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With the aim to modernise and ensuring transparency in the exams, the University of Calcutta will conduct PG Admission tests online in specified examination centres allotted by the CU authority. It will take admissions in 66 PG departments.
The University of Calcutta on Monday announced that they will be conducting admissions to all PG courses in the University in online method. Several examination centres will be set up in the state and outside the state for transparent online entrance examination session for Calcutta University PG courses admissions in 2019. With this, Calcutta University became the first university in the state of West Bengal to conduct online examinations for university-level admissions.
The current Vice-Chancellor of the university Ms Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee has said that the university will be conducting the PG entrance test online just as the whole admission process has been shifted online. The decision is a step for ensuring time savings, modernisation and transparency.
Banerjee further stated that the University of Calcutta became the first university to introduce the online test method for PG admissions after Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the University of Delhi (DU). From this year, the 162-year old university will be conducting Online Admission Test for 66 functional departments of Post Graduate courses in the varsity. The University will allot the specific examination centres for students to appear in.
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Prof. Banerjee added that the university is planning to introduce an ‘Away From Home’ admission facility from the academic year of 2020-21. Where students who do not live in their permanent address will get a chance to sit for the entrance tests for PG admissions.
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She informed that the students will be allocated in a centre away from their previous college to maintain transparency and avoid any kind of misconduct in the process. The university is trying to make the examination system strong by making it follow a fair and disciplined path.
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