CUET 2023 Result declared

NTA has released results for CUET 2023. Students, teachers and others have lots of doubts and queries related to the result.

In the results, there are two columns; Percentile and the Normalise score. Lets know about them in this article

What is Raw Score in CUET Result

Before announcing final result, NTA releases answer sheets to the students and also their raw score. This is not the final score normally and can be different when the final result is out. NTA normalises the score and releases the final result with percentile and the normalise score.

Percentile in CUET Result

Percentile score in CUET result is a measure of how a candidate’s score compares to the scores of other candidates who took the same exam.

Normalisation Score in CUET Result

Since CUET exams happen in different shifts, places, and with different sets of questions so NTA goes for the normalisation process when declare the final result.

CUET Normalisation process is a kind of way to compare the marks of different students in same subject in different shifts. The reason for this is that every session has different sets of questions; easier or tougher. So, normalised score is released in order to maintain uniformity and equality but again this also raises questions and concerns.

Students have raised concerns many times in their raw scores also of the false checking but they complain that NTA does not listen to them before issuing the final result

Equipercentile Method to find Normalised Score from Raw Score

Step 1: Using raw marks of the students in different shifts, calculate the percentiles of students in each shift.

To calculate the normalized marks across different sessions in a given subject, first we need to find the percentile of each group of these students for each shift using the Raw Marks they have scored.

Let us say in a given shift, 100 students have appeared for the test. We sort their marks in decreasing order. Let us assume that one student among these 100 students has scored 87 % marks. Now let us assume that 80 out 100 students have secured less than or equal to 87% marks. The percentile of this student with 87% marks would be 80/100=0⋅8. The percentile so calculated will always be between 0 and 1 and it is usually rounded off to the requisite number of decimal places.

Step 2: Arrange these percentiles in a descending order by noting the raw marks of the students in each shift.

Let us now assume that there are six students (Stu1,Stu2,Stu3,Stu4,Stu5,Stu6). Three of them (Stu2,Stu4,Stu6) have taken the test in shift-1 and the remaining (Stu1,Stu3,Stu5) in shift-2 but all in the same subject. Using the raw marks of these students, first the percentiles (PStu1 ,PStu2 ,PStu3 ,PStu4 ,PStu5 ,PStu6) of these six students in a given subject are calculated and are sorted in a decreasing order. Their Raw Marks (RMStu1, RMStu2 , RMStu3, RMStu4, RMStu5, RMStu6)in the test in each shift are also
noted corresponding to their percentiles.

Let us assume that the percentiles in the descending order are as follows: PStu5 >PStu2 >PStu1 >PStu4 >PStu6 >PStu3

Step 3: Using linear interpolation, calculate the marks of the students in the above blanks in the table

Since some students (Stu2,Stu4,Stu6) have attended shift-1 and not shift-2, their raw marks in the shift-2will not be present. Similarly the students (Stu1,Stu3,Stu5) who wrote the exam in shift-2, will have no marks in shift-1. These missing marks of each candidate in each shift are then calculated using a method called interpolation. Interpolation is a mathematical way of estimating missing marks of the students who
are absent in one shift because they have already taken the test in the other shift.

Interpolated Marks (IMStu1 , IMStu2 , IMStu3 , IMStu4 , IMStu5 , IMStu6) of the students are now
shown in the table below.

Step 4: Calculate the normalized marks for each student on a common scale.

Using the above method, each percentile value of the candidates sorted in a descending order will have marks for both shifts, raw marks and interpolated marks. Raw marks are available in the shift where the student has written test and interpolated marks are estimated in the other shift because the student could not have written test for a second time in the same subject. For each student, we then calculate the average of the actual raw marks in one shift and the marks obtained using interpolation in the other shift. This will give the normalized marks for the corresponding percentile of each candidate as shown below.

This method has been shown to be accurate for estimating normalized marks of candidates when the tests are held in multiple sessions with varying difficulty levels in a given subject. The score card of a candidate will have percentiles and normalised marks. Universities need to use the normalized marks given in the score card for preparing the ranking list for admissions.

Credit: The above information taken from https://nta.ac.in/Download/Notice/Notice_20220913233410.pdf

What Score is considered good in CUET?

Score above 650 is safe to get admission in top notch colleges in DU and other esteemed universities like BHU. But this does not mean less scorers students cannot get admission. They still have chances to get admission just they should be flexible enough to make changes in their preferred list of courses and colleges.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ques: DU will consider my Normalised score or Percentile for admission?
Ans: NTA has suggested DU to use the normalised score of a student for admission in the university.

Ques: Can I get admission in DU if less than 250 marks in CUET?
Ans: Changes are low but not none. You can fight till end and should remain flexible to make changes in the courses and colleges of your preference.

Ques: How many marks is 95 percentile in CUET?
Ans: The 95th percentile range often falls between 670 and 700 points.

Ques: What is the lowest score in CUET?
Ans: There is no as such lowest score but to qualify each student needs to score a total of 300-400 marks; but the eligibility criteria of admissions in different universities/colleges can vary .

Ques: What is the highest score in CUET?
Ans: 800/800 is the highest core in CUET. Mahalaxmi Swaminathan has got the highest score in CUET 2023.

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