Coronavirus | Delhi University Entrance Test Postponed, New Dates To Be Announced Soon, Details Here

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed the DUET 2020 examination due to novel coronavirus outbreak. Earlier, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), New Delhi had asked all its affiliated schools to promote all its students up to class 8 to higher classes without conducting the final annual examination. The decision is seen as an effort by the council to contain the spread of novel coronavius, since the conduct of exams may lead to health and sanitation hazard in the current environment.

The UG/ PG/ M.Phil/ Ph.D courses registration dates are on hold till further orders. The Delhi University Entrance Test dates would be released by the Agency on the official site of NTA at nta.ac.in.

Here are some of the important facts of the examination:

• The registration date for DUET was scheduled to begin on April 2 and end on April 30, 2020.
• The admit card would be available to candidates from May 15 and the examination would be conducted from June 2 to June 9, 2020.
• The result was scheduled to be announced on June 25, 2020.
• The registration fees for undergraduate courses is Rs 250/- for candidates belonging to UR/OBC category and Rs 100/- for candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwD/EWS category.
• The registration fees for postgraduate courses if Rs 750/- if belonging to UR, OBC and other categories and Rs 300/- if belonging to SC, ST, PwD and EWS category.
• DUET is conducted in 18 cities across the country.

Earlier this week, the HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal advised all CBSE schools to promote all students from classes 1 to 8 to their higher grade due to the nationwide lockdown which resulted to all educational institutes being shut.