Cluster admission tests in 19 Universities: Requirements and marks distribution

The 19 public universities which decided to hold the admission tests for the 2020-2021 academic session in the cluster system have set the rules for holding the examinations. The students will take a 100-mark Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) exam to get into the universities of their choice.

The entry tests will be held for students under three groups -- humanities, commerce, and science. There would be no separate examination for changing the groups this year under the cluster system.

The students will be able to enroll in departments of their choice based on the result of a single admission test.

The minimum required CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) for the humanities group is 6. The required CGPA is 6.5 for the commerce group while the minimum requirement of CGPA in SSC and HSC exams is CGPA-7 for the science group. No students with a CPGA of fewer than 3 points in either SSC or HSC would be allowed to sit for exams.

The humanities group exam would consist of 40 marks in Bangla, 35 in English, and 25 in ICT.

For commerce group students, the distribution of marks would be 25 in accounting, 25 in management, 25 in the language (13 in Bangla and 12 in English), and 25 in ICT.

The science group exam would have the following marks distribution: 20 in the language (10 each in Bangla and English), 20 each in physics and chemistry, and the rest of the marks in two topics among ICT, Mathematics, and Biology.

[Source: Prothom Alo]