CUET UG Result 2022 declared: 19,865 candidates scored 100 percentile across 30 subjects

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET UG) 2022 result on Friday. Candidates can download their scorecards at the official CUET UG website cuet.samarth.ac.in. 

A total of 19,865 candidates scored 100 percentile across 30 subjects. English has the highest number of 8,236 followed by Political Science (2,065) and Business Studies (1,669), Biology (1324), Economics (1188) and Psychology (1209).

NTA held the CUET UG 2022 examination in six phases between July 15 and August 30, the first-ever common entrance test for undergraduate admissions to universities.

CUET UG 2022 was conducted in 489 centres in 259 cities in India and nine cities. The fourth and last day of Phase 6 of the CUET (UG) exam was conducted successfully for 1,40,559 candidates in 444 examination centres across 239 cities including four outside India (Muscat, Riyadh, Dubai, and Sharjah) in both slots. CUET UG was scheduled for approximately 14,90,000 candidates. 

As many as 8,10,000 participated in the first slot while 6,80,000 in the second slot, as per NTA."The candidates have applied for 54,555 unique combinations of subjects across 90 universities. The total number of question papers was 2,219 and the number of the question was 50,476," NTA added.

Quoting initial reports, he said that the exam could not be conducted at several places in Jharkhand due to slow Internet. For that, a detailed report is being awaited as it affected as many as 103 students.

"As per initial reports, due to slow Internet speed, the examination at Centre Radha Govind University, Ramgarh, Jharkhand could not be conducted. A detailed report is awaited. Examination for 103 affected candidates will be conducted shortly," M Jagadesh Kumar, Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) said on Thursday. 

The CUET UG Answer Key was officially released on August 8. Candidates were given time till 5 pm on September 10 to challenge the answer key.

NTA had earlier declared the provisional answer key so that the candidates could calculate their probable scores. 

(With inputs from ANI)