Officials from the National Testing Agency announced the results of the first Common University Entrance Test for undergraduate admissions. The announcement of the CUET-UG results was planned for Thursday at 10 p.m. However, citing a sizable database, the NTA announced a delay after midnight.

"The merit lists will be prepared by participating universities, who will decide about their individual counselling on the basis of the CUET-UG score card," said Sadhana Parashar, senior director (exams), NTA.

The first edition of CUET-UG, the gateway for undergraduate admissions in all central universities, began in July and concluded on August 30. Sixty per cent attendance was recorded in the exam.

According to Parashar, the performance of every candidate was evaluated using the "equi-percentile method". Under this method, normalised marks of every candidate were calculated using the percentiles of each group of students in a given session across multiple days for the same subject.