Maharashtra CET results for PCM announced

Among them is Vaishnavi Sarje from Nanded district. Daughter of a farmer, Vaishnavi is keen to take admission to Mumbai’s VJTI for Computer Science Engineering. “I always wanted to study engineering. Last year I appeared for NEET, the medical entrance test because my father wanted me to pursue medicine. But my score was low and I would have gotten admission to BAMS which we did not want. So I took a year’s gap and studied for CET on my own with support available online through YouTube tutorials. My class 12 teachers helped with doubts,” said Vaishnavi, who did not appear for JEE or the National level entrance exam for engineering admissions, as she wanted to focus on just the one exam.

Anil Patil who is also from Nanded and has scored 100 percentile, has a similar story. A farmer’s son, Anil had appeared for CET last year. “But my score was around 90 percentile. So I decided to take a gap and study harder for a better score,” said Anil who also took help of free online tutorials to study, after having attended a local CET-coaching class for his first attempt. He is delighted to have taken another chance at CET. “Now I will get admission to COEP for Computer Science Engineering,” said Anil whose dream is to eventually appear for civil service exams to become a government officer.

Chinamy Chavan from Pune, another student with 100 percentile, decided to appear only for MHT-CET. His father Vikas Chavan, said, “Generally engineering aspirants appear for both entrance tests JEE and CET, to try their luck. But we suggested to Chinmay that it is better to focus on one test and excel there. And he really has made us proud.” Chinmay stayed in Kolhapur for two years, away from family in Pune to prepare for CET at Zenith Academy. He is now looking forward to getting admission to either VJTI or COEP.

A total of 4,64,263 candidates had registered for the MHT-CET (PCM) and 4,22,663 appeared for the exam. There are 43,299 students in the 90 to 99.99 percentile bracket. Whereas the highest number of students 44,788 are in the bracket of 70 to 79.99 percentile.

Out of 22 students who scored 100 percentile, six are from Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), and all of them have already secured admissions to different IITs, based on JEE-Advanced score. These students are Meer Bhuva, Pranav Mitri, Siddhant Ghate, Gandhar Vartak, Anirudh Iyer and Arnav Nigam. “As engineering aspirants, joining IIT is the ultimate dream. I had appeared for CET as practice and back-up,” said Mitri who sort of summed up the emotions of most of these six IIT aspirants from Mumbai.

AS MHT-CET result was declared, some parents and students complained of inaccurate marking. One of the parents said, “Despite 152 marks, my son has scored 89 percentile. With no negative marking in MHT-CET, this calculation is unbelievable.” Parents of aggrieved students said that they are individually approaching CET Cell with their issues. An official from the CET Cell however said, “This confusion happens because candidates are not aware of the normalisation formula which is required to declare percentile as CET is held on multiple days and in different shifts.” There were similar issues raised last year too following which CET Cell had provided clarification on the formula used for normalisation.