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Now that the Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) results are out, students are all geared up to prepare for the next round of Group Discussions (GD) and Personal Interviews (PI) which will decide their fate of getting into the most coveted b-school. GyanCentral's Ushnota Paul speaks to Patrick D'souza (Mah-CET 2012 - 99.99 percentiler) and Nikunj Doshi, expert Mah-CET coach who give valuable tips and guidelines to ace the next round.

MHCET is annually attempted by over 1,00,000 aspirants. With approximately 90 days left for the test we speak to Professor Nikunj Doshi -  A MHCET expert and also runs his coaching classes in Mumbai. He also highlights aspects of GD-PI preparation and cracks the code for acing Visual Reasoning in MHCET.

MH-CET is one of the most competitive MBA entrance exams. Approximately 50,000 students across the nation appear for the exam. With MHCET-2012 fast approaching, GyanCentral spoke to Gaurav Mashalkar, State Rank 1 in MHCET-2011 and currently a student at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) to know the intricacies of MHCET preparation.

The schedule for the online application, verification at ARC and display of merit list is as given below. One major change this year is that only one application form is to be submitted & confirmed for Centralized Admission Procedure (CAP) and Centralised Admission Process for Autonomous Institutes (CAPAI). What it means for the students is that they have to go through the online process only once. There will be separate merit lists for both CAP and CAPAI and the rules will remain same.

1. - Online Submission of Application form at ARC or from anywhere else through the web site for All candidates.

Date - From 21/06/2011 29-06-2011 upto 5.00 PM

2. - Document Verification and confirmation of Online Application form by Maharashtra and AIEEE Candidates in person at ARCs.

- AIEEE Candidates should submit D.D./Pay Order at the time of confirmation.- J & K Migrant Candidates should send the application form for confirmation to Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai

Date - From 21/06/2011 29-06-2011 upto 5.00 PM

3. - Display of provisional merit of CAP & CAPAI Rounds (Maharashtra State, J&K Migrant and AIEEE candidates) on web site

Date - 30-06-2011 at 5.00 PM

4. - Submission of grievance applications, if any, by Maharashtra State, AIEEE candidates at respective ARCs.
- J&K Migrant candidates should submit grievances to Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai

Date - 01/07/2011 02-07-2011 upto 5.00 PM

5. - Display of final merit (Maharashtra State, J&K and AIEEE candidates) on website

Date - 04-07-2011 at 5.00 PM

Mumbai: Each year, a couple of engineering aspirants crack the Maharashtra-Common Entrance Test (MHTCET) and score a perfect 200 on 200. This time, not a single candidate managed that feat. Pritesh Vinod Chhajed from Nashik's JDC Bytco College grabbed the top spot with an astonishing 199 in the engineering CET. About 50% fewer candidates secured 150 or more compared to 2010.

In the medical stream, apart from a few toppers, students across Maharashtra put up a poor show. Only 19 candidates scored between 190 and 200 in 2011 compared to the 79 last year. "This year's question paper quizzed students on fundamental concepts in the sciences and mathematics. The performance shows that they have been practising on a set format designed by coaching classes," said a senior DMER official.

Source: Education Times

Maharashtra government has decided to cancel the requirement of domicile certificate for professional courses (including MBA and PGDM) in the state. They also said that both class X passing certificate or birth certificate can be used as proof of domicile.

Although this is great news for students, the sad part is that the news has not been put up on the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) website, where it still shows the extended deadline to submit domicile certificates.

Also, this decision, even though a blessing, hasn't gone down well with some students who have already been through a lot of trouble to get all the documentation done. Their complaints are that they have wasted money, time and gone through so much only to know it was all futile. They are okay with the decision but they feel it should have come a lot earlier and that now it is just unfair to them. They also raised questions on the management of the DTE.

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.

According to official demographics released by DTE, the highest Score this year is 172 out of 200

MH-CET 2011 results were declared yesterday i.e. April 11 around 5 p.m. This year the total number of candidates who applied for CET was 92,166. However, only 89,620 candidates turned up for the exam. The total number of Maharashtra based Candidates who appeared for CET 2011 was 72,025, while 17,595 candidates were from outside Maharahstra (OMS).

According to official demographics released by DTE, the highest Score this year is 172 out of 200. However, DTE have not released the list of toppers, the total number of aspirants who have scored more than 150 marks is just 13.

Below is the breakup of marks obtained

• No. of Candidates less than 30 marks: 2804
• More than 150 Marks: 13
• More than 140 Marks: 76
• More than 130 Marks: 285
• More than 120 Marks: 907
• More than 110 Marks: 2162
• More than 100 Marks: 4378
• More than 50 Marks: 51557
• More than 30 Marks: 86816 (This is the minimum eligibility required for MAH-MBA/MMS-CET)

For the year 2010-2011 total seats are 34995 and total number of MBA/MMS colleges who have taken