Students anxious about DU admissions for the 2020-21 session will have to wait for some more time to get clarity on the status of various entrance examinations that were postponed by universities and colleges in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown.
This is because holding of a single entrance examination for all higher education institutions — an idea suggested to the University Grants Commission (UGC) by an expert committee to tide over the crisis — has been ruled out.
So now, all states and central institutions have been left on their own to decide the mechanism and the time of admissions.
“Single entrance exams are not possible this year because of the uncertainty of the situation and the difficulties that can arise out of it. The number of students is just too large for us to conduct a common test at this time,” a senior UGC official told ThePrint.
While the dates for engineering and medical entrance exams — Joint Entrance Exam and National Eligibility and Entrance Test — have been announced, none of the central or state universities that had to postpone their entrance exams in the wake of pandemic have declared new dates.
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