{"id":199229,"date":"2022-08-08T16:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199229"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:09:36","slug":"cuet-defective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cuet-defective\/","title":{"rendered":"CUET Defective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article <strong>\u201cCUET Defective\u201d<\/strong> published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on 8<sup>th<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 <\/strong>Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health, Education, Human<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: Recently, <\/strong>the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) exam will go on till August 28.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the reasons for such an extended exam period?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The announcement is attributed to \u201cadministrative\/logistics\/technical\u201d reasons.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Proximate Causes<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In CUET\u2019s second phase, a number of major technical glitches like server issues, snags in downloading papers and security protocol failures. Therefore, NTA cancelled exams at around 10% of the centres.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Ultimate Causes<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The <strong>under-preparation<\/strong> of the NTA. Unlike JEE-Main, which has only two papers, CUET tests <strong>54,000 unique subject combinations.<\/strong> Therefore, CUET demands a more complex IT architecture and sturdier infra.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Consequences<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The glitches and delays will have spill-over effects on the entire higher education cycle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psychological impact:<\/strong> For Class XII students, this year is being felt like a never-ending nightmare of exam dates. They will have to face a fresh round of uncertainty<strong>. <\/strong>They will get their admit cards close to exam dates, often leaving them scrambling to make difficult travel arrangements.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The Way Forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>NTA should invest in system upgrades. For example, the Kendriya Vidyalaya network can be used.<\/p>\n<p>There are plans to hold<strong> CUET twice<\/strong> in the next academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Ministry of Education must ensure accountability at NTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article \u201cCUET Defective\u201d published in The Times of India on 8th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Relevance: News: Recently, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) exam will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cuet-defective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CUET Defective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-199229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704736168},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}