Thousands of Pharmacy aspirants from the state, who are set to appear for their exams in 2018, are confused due to a lack of clarity about the nature and structure of the entrance exam for Pharmacy. Students are left confused after the state government's recently released Government Resolution on February 28 stating that the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted for engineering will be along the lines of JEE, with no clarity on the subject of Pharmacy.
Thousands of Pharmacy aspirants from the state, who are set to appear for their exams in 2018, are confused due to a lack of clarity about the nature and structure of the entrance exam for Pharmacy. Students are left confused after the state government's recently released Government Resolution on February 28 stating that the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted for engineering will be along the lines of JEE, with no clarity on the subject of Pharmacy.
Currently, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) conducts CET for engineering and Pharmacy courses across the state. While revisions to the engineering exam have been announced by the state, there is no clarity about the syllabus and the entrance exam for Pharmacy aspirants.
Students said that the major confusion is about the syllabus and the difficulty level of the biology paper. "Only Pharmacy students opt for Biology instead of Mathematics. The recent government regulation does not mention the difficulty level of this paper or the syllabus," said an aspirant.
Students are also unsure of whether they will have to appear for the existing CET or whether a state CET for Pharmacy will be introduced like the one in 2014. "When the state had conducted admissions to engineering courses through JEE in 2014-15, a separate CET for Pharmacy students was introduced. There is no such clarity for the 2018 entrance exam leading to a lot of panic and confusion among students," said Subhash Joshi, trustee, Science Parivar.
Dayanand Meshram, joint director of DTE, said that while there was no clarity about which entrance the Pharmacy students would fall under, they must study as per the NEET syllabus and difficulty level.
"As far as the difficulty level is concerned, students should study the Physics and Chemistry papers as per JEE syllabus and the Biology paper as per the NEET syllabus," added Meshram.
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