270 MBA aspirants still to get results, may lose a year

270 MBA aspirants still to get results, may lose a year

Mumbai: The fate of at least 270 students, who had taken the state common entrance test for admission to management courses (MBA-CET) on February 21, is in limbo. They are still to receive their results, which were declared on Monday.
According to the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), the students’ results weren’t declared because, as per their records, they had appeared for the exam as well as taken admission in 2009.
“There are two kinds of cases as far as these students are concerned,” said SK Mahajan, DTE director. “There are students who took admission last year but didn’t report to the colleges. The others are students who failed in their final year (of graduation). They applied for re-evaluation, but still failed to clear. Their admissions stand null and void.”
Several students, however, said they had cancelled their admissions last year. “Many of us had taken only provisional admission in 2009, but we cancelled it. Further, at the time of registering for the exam this year, no one informed us that we were not eligible,” said Dinesh Jagwani, a student awaiting his result.
The DTE has now decided to go through every individual case. “There are few cases which appear to be genuine. We will analyse and look into all of them,” said Mahajan.
Students are worried they will miss the group discussions and personal interviews, which will start next week. “We will lose out on a year. Many of us didn’t take admission last year because we were given seats in colleges we didn’t want,” said Markandey Singh, another student.

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