CPET held at 21 centres in state

Bhubaneswar: Common PG entrance test (CPET-2023) was held at 21 examination centres in the state from Friday. The candidates who get good ranks in this entrance test can get admission into PG courses in state public universities and autonomous colleges of Odisha. The 10-day examination will continue till July 4.
For the first time, the State Selection Board (SSB) is conducting the CPET this year. The higher education department has given SSB the task of holding this examination instead of to the universities.
The state public universities were holding this entrance examination during the last three years.
As many as 69,705 candidates had registered for the CPET-2023. On the first day, examinations were conducted in anthropology (arts and science), geography, Hindi and MBA (business administration) in three sittings.
The first sitting was conducted between 10am and 11am, the second from 12.30pm to 1.30pm and the last one from 3pm to 4pm. Candidates answered objective-type questions of 80 marks. “It was an OMR-based test,” said SSB secretary Madhusudan Mishra.
“We have chosen big degree and autonomous colleges as examination centres. We have given two centres each for Bhubaneswar and Sundargarh district (one at Sundargarh and the other at Rourkela). The others were in Angul, Balasore, Bargarh, Bhadrak, Balangir, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Paralakhemundi, Berhampur, Jajpur, Bhawanipatna, Phulbani, Keonjhar, Jeypore, Baripada, Puri and Sambalpur,” he added.
On Saturday, the candidates will appear for physics, population studies, law, statistics and commerce subjects. On Sunday, they will appear for examinations for courses like microbiology, English, zoology, PMIR/IRPM, yoga and naturopathy.