The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the final answer key of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) UG 2025 on Wednesday, July 2. Some changes have been made to it. For example, considering the objections to the provisional answer key, 27 questions have been dropped from CUET UG 2025. Along with this, under the NTA's policy of giving bonus marks, students who solve these 27 dropped questions will get bonus marks. This time, the cutoff of CUET UG may change due to the bonus policy of NTA. Let us know under which formula the bonus numbers will be given. What is the policy of NTA regarding bonus numbers? Also, let us understand how much change can happen in the CUET UG cutoff this time.

A look at CUET UG

CUET UG 2025 includes more than 205 universities, which include central universities as well as deemed, state, and private universities. Admission to undergraduate seats in all these universities will be based on the merit of CUET UG 2025. CUET UG was conducted from 13 May to 4 June this year.

NTA's policy of giving bonus marks

27 questions have been dropped from CUET UG 2025. NTA has removed them after discrepancies were found in the questions. After this, it is believed that NTA will give bonus marks to the students who solve these questions, under which 5 bonus marks will be given for one question. The reason behind this is NTA's policy of giving bonus marks. Actually, under the evaluation policy of NTA, 5 marks are given to the students for the correct answer to a question of CUET UG, while 1 mark (negative marking) is deducted for the wrong answer. Similarly, if a discrepancy is found in the questions or answers of CUET UG, then NTA gives bonus marks under its policy, under which students are given 5 bonus marks in exchange for one question-answer with a discrepancy. These bonus marks are given to those students who have answered the questions with discrepancies.

CUET UG cutoff will be high this time

NTA will drop 27 questions of CUET UG 2025, while students will be given bonus marks in place of those. This will keep the cutoff of CUET UG high this time. Experts believe that due to getting bonus marks, there can be a difference of 110 marks in the marks of the students this time. What will be the effect of giving bonus marks in CUET UG 2025 on DU admission? Answering this question, DU teacher Hansraj Suman said that this will increase the competition for admission. He said that every single mark of CUET UG is very important for DU admission. If students are given 5 marks as a bonus, then a large number of students will benefit from it. This will increase the competition for admission to the preferred college and course.

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