that plagued the first edition of the ambitious exercise last year, with students allotted centres in far-flung seats and multiple delays to the tests themselves, as well as the results..
Officials said examination centres will be allotted within 100km range of their addresses, students will be informed about their centres in advance, there will be extra computers at each testing centre and that each candidate will be given extra time to download and upload papers...
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