The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : All set for CET today; results to be announced on May 25

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All set for CET today; results to be announced on May 25

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Results of the test to be announced on May 25

READY: Officials making seating arrangements at a centre in Bangalore on Tuesday for the Common Entrance Test to be held on Wednesday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

BANGALORE: With over a lakh candidates appearing for the Common Entrance Test (CET) on Wednesday, the focus will soon shift to the test results to be announced on May 25.

But if the 12th Standard (ICSE and CBSE) results are not out in time, over 4,000 candidates with these qualifications could be denied CET engineering ranks.

The engineering ranks are generated by taking 50 per cent of the CET marks and 50 per cent of the qualifying examination marks.

Once the PU results are out, the CET Cell could generate the ranks but only for PU students who constitute an overwhelming majority of the candidates. ICSE and CBSE results are usually announced in the third week of May, giving very little time for the cell before declaring its results.

Medical and dental ranks are based only on the candidates' CET scores.

However, the engineering rank problem is likely to affect even those aspiring for a seat in Indian System of Medicine, where both CET and 12th Standard qualifying examination marks are considered for the rank.

Candidates, however, could get a chance to evaluate themselves when the CET answer keys are published on May 15. Students will be given three days' time to challenge the answer keys, after which they will be placed before an expert committee, a top CET Cell official said.

Preparations

Firming up for the CET, the cell made arrangements for 27 flying squads of three members each to visit the examination centres in every district.

The Deputy Commissioner of each district will post an observer, two squad members and a custodian to each centre in their respective territories.

Question paper booklets had reached all centres outside Bangalore on Tuesday. The booklets would be sent in sealed boxes to the centres within the city only on Wednesday morning.

For Architecture seat aspirants, the CET Cell had done away with the aptitude test this year. Such candidates would have to take the National Aptitude Test for Architecture (NATA).

The online test could be taken from any of the colleges offering B. Arch courses, such as R.V. College of Engineering and the M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore, informed the CET cell official.

The candidates will have to compulsorily take the three-hour long NATA on or before May 15, and submit the scorecard with the marks of the qualifying examination (2nd PUC or 12th standard).

The rank will be determined by taking equal proportion marks from NATA and the qualifying examination (50:50 proportion).

Every year, about 6,000 architecture seat aspirants appear for the CET.

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