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KEA stresses on the unusual occurrence of 25,000 repeaters in CET 2022

:- For the students of the batch 2022, both the PU marks and CET were given equal weightage

 

By Sara D Benedicta Josna

Bengaluru: Amongst all the extreme criticism and protests against the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) choosing to use only the CET scores of the students of batch 2020-21, KEA said around 25,000 students had chosen to repeat the entrance exam for the second consecutive time this year.

The number of repeaters this year was unusual, and KEA claimed the students were hoping to improve their ranks using their last year’s PU results, which were extremely high due to the lack of board exams. The CET results created a state of uncertainty in the minds of students of the batch 2021 batch who were repeating the entrance test realised that their PU marks were not considered for the CET ranks. While for the students of the batch 2022, both the PU marks and CET were given equal weightage. Because of this, the ranks of the repeater students dropped drastically despite their better scores in CET.

“This is the first time in recent history that we have so many repeaters for CET. Earlier, the numbers would be around 1000-1500.Their main target would be the agriculture or veterinary courses, after failing to get an MBBS seat. Repeaters for engineering courses would be hardly 10%,” said S Ramya, executive director, KEA. “This year, it is around 25,000. We realised this only when we are analysing the results. A large majority of them, we feel, have been misguided. They were under the impression that they could make use of their high PU marks from last year. We fear they also have not realised that if they were allotted a seat last year, they cannot take part in the counselling process. Our assumption is that many of these students are those who have taken a seat last year, using their high PU marks. They should have at least enquired with the authority how the rules work,” she added.

Many students denied the charges that they had already taken the seats last year. “My brother’s rank was 38,000 last year. He could not have gotten into any of the top engineering colleges. So when I saw him scoring so well without much coaching, I thought a year of repeating will help better the score. He did eight months of intense coaching by paying Rs.1 lakh. But his rank has dropped to 1,36,000, despite him getting more marks in CET,” said a guardian.

Students claimed that there was no imitation at any point that the rules would be separate for the last batch and this batch. “Had we known this, we would not have attempted again,” said the students.

“According to the rules, we consider marks only when there is a qualifying exam. In the case of CBSE repeaters whose marks have been considered, we are cross checking the same,” the director said.

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