One Entrance for all: UGC plan to merge NEET, and JEE into CUET UG Exam

by web developer | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles | 0 comments

The UGC is planning to merge medical or engineering entrances into the Common University Entrance Test – Undergraduate (CUET- UG). As per the reports, this proposal would be to check the students on the same knowledge based on one test.

University Grants Commission vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said the idea is to unburden the students to appear in multiple exams. So, the new proposal will allow the students to appear for one entrance test only instead of appearing in four subjects – Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and biology – in three entrance exams, but now students can appear in one exam and be eligible for or explore a different field of study.

This year CUET was launched for undergraduate students at 90 universities including 45 central universities. According to officials 1.05 million students have applied for CUET, making it the second biggest examination after NEET which received 1.8 million students’ applications.

Vice Chancellor Kumar said that National Education Policy NEP 2020 also foresees one entrance exam for all and this will reduce the burden on students by giving multiple exams for higher education.

While the NEET examination is conducted for taking admission in medical courses including MBBS and BDS, the joint entrance examination (Main) is designed for admission to various engineering courses including IITs and other technical colleges. Shortlisted students can appear for the JEE Advanced exam for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Also, the UGC will form a committee, including experts from different fields, to look at the recent entrances. Kumar said the committee will start preparing recommendations for the Integrated entrance exam. These recommendations will be shared with the stakeholders for consultation and feedback based on the ministry and UGC will decide the pattern of the examination.

He also said that the examination may be conducted twice a year to provide more opportunities to students. He decided to conduct the first session immediately after the board exams and other sessions can be conducted in November or December. Due to some technical glitches during the CUET exam for undergraduate students, Kumar said the NTA is working on handling the challenges.

The NTA can come up with its entrance examination centers in educational institutions across the country that can provide more than 300 to 400 students at a time. These institutions are used for the rest of the year.

According to him, there is no such difference between the assessment process of JEE, CUET, and NEET. The question paper of all the examinations are based on the NCERT syllabus and are objective based. The same criteria are followed for the special experts for preparing the question papers. But the NEET is the only one that is still OMR- based and not computer-based.

Although the entrance examination is based on both a logistical point of view and the interest of the students.

The UGC chancellor has clarified that the date is not finalized yet when the NTA National Testing Agency and all concerned stakeholders are well-prepared before the new common entrance test is launched for students.

NEET UG 2022 Result Latest Updates: Check out the last year’s Cut off

by web developer | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles | 0 comments

The NEET UG Result 2022 will be released by NTA in the third week of August. The result is expected to declare by NTA National Testing Agency at the official website neet.nta.nic.in. Also, the NTA will release the cut-off list for each category along with the NEET UG 2022 result.

Students must be anxious about a good score for NEET UG 2022. The cut-off for the general category is 50th percentile while for OBC, SC, and ST it is 40th. As per the sources last year, the NEET UG cut-off for unreserved category students has gone down from 720- 147 in NEET 2020 to 720-138 in NEET 2021. The cut-off also dropped for SC, ST, and OBC categories last year from 146-113 to 137-108. The Scores will be a basis to take admissions in medical courses or AYUSH courses.

BAMS AYUSH Counselling
BAMS AYUSH Counselling is conducted for eligible qualified candidates who are interested to take admissions in AYUSH courses BAMS, BUMS, or BHMS. Through this counseling, students take admitted to Government aided, private/deemed universities, or central universities. AYUSH counseling for BAMS will be conducted by the AACCC AYUSH Admissions Central Counseling Committee, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.

BAMS Admission in Karnataka
Taking admission in BAMS in Karnataka will be filled through 15% All India Quota or 85% state quota seats under Karnataka AYUSH Counselling. If you are a non- Karnataka student then you have to apply through AACCC (AYUSH Admissions Central Counseling Committee).

FAQs

What are the Qualifying marks for NEET 2022?
According to the latest information, for the general category, it is 50% or for the reserved category, it is 40%. The NEET UG 2022 result is expected soon at the end of this month on its official website neet.nta.nic.in.

Is it Ok to drop 2 years for NEET?
NEET currently doesn’t have a limit to the number of attempts but the age limit is there you can appear till you’re 30, so you still have many chances and it’s worthwhile to drop your 2 years for the NEET examination.

