Maharashtra education dept explores dedicated CET centres for convenience of students
It has also decided not to conduct exams in centres outside the state from next year. The CET cell conducts 19 different exams for courses at centres across the state.
The MHT-CET exams receive the highest registrations and are conducted at approximately 180 centres statewide. Since the CET cell does not have its own centres, it rents facilities from coaching classes and computer training centres.
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This, sometimes, leads to technical issues and inconveniences for students.
Consequently, the CET cell is assessing the number of students at each centre within the state.
The move is also to prepare for the possibility of conducting the CET twice a year. An official from the department said that they are currently assessing student numbers at each centre.
"Often, students from one district do not get their first-choice centre and are instead assigned to a distant one in another district. The department is studying such cases to determine how many centres are needed in each district and what technical requirements should be included," a senior official from the department said.
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The state govt has also been considering the possibility of holding major CETs, for admissions to engineering, pharmacy, and agricultural courses, at least twice a year.
With the computer-based test spanning multiple days and large volume of students taking CETs, the higher and technical education department will need to study the feasibility of conducting the exercise more than once every year.
The idea is to give students an opportunity to improve their scores. A govt representative said that there is too much reliance on a single-day test which can be unfair for various reasons. A student could be unwell, under pressure, or face an unexpected issue that day.
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