2% dip in students qualifying for medical, dental admissions

Updated on: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The number of students who have qualified for admission to medical, dental and other health science courses in the state has gone down by 2.33% this year compared to last year.

The slump is evident from the results of the Maharashtra Health and Technical -Common Entrance Test (MHT-CET) 2011, which were declared on Tuesday by the director of medical education and research (DMER). The test is a combined entrance exam for admission to engineering, pharmacy and health science courses in the state.

Post-results, the centralised admission process for health science seats is conducted by the DMER while that for the engineering and pharmacy seats is conducted by the director of technical education (DTE).

Over 3.02 lakh students had enrolled for MHT-CET 2011 and 2,98,897 appeared for the test, which was held on May 12. Of these, a total 1,92,685 students appeared for health science courses and 23,147 were declared eligible for admission. This works out to a pass percentage of 12.76, which is 2.33% less than last year's success rate of 15.09%.

According to eligibility norms prescribed by the DMER, a candidate from the open category must secure minimum 50% in the physics, chemistry and biology (PCB) group in the MHT-CET as well as in the std XII exams to qualify for admission to medical and dental seats.

Region-wise, Marathwada recorded the highest 14.66 pass percentage followed by Vidarbha's 12.56% and Rest of Maharashtra's (RoM) 11.07%. RoM accounted for the largest chunk of 1,17,725 students who appeared for health science courses, and 13,030 of these were declared eligible for admission.

Vidarbha and Marathwada accounted for 41,511 and 33,449 students, who appeared for the test, respectively. Of these, 5,215 and 4,902 were declared eligible for admission.

According to CET coaching expert Harish Butale, the slump in the number of qualifiers for health science seats is no cause of concern considering that the overall number of health science seats is far less than the number of qualifiers for admission.

Times of India

2% dip in students qualifying for medical, dental admissions

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