EAMCET postponed by a week

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 27. The Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test - 2001 (EAMCET) will be held on May 27 instead of May 20 as announced earlier. The decision to postpone the date by a week was taken at the EAMCET Committee meeting held here on Saturday.

Disclosing this at a press conference, Prof. Y. Venkatrami Reddy, Chairman, EAMCET-2001, said the change was necessitated as the UPSC had taken over the Government test centres for conducting a recruitment test the same day. However, the new date would not clash with the dates of entrance tests in other states, particularly the KCET, which is taken by several State students.

He said the EAMCET notification would be issued on February 4 and application forms would be made available from February 12 at all the Head Post Offices across the State. The cost of the application form would be Rs. 255 and the last date for submission is March 19, 2001.

Prof. Reddy said the test would be based on the revised Intermediate syllabus. The syllabus would be provided to the students in the instructions booklet of the application form. It would also be available on the website - www.jntu.ac.in/eamcet/syllabus.html. However, he made it clear that questions can be asked outside the prescribed syllabus too as the examination was basically to test the knowledge and intelligent understanding of the subject. There was no change in the basic structure of the test from the previous year.

Prof. Reddy promised a hassle-free examination and said efforts were on to minimise the mistakes. In 1998, 23 questions had to be deleted while only three questions were deleted in 2000. He said a key would be released after a few days of the test seeking objections from the academics and students. Based on the objections raised, the final key would be released for valuation of the scripts.

The Chairman said in view of the demand from students, two additional regional test centres would be opened at Khammam and Nalgonda taking the total centres to 16. Previous records showed that thousands of students from Nalgonda and Khammam were writing the EAMCET at other district headquarters in the absence of a test centre.

Prof. N. Satyanarayana Murthy, Convener, EAMCET-2001 was also present.

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