Overview
- NTA opened the city reallocation window Wednesday on cuet.nta.nic.in for CUET-UG 2026 candidates placed outside their chosen cities on a first-come, first-served basis.
- The agency said 79% got their first-choice city, 96.6% one of their choices, and 3.4% were assigned elsewhere.
- The exam’s scale—15,68,866 registrants generating 67,56,321 test instances across 35 shifts with 12,906 subject mixes—drives a hard scheduling puzzle.
- Centre assignment must line up each candidate’s city, subject combination, and shift, so overbooked city–subject–shift slices trigger alternate-city placements.
- Students reported long trips and tight turnarounds between papers, and NTA urged them to verify admit-card details, use the reallocation option quickly, and plan travel early.