Bangalore wins CET

BANGALORE WINS CET

Girls took top honours in the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2012, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.

The number of students eligible for counselling has gone up this year compared with last year.

Archana Sasi of National Public School, Bangalore, won the first rank in Medical/Dental while Naksha S of Mount Carmel PU College, Bangalore, stood first in Architecture. Deepa M of MES Kishore Kendra PU College, Bangalore, emerged first rank holder in Engineering while Chandana Acharya of Vidyodaya PU College, Udupi, secured second position in ISM and Homeopathy. Pritesh Kumar N of Sadvidya Composite PU College, Mysore, won first rank in ISM and Homeopathy.

The results will be published in all the 248 test centres across the state on Thursday. The same is available on Karnataka Examination Authority’s (KEA’s) www.karresults.nic.in and www.cet.kar.nic.in websites along with the final key answers.

The CET was conducted on May 21, 22 and 23 for admission to undergraduate professional courses in the state.
The number of students who got eligibility for counselling has gone up.

This year, the number of candidates eligible for medical and dental courses stood at 15,776 compared with 13,666 last year. In engineering, the eligibility figure went up from 73,242 in 2011 to 78,694 this year.

The number of eligible candidates for ISHM courses rose from 55,682 last year to 59,011. For architecture courses, the eligibility count rose from 815 last year to 836 this year.

Bangalore North and South districts performed well in CET. Bangalore North district stood first with 10, 864 eligible candidates while Bangalore South came second place with 10,674 eligible candidates. The state medical education minister SA Ramdas appreciated the performance by students.

“We’re happy that the number of eligible students has gone up this time. We congratulate all,” he said after announcing the results.

The counselling process will begin on July 12. The verification of relevant documents will start on June 18 in all the 13 help centres set up by KEA.

“The document verification for special category students will begin from June 18 at Bangalore Centre. Other centres will start document verification from June 25 for all the courses,” said Ramdas. KEA will do the mock allotment on July 19. On July 21 and 22, students can mark changes if there is any. On July 23, KEA will make real allotment of seats. Students will have to confirm on seats between July 26 and 30. The last date for reporting to the college will be July 29.

The seat matrix will be released in July before the counselling process begins, Ramdas said.

Admission fee for students under government quota will be Rs36,900 for engineering, Rs38,500 for medical and Rs27,500 for dental.