What is the COMEDK?

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

COMEDK is a parallel entrance test held by the Karnataka Private Medical & Dental Colleges Association under the name of Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK). This is independent of the government CET and is used to fill up private management's quota of seats in certain engineering/medical/dental colleges in Karnataka. Non-Karnataka students can appear for the COMEDK.

Visit the COMEDK 2008 Home page for more information on this years COMEDK exam.

What is the CET?

The Common Entrance Test is conducted by the CET Cell on behalf of the Karnataka government for the purpose of admission of students to the I year or I semester of full time courses in Medical, Dental and Engineering Courses in professional colleges within the State of Karnataka that fall to the share of the State Government.

At present only Karnataka students (as opposed to non-Karnataka students) can write the Common Entrance Test. All seats in government colleges are filled through CET. However, majority of colleges in Karnataka are private. The seat sharing for private college seats between the government(CET) and private college managements (through COMEDK) is a matter of discussion, and presently changes every year.

Visit the CET 2008 Home page for more information on this years CET.

CET counselling to begin from June 2

The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) will conduct the Common Entrance Test (CET) seat selection counselling process for Medical, Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H), Dental, Engineering and Architecture courses from June 2.

The KEA has ensured that the counselling process will be smooth this year. Security arrangements, better facilities for students and adequate manpower have been arranged. The KEA will ensure that the seat selection counselling process will be efficient and to the satisfaction of candidates.

As per the merit rank list announced by the KEA, 11,535 candidates are eligible for admission to Medical and Dental courses, 35,897 for Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy courses and 54,075 candidates are eligible for engineering and technology courses.

The admission round seat selection process for special categories — physically handicapped, sports and NCC category, will begin on Monday. Seat selection for Medical, ISM&H, Dental and Engineering will be conducted for the physically disabled from 10:30 am. The selection process for Medical and Dental courses for the General Merit Category candidates will begin from June 9.

CET

For CET results visit oneindia.in . 

CET Cut-Off Ranks for professional colleges in Karnataka

What are cut-off ranks?

Cut-off rank of a college X for a given branch Y, is the biggest (number with largest magnitude) CET rank of a student who got admitted into college X, branch Y through the CET counselling. The counselling starts with the student with the lowest rank (that is rank 1) choosing a branch/college combination that is available. This process continues to rank holder 2, then 3, and so on. In due course all the seats available of a particular branch in a particular college are exhausted. The student who selected the last available seat before the seats got exhausted, holds the biggest rank in that branch, and that rank is the cut-off rank for that branch/college.

Why do I care about cut-off ranks?

The cut-off ranks information is an important piece of information to estimate which seats might be available to a given student with a particular rank. This may also be used to compare colleges. As you can imagine, you would expect more sought after branches and colleges have lower cut-off ranks as they exhaust earlier than lesser sought after ranks.

Different cut-off ranks are recorded for different categories, like GM (General Merit), etc.