CET Results 2011 Maharashtra

CET Results 2011 Maharashtra

The Maharashtra Health and Technology Common Entrance Test ( MHTCET 2011) this year has thrown up some interesting results, especially in the health science courses, sources in the office of Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) disclosed.

Though there was rise this year in the number of students aspiring for health science courses by 16,053 compared to last year, the number of eligible candidates witnessed a drop of 2.47%. Last year, out of 1.76 lakh candidates, 26,905 cleared the exam which was 15.23%. This year 1.92 lakh took the exam of which only 23,147 passed.

This comes to 12.76%. This year, 1,04,178 aspirants were boys (54.07%) while 88,507 (45.93%) were girls. Over one lakh engineering, 7,000 medical and 9,000 pharmacy seats are to be filled through MHT-CET.

The number is to increase in coming days with many new colleges slated to open. These 23,147 students will fight for 7,000 medical seats. Even the state HSC results witnessed a drop of almost 7% this year.

Out of 3,02,684 total registered candidates, 2,98,897 actually appeared for the exam conducted on May 12 across 786 centres in 35 districts of state. The results would be officially out on Tuesday at 10am and the marksheets would be available to the candidates at their respective junior colleges. Like last year, there will be no merit list to stop unnecessary competition among students.

"We have already dispatched the marksheets to the colleges in sealed packets. We have taken an undertaking from them that they would be not be releasing them to anyone until 4pm, as per instructions from DMER office," liaison officer for MHT-CET for Nagpur division Dr SM Parate told TOI.

Of the three regions in state, only Marathwada has recorded positive results with a marginal rise of 0.02% compared to last year. Rest of Maharashtra and Vidarbha regions witnessed a drop 4.35% and 2.65% respectively in the number of eligible candidates.

Out 41,511 candidates from Vidarbha who took the exam, 5,215 managed to clear it. In 2010, 5,728 had cleared health science courses out of 37,658 students. Interestingly, the number of candidates has increased in all three regions. The admission to health science courses would probably begin in July first week with the filling up of preference forms at four centres in the state.

These are Grant Medical College in Mumbai, BJ medical College in Pune, Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in Nagpur and Aurangabad. The final merit list is likely to be out on July 25. The engineering admissions would be made by Directorate of Technical Education (DTE).

The process is likely to begin from July 20 while admissions for veterinary science courses would be made by Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University (MAFSU).

This year 45,541 candidates had applied for the biology group (for medical admissions) compared to 1.07 lakh for the mathematics (for engineering admissions) and 1.49 lakh for biology and mathematics combine (students aspiring for both fields).

Interestingly, the number of aspirants for medical seats witnessed a significant jump this year compared to last six years.