 Can I attempt the NEET 4th time?
There is no limit to giving the NEET exam. You can attempt the NEET exam as many times as you want.

Is the NEET answer key released?
As per the latest reports, NTA will be released the answer key of NEET 2022 by today on 18th August and the results will be out on 21st August on the official website neet.nta.nic.in.

HC Ordered Re-Ranking Exercise: Relief and Disappointment to Engineering College Aspirants!

by web developer | Sep 26, 2022 | Articles | 0 comments

Due to the peculiar pandemic situation, the state government decided to cancel the Class 12 examinations or promoted the students based on different criteria.

The High Court of Karnataka has taken up the hearing on KCET 2022 ranks and repeaters issue at 3:55 PM. However, no concrete decision has been taken again, and the matter has been posted for further hearing. The matter of KCET 2022 has been listed as Item No. 69 in Cause List 1. The court has taken up the hearing as per the serial number. The candidates can check the latest live updates of the KCET 2022 hearing here.

What is KCET?
The Karnataka Common Entrance Test or KCET is conducted by Karnataka Examination Authority and is a gateway for candidates to get admission to undergraduate various technical courses every year. Taking admission in BTech, B Arch, BSC agriculture and BPharma offered by various government/ private aided/ UN- Aided professional education institutions in the state of Karnataka will have to take this entrance exam for admission.

• KEA Karnataka Examination Authority is the nodal agency for examining professional courses.
• Admissions take place based on the ranking which is determined by 50% of the marks obtained by the candidates in physics chemistry biology and 50% of the marks obtained in the CET examination.

 Changes in CET 2021:
In 2021, due to the pandemic, the government decided to cancel the +2 examination and promoted the students based on their internal assessment or different criteria. Following this KEA has decided to conduct the CET and evaluate the rankings based on a 100% CET score, as against the usual norm for the academic year 2021-2022. However, candidates were allotted seats in various institutions based on their respective CET rankings determined by CET scores.

CET examination Controversy in 2022:
In 2022 authority published information while inviting applications from students for CET that was held in June-July. That information stated eligibility for engineering and technology courses or decided by the usual norm of considering equal weightage from QE score and CET score. The authority directed the students to upload their scores of the qualifying examination while applying for the CET examination.

On July 30 KEA announced the CET result in which a total of 2,10,829 candidates had appeared for the exam, out of which close to 24000 candidates of CET 2021 had taken the exam for the second time in 2022. Although, KEA evaluated the CET rankings for re-rankers only based on a 100% CET score, for the freshers it will calculate based on the equal weightage of QE and CET scores.

The argument of (KEA) Karnataka Examination Authority:
The executive director of the Karnataka Examination Authority Ramya S argued that if they were to consider equal weightage of QE and CET scores or repeaters to evaluate their CET rankings, it would be wrong with the 2021 CET candidates and 2022 CET freshers.

But now, KEA also stated that if a CET candidate of 2021 re-appeared for the examination even in 2023, 2024, or 2025 then, their evaluation will be done the same as the criteria set for the said year, which is based on 100% CET score 

The authority also highlighted some facts regarding the repeaters that the internal assessment was not considered for CET rankings for 2021. Similarly, for students who did not take the qualifying examination which was not conducted during 2022, the said internal assessment marks obtained for class 12 would not be considered for the academic year also.

On the day when CET results were announced, the KEA issued an order that the QE score would not be considered for evaluating the rankings of CET repeaters.

What do the re-rankers say?
The re-rankers argued over their rankings that have drastically changed or dropped following the unfair evaluation. Those rankers who had ranks under 10,000 ended up with the ranks this year in 2022. Some students took a gap of year for preparing well in the CET rankings and secure a seat in a good college. Also, some of them took a year off to study for NEET and kept this exam as an option.

They argued that there’s no notification mentioned or order that PUC marks would not be considered. This made them take CET again to better their ranking. He said, I ended up with a rank of over 1 lakh with a CET score of 72 but the last year it was 65 and had a ranking that would be higher than 42000. With a high ranking of over 1 lakh, how am I supposed to get admission to a good college?

