PANAJI: Twenty % fewer scholars have registered to appear for the Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) this year as compared to 2018.
Since 2018, GCET is being performed just for admissions to engineering and pharmacy graduate programmes. Officials of the directorate of technical education (DTE) said that registration for GCET has dropped as scholars are better aware this year that admissions to all different programmes are being held in the course of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
“Last year, four,100 scholars registered to appear for GCET. This year, the collection of registrations is 3,400. We are nonetheless accepting forms with past due charges up to April 26. But handiest around 50 more scholars are anticipated to check in via paying the fee,” an official of the directorate of technical education (DTE) said.
Students aspiring to join stage programmes in medication, dentistry, homeopathy, ayurveda, nursing and the five allied well being science lessons have to reply to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
Stating that the drop in GCET registration numbers is certainly not an indication of lower call for for engineering and pharmacy sets, the DTE official said, “The nursing and the five allied well being programmes had been brought under NEET handiest in 2018. Some scholars would possibly not were aware of this alteration in 2018 and might have inadvertently stuffed the forms for GCET, without any aim to join engineering or pharmacy programmes. Students are more aware of the exchange this year and more focused about which path they need to pursue.”
“We don’t wait for any less call for for engineering and pharmacy seats. Nearly 3,500 scholars shall be vying for 1,600 engineering and pharmacy stage seats, so there is about a 50% exchange of bagging a seat,” said an official.
From 2018 onwards, GCET is held handiest in physics, chemistry and arithmetic. All 3 subjects are spoke back via those aspiring for engineering seats, whilst those who need to join the drugstore programme handiest resolution the physics and chemistry papers.
This year, GCET will begin at 10am on May 7 and finish the next day to come, May eight, at 12noon.
Since 2018, GCET is being performed just for admissions to engineering and pharmacy graduate programmes. Officials of the directorate of technical education (DTE) said that registration for GCET has dropped as scholars are better aware this year that admissions to all different programmes are being held in the course of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
“Last year, four,100 scholars registered to appear for GCET. This year, the collection of registrations is 3,400. We are nonetheless accepting forms with past due charges up to April 26. But handiest around 50 more scholars are anticipated to check in via paying the fee,” an official of the directorate of technical education (DTE) said.
Students aspiring to join stage programmes in medication, dentistry, homeopathy, ayurveda, nursing and the five allied well being science lessons have to reply to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
Stating that the drop in GCET registration numbers is certainly not an indication of lower call for for engineering and pharmacy sets, the DTE official said, “The nursing and the five allied well being programmes had been brought under NEET handiest in 2018. Some scholars would possibly not were aware of this alteration in 2018 and might have inadvertently stuffed the forms for GCET, without any aim to join engineering or pharmacy programmes. Students are more aware of the exchange this year and more focused about which path they need to pursue.”
“We don’t wait for any less call for for engineering and pharmacy seats. Nearly 3,500 scholars shall be vying for 1,600 engineering and pharmacy stage seats, so there is about a 50% exchange of bagging a seat,” said an official.
From 2018 onwards, GCET is held handiest in physics, chemistry and arithmetic. All 3 subjects are spoke back via those aspiring for engineering seats, whilst those who need to join the drugstore programme handiest resolution the physics and chemistry papers.
This year, GCET will begin at 10am on May 7 and finish the next day to come, May eight, at 12noon.
GCET 2019: Registrations see 20% drop as compared to 2018
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