CET to go online from 2020

For the year 2020, the Common Entrance Test (CET) will completely go online and the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has already started the preparations.

State Higher Education Minister G T Devegowda announced this on Saturday during the release of CET 2019 results. “From next year CET will be conducted online at the colleges identified as examination centres,” said G T Devegowda.

Meanwhile, considering the students appearing for CET from rural parts of Karnataka, the State Higher Education Department officials said that there will be more number of mock tests to help rural students to get use to the online system.

B H Anil Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, State Higher Education department said, “We are in touch with the National Testing Agency (NTA) which conducts National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and KEA will provide all the necessary infrastructure.”

Through CET admission to various professional courses including engineering, agriculture, Pharmacy, Yoga and Naturopathy will be done in Karnataka. “We will not blindly push students to online mode. There will be multiple mock tests which will help students to get adjusted with the new system,” explained G T Devegowda.

When we look at the existing system, the application and the seat allotment process is completely online, but the test and the document verification process is manual. Although KEA was planning to make the test online from CET 2019 itself, officials decided against it as students were not given prior intimation and lack of practice.

Common National level test for Engineering?
Though there is a rumor about single national level entrance test for admission to engineering courses since last two years, there is no clarity about it even for the 2020.

State Higher Education Department officials said that they have not received any communication about it from the All Indian Council for Technical Education or from the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

B H Anil Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Higher Education, said that the state government will correspond to the HRD officials and later take a call on whether CET would apply for engineering courses in 2020.