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Consortium allowed to conduct entrance test

Special Correspondent

For admitting students to MBA/MCA programmes under management quota

CHENNAI: The Permanent Committee for conduct of common entrance test (CET) to private colleges has permitted the Consortium for Professional, Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu to conduct the CET for admitting students to management quota seats in MBA/MCA programmes.

The consortium will hold the test on August 8 and the application forms are being issued from Saturday. The last date for submission of filled in applications is August 3 and the consortium secretariat will start sending the hall tickets on August 1.

Over 7,000 seats

In Tamil Nadu, the two post graduate programmes are available in over 100 engineering as well as arts and science colleges, besides a few standalone institutions. The consortium president, Jeppiaar, told newspersons here on Saturday that the management quota comprised over 7,000 seats in the two courses. A majority of the institutions had agreed to take part in the CET.

The examination fee would be Rs. 400 (Rs. 200 for SC/ST students) each for the two courses. A student who wished to take up both examinations should thus pay Rs. 800 (Rs. 200 for SC/ST categories).

Details on website

The details of the examinations and the participating institutions would be available in the consortium's website (www.tnsfconsortium.org) and a five-member expert committee headed by the former chairman of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), S. Rame Gowda, was providing the technical and academic guidance for the conduct of the CET for the MBA/MBC programmes, as also the B.E/B.Tech courses.

"As already announced, the CET conducted by the consortium will be held on August 6 and 7 in over 170 centres around the State," Mr. Jeppiaar said, adding that more than dozen engineering colleges had joined the Consortium's CET in the past two days.

In all, there would be nearly 33,000 seats in the management quota, he said.

Answering a question, Mr. Jeppiaar said the managements would soon appeal to the government not to conduct any supplementary counselling to the government quota seats. If there was a supplementary counselling, students who get admitted in one college would seek to move to another college creating vacancies in the former. "We can avoid administrative and other problems for the college if we do not have supplementary counselling."

Unfilled seats

As for the unfilled seats, he said the government should treat them as lapsed and allow the managements to fill the seats themselves.

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