the ugc recently invited the private and deemed universities to accept the common university entrance test cuet scores for admissions to undergraduate progammes while some universities and higher education institutions heis are still in the decisionmaking process others are planning to retain different parameters for admissions followed earlier along with the cuet scores due to the centralised exams limitationseven after a year of its implementation the cuet has not become popular among institutions in 2022 cuetled admissions debut year roughly 90 universities participated while in 2023 the number of participating universities has risen to 116 with 26 new universities confirming their participation the central universities that had stayed away from the cuet in 2022 will also be accepting the cuetbased admissions to undergrad programmes this year there are 1113 universities 43796 colleges and 11296 standalone institutions in india according to all india survey on higher education aishe 20202021varied processes help in better assessmentin addition to accepting the cuet scores private universities and heis are also planning to conduct facetoface interviews and exams to test the students aptitude while keeping the option of admissions based on class xii board exams marks open academicians argue that the cuet is a multiple choice questions mcq test that lacks a multidimensional approach towards assessments which is essential to find out a students aptitude for a particular subjecta single common test for various programmes in the university is not enough to make a decision in the selection of a candidate in turn the selection process should use a holistic approach based on a combination of quantitative as well as qualitative methods which include a onetoone interview with the candidate says sahana d gowda registrar rv university bengaluru adding that most students search for a university where learning is either concept or projectbased so a university needs a large window in the selection process allowing students to have multiple chances to appear in the selection process says gowda rv university is in the decisionmaking phase of admission for the academic year 20232024 it may treat cuet as a firstlevel of the selection process but would still have facetoface interviews with the candidates to confirm hisher admission to a specific programme informs gowdaalso educationists point out that the cuet does not include a large number of domains such as law architecture engineering pharmacy medical leaving students with limited options in general programmes through cuet students can appear for general programmes only which cater to bandwidth which is not so large therefore there is no point in creating hullabaloo against those not joining the cuet when the students fail to make the grade through cuet for admission into central universities cu they fall back on private universities only says major general bhaskar chakravarty director admissions amity university noida uttar pradesh adding that once the cuet results were declared in 2022 students with cuet scores were accommodated in amity noida and the university will be accepting cuet scores for admission in 2023 along with minimum eligibility based on class