MH-CET to make a comeback for engineering admissions from 2016

As per the officials of the Maharashtra higher and technical education department, the MH-CET, which stands for Maharashtra common entrance test, will replace JEE Main from 2016, to grant admissions to first year B.E/B.Tech programmes. So for getting admission to Engineering courses in the state, students will have to appear for this exam. Last time the exam was last conducted in 2013 and admissions to engineering programmes was done through JEE Main.
The announcement regarding the state's plan to conduct its own common entrance test (CET) for engineering admissions was made by Vinod Tawde, the minister for higher and technical education.
Official notification regarding the MH CET 2016 eligibility criteria and application procedure will be released soon at the official website.
After the re-introduction of the CET, JEE (Main) system for  admission into the state engineering colleges will be scrapped off. As per newspaper reports, since the application process for JEE Main 2015 is already over, there will be no changes this year. However from next year CET will make a comeback. JEE Main is an all India engineering entrance examination held by the CBSE.

Karnataka CET 2015: Important instructions for admission procedure

The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has extended the date for the payment of fees for the admissions under the second round of allotment. These admissions are being conducted for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET-K 2015).
The date has been extended up till July 27 as KEA received requests from a number of students to grant them more time to complete their admission process. Earlier, the authorities had asked the selected candidates to complete the formalities regarding payment of fees and downloading the admission order from July 22 to 23. The last date for reporting to colleges was July 24, which has also been extended to July 28.
Steps for candidates after completion of allotment procedure: The candidates who have been allotted a seat in any discipline are required to pay the prescribed fees if not paid already, and should report to the colleges by the last date. They should also update the details through their login ID on the KEA website, otherwise they will lose their allotted seats.

Karnataka CET results 2015: Provisional seat matrix released

The provisional seat matrix for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test 2015 results (CET-K 2015)   has been published online. The candidates can access it at the official site of the examination.
The seat matrices for Engineering, Engineering (deemed university) and Architecture have been published separately. The final seat matrix is expected to be declared tomorrow.
The Karnataka CET results  were declared on June 1. Initially, the results were to be declared on May 26, however the date was postponed due to the discrepancies in the results of Karnataka Second Pre University Certificate (Karnataka II PUC 2015) examination 2015.
The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) conducted the CET-K at 343 examination centres in 53 locations across Karnataka. Around 1.5 lakh candidates appeared for the CET-K 2015 for admission into medical, dental, agriculture and engineering seats in the State.
Last year, Karnataka CET was held across 52 cities spread over Karnataka. Around 1,37,000 applicants appeared in the exam, competing for admissions to get into nearly 220 Engineering colleges in the State.
The CET-K 2015 began on May 12 with the Biology and Mathematics paper and concluded on May 13 with Physics and Chemistry. Exam for Kannada language was also conducted on the same day for an hour in the evening. Students were supposed to give the practical examination for the agriculture stream on May 16.