The university grants commission (UGC) announced on 21 March, 2022 that from the 2022-23 academic session, there will be no weighting of class 12 board marks for admission to undergraduate courses at central institutions.

From the new academic year, India's education regulator will conduct a Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for millions of college applicants, and it will be required for admission to all undergraduate courses at all top universities.

According to UGC Chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, there are examples of admissions in India based only on entrance results, particularly at IITs. For example, because of the variety of boards and different types of evaluation methods, we employ JEE scores during IIT admissions.

The same can be said regarding university entrance. That is why we are providing a single, standard NCERT syllabus so that everyone can prepare from it. A college or university, on the other hand, can impose a minimum eligibility requirement based on board scores.

In a public notice, the Commission informed that application for CUET UG will start in the 1st week of April 2022 and that the exams will be held in 13 languages namely Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia, and English. The CUET can be utilised by private universities, state-backed universities, and deemed-to-be universities in addition to central institutions and their affiliated colleges.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will administer the computer-based admission exam. The CUET will take place in the first week of July and will be based on the NCERT class 12 syllabus.

The tests will be held in two shifts, with the first having a compulsory language test, two domain subjects, and the general test, and the second having four domain subjects and one language from 19 options. The CUET, according to the UGC chairman, will have no impact on the current reservation policy in universities or minority central universities.