Admission tests are returning to Presidency University after three years.

The university will admit students next year to the undergraduate and postgraduate levels based on their scores in the entrance tests, said an official of the university.

Since 2020, Presidency has been admitting students entirely on the basis of marks in board exams, said the official.

The institution, which has traditionally screened students through admission tests, discontinued the practice because of the pandemic.

The state JEE board, engaged by Presidency since 2015 to conduct the admission tests, could not hold the exams in 2020 and 2021 because of a surge in Covid cases.

This year, though the cases declined sharply, the test could not be held amid allegations that Presidency did not do enough to resume the traditional screening. Before 2015, Presidency conducted the tests on its own.

“It has been decided following a discussion with Presidency that next year the board will hold the exams for screening students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels,” said JEE board chairman Malayendu Saha.

The Presidency Alumni Association had written to education minister Bratya Basu in May this year that since students had returned to campus and in-person exams had resumed, the admission tests for selection of students should be “reinstated” in all departments through the JEE board.