Amid allegations of unfair result of MHT-CET, the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) cell on Saturday declared that it will reopen the answer-key along with responses of candidates for their verification.
Commissioner of CET cell Dilip Sardesai said, “As parents ourselves, we understand the importance of entrance tests in a student’s career. We want to assure all that the CET cell has been following a completely transparent process. We are constantly resolving issues raised by some who either approached us personally or emailed us their queries.”
Sardesai was addressing a press conference held in Mantralaya in Mumbai along with director of higher education Dr. Shailendra Deolankar and director of technical education Vinod Mohitkar.
Answers by students along with model answer-key will be made available to candidates on June 27 for two days. Specific details regarding the process will soon be uploaded on the CET cell’s official website.
This comes on the backdrop of various issues raised by Shiv Sena leader and MLA Aditya Thackeray alleging unfair marking system of the MHT-CET and highlighting 54 erroneous questions from the exam. In a separate press conference held by Thackeray on Friday, he demanded that the answers given by students are made available to them for cross-checking.
As Sardesai explained the conduct of the exam, he informed that MHT-CET is an entrance test held for admission to engineering, pharmacy and agriculture education courses. A total of 7,25,052 candidates applied for the MHT-CET exam, including the PCB (physics, chemistry, biology) and PCM (physics, chemistry, mathematics) groups, out of which 6,27,377 appeared for the exam. This examination was conducted at 159 centres from April 22 to 30 for PCB group and May 2 to 16 for PCM group.
Clarifying that the exam’s method is declared in public well in advance to ensure complete transparency and fairness, Sardesai said, “The exam does not penalise for wrong answers with negative marks and declares result in percentile methods without any grace-marks. Each session’s result is calculated independently.”
Director of higher education Dr. Deolankar underlined that the MHT-CET exam pattern has been in practice for the past five to six years and has been endorsed by the court too in the past.
