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Time of India
05-06-2025
- Time of India
No state CET to be held outside Maha after 4 topped from 1 centre in Patna
Mumbai: After four students from a centre in Patna emerged as toppers in the CET for five-year LLB this year, the state govt has decided not to have any CET centres outside Maharashtra from next year. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now A thorough investigation will also be carried out alongside another scam already under investigation, where a group of touts promised seats in leading MBA institutes in the state, asking students to choose specific centres in Bhandara, Gondia, Yavatmal, and Jalna. The accused were arrested in Delhi early this year. Higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil, during a media interaction on Thursday, mentioned that the four toppers emerging from a single centre in Bihar will be investigated, along with the already reported scam unearthed early this year during the MBA-CET registration process. This year CET exams were conducted at 18 centres outside Maharashtra, depending on the demand from candidates. The state decides to allot a centre in any state only if there are more than 25 applicants from that particular state. Officials claimed that Bihar had only one centre. Following the two incidents, Patil said that none of the CET exams will be conducted in centres outside Maharashtra, and students interested in seeking admissions to institutions in the state can travel and appear from centres here. In the results for CET for five-year LLB announced on Wednesday, four candidates —Vishesh Kumar Pathak, Himanshu Jaiswal, Prakhar Jyoti and Sanskriti Saundarya— scored 100 percentile in the test and were declared as toppers. Interestingly, all four candidates also appeared for the entrance test from the same centre in Patna—Maha Infotech—three in the afternoon shift on April 28, and one in the morning. An official said that the four toppers were from two independent sessions and that venue officers from the state's higher education department were deputed at the centre too. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Over 27,000 aspirants took the exam. In March this year, the city's crime branch arrested three persons for targeting MBA aspirants seeking admission to the premier Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and promised them higher percentile in the MBA-CET in exchange for hefty sums from Rs 11 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. The touts instructed candidates to prioritise specific districts—Bhandara, Gondia, Yavatmal and Jalna—as their exam centres.
Indian Express
05-06-2025
- Indian Express
No more MH-CET exams outside Maharashtra: Chandrakant Patil
Maharashtra will no longer conduct Common Entrance Tests (CETs) outside the state, Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil announced on Thursday. The decision follows recent incidents raising concerns about the exam's integrity. On Wednesday, the five-year LLB CET results showed that all four top scorers were from a single exam centre in Patna, Bihar, sparking suspicion. Earlier, in March 2025, the MBA CET was marred by reports of students receiving unsolicited calls offering admission to top institutes for hefty sums of amount in range from Rs 11 to Rs 20 lakh. A complaint to Mumbai police had led to the arrest of three people in Delhi. Stating that the investigating team has been informed of the latest development from the LLB five-year CET's result which has sparked suspicion, Patil said, 'To ensure transparency, CETs will no longer be held outside of Maharashtra.' The Maharashtra CET Cell conducts over 18 entrance exams for admission to various professional courses in the state. Some of the CETs – such as MHT-CET, MBA and LLB CETs are extended to a few cities outside of Maharashtra like Patna, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, and Bengaluru to accommodate out-of-state aspirants. 'These are anyway very limited exam-centres. Further, this year, we had already reduced outside centres post the MBA-CET issue, but couldn't cancel previously announced exams. Now, we've decided to stop them entirely,' said an official from the CET Cell. The MBA-CET scam surfaced in March after students reported calls promising inflated marks to ensure admission to coveted colleges in the city in exchange for large sums. CET Cell had formed a confidential committee to probe the matter following which the matter was reported to the Mumbai Police.
Indian Express
22-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
MBA-CET: 28 grace marks for erroneous questions across three sessions
The Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell has announced that candidates who appeared for the MBA CET exam held from April 1 to 3, 2025 will be awarded one grace mark for each of the 28 questions found to be incorrect across three different exam sessions. The decision comes in response to multiple objections raised by students on questions asked across different sessions of exam held on the three days. According to the notification issued by the Maharashtra CET Cell, a total of 253 objections were raised by students addressing issues with 101 questions. Logical reasoning section had the highest number of complaints (134), followed by 35 objections each in Quantitative Aptitude and Verbal Ability and 21 in Abstract Reasoning. Upon detailed review, 28 questions have been found to be incorrect. Accordingly, it is decided to award one mark per erroneous question to students who appeared for MBA CET in those particular sessions. Over 1.5 lakh candidates appeared for the MBA-CET in total. An official from CET Cell clarified that it is important to note that the grace marks will be awarded to only those students who appeared for the MBA-CET in those particular sessions where erroneous questions were identified. Grace marks will be awarded to candidates based on the number of erroneous questions in a particular session. The CET Cell has not only decided to award grace marks for these flawed questions but has also updated the official answer key for six of them. Erroneous questions per session April 1 (Morning) – 2 incorrect questions April 1 (Afternoon) – 1 April 2 (Morning) – 10 April 2 (Afternoon) – 4 April 3 (Morning) – 2 April 3 (Afternoon) – 9
