The eight-year-old Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) is clearly on its way out, with this year seeing medicine and dentistry seat aspirants answering the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET).
Next year, engineering aspirants from Goa will also take the centralized test, leaving the state to conduct exams for just the pharmacy courses at its level. "We are deliberating a way to decide entry to the pharmacy course," education secretary Keshav Chandra told TOI.
Director of technical education, Vivek Kamat, said the 1,300-odd engineering seats in Goa will remain for the state's students despite NEET. "Each state has been given the autonomy to decide on the admission policy to engineering courses. In Goa, criteria like 10-year domicile will remain," Kamat said.
Introduced in 2005, GCET was the common exam for medicine, dentistry, engineering, pharmacy and homeopathy seats in Goa. This year will be its last. All this has already changed with the arrival of the NEET in 2013 and GCET has already been dethroned as a common exam.
The Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay has signed an MoU with the Goa government to conduct the GCET since 2005.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Farewell-GCET-2013-exam-final-one/articleshow/20038978.cms
Next year, engineering aspirants from Goa will also take the centralized test, leaving the state to conduct exams for just the pharmacy courses at its level. "We are deliberating a way to decide entry to the pharmacy course," education secretary Keshav Chandra told TOI.
Director of technical education, Vivek Kamat, said the 1,300-odd engineering seats in Goa will remain for the state's students despite NEET. "Each state has been given the autonomy to decide on the admission policy to engineering courses. In Goa, criteria like 10-year domicile will remain," Kamat said.
Introduced in 2005, GCET was the common exam for medicine, dentistry, engineering, pharmacy and homeopathy seats in Goa. This year will be its last. All this has already changed with the arrival of the NEET in 2013 and GCET has already been dethroned as a common exam.
The Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay has signed an MoU with the Goa government to conduct the GCET since 2005.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Farewell-GCET-2013-exam-final-one/articleshow/20038978.cms
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