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Separate entrance test for B. Arch likely

By R. Ravikanth Reddy

HYDERABAD Aug. 11. The admission mode of Architecture course may go in for a change from next academic year what with the Council of Architecture (COA), a statutory body constituted by the Government of India, issuing fresh guidelines to be followed in the admission of students.

As per the guidelines, a separate entrance test has to be conducted for students seeking to study Architecture and it cannot be clubbed with any other entrance like Engineering or Pharmacy. Moreover, a separate counselling has to be conducted. This means the present mode of admission in the State would have to be changed. Till now, Architecture students have been writing the EAMCET but taking an aptitude test at a later stage.

``We will soon be writing to the Government suggesting changes in accordance with the guidelines,'' says the A.P. State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE) Chairman, C. Subba Rao. "The COA has stated that if the guidelines were not followed, the students would not be allowed to register with the COA after finishing the course,'' he points out.

The School of Planning and Architecture (SAP), JNTU, which offers the course in the State has already recommended to the Government to delink the course from the EAMCET. Dr. Padmavathi, Director, SAP welcomed the changes stating that they were healthy and needed to make the course more professional.

The guidelines also make it clear that admissions made under the minority/management/NRI quota without the aptitude test would not be valid. Moreover, the regulations do not provide for lateral admission to any other stage of the 5-year course as is being done with the Engineering course where Polytechnic students get a lateral entry into the B.Tech course.

The COA says that students with Intermediate or equivalent background with not less than 50 per cent marks with Mathematics and English as subjects only would be eligible. The separate entrance test consisting of two papers -- Aesthetic Sensitivity and Drawing -- would test components like architectural awareness, imaginative comprehension, analytical reasoning, sense of perspective drawing, sketching ability and creative abilities among others.

It has also made it clear that classes should not commence later than second week of August of a calendar year.

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