NTA released the provisional answer key for the CUET.

New Delhi A section of applicants and preceptors claimed that several answers in the provisional answer key for the common university entrance test( CUET- UG) released by the National Testing Agency were incorrect and the agency was” stealing ” the scholars who wanted to challenge it by charging them ₹ 200 per question.
When asked about the allegations, University subventions Commission Chairman Jagadesh Kumar said the National Testing Agency( NTA) has entered feedback about certain answers being incorrect, which can be due to” typographical crimes”.

He also said the applicants can” telegraph the NTA directly without paying the freights, and in the case of valid feedback, they will be considered”.

The NTA will release another provisional answer key within two days, he said.

On June 29, the NTA released the provisional answer key for the Common University Entrance Test, or CUET( UG) 2023. campaigners can raise expostulations against the answer key until 1130 pm on July 1 and are needed to pay ₹ 200 per question for which they’ve filed a challenge.

still, some scholars and preceptors claimed that charging the figure was illegal. They claimed that” answers to indeed introductory questions were given wrong” in the answer crucial and, given the inaccuracies, a revised answer key should be issued before inviting expostulations.

” In one of the papers, I set up seven incorrect answers; now if I want to challenge them, I would need ₹ 1,400. I do not have this important plutocrat,” applicant Umang Sharma said.

numerous also said that the whole procedure of filing expostulations is veritably complicated.

Satyapriya Pandey, whose son gave CUET UG, said that 40 questions were incorrectly answered in the key for the Hindi test,” The answer key for Hindi is fully wrong. What to do? I’m not suitable to understand anything. The process to challenge it’s also veritably complicated,” Pandey said.

Ashish Singh claimed that in the General Test Paper( Shift 3) conducted on May 30, the answers to 10 questions were wrong in the answer key.

” One of the questions was on the full form of CNG. The answer in the answer key is commodity differently, not Compressed Natural Gas. How could they give wrong answers to similar introductory questions wrong? They should release an streamlined answer crucial,” he said.

Another applicant took to Twitter to vent his resentment.

” I’ve 5- 6 questions correct in my test, but it’s showing wrong according to the provisional answer key( it is about only one subject), and the cost for grueling 1 question is 200. What a good way of stealing scholars,” Amit Kumar twittered.

In the Political Science test in the third shift on June 6, a question was asked about the author of the Indian National Army. The answer is Bhagat Singh as per the NTA answer key, while the correct answer is Subhas Chandra Bose given in the options, DU adjunct professor and former Academic Council member Samrendra Kumar said, citing miscalculations in the answer key.

still, also first he has to deposit ₹ 200, and also NTA will correct it,” If someone wants to challenge this wrong answer. This isn’t only daylight sacking of parents’ plutocrat but also an injustice to the scholars,” said Kumar. When asked about the allegation that scholars were being unfairly charged, UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar said there was no verity to it.

” The plutocrat collected is used to pay an honorarium to a large number of experts who examine the crucial responses. NTA operates on a no- profit, no- loss base,” he said.

DU adjunct professor Samrendra Kumar questioned why scholars have to pay the price for the NTA’s mistake.

” The answer about the European Union was wrong. The NTA answer crucial mentions Paris as the headquarters of the European Union, while the correct answer is Brussels,” he said.

” After the test, the scholars will have to pay thousands to NTA to justify their correct answers; only also will they be suitable to get the marks for their correct answers,” he said.

The CUET- UG is the alternate- largest entrance test in the country in terms of the number of aspirants. In its first edition,12.5 lakh scholars registered for the test and9.9 lakh submitted their operations.