DTE postponed to March 11, earlier it was scheduled for February 26
The Maharashtra state government's common entrance test for
MBA has been postponed to March 11, 2012. It was earlier scheduled for February
26.
The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) which conducts the entrance test decided
to push the exam by two weeks as the date fall within the testing window of the
newly introduced pan-India entrance test - Common Management Admission Test (CMAT).
The CMAT is conduced by the All India Council for Technical Education and will be
held from February 20 to 28 in 61 Indian cities. Registrations for the CMAT have
been on since over a month and end on January 9. This computer-based exam was borne
out of the idea that students can skip taking multiple tests and merely sit for
the CMAT. But most states like Maharashtra have decided to, irrespectively, continue
with their own entrance exam too, defeating the purpose of the all-India CMAT and
making it just one more entrance exam to the coveted business management courses.
Scores in the state government entrance test, which is conducted in the paper-pencil
mode, is the passport top B-schools in the financial capital JBIMS, K J Somaiya
Institute of Management Studies & Research, Welingkar Education, Sydenham Institute
of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education and other institutes
in Maharashtra. In 2011, 92,167 candidates took the MBA-CET, a slight drop from
the previous year when 1.05 lakh students sat for the exam. DTE officials said that
the recession and poor placements were leading to a drop in the number of applicants
interested in business management courses.
The state CET quizzes students for 200 marks. There are six sections in the exam
which are quantitative aptitude, logical reasoning and visual reasoning, data interpretation
and data sufficiency, verbal ability and reading comprehension.
Courtesy: Times of India
