Thursday, March 11, 2010

Bangalore: Students waiting to have a shot at the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2010 for admission to professional courses will have to wait for some more days for their brochure-cum-application forms. The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA), which has scheduled the CET on April 28 and 29, on Wednesday announced that the forms would be available after March 15 instead of March 10 as announced earlier.

“The applications will reach the schools and colleges on or after March 13 and candidates have to collect them from their respective institutions after March 15,” said a press release issued by the KEA.

Students will have to submit the filled application forms to their respective institutions on or before March 26, and their principals will have to ensure that the application forms reach the KEA or before March 29.
The KEA has received demand drafts from 1.1 lakh candidates seeking application forms but is yet to receive application forms from about 250 colleges. Of the requests received so far for the application forms, 4,700 are from outside the State, said KEA officials.

The despatch of brochure-cum-application forms was delayed as the KEA was awaiting details of fee structure and seat matrix from the State government.

However, the brochures are being despatched without details about the number of seats available in each engineering and medical college. It has been stated that the number of seats to be offered for allotment as government seats — college-wise, category-wise and course-wise — cannot be determined at this stage.

The brochure provides the fee structure for engineering courses, but not that for medical, dental and Indian systems of medicine and homoeopathy courses.

It will only become clear after the Government signs a memorandum of understanding with private college managements.