for admission to colleges through Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET), Class 12 marks will be given equal weightage with entrance exam marks from the academic year 2023-24. According to a report in a leading news daily, the decision to give 50 per cent weightage to Class 12 marks has already been approved in principle, but the state is yet to decide how it will bring about parity between the scores of different boards. will bring.
Will the aggregate marks in all subjects be considered or only marks in Science and Maths will be considered, that will also be considered soon. The introduction of Class 12 marks in the weightage of entrance exams also faces the challenge of difference in the number of subjects in the board.
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Conducting entrance exams several times a year like JEE (Main) There is also information to be in the card. The additional number of tests will allow the candidates to improve their scores without having to wait for a year.
The Maharashtra government will also streamline the schedule of entrance examinations for undergraduate courses in the participating institutes from next year. The new academic session will start from September 1 and the CET results will be declared on July 1. The proposed changes in Maharashtra CET also include the minimum cut off in the entrance exam.
All the changes are expected to be introduced only in the academic year 2023-24 and the pattern of Maharashtra CET will remain unchanged this year. Admission to professional courses in the participating institutes will also be granted on the basis of CET score.
The registration for Maharashtra CET was concluded last month for engineering, pharmacy and agriculture, related courses. The entrance test for PCM group will be held from August 5 to 11 while Maharashtra CET for PCB group will be held from August 12 to 20.
No state government, private medical colleges and universities will give separate admission for admission to their MD, MS, PG Diploma courses. Next academic year, the performance of students in class 12 and CET will be considered equally while declaring the merit list for vocational and technical courses graduate from state higher and technical. education Minister Uday Samant has said.
Speaking to reporters in Pune on Tuesday, where he held a meeting with officials of various educational institutions, the minister said the new system would be introduced from the next academic year, which is 2023-24, and not this year. At present, admission to courses like engineering, law and others is on the basis of CET marks.
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Samant said that only CET marks will not be considered for admission to professional courses under the new system. “Under the present system, students are focusing only on CET. But, after discussion with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, it has been decided that now the CET marks and class 12 marks will be given equal weightage. This will help the students to build a good foundation with their 12th standard studies,” said Samant. He also said that like JEE Main, there will be an option of second CET for students to score better if they are not satisfied with their performance in the first CET. “The exam (second exam) may be conducted immediately after the result of the first CET,” he said.
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