HC verdict on the CET controversy:
Most of the repeaters filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court in August, seeking a 50-50  weightage of QE and CET scores for the CET ranking. Krishna Kumar the justice allowed the petitions on September 3 that is filed by the repeaters and also directed the authorities to conduct the CET ranking by considering 50% of QE and 50 % of CET scores for the re-rankers.

Fresher’s point on KCET:
A KCET fresher name Aditya Biradar started an online petition against the HC verdict and said students from the state board are more considered and got their board marks without writing any sort of written exam, which will affect freshers’ CET rankings.

Another fresher who ranked 24443 said that the decision is disappointing because after the revaluation my rank might go up by a thousand points but I am tense and will get a clear picture after the revaluation is done. Although, I might take admissions through CET ranking rather than COMEDK (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka ranking) “.

One more fresher said with the redoing of the entire CET rankings, will only further damage the academic prospects of the freshers. Abhishek D, rankings might go up by thousands of points also not good in college. He aims to pursue computer science engineering with the current ranking if his ranking is changed then he opted Mechanical engineering which has very low career opportunities.

Government Stand on the CET:
Higher Education Minister Dr. C N Aswath Narayan, says that on Monday it will be announced that the government would be challenging the HC order. This will change drastically the ranks of the freshers and would be unfair to them.

The head of the Karnataka Education Authority Ramya also expresses views that usually witness around 2000-3000 repeaters every year during the CET examination. Although, this year the number is close to 24,000 which is higher than the last year. Government give the word that the counseling for CET will begin soon, following which classes would commence.

CENTAC Counselling Session Latest Updates, General Instructions

by web developer | Sep 26, 2022 | Articles | 0 comments

The centralized Admission Committee (CENTAC) conducts the counseling session for Puducherry MBBS/ BDS /BAMS Admission 2022. While taking admission in MBBS or any medical courses students keep in mind that the admission is wholly based on the NEET score card, NEET is mandatory to participate in Pondicherry NEET Counselling 2022.

Through current information, CENTAC (Centralized Admission Committee) has already informed about the online registration fee in Indian Rupees; NEET candidates while applying for admission to the first year MBBS/BDS/BAMS courses in Government and Self-Financing Medical/ Dental or AYUSH Colleges in the UT of Puducherry.

Important Dates:

• Online application submission opens on the 12th of September 2022.
• Last date for submitting the forms on 25th of September 2022.

To avoid missing any crucial information regarding the counseling events, candidates can check the details on its official website also.

Instructions:

• Students must ensure that they are entering the All India Counselling Rank against NEET Rank while filling up the application.
• Candidates who belong to OBC seeking admission to B.V.Sc National Self Supporting seats should submit their non-creamy layer certificate as an attachment while filling up the application.
• Students who belong to Puducherry or residents should submit an affidavit while filling up the application. Although, the format of an affidavit is available on the CENTAC website.
• Aspirants must have passed the H.Sc. Academic examination which is conducted by the Board of Higher Secondary examination of the state or any other equivalent exam.
• Candidates must have 50% marks in aggregate in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, or botany/ zoology. For OBC/ BCM/MBC/SC/ST it is 40%.
• Students should also have studied English as one of the main subjects.
• Students should not be at least 17 years old at the time of admission.

CENTAC Classification of Seats:

• In government colleges or private colleges through government quota only residents of the U.T. of Puducherry are eligible.
• In government colleges, through self-financing / sponsoring quota students have a few seats, restrictions of residence may be there. Other Seats are filled on An- India basis.
• Through other state quota candidates from the concerned states are eligible.
• Through All India Quota (For UG Medical / Dental Seats only DGHS filled it on an All-India basis.
• In private colleges, through Management quota there is no restriction on Residence. Filled on- An all-India basis.
• In private colleges, through minority quota students who are residents of the U.T. of Puducherry only are eligible.

The application form will be released on the website for NEET 2022 qualified candidates. CENTAC is a common admission portal to all the colleges of Puducherry under this all candidates who have passed the qualifying examination and those who have appeared in the such qualifying examination are eligible for admission under such various courses.

Candidates seeking more information on Puducherry NEET admission 2022 can read the article or check out its official website.