PUNE: The State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell will give a second chance to students who missed the common entrance test (CET) conducted for engineering, pharmacy, hotel management and other professional courses after Std XII.
They must have valid reasons for not appearing for the test.
These could be supplementary exams of higher secondary certificate (HSC, Std XII) or other exams. Meanwhile, the CET that started on Tuesday was attended by at lest 85% students who had registered.
Every year, the admissions are conducted for engineering, pharmacy, agriculture, law, B. Ed, hotel management, architecture, MBA, MCA among other professional courses based on CET scores.
There are nearly four lakh seats in Maharashtra for undergraduate professional courses in private and government institutes.
For over 14 courses, there are 7,74,859 applicants from Maharashtra and outside. All these students waiting for the CET dates.
Principal of an engineering college in the city said, “For the last few years the education department has been changing the firm that conducts the examination. However, in this process, students have suffered and their careers are at stake.”
The exam will be conducted for 10 days in batches.
Students with batch allottments can send their applications with proof to the cell.
The CET cell will scrutinise the applications and accordingly permit students.
On the first day of the exam, 38,815 students appeared in 192 centres across Maharashtra.
Viraj Pawas, a candidate who appeared for the exam on Tuesday, said, “The exam was computer-based at the designated CET centre and the arrangements were good. There was some crowding at the start of the exam inside the campus but later as the exam time came closer, people dispersed.”
