CET: Several students give biology paper a miss

Of 1.85 lakh who registered, only 1.41 lakh write paper

Anxious: Students waiting to appear for the Common Entrance Test, in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

With the Common Entrance Test no longer being valid for admissions to medical and dental courses this year, many students who wrote the test on Tuesday decided to give biology paper a miss.

Of the total 1.85 lakh candidates who registered for the test, 1.79 lakh candidates appeared for the mathematics paper, but only 1.41 lakh students wrote the biology paper.

Students will have to write physics and chemistry papers on Wednesday.

With the State government deciding to make the CET paper bilingual, many students said that they benefited from the move. Bhuvaneshwari K.P., a candidate who took the test, said: “This new feature helps students save a lot of time, which would otherwise be wasted in understanding the question.”