Education, Careers & Professional News
CET-2005 jolt to Board students
Source
Deccan Herald
Date
2005-03-24
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Class XII CBSE and ICSE students will lose a major sop in CET-2005. Central Board students who pass their qualifying examination in compartment, or what is more popularly known as supplementary examination, will no longer be eligible for the CET seat-selection process this year, reports Vijesh Kamath for DHNS, Bangalore.
The state government, in a major departure from the rules hitherto followed by the CET Cell, has decided to exclude students who pass their qualifying examination in the compartment examination from participating in the seat selection process for admission to professional colleges under government quota.
CBSE and ICSE students who fail to clear their March examination have the option to appear for the compartment which is held immediately after the announcement of main results.
The CET rules hitherto had the provision to assign ranks to such candidates who cleared the compartment examination.
This was possible as the CET Cell assigns ranks to CBSE and ICSE students only on the basis of the marks scored in the CET. A pass in the qualification examination is only an eligibility criteria for them.
Many students benefited from this move as the fresh ranks made them eligible to select seats from the government quota without losing an year.
Injustice
However, it slowly dawned on the government that it was meting out injustice to its own students. Students affiliated to the PU Board had no such privilege. A candidate failing to pass his PU main examination was rejected by the CET Cell.
He had to wait for one year to clear his PU and again appear for the CET, while his central board counterpart could pass the compartment examination and select government seats the same year.
Ironically, the move to maintain a level-playing ground and scrap the sop to CBSE and ICSE students comes at a time when the PU Board has decided to advance the supplementary examination to July this year.
However, education department officials point out the CET seat selection would be half way complete by the time the II PU advanced supplementary results are out.
So instead of extending the sop to PU students, the government has decided to scrap it for all.
For the record, CET ranks to students affiliated to the state board are assigned after providing 50 per cent weightage to the marks scored in II PU examination and 50 per cent for CET score.
In another change made to the CET rules this year, candidates who have obtained admission to a particular discipline through the CET Cell last year, will not be eligible for selection of a seat in the same discipline this academic year.