Changes will be made in the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) next year, which is conducted for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses in universities across the country. The University Grants Commission (UGC) had constituted an expert committee to review CUET-UG and PG.

What did the UGC Chairman say?

UGC Chairman Jagdish Kumar said, "It is necessary to continuously improve the examination process based on the feedback of previous years. UGC has constituted an expert committee to review various aspects of CUET-UG and PG for 2025." The UGC chairman said, "The committee has examined various aspects of the exam including the number of question papers, duration of the exam, syllabus."

Revised guidelines will be issued

The commission considered these recommendations in a recent meeting. The UGC will soon release a draft proposal. It will detail the revised guidelines for conducting CUET-UG and CUET-PG 2025. Feedback and suggestions will be invited from students, parents, teachers and institutions.

The UGC chief on Monday interacted with students from various degree colleges who qualified CUET-UG 2024 to discuss possible changes in CUET-UG 2025. CUET has provided a level playing field for students from different educational boards and socio-economic backgrounds. CUET was introduced in the year 2022. Last year, 283 universities adopted CUET. The number of registered candidates was 13,47,820. CUET has made the admission process transparent.

SC will not consider the petition related to CLAT-PG

At the same time, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a petition challenging the results of CLAT-PG 2025. Hearing a petition challenging the provisional answer key of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for admission to postgraduate (PG) courses, a bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar advised the petitioners to approach the Delhi High Court with their grievances.

The petition filed by Anam Khan and Ayush Aggarwal made several complaints regarding the conduct of the CLAT-PG 2025 exam held on December 1, 2024. The petitioners alleged that the provisional answer key released on December 2 contained significant errors, including incorrect answers to 12 questions. The petition also objected to the process for challenging the answer key. It said the one-day time limit for objections, which closed at 4 pm on December 3, was inadequate.

They also opposed the fee of Rs 1,000 per objection. However, the Chief Justice dismissed the objection regarding the fee and said that Rs 1,000 per objection is not a big deal. The petition also requested to postpone the counselling process for admission to postgraduate courses in National Law Universities.