A proposal to conduct a common entrance test for admission to all central universities at the undergraduate and post graduate level has been mooted. It seems that even senior ministers of our government are backing it. Irrespective of the specialisation that the student wants to adopt, the test would be same for every student and it would test aptitude skills.
Right now, there are some colleges which conduct entrance tests for admission to undergraduate courses, but they are strictly related to the specialisation being adopted by the student. This is in addition to the weightage that they give to 12th standard results. Although the importance of aptitude in modern day education cannot be overemphasized, still there are many students who have a special flair for a particular subject, especially languages, which they cannot reproduce in an aptitude paper. Hence if the new policy gets implemented, it is these students who would get affected and eventually lose out.
I guess that it would be very difficult for the universities to design a single aptitude paper that can test the cognitive abilities of students across so many disciplines and interests. Students opting for science or commerce backgrounds would be properly judged but I do really have my concerns for the language streams. The idea of a centralized and standardized admission procedure is a very prudent one, but I guess it has to be really fine tuned by the concerned authorities before being implemented. After all, we are talking about the careers of so many bright young minds which would be at stake.
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