NEET enters Goa, GCET on its way out

With the Supreme Court clearing the deck for admissions to medical colleges, the eight-year-old Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) has been dumped as a common entrance exam. From the next academic session, all medical and engineering aspirants will take the centralised test. Only the pharmacy entrance still remains to be tackled at the state level and is yet to come under the national gamut of entrance tests.

However, under the prevailing 10-year domicile criteria in Goa, the state’s students will have their exclusive hold on 1,300-odd engineering seats, despite the onset of NEET. Each state has been given the autonomy to decide on the admission policy to engineering courses. In Goa, the 10-year domicile criteria will remain, reported a national daily.

Conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Goa , Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) used to be an entrance exam for admission to Bachelor's degree in the fields of Architecture, Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine and Pharmacy in Government, Government-aided and un-aided colleges in the state.

This year the exam was conducted on May 8, 2013 and May 9, 2013, at Goa.