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Indian Express
4 days ago
- Indian Express
No more MH-CET exams outside Maharashtra: Chandrakant Patil
Maharashtra will no longer conduct Common Entrance Tests (CETs) outside the state, Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil announced on Thursday. The decision follows recent incidents raising concerns about the exam's integrity. On Wednesday, the five-year LLB CET results showed that all four top scorers were from a single exam centre in Patna, Bihar, sparking suspicion. Earlier, in March 2025, the MBA CET was marred by reports of students receiving unsolicited calls offering admission to top institutes for hefty sums of amount in range from Rs 11 to Rs 20 lakh. A complaint to Mumbai police had led to the arrest of three people in Delhi. Stating that the investigating team has been informed of the latest development from the LLB five-year CET's result which has sparked suspicion, Patil said, 'To ensure transparency, CETs will no longer be held outside of Maharashtra.' The Maharashtra CET Cell conducts over 18 entrance exams for admission to various professional courses in the state. Some of the CETs – such as MHT-CET, MBA and LLB CETs are extended to a few cities outside of Maharashtra like Patna, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, and Bengaluru to accommodate out-of-state aspirants. 'These are anyway very limited exam-centres. Further, this year, we had already reduced outside centres post the MBA-CET issue, but couldn't cancel previously announced exams. Now, we've decided to stop them entirely,' said an official from the CET Cell. The MBA-CET scam surfaced in March after students reported calls promising inflated marks to ensure admission to coveted colleges in the city in exchange for large sums. CET Cell had formed a confidential committee to probe the matter following which the matter was reported to the Mumbai Police.
Indian Express
7 days ago
- Indian Express
Campus Talk: Maharashtra MHT-CET results to be out on June 16
The Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell will declare the MHT-CET result for admission to undergraduate engineering and pharmacy courses on June 16. The state CET Cell has announced the tentative dates of results for various CETs. Results have already been declared for admission to 12 professional courses in Maharashtra at undergraduate and postgraduate levels out of the total 18 CETs conducted by the state CET Cell. Results for the remaining six courses are expected to be out between June 4 and June 17, as per the tentative dates declared by the Maharashtra CET Cell. (see box) As per the notification released on Monday, the MHT-CET 2025 result for PCB (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) and PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) groups is expected to be out on June 16. MHT-CET was held in two phases: PCB from April 9–17 and PCM from April 19–May 5. Over 2.8 lakh candidates had appeared for the PCB group exam, while over 4.2 lakh took the PCM exam. As many as 40 questions were found to be erroneous across 28 sessions of the computer-based MHT-CET exam. The CET Cell has already declared that this will be taken into consideration during the evaluation of the papers. Other prominent CETs include those for five and three-year LLB courses, which will be out on June 4 and June 17, respectively. Approximately a little over a lakh candidates appeared for the two entrance tests combined. All students who have cleared Class XII are eligible to apply for the LLB five-year course, whereas only graduates can apply for the three-year course. The CET results for admissions to are expected on June 4. This is only the second year after the Maharashtra government introduced CET for admission to these courses last year. This decision was taken after they were brought under the purview of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
