CUET scores soar, college admissions to get tougher

With more than 22,000 students scoring 100 percentile in the Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG) 2023, the competition for undergraduate admissions in the 2023-24 academic year is set to be extremely tough. This year a total of 22,836 candidates scored 100 percentile as against 21,159 in 2022. Moreover, 2.54 lakh candidates are in the percentile range of 95-and-above, which is nearly 45,000 more than last year.