Common Entrance Test can be a KBC

Common Entrance Test abolition upheld

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday upheld the validity of a Tamil Nadu law abolishing common entrance test (CET) for admissions to professional courses.

Aptitude test as prescribed by the Architecture council to continue.

It, however, ruled that aptitude test as prescribed by the Architecture Council shall be conducted for admissions to B. Arch courses.

A division Bench comprising Justices PK Mishra and Sampath Kumar said that the standards in the professional colleges would not be lowered by abolition of CET.

“It cannot be said that the Government’s conclusion that forms the basis for normalisation process is so arbitrary as requiring interference by the court on the ground of being violative of Article 14 of the Constitution,” the Bench observed while dismissing writ petitions from S Aswin Kumar, a student and four others challenging the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Education in Professional Educational Institutions Act enacted by the State legislature in December.

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