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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued a connection acknowledging the disruption and hold caused by a method glitch during the CUET (UG) 2026 introspection connected Saturday, assuring that affected candidates volition beryllium fixed different accidental to look for the examination.Several students were near stranded astatine immoderate exam centres aft the CUET-UG 2026 was delayed owed to a method glitchIn a station connected X, NTA said, “We cognize today's unfortunate method disruption caused distress for immoderate CUET (UG) 2026 candidates. Candidates who did their Biometric Registration and were contiguous astatine their introspection centres contiguous successful Shift-I, but couldn't implicit their introspection owed to this method glitch, volition get an accidental for the examination.”
The bureau said the contented was reported by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is progressive successful conducting the examination, and added that it had been resolved. “TCS has reported that a method glitch astatine their extremity delayed the commencement of CUET UG 2026 astatine immoderate centres connected Saturday. The contented has since been resolved, and the exam is being conducted with afloat compensatory clip truthful that nary campaigner is disadvantaged,” the bureau said.
Following the disruption, the NTA revised the docket for the day session. Candidates were asked to study from 2.30 pm, portion the introspection was rescheduled to statesman astatine 4.00 p.m. alternatively of the primitively planned 3.00 pm.The bureau besides said that candidates appearing successful the greeting league would beryllium fixed the afloat duration of the introspection and allowed to permission lone aft completing the allotted trial time.
It added that arrangements were made to guarantee that nary campaigner was affected by the delay.K Krithivasan, CEO and MD of TCS, said “A little method contented caused a hold of astir 2 hours successful the CUET-UG introspection successful the greeting displacement today. The contented was promptly identified and resolved by our method teams, and the introspection has since resumed without immoderate interaction connected the sanctity of the exam. We regret the inconvenience,” successful a station connected X.CUET-UG, introduced successful 2022, is simply a communal entranceway introspection for undergraduate admissions to central, authorities and respective backstage universities. It is conducted by the NTA and assesses candidates connected connection skills, domain-specific subjects and wide aptitude.
