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CET: Students from rural and backward areas do well

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Over 11,000 students eligible for medical and dental courses

— PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR

The best: (Clockwise from top) Sunil Badami (medical), N. Vasuki (engineering), Rachana (Indian medicine) and Ramya R. (architecture).

Bangalore: The results of the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2008 were announced here on Saturday by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) in which more than 11,000 students have secured eligibility to medical and dental courses and over 54,000 students for engineering courses.

Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, Kaushik Mukherjee, Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, said that of the 1.14 lakh students who had applied for the CET, only 1.11 lakh had appeared for it.

After the generation of the merit list for different courses, 11,535 candidates are eligible for admission to medical and dental courses, 35,897 for Indian System of Medicine and Homoeopathy courses, 54,075 for engineering, and 516 for architecture courses.

“Several students from rural and backward areas of the State have performed very well in the CET. Only a very small per cent of the top rank holders are from Bangalore,” he said.

Counselling

He said that counselling will be held according to the schedule on June 2. “We would have announced the CET results earlier. However, we were waiting for the ISC and CBSE 12th standard results. We will try and complete the counselling by August or latest by September,” he said.

Mr. Mukherjee said that the scanned OMR answer sheets of all the candidates and the evaluation report would be posted on the KEA website. “We will also be uploading the category-wise details of all the candidates on the website,” he added.

The KEA, for the first time, will rank the engineering colleges based on their performance in the Visvesvaraya Technological University examinations over the past five years.

“We had requested All India Council for Technical Education torank the colleges. But they said they would not be able to do it this year. The medical colleges may also be ranked based on the results of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) examinations. However, RGUHS will have to decide on that,” he said.

Mr. Mukherjee said that the aim was to ensure that the students got quality higher education. “Now we have private colleges mentoring the government colleges under the TEQUIP scheme. This will ensure that students who join colleges with poor facilities do not suffer,” he said.

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