VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has decided to not consider the intermediate marks while calculating ranks for the candidates, who appear in the engineering agriculture pharmacy common entrance test (EAPCET 2022).
Around 25 per cent weightage is given to the marks secured in intermediate course to the students appearing for EAPCET every year. The authorities cancelled the weightage of intermediate marks last year as the board examinations were cancelled due to Covid-19.
The APSCHE has now decided to continue the same this year too as the students of intermediate second year had not appeared for their first year examination in 2021 due to Covid-19. Prof K Hemachandra Reddy, chairman of APSCHE, told TOI that EAPCET is a key examination and thousands of students, who wish to join engineering, agriculture and pharmacy courses, appear for this exam. The Board of Intermediate Education had last year cancelled board exams and awarded marks based on their performance in SSC. Only a few students appeared for betterment examination.
“It is inappropriate to consider those marks for the CET exam. This decision is confined to this year,” he said.
