Overview
- The National Testing Agency clarified on Saturday that it held a special resit on March 29–30 only for 565 candidates who missed earlier CUET‑PG sessions because of law‑and‑order disruption in Tura and security issues at some overseas centres.
- NTA said no candidate’s scores were normalised and that CUET‑PG reports absolute marks, meaning every candidate’s score was the raw marks they obtained without statistical adjustment.
- Normalisation is a statistical method used when identical papers run in multiple large sessions to adjust for session difficulty, and NTA argued the tiny resit cohorts could not be meaningfully normalised against main cohorts of thousands, citing examples such as English (about 16,000 vs ~120).
- The agency said the resit used question papers drawn from a pre‑approved pool and certified by subject experts as equivalent in difficulty, and that the same scoring formula applied to all candidates.
- Student group AISA continued protests across Delhi demanding accountability and political action, and the episode has heightened scrutiny of the NTA as earlier exam irregularity reports have prompted calls for greater transparency and possible policy review.