PANJIM: Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) declared the Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) 2019 results on Saturday. This has opened the admission process to BE and BPharm courses with May 24, 2019 being the last date.
Secretary Education Ashok Kumar declared the results in which Laxman Uttam Desai topped in Physics with 70 marks, Rahul Damodar Shanbhag and Jaiprakash Suresh Gurav securing the highest in Chemistry with 69 marks and Jaiprakash Suresh Gurav securing the highest in Maths with 72 marks. All the papers carried a maximum of 75 marks.
GCET 2019 was conducted in three subjects, Physics, Chemistry and Maths, by DTE on May 7 and May 8 across 16 centres in the State. 3,408 candidates had registered for Physics and Chemistry of which 3,268 candidates appeared for Physics and 3,253 appeared for Chemistry. Of the 2696 registered for Mathematics, 2,568 candidates appeared.
Director of Technical Education, Vivek Kamat informed that the GCET 2019 was conducted and the results were prepared in collaboration with IIT, Bombay. He said that the results have been evaluated and processed using electronic Objective Response Sheet (ORS) technology.
Informing about the admission process to professional courses, he said that admissions to BE and BPharm courses shall be based on GCET scores, whereas admissions to MBBS, BDS, BHMS, BAMS, AHS, Nursing and BVSc&AH courses shall be made on the basis of NEET (UG) 2019 conducted by CBSE. And admissions to BArch shall be based on NATA.
He said, “For admissions to professional courses students are required to fill up the admission forms and submit these forms either at Directorate of Technical Education in Porvorim or at Ravindra Bhavan in Margao. Forms will be accepted at both the centres from May 17 to May 24 from morning 10 am to 1 pm and then from 2 pm to 5 pm on all days except on Sunday.”
