Postgraduate medical seat aspirants in the State will be a busy bunch, writing anywhere around seven entrance exams this year, depending on how sure they are of getting one of the prized seats. The ‘Uni-GAUGE Postgraduate Medical and Dental 2015’ test, a new single entrance exam for private and deemed universities across the country, has failed to get even “member institutions” to use the test scores.
R.P. Reddy, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Reva University, which is one of the members of the ERA Foundation, told The Hindu that this year, the university would hold its own online and offline exams.
Similarly, JSS University, Mysuru, too has announced on its website that scores of students in the COMEDK PGET would be used for admissions, though the university would conduct its own counselling. Only two out of four universities which are members of the newly launched foundation — M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences and Sri Devaraj Urs University — are going to be using scores of the Uni-GAUGE postgraduate test.
What was planned
The foundation had aimed to streamline the process of entrance exams for private and deemed universities by introducing the test instead of universities conducting their own entrance tests. The onus of conducting the counselling would have been with the universities, based on the scores in the test.
