The state schooling division, which is planning to conduct a typical entrance take a look at (CET) for admissions to non-professional undergraduate programs, like BA, BCom, and BSc, might contemplate the state board’s increased secondary syllabi for the examination.
Class XII examinations have been cancelled throughout instructional boards in view of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the process for admissions to first-year undergraduate programs appears to be on the highest of the thoughts of anxious college students and oldsters.
While the Maharashtra Higher and Technical Education Board stated it was contemplating varied prospects for admissions, state Higher and Technical Education Minister Uday Samant on Saturday stated a state-level committee has been fashioned in Maharashtra to test if there’s a risk of conducting a CET for admission to non-professional undergraduate (UG) programs.
“If (the CET is) conducted (for undergraduate admissions), the syllabus would be the state board pattern. Currently, there are several boards and each has its own syllabus, pattern. Private universities and autonomous institutes conduct their admissions according to their procedure. It is not possible to bring everyone on one platform and establish complete parity. We do not have that kind of time, so I won’t make impractical announcements,” Samant stated Saturday.
The high-level committee, comprising vice-chancellors of state universities, schooling consultants, officers of the upper and technical schooling division, has now been tasked to work out modalities like feasibility of conducting the CET, its syllabus whether it is to be performed at state or division degree or by universities.
After the cancellation of sophistication X exams, whereas the CBSE and CICSE affiliated colleges stated they might go forward with class XI admissions primarily based on inside screening assessments, junior faculties affiliated to the state board had been advised to halt admissions pending announcement of a uniform process. The faculty schooling division had introduced {that a} CET can be performed for sophistication XI admissions, which might be primarily based on the state board syllabus. Following this, a number of CBSE and ICSE college students had categorical reservations, citing a substantial distinction within the syllabi.
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