The Common University Entrance Test, Undergraduate (CUET UG) scheduled for May 15 has been postponed in Delhi due to 'unavoidable reasons'. The exam has now been scheduled for May 29 in the capital.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will release the revised admit cards for candidates at a later date.
As NTA announced the postponement of the exam, students and parents took to social media platform X to express their concern and frustration over the cancellation of the exam a night before its stipulated date. The social media is flooded with memes from CUET aspirants.
Calling the move as drastic mismanagement, one user posted on X, "Cancellation of CUET just a night before exam is drastic mismanagement even admit cards are given very late and students not having immediate access to coloured printer are stranded."
@EduMinOfIndia cancellation of CUET just a night before exam is drastic mismanagement even admit cards are given very late and students not having immediate access to coloured printer are stranded. @NTA_Exams @aajtak @indiatvnews #cuet @Delhiuniversit https://t.co/VFh1bOGRNJ
— Subeer Oberoi (@Subeer74) May 15, 2024
@EduMinOfIndia Dear Sir
— Jimmy Yadav (@JimmyYa03536050) May 15, 2024
please look into the affairs of @NTA_Exams . Today my Son's CUET paper was there but last night, just few hours before they have postponed it to 29th May.
How bad it is. @NTA_Exams and @EduMinOfIndia please do something.
Another user questioned the NTA saying that the agency had earlier warned that delay of even one second in reaching the exam centre may cancel the student's exam, but now NTA has only postponed the exam.
To Aaj ki good news ya hai ki cuet ka paper 100 % postponed ho gya hai #cuet hmm 1sec late exam centre par pahunche to aap niklva dete ho our tum pura din nikalke postponed ker deta ho #cuetug2024 wahhhh re nta
— Sourav Sharma (@SouravS08820410) May 15, 2024
Meanwhile, many students also demanded that exams should be postponed across the country since they were having difficulty in downloading the admit cards. One such tweet read, "What's the fault of people who don't live in Delhi? Even they are not able to download their admit cards and print it so please postpone it for all over India ."
What's the fault of people who don't live in Delhi?
— happy15 (@happy1509021115) May 14, 2024
Even they are not able to download their admit cards and print it so please postpone it for all over India @NTA_Exams cuet ug 2024 #cuet pic.twitter.com/QNnWUgkTkz
#CUETUG
— Ambuj Kumar Ravi (@AmbujKumarRavi3) May 14, 2024
Site toh pure India me nhi chal rhi hai fir delhi ka hi exam postponed kyu kiya pura India ka kro
Kl exam hh avi tk admit card download nhi hua hh
Baccha exam ka preparation kre ya 5hr admit card download krne me waste kre@NTA_Exams #cuetug2024 @EduMinOfIndia pic.twitter.com/3D7kaQnMEx
Heights of mis management for conducting of cuet ug exam. Tomorrow is the exam and still the location for the exam centre is not being notified. It should have been notified by now .@ugc_india @NTA_Exams @EduMinOfIndia #cuetug2024 #admitcardcuet #nta
— Om Bhatnagar (@om_bhatnagar23) May 14, 2024
Pls solve this ASAP.. pic.twitter.com/QJ5Z8tz2Kr
@NTA_Exams 15th may first paper of cuet ug 2024 till now nta not given any notification regarding cuet ug admit card #nta #cuet #cuetug #admitcard pic.twitter.com/Rebb9UT1iD
— Ravi kashyap (@ravikant5838223) May 13, 2024
The exam has been postponed due to unavoidable reasons, the NTA noted.
"It is being informed to all the concerned candidates and stakeholders that due to unavoidable reasons, the test papers (Chemistry - 306, Biology - 304, English - 101, and General Test - 501) which were earlier scheduled on 15 May 2024 stand postponed for the candidates appearing in Centres across Delhi only," the NTA said in a statement.
The exam body further stated that the examination will proceed as scheduled in all other cities nationwide, including Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, and Noida, as well as abroad. Further examinations on other dates (May 16, 17 and 18) at all centres, including in Delhi, will be conducted as scheduled, the NTA added.
