Mangalore: CET Exams Held Across the State

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Daijiworld Media Network-Mangalore (NM)

Mangalore, May 21:  The Common Entrance Test (CET) for professional higher education began all over Karnataka state on May 21. The test is held in as many as nine centers in the city of Mangalore and also in Moodbidri, Karkala and Puttur.

Speaking to Daijiworld, M Shamita AC, principal of St Agnes PU College told that there are as many as 608 students writing CET exams. Biology and mathematics is held today, physics and chemistry will be held tomorrow, she informed.

Those who want to take up medicine appear PCB and those who choose to take up engineering opt for PCM. Moreover, some students prefer to write all the 4 exams, who then take a decision based on the rank. While, those who are firm in deciding medicine or engineering opt PCB and PCM respectively, she explained.

“Apparently we come across more absentees for the biology exams as students think twice as medicine is become choice of only few,” she opined.

Usually CET exams are scheduled to get over at the end of April or in the first week of May. But due to the postponement of PU exams, the delay was indispensable. Some students are happy for delay as they get more time for preparation; majority of them are upset about the delay. They counter that the exams should be held immediately after the PU exams as all that they studied is fresh in their minds.

Moreover it is learnt that the CET results will be announced in the 2nd week of June. Apparently, most of the students will have to be in panic as to what they would opt next, whether they should wait for the CET results or get into some college for graduation. This problem has become part of the procedure, opined M Shamita, the principal of St. Agnes PU College.

She added that the students who choose engineering will have no such headache for seats as there are many colleges mushrooming in Mangalore. Availability of seats for medicine is not huge in number, she added.