cet results 2008

cet results 2008

Post-graduate medical CET results declared

Maharashtra PG medical CET results declared


Mumbai: The results to the Common Entrance Test (CET), held on January 20, for post-graduate medical courses were announced on Wednesday, thereby ending the terrible wait for 6,013 students competing for 350 seats.

The Bombay High Court had earlier ordered a stay on the declation of result after 27 students moved to the court complaining that they secured 20-40 marks less than their expectations in the 300-question test. They also claimed that complaints made to the Directorate of Medical Education and Research yielded no result. The High Court lifted the stay only on Wednesday.

Associate advocate general Ashutosh Kumbhakoni told the court that the state government had handed over the question papers to two independent institutions, conducting CETs for medical courses on All-India basis.

The names of such institutions were kept confidential. As things turned out, as many as 296 answers in the state's model answer sheet matched with those of the experts from both the institutes.

The government however invalidated two questions and granted two marks to all students without exception after the institutes stated that one question was "confusing" and they differed in their opinions over the other. Two other answers, found incorrect in the government's model answer sheet were corrected on the recommendations of the independent institutes and consequently all 6,013 papers were re-assessed.