ABOUT CET

CET is the exam conducted to select the students for admissions into various business schools across Maharashtra. The selection process includes a written test (Known as CET), Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI). The questions asked in the CET can be broadly classified under Reasoning, Quant, Data Interpretation and Language skills (English). The exam is conducted in February every year. About 1,20,000 students appear for this exam.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA( Source: Home page of DTE-www.dte.org.in)

The candidate should fulfill the following eligibility criteria:

Passed with minimum of 50% marks in aggregate or equivalent CGPA ( 45% in case of candidates of backward class categories belonging to Maharashtra State only) in any Bachelor’s degree awarded by any of the Universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 of minimum three years duration in any discipline recognised by the Association of Indian Universities, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

OR

Appeared for the final year examination of any Bachelor’s degree to be awarded by any of theUniversities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 of minimum three years duration in any discipline recognised by the Association of Indian Universities, or an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD,Government of India. Such candidates will be considered for provisional admission subject to passing the Degree exam with minimum of 50% marks in aggregate or equivalent CGPA (45% in case of candidates of backward class categories belonging to Maharashtra State only).

Note:

1. The admission to the management courses viz. MBA/MMS/PGDBM/PGDM is centralized and covered under Centralized Admission Process (CAP) carried out by the Competent Authority of the State of Maharashtra.
2. The admission to the PGDM courses will be carried out by the Competent Authority of the State of Maharashtra as per the regulation of the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi. The details about the admission process of PGDM courses will be notified before the start of the CAP. The candidates aspiring for the admission to PGDM courses in the state of Maharashtra should appear for CET; GD &PI conducted by Competent Authority of the State of Maharashtra and verify the documents as per the schedule given herewith.
3. For admission to MBA/MMS/PGDBM/PGDM course, the candidate is required to score minimum 30 marks in MAH-MBA/MMS-CET.

EXAM PATTERN

The paper has a total of 200 objective questions to be answered in 150 minutes. The distribution of questions in each area is generally as follows.

Details of CET,GD,PI, Distribution of Total Marks and GD-PI, Undertaking etc *

The Agency to administer CET, GD AND PI The CET, GD and PI would be administered by the Competent Authority, on its own or in collaboration with or through a professional agency with proven record of its competence and experience in such process of personnel selection through competitive examinations.

The MAH –MBA/MMS-CET :

• The question paper for the CET will be set in English only. Translations in any languages will not be available.
• The CET would be of Two and half hours duration and would have a maximum of 200 marks.
• The CET is held on third Sunday of February
• The CET would have multiple choice objective type questions.
• The CET would not have negative marking.
• There will be no verification of marks or revaluation of answer sheets of the CET.
• The marks at the CET would be considered for admission during the current academic year only and would not be allowed to be carried forward to the next year.
• The cities in which CET is conducted are designated as centre for the CET. Each centre will have several venues depending upon the number of candidate due to appear at that centre. A candidate applying for the CET would have the freedom to choose his/her centre but shall not have freedom to choose the venue.

The GD AND PI :

• The batch number, date, time and venue for the GD and PI will be indicated on the call letter for GD and PI.
• Each of the candidates applying for the CET will have no choice to choose his/her city for the GD and PI. The Online System will automatically allot the GD and PI city and Venue to the candidates based on their data available.

Distribution of Total Marks:

• The following will be the Head wise distribution of the total marks of 240, on the basis of which the final University wise/ Category wise/ State level Merit lists will be drawn.

• The Past Academic Record (PAR) of a candidate will be evaluated as shown below

• The work Experience (WE) of a candidate will be evaluated as shown below :