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Consortium of Management Education (COME), a collaboration of 52 Maharashtra based B-schools, has announced that the candidates who did not take MBA Entrance Exam can also take part in the Common Admission Process (CAP) for the admission in 27 Maharashtra B-schools.

COME mentions, "Students who do not have any scores of CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, JMET, MHCET or any state level Test are also eligible to apply. They have to take up the CET which is scheduled on July 10, 2011 by COME." According to COME, the written test will be followed by GD and PI on the same day at various centers in Mumbai and Pune. The deadline for application for the CET is July 8, 2011 and results will be announced by July 15, 2011.

To register, you have to visit the COME website, http://www.comeassociation.org/index.htm

The admission process had been commenced on June 2, 2011. Speaking on the commencement of admission procedure, Dr. Apoorva Palkar, Executive President of COME and Director, Singhad Institute of Management and Computer Application, Pune, said, "COME has come together to provide the students with optimum resource to pursue higher management education. In 2008 the National Knowledge Commission had foreseen India will require 3, 00,000 employable graduates in the next 10 to 15 years. There is a national concern for the shortage of skilled manpower in India. This is the issue we wish to address and hence would like to do our bit by providing students an easy access to colleges as well as AICTE approved syllabus."

COME has a common admission procedure where the student can also apply to COME institutes through their CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, JMET, MHCET, respective state level CET scores. After applying to COME, the student has to appear for a Group Discussion and Personal Interview round which will be held from June 8, 2011 to June 28, 2011 at Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nasik, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Indore, Jaipur. The CAP rounds of COME will be applicable for 25 of its member institutes. The Final Merit List will be displayed on June 30.

B-schools participating in the Common Admission Process
Initially, 25 B-schools were participating in the COME Common Admission Process. But now, two more institutes have joined. Dr. Palkar mentioned, "We had initially started with 25 B-schools, but we now have two more institutes joining us, making the total number of institutes 27."

Some of the B-schools include AICAR Business School, Bharti Vidyapeeth's Institute of Management Studies & Research, Indus Business School, Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Kohinoor Management School, Singhad Institute of Business Administration & Computer Research, Suryadatta Institute of Management, Institute of Management Studies & Research.

For the complete list of 27 B-schools, click on the following link: http://comeassociation.org/pdf/ComeParticipating_inst_2011.pdf

Reason for Delay in CET Counseling:

The CET counseling was supposed to start on 27th June, according to the original schedule, but that has now been postponed to 7 July, as the state government is waiting for AICTE approval for 30-35 Engineering colleges.

So far, AICTE has granted approval to 145 of the 189 engineering colleges which had applied for its approval.

The AICTE meeting for considering the applications for approval was originally scheduled for 21 June but it has been postponed to 28 June. So, now the total number of seats in the AICTE approved engineering colleges in Karnataka would be known only after that meeting.

State education minister's take on delay:

Blaming the delay on AICTE, Karnataka education minister said that the ministry had made all preparations to start engineering counseling as per schedule.

The minister assured that the counseling would be completed on 16 September, as scheduled. The Karnataka Examination Authority staff have decided to work during weekends to ensure that, the minister added.

State government wants lower cut off for the reserved category:

The state government has written to AICTE to set the minimum percentage for the reserved category students at 40 per cent. At present, AICTE has approved 45 per cent cut off for the reserved category students and 50 per cent cut off for general category students.

Counseling for medical and dental admissions is on:

However, counseling for the medical and the dental admissions is in progress. All the seats in the general merit category have been allotted.taken up. The last day for completion of the counseling for the medical and the dental seats is 24 June 2011.

Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET) entrance exam is conducted by the Karnataka Examination Authority. After qualifying this exam, a candidate can take admission to various undergraduate medical/dental/engineering/architecture courses in the colleges and universities across the state. This year the exam was conducted between 26th April and 28th April, 2011.

The result for the Karnataka CET has been declared today on 30th June, 2011. This exam is gateway for entry to professional engineering, medical and dental degree courses in the state.

The Karnataka Examination Authority announced the result and that will be published in all the 235 centres across the state where the test was held. Students can check their result by visiting the official website of the Karnataka CET website: http://karresults.nic.in/ and www.kea.kar.nic.in. 

The results of MHCET 2011 which was held on Sunday, February 27, 2010, were declared on Monday, April 11, 2011. According the statistics released by DTE, Maharastra the highest Score in MHCET 2011 is 172 out of 200 and only 13 candidates have crossed 150 mark.

The highest score last year was 179 and Officials at the state's Directorate of Technical Education, which holds the MHCET, Maharashtra, said that the paper was tougher than the last year. Last year, close to 600 students scored 150 out of 200.

This year about 92,166 students registered for the MHCET, 89,620 of them took the test. According to the information revealed by DTE, Maharashtra that 76 candidates scored over 140, 285 crossed 130, 907 got more than 120 and 2,162 more than 110.

With these scores, the college cut-offs may fall dramatically and students with 130 marks can have a good chance of getting admissions into a top college in Mumbai says the experts.

MHCET 2011 Expected Cut offs for Top 10 colleges (Out of 200)

What after MHCET 2011 Results:

The provisional merit list will be declared in the DTE MBA website on Thursday, June 16, 2011. The final merit list will be declared on Thursday, June 23, 2011.

Qualified students have to register for the Group Discussion and Personal Interview rounds between Tuesday, April 19, 2011 and Saturday, April 30, 2011 of the MBA institutes from which they will receive the call letters. Check here for more details on Group Discussion and Personal Interview

The GD PI processes will be conducted in the select centers from Tuesday, May 10, 2011 to Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The candidates who have work experience will have to submit the Work Experience Certificates at SIMSREE through Registered Post from Tuesday, May 10, 2011 to Saturday, May 21, 2011.

The entire admission process consists of 240 marks, out of which 200 Marks will be for written test i.e MHCET, Group Discussion and personal Interview carrying 17 marks each and 4 marks for Academic records.

Check DTE, Maharastra website for the list of documents that has to be submitted at the time of admissions.