Students disgruntled as medical and engineering entrance exam clash

EHM News Bureau - Mumbai

The declaration of May 11 as the date for the entrance exams of D Y Patil Medical College, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha and the All India Entrance Exam Institute for Engineering has evoked resentment among students who were aspiring to appear for all the three exams.

Said an aggrieved student on conditions of anonymity, "Generally we decide to opt for engineering or medicine after seeing the result. Even within CET we chose colleges after the results. Now we have to select before appearing for the exam. We feel betrayed." The resentment is more so as students have paid more than Rs 1,000 to buy the application forms for each of the exams. "This is the first time such a chaos has happened. The authorities should have a meeting and re-schedule the exams," opined a professor of a government medical college.

Dr Nandita Palshetkar, trustee of D Y Patil Medical College said, "It has been brought to my notice that our exam dates are clashing. But now it is too late to change the dates. We would not change the dates." D Y Patil which has been given deemed university status last year, would be conducting its entrance exam for the 100 seats for the first time.

"In spite of the clashing of the dates, we are expecting that more than 1,000 students would appear for the tests," said Dr Palshetkar. Earlier the entrance exam of the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences and Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MCET) were clashing on June 1. On April 11, the exam of MCET was re-scheduled to be held on May 7.