prayagraj with the last date for applying for admission in central universities of the country through the common university entrance test cuet over the university grants commission ugc has sent a letter to all varsities detailing about the pattern of marks that would be awarded for each correct answer along with other details the registration for cuet ug2023 had opened on february 9 and the last date was march 30 the exam would be conducted by the national testing agency nta admission for undergraduate courses at allahabad university au and its constituent colleges will also be conducted through cuetas per the instructions of the ugc dated april 3 five marks will be awarded for each correct answer while for every wrong answer one mark will be deducted in the cuet ug questions will be asked from three sections the first will be of language could be hindienglish or any other regional language for which there will be 50 questions out of these candidate will have to answer any 40 in 45 minutes the second section will be of optional subject that the candidate has chosenin this questions will be asked from the specific subjects which would depend on the ug course scienceartscommerce stream in this the candidate will have to answer 40 out of 50 questions in 45 minutes the third section will be of general knowledge in this 50 out of 60 questions are to be answered these questions would be related to general knowledge current affairs mental ability numerical ability and quantitative reasoning for which one hour will be given last time in this section the candidates had to answer 60 out of 75 questions the ugcs letter also informs that if there are more than one correct option of any question the candidate will be given one mark only likewise if any question is found to be incorrect and hence dropped after completion of the exam every candidate who has attempted the given question will be awarded five marks information about the city of the examination centre will be issued on april 30 the exam would be conducted between may 21 and 31 and the days between june 1 and 7 have been kept as reserved dates the entrance test will be conducted in online mode in 34 cities of the countryfor the first time admission in eight professional courses of au run by institute of professional studies ips would be done through cuet admission to 468 seats in these courses will be done through cuet only these include 58 seats in ba fashion design technology bvoc in media production 50 seats and ba media studies has 58 seats there are 100 seats in bca 50 in bcamca data science 40 in bvoc software development 50 in fiveyear food technology and 62 in bvoc food processing