AIPMT 2015: Counselling to begin soon; Check schedule

The Central Board of Secondary Education declared the results for All India Pre Medical/Pre Dental Test 2015 on August 16. Vipul Garg of Haryana, topped the examination with 695 marks out of 720. Khushi Tiwari came a close second with 688 marks.
The candidates who have cleared the exam are now eligible to appear for the counselling/allotment process for MBBS/BDS seats.
The schedule is as follows:

• Main Counseling Registrations: August 19 to August 21 till 11:59 pm
• Round 1 of Seat Allotment: August 22
• Reporting of the seats allotted in Round 1: August 24-August 27 till 6 pm
• Round 2 of Seat Allotment: September 1
• Publication of Result (Round 2): September 2
• Reporting of the seats allotted in Round 2: September 3 to September 7
• Round 3 of Seat Allotment: September 9
• Publication of Result (Round 3): September 10
• Reporting of the seats allotted in Round 3: September 11 to September 15
• Transfer of vacant seats to State Quota: September 15, after 6 pm

A slot of 3722 seats has been arranged against the 15 percent All-India Quota. A wait list of four times the seats has also been prepared and provided to the Directorate General of Health Services for the purpose of counseling.
A total number of 3,74,386 candidates appeared in the examination out of which, 1,80,957 were boys and 1,93,429 were girls.

IIT test for common counselling

 The government has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology to hold common counselling from this year to minimise seats going vacant at these engineering colleges.

But the 16 IITs, a notch above the 30 NITs in the pecking order, had defeated such a plan last year and are expected to oppose the latest Union human resource development ministry directive, too.

Over 600 seats had remained unoccupied in these tech schools last year, apparently because of separate counselling which allows a candidate to receive offers from an IIT and an NIT at the same time.