The application window for CUET-UG will reopen for three days from Sunday following representation from students and there will be no change in the syllabus after rationalisation of NCERT textbooks, officials said. "Following requests from several students, we have decided to re-open the application portal for CUET-UG on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday and it will close at 11.59 pm on Tuesday (11 April 2023). Students are requested to visit cuet.samarth.ac.in for more details," UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar said. Nearly 14 lakh students have applied for CUET-UG up by 41 per cent since last year. Following rationalisation of NCERT books, aspirants of undergraduate entrance exams were confused about whether it will impact the entrances. "The notified syllabus will remain the same as the exam is not just for students from a particular board. Not all boards have rationalised the content," a senior National Testing Agency (NTA) official said. CUET-UG remains the second-largest entrance exam
In June last year, NCERT issued a list of deletions to the syllabus to help students make up the losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic but the actual changes seem wider than the proposed changes
The clarification by the board came amid a row over certain chapters being dropped from the curriculum
While making the announcement on June 2, Javadekar had said the NCERT syllabus was so 'cramped' that the government had decided to reduce it by half