NEW DELHI: Rankings/performance lists for college admission will be based on standardized scores, not raw or percentile scores according to CUET-UG.
Posting the National Examination Authority results announcement early Friday morning, M Jagadesh Kumar, president, University Grants Committee states that colleges will prepare rankings for UG admissions on the basis of “normalized” scores, not percentiles or “raw scores”.
Score card due to NTA has two components – the percentile and the normalized score.
Kumar says the scores have been normalized to provide a level playing field for students who write tests on the same topic on different days or in different shifts.
However, this is bothering candidates because some of the normalized scores are lower than the percentile and vice versa.
The UGC The chairperson said that because of the different difficulty levels between sessions in the same subject, one can see in the scorecard that in one subject the percentile is higher than the standardized score and in another , the percentile is lower than the normalized sign.
“How can we compare the performance of different students on a common scale without standardization? We need to make sure that admissions is done based on comparable scores,” says Kumar. accurate student achievement”.
The head of UGC added, ” CUET The report card contains both the percentiles and the student’s normalized scores in each subject. Percentage represents the relative achievement of a student among a group of students who wrote the test in a given shift in a subject. Using the percentile equivalence method, percentages of students are converted to standardized scores that take into account the difficulty level of multiple sessions. The difficulty level varies between sessions in the same topic. That is why it is very likely that in the scorecard you can see that in one subject the percentage is higher than the standardized score and in another the percentage is lower than the normalized score. Students need not worry about these differences as the CUET normalized formula has been decided by a panel of experts from the Institute of Statistics of India, IIT Delhi and the University of Delhi. Universities can use these standardized scores to prepare a list of grades for admissions. ”
Saying that the scores have been normalized to provide a level playing field for students since they write tests on the same topic on different days, Kumar said: “Unlike CUET-UG, Other entrance exams are limited to fewer subjects. In one-session entrance tests, a common statistical method is used to convert raw scores into a common uniform scale using the percentile method to compare student performance with each other. .
“But in entrance tests like CUET-UG, because the test is done on different days and in multiple sessions for the same subject, it increases the percentages for each group of students. “, he added.
Another problem with using only percentiles is that in subjects like Sports or Fine Arts, some universities have given some weighting to the skills component, explains Kumar.
“But it is not possible to add raw points in the skill composition and the remaining percentage to prepare the ranking list because it would be similar to adding oranges to apples.
Posting the National Examination Authority results announcement early Friday morning, M Jagadesh Kumar, president, University Grants Committee states that colleges will prepare rankings for UG admissions on the basis of “normalized” scores, not percentiles or “raw scores”.
Score card due to NTA has two components – the percentile and the normalized score.
Kumar says the scores have been normalized to provide a level playing field for students who write tests on the same topic on different days or in different shifts.
However, this is bothering candidates because some of the normalized scores are lower than the percentile and vice versa.
The UGC The chairperson said that because of the different difficulty levels between sessions in the same subject, one can see in the scorecard that in one subject the percentile is higher than the standardized score and in another , the percentile is lower than the normalized sign.
“How can we compare the performance of different students on a common scale without standardization? We need to make sure that admissions is done based on comparable scores,” says Kumar. accurate student achievement”.
The head of UGC added, ” CUET The report card contains both the percentiles and the student’s normalized scores in each subject. Percentage represents the relative achievement of a student among a group of students who wrote the test in a given shift in a subject. Using the percentile equivalence method, percentages of students are converted to standardized scores that take into account the difficulty level of multiple sessions. The difficulty level varies between sessions in the same topic. That is why it is very likely that in the scorecard you can see that in one subject the percentage is higher than the standardized score and in another the percentage is lower than the normalized score. Students need not worry about these differences as the CUET normalized formula has been decided by a panel of experts from the Institute of Statistics of India, IIT Delhi and the University of Delhi. Universities can use these standardized scores to prepare a list of grades for admissions. ”
Saying that the scores have been normalized to provide a level playing field for students since they write tests on the same topic on different days, Kumar said: “Unlike CUET-UG, Other entrance exams are limited to fewer subjects. In one-session entrance tests, a common statistical method is used to convert raw scores into a common uniform scale using the percentile method to compare student performance with each other. .
“But in entrance tests like CUET-UG, because the test is done on different days and in multiple sessions for the same subject, it increases the percentages for each group of students. “, he added.
Another problem with using only percentiles is that in subjects like Sports or Fine Arts, some universities have given some weighting to the skills component, explains Kumar.
“But it is not possible to add raw points in the skill composition and the remaining percentage to prepare the ranking list because it would be similar to adding oranges to apples.
