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| Pangs, anxiety hit CET aspirants | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu | Aug 20
Pangs, anxiety and uncertainty can sum up the state of mind of thousands of students aspiring to become doctors, engineers or take other professional courses after following the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Board of Professional Entrance Examination.
A decisive examination in the career of any student after passing the higher secondary examination, the Common Entrance Test has thrice slipped its scheduled and no one –neither the students nor the Board –has any idea as when the exam can be conducted. The scheduled of this Jammu and Kashmir’s most keenly contested examination has been postponed thrice, so far, due to the ongoing agitation launched by the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti.
With no early solution in sight, the continuous agitation has added to the worries of aspirants of Common Entrance Test (CET) who with each passing day are seeing the frequent rescheduling of the entrance examination which according to them is disrupting their preparations. The Common Entrance Test (CET) was to be held during the last week of July and couldn't be taken due to shut down and already 20 days of this month have passed and still there seems to be no possibility of conducting the examinations shortly which means delay in examinations by over one month and subsequently delay in admissions to MBBS and engineering courses.
"Our crash courses and mock tests ended last month and now each passing day is mounting psychological pressure as there is no let up in the prevailing circumstances in the state," said a CET aspirant, Ashish Gupta.
The future of thousands of aspiring professionals across Jammu hangs in balance as the common entrance test (CET) for various professional courses have been indefinitely postponed due to the continuing unrest - the first time that this has happened.
Every July, thousands of aspiring doctors, engineers, veterinarians, agricultural scientists and others compete for seats in various professional colleges - either government run or privately owned – by taking the CET exam that is held simultaneously in the Kashmir valley and the Jammu region.
The tests were not postponed even during the height of the militancy in the 1990s when the valley was in turmoil and students would walk to the centres during shutdowns.
'We have to hold the test on the same day throughout the state for admissions to graduate level courses in disciplines like medicine, engineering and agricultural sciences.
'Earlier, the tests had to be postponed because of the situation in the valley and then because of the trouble in Jammu region. We cannot hold the tests separately as aspirants compete for these professional courses at the state level,' said an official of the board of professional exams that conducts the CET.
When contacted Chairman, Board of Professional Entrance Examination, Santokh Ram stated that due to the ongoing agitation it is unable to announce further dates of CET.
He said that as many as 40,000 students have been appearing in the said examination across the state in 24 centres and the decision was made by taking into consideration students drawn from far off districts like Rajouri, Poonch and Doda etc.
Of the 40,000, only a few hundred make it to the colleges. For the rest who apply for courses outside the state this indefinite delay means the loss of an entire academic year.
'I have been sweating it out for 16 hours a day to make it to the MBBS course, but the uncertainty about the test is frustrating,' said 18-year-old Rahul .
Moreover the PG Courses in the University of Jammu (JU) are also being delayed resulting ion in the total change in academic calendar. |
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