New academic
year promises changes in admission for 3 major courses
The New Year promises to be a rough
one for aspir ants of various professional courses in the state as
decision-making bodies in the state and at the Centre have several plans to
change the existing formats for various admission criteria and exams.
Mirror
takes a look at all the changes that are set to take place or are already
underway.
New test for MBBS graduates
The
Centre has proposed a new qualifying test called the National Exit Test (NEXT)
for MBBS graduates, before they can formally practice using the `Dr' tag. The
test, if brought into effect, will replace the National Eligibility cum Entrance
Test (NEET) for postgraduate medical admissions and recruitment for Central
Health Services and the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination.
On
the condition of anonymity, a parent said, “Students are going to suffer again
as the government is making changes without getting the backend work done.A
similar thing happened during the NEET drama.“
New admission criteria for engg
Students
seeking admissions via the 15% all-India quota seats to Maharashtra's
engineering colleges won't have to appear for the state's Common Entrance Test
(CET).Candidates who have appeared for the national-level JEE (Main) will get
preference over CET students, unlike in the previous years.
The
centre is also planning to introduce a common exam (JEE) for admissions to all
colleges both private and government-run. According to Subhash Joshi, a trustee
of the Science Parivar, students have been left confused after the government's
sudden decisions. “When NEET was introduced, students suffered due to poor
planning and coordination between the different government bodies. If JEE is to
be implemented as a common exam, students should get at least two years to
prepare for the new exam,“ Joshi said.
Don't need Std XII marks for Arch
The
Council of Architecture (CoA) has introduced fresh guidelines for admissions to
undergraduate courses across the state.
Firstly,
the National Aptitude test in Architecture website said that Std XII results
were unnecessary under the new admission criteria. Earlier, Std XII results
were given 50% weightage.
However,
Dayanand Meshram of the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), has said,
“Till last year, we were admitting students as per the 50-50 formula. If the
CoA has prescribed any changes, we shall implement them only after the state
notifies us about them.“ S. B.Rege, Executive Director of Silica, a coaching
institute for design courses said, “Institutes like NID and NIFT do not
consider an individual's HSC marks for admission.“
Also,
NATA, which was earlier conducted across several dates, will now be conducted
only once on April 16.The announcement, which came in December, gives aspirants
less than the mandatory five months it used to give them to prepare during
after they had selected their exam date.
Source | Mumbai Mirror | 5 January 2017
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