<p>The Common Entrance Test (CET) for undergraduate medical and engineering courses began on Monday with students appearing for mathematics and biology papers.<br /><br /></p>.<p>As many as 1.2 lakh students appeared for the examination and 70,000 wrote the medical entrance. This year, there are 150 more medical seats available for admission to colleges in Karnataka.<br /><br />Speaking to reporters here on Monday, S A Ramdas, Minister for Medical Education, said the State government was planning to appeal to the Supreme Court for a special round of counselling for the undergraduate courses this year.<br /><br /> “This is being done to ensure that the seats surrendered in the AIPMT entrance counselling to the State government are not misused by the college managements. Last year, as many as 16 seats were surrendered at the All-India level which did not return to the government pool.”<br /><br />Surrendering of seats<br /><br />As for surrendering of seats during CET counselling, the State will follow RGUHS PGET practice, he added.<br /><br />Of the 1,20,945 students who enrolled for CET, about 90,169 candidates appeared for biology and 1,16,324 students for mathematics entrance papers on Monday. The CET cell, in a statement, said one case of impersonation was detected in Udupi.<br /><br />DDPU S S Shindha told Deccan Herald that the boy was caught writing the exam on behalf of another candidate, at Manipal Junior College.<br /><br />This will also be the last year the CET will be conducted. From the next academic year, Karnataka students will appear for the NEET examination. The verification of documents will begin from June 10. July 15 is the last date for admission.<br /><br />Speaking to Deccan Herald, Parth Yadav, a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, CRPF, said the biology examination was easy and an average student with a decent preparation could secure a minimum score of 25. For those who have prepared well, securing 45 would not be difficult at all, he said.<br /><br />The student, who is particular about medicine, has decided to opt out of the mathematics examination, required for entrance to engineering courses. <br /><br />“If I do not get through medical, I will go for pharmacy. There are too many seeking admission to engineering, which is why I did not opt for it,” he said.<br /><br />Prajwal V, a student of MES College, felt the CET biology paper was tougher than the Comed-K examination. Harish Balaji from Seshadripuram College said he found the mathematics paper really tough. “But the rescheduling of the exam dates was helpful as it I had more time for preparation,” he said.<br /><br />On Tuesday, students will appear for physics and chemistry examinations.<br /></p>
<p>The Common Entrance Test (CET) for undergraduate medical and engineering courses began on Monday with students appearing for mathematics and biology papers.<br /><br /></p>.<p>As many as 1.2 lakh students appeared for the examination and 70,000 wrote the medical entrance. This year, there are 150 more medical seats available for admission to colleges in Karnataka.<br /><br />Speaking to reporters here on Monday, S A Ramdas, Minister for Medical Education, said the State government was planning to appeal to the Supreme Court for a special round of counselling for the undergraduate courses this year.<br /><br /> “This is being done to ensure that the seats surrendered in the AIPMT entrance counselling to the State government are not misused by the college managements. Last year, as many as 16 seats were surrendered at the All-India level which did not return to the government pool.”<br /><br />Surrendering of seats<br /><br />As for surrendering of seats during CET counselling, the State will follow RGUHS PGET practice, he added.<br /><br />Of the 1,20,945 students who enrolled for CET, about 90,169 candidates appeared for biology and 1,16,324 students for mathematics entrance papers on Monday. The CET cell, in a statement, said one case of impersonation was detected in Udupi.<br /><br />DDPU S S Shindha told Deccan Herald that the boy was caught writing the exam on behalf of another candidate, at Manipal Junior College.<br /><br />This will also be the last year the CET will be conducted. From the next academic year, Karnataka students will appear for the NEET examination. The verification of documents will begin from June 10. July 15 is the last date for admission.<br /><br />Speaking to Deccan Herald, Parth Yadav, a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, CRPF, said the biology examination was easy and an average student with a decent preparation could secure a minimum score of 25. For those who have prepared well, securing 45 would not be difficult at all, he said.<br /><br />The student, who is particular about medicine, has decided to opt out of the mathematics examination, required for entrance to engineering courses. <br /><br />“If I do not get through medical, I will go for pharmacy. There are too many seeking admission to engineering, which is why I did not opt for it,” he said.<br /><br />Prajwal V, a student of MES College, felt the CET biology paper was tougher than the Comed-K examination. Harish Balaji from Seshadripuram College said he found the mathematics paper really tough. “But the rescheduling of the exam dates was helpful as it I had more time for preparation,” he said.<br /><br />On Tuesday, students will appear for physics and chemistry examinations.<br /></p>
