Alifiya Khan

Common Entrance Test (CET) for professional courses will take place as usual and Uday Samant announced the tentative dates for the same.

The results of the entrance test were supposed to be declared on July 31, following which merit and waiting lists for admissions to all courses were to be declared from August 7 on the SPPU website, as per a schedule released earlier.

The university has put out an admission notice for the three Bachelors in Vocational Studies courses in retail management, manufacturing skills and renewable energy skills to be offered by the skill development centre.

In 2020, the overall pass percentage recorded was 91.46 per cent while this year, the overall pass percentage across the country reached 99.04 per cent, nearly an eight per cent increase.

The CET will be a two-hour examination conducted in physical mode and will be in a 100-mark multiple-choice question paper format. It will be conducted on August 21 from 11 am to 1 pm.

In Pune Division, the pass percentage for Commerce stream this year was highest at 99.91 per cent, followed by Arts at 99.75 per cent and Science at 99.73 per cent.

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As parents have failed to confirm admissions despite the opportunity of getting free education, activists fear that these students may drop out of school and have urged the state education department to track every student.

Maharashtra Board HSC 12th Result 2021: The results, which were expected on July 31, were delayed due to floods in Konkan and western Maharashtra last month. As a result, the process of compiling the marks got delayed by a couple of days

Although the Supreme Court had asked all state boards to declare the Class XII internal assessment results by July 31, Maharashtra state board missed the deadline, a major reason for which is the sudden floods which impaired work of several divisional boards.

While students are getting more anxious about the delay and demanding that the board release the results at the earliest, board officials said they have been working overnight for the same.

Educationists blame the sudden floods in Maharashtra that has affected over eight lakh people in 14 districts as the main reason behind the delay in results.

Chairman of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) had earlier confirmed that the results will not be declared on July 30

Education activists expressed their displeasure over the issue. Recently, many parents, led by Aam Aadmi Party activists, staged a protest in Pune, demanding reduction in school fees.

Meanwhile, speculations and social media messages kept students on their toes. Relatives of a few students from Mumbai claimed that the board website had displayed the results on Friday around 1 pm, but then shut down abruptly.

FYJC CET Maharashtra registration: In a notification sent late on Sunday night, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) said the website would be available from July 26 to August 2.

“Given the exceptional circumstances under which the results have been prepared, this year too, the CISCE will not be publishing the merit lists for the ICSE and ISC examinations,” said Gerry Arathoon, chief executive and secretary, CISCE.

The website, which was supposed to open for online applications from 11.30am on July 20, has remained inaccessible due to technical issues for three days now.

The Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) based question paper will be of 100 marks based on the Class 10 curriculum of the Maharashtra state board, and will be available in eight mediums, students can notify the medium in their application forms.

The pandemic had started making inroads into the city, like the rest of the country, and her mother, a domestic worker, lost employment.

As of now, the final results have 758 students being declared as unsuccessful and, more importantly, nine schools in the state including two in the Pune division have posted zero percent results, which means not a single student has passed in these schools.

The syllabus for the CET will be based on the SSC syllabus.

Worried students immediately started tagging the Chief Minister's office and Gaikwad, asking them to resolve the situation.