City students score big in CET
The winning streak continued for students from the state, who cleared the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to professional courses in much bigger numbers this year. While as many as 78,694 students — a jump of 11,151 over last year — have cleared the test for admission to engineering courses, medical and architecture streams too have seen a sharp rise in the pass percentage. In all, 15,776 students have made it to medical and dental courses and 59,011 to Indian system of medicine and homoeopathy (ISMH) courses.
Like in previous years, students from the city have grabbed most of the top ten ranks in all streams. All the first ranks in medical, dental, engineering and architecture have gone to Bengaluru, while Mysore bagged the first rank in ISMH. Archana Sasi, a student of the National Public School (NPS), HAL II Stage, in the city, who stood second in the CBSE Class 12 exams with a 97.8 percentage, is the first ranker in the medical stream. She already stands first at the all-India level in the JIPMER, KMC and Manipal entrance tests and seventh in AIPMT examination conducted by CBSE.
The bumper CET results have brought back the smiles in engineering colleges which have not had many takers in recent years. Medical education minister S.A. Ramadas said Karnataka Examination Authority will introduce online counselling from this year and the government will put a brake on mutual transfers, seat blocking and so on to safeguard the interests of poor and meritorious students.
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