Common Eligibility Test by NRA

Government is going to conduct a prelims exam for all Non Gazetted post.Which will be there for all Departments.The score in CET will be considered for the selection of candidates for higher Examination.The CET score is valid for 3 years, In a year you can write CET exam twice .This is going to help all the government aspirants, as there will be no need to fill different applications for the different exams and they have to prepare for a single exam now. 

Cabinet approves : NRA(National Recruitment Agency)

The Union Cabinet has given its permission for the setup of a National Recruitment Agency (NRA) to streamline the hiring process by conducting a CET. The National Recruitment Agency (NRA) will be nodal agency to conduct CET every year.

Important Features of CET

The exam will be conducted in 12 languages.
The score is valid for three years.
The exam will be conducted twice a year

National Recruitment Agency (NRA)

A National Recruitment Agency is a proposed agency by the Narendra Modi government. The government has decided to take a single computer-based preliminary examination for all the non-gazetted government posts. The agency is going to monitor all the activities of the Common Eligibility Test. Currently, candidates have to appear for a complex process of examination for all the exams. It is very time consuming and a long process.

Exams Of Following Agencies Comes Under  CET

All the prelims exams of Group B and C posts will be subsumed into a single common eligibility test (CET). The National Recruitment Agency will initially aim at replacing the preliminary exams of Group B and C posts conducted by three government agencies namely:

Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
Railway Recruitment Board (RRB)
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)

NRA CET 2020: Test Centers

There is a piece of good news for the students who belong to a remote location of the country. There will be at least one or more than one center in a district depending on the students appearing for the exam. Candidates will not need to go too far places to attempt the exam. This will reduce the expenses of poor candidates in terms of examination fees, traveling charges, lodging, and other expenses.

NRA CET 2020: Time Utilization

As we are aware there will be a single prelims exam for all the Group B and C. The score is going to valid for 3 years. Agencies will use the score of CET and take their second stage exam. Some organisation have said that they directly recruit candidates using the CET score, Physical and Medical examination, without any second-level test.

NRA CET 2020: Age Limit

The age limit for the CET 2020 depends on the exam they want to take under CET. There will be 3 levels of exam namely, undergraduate, 12th level exam, and 10th level exam. The Age-limit will be same as it is now for each exam. There is no change in the eligibility of the exam. The age relaxation given to different categories will remain same. Candidates no need to panic as it is a single prelims exam only, there will be no change in eligibility, age limit, and exam pattern.