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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued clarifications regarding the queries on social media on normalisation being applied on some Common University Entrance Test (PG) 2026 subject exams held on more than one date.In March 2026, as many as 565 candidates across 28 subjects could not appear for the CUET (PG) tests on the scheduled dates due to law-and-order disruptions in Tura, Meghalaya, and also at certain overseas centres. In this light, the NTA had rescheduled the tests for affected candidates on March 29 and 30, 2026.In this regard, the NTA has stated that normalisation of marks has not been applied for any candidate. “For CUET (PG), NTA’s policy is to report absolute marks for every candidate, in every subject. No candidate’s score is normalized — not in the main examination, not in the reschedule. There was therefore nothing the rescheduled candidates were exempted from; they were scored on exactly the same basis as everyone else,” reads a statement by the agency.NTA asserted that “approved question papers that were finalised earlier by subject experts, who certified that they were of difficulty equivalent to the papers used in the main examination for the same subjects,” were used for the rescheduled examination.“In short, every CUET (PG) 2026 candidate’s score is computed on an identical, absolute-marks basis. The reschedule changed nothing about how scores were arrived at,” stated NTA. Published - June 13, 2026 04:34 pm IST
