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First day of TNPCEE not so tough: students

Vani Doraisamy

Biology was easy, physics "just okay"

CHENNAI: Anxious moments, a sense of apprehension relieved by the fact that the examinations were much easier than expected and a hope that Friday would not be much different — this was the prevailing mood among the nearly 33,000 candidates who sat for the first day of the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination at 53 centres across Chennai on Thursday.

The CET began with the biology paper which, much to the students' delight, proved to be easy, raising hopes that the examination would prove much easier than the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination or the All India Engineering Entrance Examination held recently, both of which had to be tackled with varying levels of difficulty.

The happy faces that emerged out of the College of Engineering, Guindy examination hall after the biology examinations in the morning, lost some of the cheerfulness towards the end of the day as the physical sciences paper proved to be "just okay.''

More centums are expected this year in biology; last year saw 1051 centums. "Biology was a cakewalk while physics proved to be a little bit of a challenge. Chemistry proved to be just about moderate,'' S Tarunya, who took the CET at Meenakshi College, said.

"I am confident that I would get all 50 questions right in the biology paper. The physics paper, however, contained some unexpectedly difficult problems which I could not solve in time,'' S. Umar of Guindy who took the examination at the CEG, said.

"There were more number of problems in the physics paper this time than usual. Though they were fairly simple, they took a toll on the allotted time,'' S.Karthikeyan, who took the exam at the same centre, said.

Students now hope that the mathematics examination scheduled for the forenoon of Friday does not contain any unpleasant surprises.

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