‘Technical glitch’ delays CUET-UG 2026 exam across several centres

The archetypal displacement of the Common University Entrance Test - Undergraduate (CUET-UG) was delayed for reportedly implicit 2 hours connected Saturday (May 30, 2026), pursuing a method glitch astatine respective centres crossed antithetic States. The examination, primitively scheduled for 9 a.m., resumed aboriginal successful the day.

The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the computer-based CUET examination, blamed the method glitch connected portion of the M/s TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), which “delayed the commencement of CUET (UG) 2026 astatine immoderate centres connected 30.05.2026.”

Noting that the contented has since been resolved, NTA said that the “exam is being conducted with afloat compensatory clip truthful that nary campaigner is disadvantaged.”

“Morning-session candidates are being fixed the afloat duration of the insubstantial and whitethorn exit lone aft completing it,” it added.

Additionally, it besides announced revised timings for the day’s 2nd shift, which was primitively scheduled to commence astatine 3 p.m., with introduction starting astatine 1 p.m.

The revised timing for the day sessions are arsenic follows- Reporting/entry: from 2.30 p.m.; introspection begins: 4 p.m. (instead of 3 p.m.).

Meanwhile, parents and guardians waiting extracurricular the introspection centres, took to societal media to stock their grievances. Posting connected X, Leader of Opposition successful Delhi Assembly Atishi criticised the Union Education Minister, saying: “First NEET, past CBSE, present CUET…Today CUET has been delayed owed to a ‘technical issue’. Lakhs of students were to instrumentality the exam successful each parts of India contiguous and aft waiting for hours, specified notices person been enactment up extracurricular each centres. Remarkable incompetence @dpradhanbjp!”