CET: No glitches on Day 1, easy papers for students in Karnataka

BENGALURU: The first day of Common Entrance Test (CET) was held at various centres on Tuesday and no glitches were reported.

According to the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) officials the test was conducted in a fair manner at all the examination centres.

Students felt the examination was very easy when compared with NEET and JEE (Main).

Random centres: Taking cue from the State PU board and KSEEB, the KEA did not allow any student to appear for the examination from his own college. Instead they were allocated centres in nearby colleges.

Varun Mudur a student from Sheshadripuram College, who was allotted a centre at Malleswaram government PU college, said, “The Biology paper was easy, so I hope the others will be similar.”

Sujala Gangadhar and her friends from Dayanandsagar College also felt that the paper was easy. “Forty of the sixty questions were quite easy. Hopefully  all other question papers will also be the same,” she said.

However, Amogh Gowda, a student from the Vani Vidya College, was less enthusiastic. “Biology was easy, but I’m not well prepared for mathematics. So I don’t expect it to be good,” Amogh added.

The general consensus among students was that this year’s paper was better and they were optimistic about rest of the subjects.

Prof Hanumanthacharya of BASE said in Biology all the questions were from the prescribed syllabus. "Question paper was free from mistakes and ambiguities. Paper contains 17 questions from I PU and 43 from II PU.  About 47 per cent  questions are memory based, while 37 per were concept based and 16 per cent application based," he said.

Accordin to students the Mathematics examination was also moderate.  Akshar Prasad, a BASE student, said the paper was very easy and not at all lengthy.

"Some questions were directly from the text book.  There were no higher order questions. But I think a couple of questions were incorrect," he said.