Maharashtra back to MHT-CET for engineering from next year

The state government is most likely to withdraw participation from JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION (JEE) conducted by the CENTRE for admissions to the state's engineering colleges It was announced that the state plans to conduct CET for engineering admissions from 2016,this decision once implemented will be a relief for more than 1lakh students who seek admissions to engineering seats in state.Prior to 2014 the state was conducting its own test.

The main reason for this conversion is that a big lobby of private coaching institutes which charges students over Rs 2.5 lakh to coach students for JEE (Main) which is based on CBSE syllabus but if the state conducts its own CET, based on state board syllabus,it will help the students from rural areas and also to people who are not able to afford the fees of coaching centres.

The Minister for higher and technical education Vinod Tawde  said that the government will continue to give 50% weightage to class 12th scores and 50% to CET scores instead of the JEE (Main). Officials even said that if the state goes back to CET, it should have a common MHT-CET i.e there will be common entrance test for both engineering and medical so that students will not have to take the physics and chemistry tests twice.

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