The Hindu : CBSE to go in for common entrance exams

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Sunday, Apr 21, 2002

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CBSE to go in for common entrance exams

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI APRIL 20. As part of its endeavour to reduce multiple tests for admissions to professional and technical programmes in the country and to cut down the academic burden on students, the Central Board of Secondary Education will now conduct a common entrance examination for admission to engineering, architecture and pharmacy courses offered in universities other than those falling under the Joint Entrance Examination.

Being held for the first time from this year, the All-India Engineering/Pharmacy/Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE) will also admit students under the free/payment seats offered by institutes based on the score card and the reservation policy of the institutes.

Describing the move as an ambitious one that will help set a single standard for the entrance examinations of both State and Central institutes, N.S.V.Kameswara Rao, Chairman of the Central Counselling Board, which will manage the examinations, revealed here that the examination would be held on May 19 at 396 centres across 65 cities.

The joint entrance examination will enable students to seek admission in any of the 110 colleges in 14 States in almost 40 disciplines and is expected to fill some 9,000 Central quota seats.

The Central Counselling Board was set up in pursuance of Programme of Action in 1992, under the National Policy of Education which envisages the conduct of common entrance of examinations on an all-India basis for admission to professional and technical courses.

Nearly 2.2 lakh students are expected to take the examination this year. The results will be announced on June 25 and the first round of counselling will be held from July 5 to July 7 at 16 different centres across the country with similar sessions on-line. While pointing out that the Board would ensure that only recognised and reputed private institutes are included in the list of colleges that will provide admission through these tests, Dr. Rao said the names of institutes like the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, the College of Engineering in Roorkee and the Manipal Academy of Higher Educationshould encourage students to receive the joint entrance.

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