Six of 22 MHT-CET 100th percentilers from Mumbai
Mumbai: Six of the 22 students who are in the 100th percentile in the MHT-CET results for the physics-chemistry-mathematics (PCM) group are from Mumbai.
Two of the toppers are girls.
Three students in the elite list are from outside the state — Delhi and Kolkata.
The state's CET cell announced the MHT-CET results only for the PCM group on Monday. Of the 4.22 lakh students who took the exam, over 10% or 43,299 students managed to cross the 90th percentile in the exam.
These scores will be used for admissions to the state's engineering colleges. This year, the CET cell decided to announce the results of both groups separately, and the results for the physics-chemistry-biology (PCB) group will be out on Tuesday.
Last year, 20 students bagged the perfect score. Most CET toppers from this year have already secured seats in the IITs through the JEE (Advanced) or are waiting for a betterment option. For many of them, the state's CET was a "solid back-up plan for good state colleges", as put by one of the toppers, Anirudh Iyer.
While the CET results are out, the centralised admission process (CAP) schedule will be released only after the state releases the information brochure with the changes.
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This year, the state will conduct four CAP rounds and has also decided to tweak the seat-locking process to prevent students from blocking seats till the end of the admission rounds.
With 43,299 students scoring above the 90th percentile in the exam, there are chances that the cut-offs will be higher in leading engineering colleges. Principal GT Thampi of Thadomal Shahani Engineering College said all their computer and IT-related courses closed above the 96th percentile last year, and this year it is likely to be high too.
"The leading colleges in Mumbai and Pune will be able to accommodate around 8,000-10,000 students in the circuit branches of engineering alone, which now also includes AI and Machine Learning, Data Sciences, along with the traditional ones like computer science and IT. The remaining regions such as Nashik, Nagpur and Aurangabad will be able to take in more than 15,000 in these leading courses. With a higher number of students in the group, the cut-offs could be higher," Thampi said.
Last year, the CET portal was riddled with glitches on the day of the results. This year, the cell decided to announce the results of both the groups — PCM and PCB — on separate days.
"These are two independent exams and are given by almost mutually exclusive groups of students. These are also given by a large number of students. To give students a smooth experience and to avoid unnecessary chaos, we decided to announce the results separately," CET cell commissioner Dileep Sardesai said.
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