Andhra Pradesh postpones all Common Entrance Tests in view of Covid- 19 situation – education
The Andhra Pradesh authorities on Monday determined to place off all Common Entrance Tests (CET) for admission into varied skilled and better education programs in view of the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation, “After a overview of the situation, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy directed that the CETs be postponed and, accordingly, we’ve got determined to carry them in the third week of September.
Recent dates for these entrance examinations shall be introduced later,” Education Minister A Suresh informed reporters.
He identified that related entrance examinations on the nationwide degree too had been deferred as a result of of the coronavirus pandemic.
The AP authorities, by means of the State Council of Greater Education, conducts EAMCET, ICET, PGCET, LawCET, EdCET and different entrance examinations for admission into programs like engineering, medication, agriculture, enterprise administration, legislation and in addition varied submit-graduate levels.
These CETs are usually performed in the month of Might, however as a result of of COVID-19 the schedule obtained disturbed this yr.
In the meantime, SRM College, AP additionally introduced on Monday that its Joint Engineering Entrance Examination for admission into B.
Tech programmes has been cancelled.
“Within the mild of challenges posed by COVID-19, and considering the security issues of college students and fogeys, SRM Institute of Science and Expertise has cancelled the SRM Joint Engineering Entrance Examination for B.Tech admissions 2021, that was deliberate in 127 Indian cities and 5 abroad centres in Dubai, Doha, Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait.
The B.Tech admissions will now be primarily based on plus-two intermediate marks in Physics, Chemistry and Arithmetic/Biology,” the College stated in a launch right here.