CUET UG 2022 result: Equipercentile method explained
India Today
The equipercentile method that has been used to normalise scores in the CUET UG 2022 result has been worrying students. Here's what it means.
The CUET UG 2022 result was declared late on Thursday night and many students are worried about their results being affected by the equipercentile method that has been used to normalise scores.
In this method, the normalised marks of each candidate are calculated using the percentiles of each group of students who appeared for the same subject but on different days in a given session.
To ensure fair evaluation, the same scale is used for all candidates regardless of the session they have appeared in. This makes their performance comparable across the different sessions.
As per UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar, the CUET scorecard contains both the percentile and the normalised marks of the student in each subject. The percentiles indicates the relative performance of a student among a set of students who wrote the test in a given shift in a subject.
"Using the equipercentile method, the percentiles of the students are converted into normalised marks taking into account the difficulty levels of multiple sessions. The difficulty levels vary from session to session in the same subject," said the UGC chairman.
"That is why it is quite possible that in the CUET scorecard, you may see that in a subject the percentile is higher than the normalised marks and in another subject, the percentile is lower than the normalised marks," he explained.
"Students need not worry about these differences as the CUET normalisation formula was decided by panel of experts from Indian Statistical Institute, IIT Delhi and Delhi University. Universities can use these normalised marks for preparing the rank lists for admissions," he added.
