CUET-UG 2023 results: How to read scorecards? What next?
CUET-UG) paving the way for undergraduate admissions to begin in 249 participating universities. The scorecards students have received have percentiles and “normalized scores", creating confusion about what exactly will decide admissions, and how it has been calculated. HT explains how NTA has scored students, and what will happen next.
The scorecards issued by the NTA carry the percentile of the students and their “normalized score". While the normalized scores are just like the marks one gets while the percentile gives the position of a student among a group of students. For instance, if a candidate's percentile is 95, it will mean that there are 95 people who got less than that candidate’s marks.
The person might have got 62 out of 100 and his or her percentile can be 95. However, in the case of university admissions only a “normalized score" will be considered. Since the exam was held over multiple days and sessions, students sat for the same subjects in different shifts, with different questions, the NTA has normalized the scores in order to statistically remove any differences in difficulty levels between these shifts to make the performance of all students comparable, irrespective of which specific questions they attempted.
The NTA uses the “equi-percentile method" wherein normalized marks of each candidate have been calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject. Explaining the process, a senior NTA official said that due to differences in difficulty levels of question papers in different shifts, it is possible that students having the same percentile have scored very different marks. “Now, how do you compare these two students? Although
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