Panel submits final blueprint of CET for central universities

Updated on: Thursday, March 10, 2011

A panel of experts comprising vice-chancellors appointed by Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal have submitted their final report and blueprint regarding the common admission procedure that has been recommended for all central universities in India.

According to the blueprint that has been finalised, good under graduate scores would remove half the pressure on a student of securing a postgraduate admission in a central university.

This is because 50 per cent weightage will be given to the previous academic performance of a student and the rest will be given to performance in the common entrance test.

The blue print for the common admissions will be discussed by the vice chancellors of about 200 central and state universities in India on March 25-26.

Kapil Sibal has also planned common admissions to MPhil and PhD programmes at all the 40 central universities from the upcoming academic session of 2011.

According to the plans by the HRD ministry, the common entrance test for universities will also be extended for master's programmes in the year 2012 and to undergraduate programmes from the year 2013.

Admissions to central universities currently rely only on admission test for selecting students to be admitted for masters, MPhil and PhD programmes. No specific weightage is given to scores achieved by students in previous programmes.

The weightage given to previous scores has been hiked by the panel in its final report. The report adds that only the scores of the final two years of the preceding academic degree course will be considered.

Panel submits final blueprint of CET for central universities

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