Andhra Pradesh Conduct of Education Common Entrance Test for Admission into B.Ed Course Rules 2004
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(i) “Act” means the Andhra Pradesh Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Prohibition of Capitation Fee) Act, 1983.
(ii) “Association of Colleges” means the association of colleges formed for the purpose of conducting Education Common Entrance Test ED.CET - AC and recognized by the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education.
(iii) “Chairman” means the Vice-Chancellor of any University in the State or Commissioner and Director of School Education, nominated by the Chairperson of the State Council for each academic year for conducting and discharging the functions as specified relating to Ed.CET held by the State. He/She shall also be the Chairperson of the CET Committee.
(iv) “Committee of Ed.CET” means the Committee empowered to conduct Ed.CET
(i) The Ed.CET shall be conducted by a Convener, appointed by the competent authority and shall be held on such date and centers as may be specified by State Council in consultation with the Ed. CET Committee.
(ii) The Convener of Ed. CET shall give a notification in the popular daily News Papers as decided by Ed. CET Committee calling for the applications in the prescribed form from the candidates satisfying eligibility criteria as laid down in Rule 3.
(iii) The notification, among other things, shall indicate the cost of application including Registration Fee and Entrance Test Fee, the last date for receipt of the duly filled in applications and the date of conduct of Ed. CET.
(iv) The date of the Entrance Test as notified above shall not be revised without the prior permission of the Government.
(v) The Medium of Ed. CET shall be English, Telugu and Urdu Languag
Candidates satisfying the following requirements shall be eligible to appear for Ed.CET or Ed.CET-AC.
(i) The candidates should be Indian Nationals.
(ii) The candidates should satisfy local/non-local status requirements as laid down in the Andhra Pradesh Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission) Order, 1974 as subsequently amended.
* [(iii) The candidates who have passed the qualifying examination i.e., B.A/B.Sc./B.Com./B.Sc. (Home Science)/BCA/BBM with an aggregate of 45% marks and above are alone eligible.]
(iv) Age Limit:—The candidates should have completed the age of 19 years as on 1st July of the year in which notification is issued. There shall be no maximum age limit.
(i) These rules may be called “the Andhra Pradesh Conduct of Education Common Entrance Test for Admission into B.Ed. Course Rules, 2004”.
(ii) They shall apply for admission into B.Ed. Course offered by Colleges of Education (Minority and Non-Minority) in the State.
(iii) They shall come into force with immediate effect.
(i) The candidate who have secured qualifying marks in Ed.CET and candidates belonging to the category of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes to whom qualifying marks have not been prescribed, shall be assigned the rank in the order of the merit on the basis of marks obtained in all the subjects/parts in which Entrance Test has been conducted.
(ii) The Common Entrance Test Committee shall prepare the following categories of merit lists separately for each of the methodologies, namely:- Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences and Social Studies.
(iii) For the preparation of merit list, in case of more than one student scoring the same marks at Ed. CET, the tie shall be resolved to decide the relative ranking as follows:
(a) In case of tie in the aggregate, marks obtained in Part “C” (content background) and Part “A” (General English) of the Test paper in that order shall be t
The Convener of the EdCET shall subject to such directions as may be issued by the Chairman to discharge his duties in the matters relating to the EdCET. The Convener, is specifically responsible for discharging the following functions:
(i) The printing of application form of EdCET
(ii) Issuing the notification inviting application for the Entrance Test
(iii) Sale of application forms and issue of Hall - Tickets.
(iv) Appointment of Co-ordinators/Chief Superintendents/Observers of various Test Centers.
(v) Coding and decoding of Response sheets (Answer Scripts)
(vi) Appointment of Members of confidential team for assisting computer process in valuation of answer scripts
(vii) Payment of remuneration for various items/services utilized for the purpose of EdCET
(viii) Maintena
The competent authority shall constitute the Ed.CET Committee to deal with the matters connected with the test.
The Committee shall consist of the following:
(i) Chairman, who shall be the Vice-Chancellor of any University/Commissioner and Director of School Education nominated by the competent authority for each academic year for the purpose of conducting EdCET.
(ii) One representative of each of the University to be nominated by the Competent Authority in consultation with the Vice-Chancellor concerned.
(iii) The Director of School Education Andhra Pradesh or his nominee not below the rank of Joint Director in case he is not nominated as Chairman.
(iv) One representative of State Council nominated by the competent authority.
(v) Convener of the Entrance Test of the preceding year.
(vi) Convener,
The EdCET Committee shall take decisions on the following issues relating to the EdCET :
(i) Pattern of question papers
(ii) Duration of the test
(iii) Weightage and marks to be assigned to each paper
(iv) Syllabus content
(v) Centres for conducting the test
(vi) Date of the test
(vii) Date of announcement of results
(viii) Norms for payment of remuneration for different items of works connected with Entrance Test.
(ix) Fees to be collected from the candidates, and such other issue or issues as may be referred to it by the Chairperson of the State Council of Higher Education from time to time.
In the event of any malpractice or leakage of question paper or in any other circumstances leading to the stopping of EdCET as scheduled, the Government may for the reasons to be recorded in writing, direct for the conduct of a Re-examination of the EdCET. In such an event the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education or any other body so nominated by the Government shall cause the EdCET Re-examination to be conducted by appointing/nominating such functionaries or Committees as considered necessary, without levying any extra charge from the candidates for this purpose.
(i) Chairman of the Committee shall preside over all the meetings of the committee in his absence, he may nominate one of the members of the committee to preside over the meetings.
(ii) The Chairman of the Committee shall be the competent authority to appoint paper setters and moderators for the entrance test and to decide upon the printing press or presses at which the papers are to be got printed.
(iii) The Chairman may appoint a competent Officer to assist the Convener.
(i) The amounts that are collected from the candidates towards cost of the application and the examination fee shall be directly credited into the account of the Secretary, Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education, Hyderabad.
(ii) The Convener shall draw advances from the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Education to incur necessary expenditure for items/services connected with the EdCET and submit for audit to the Local Fund Audit and report thereof be submitted to the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education.
conducted by Association of Colleges of Education (Education Common Entrance Test of Association of Colleges.)
a. Association of Colleges of Education - Formation and its Functions:
(i) There may be an association of colleges of Education recognized by State Council as defined in sub-rule 2(ii) of these rules to conduct EdCET-AC.
(ii) The Secretary of Association of Colleges formed as in (i) above shall intimate its formation, rules and bye-laws and the names of the office bearers, before the stipulated date, to the competent authority and Chairman of Permanent Committee.
* [(iii) The Permanent Committee shall invite optiosn from the Managements of all B.Ed. Colleges for aditting their students either through Education Common Entrance Test or Education Common Entrance Test of Association of Colleges.]
(iv) The option of choosing, bet
(i) EdCET-AC Committee shall be responsible for conducting in fair and transparent manner subject to supervision of the permanent committee and it shall submit the proposed question papers, the names of the paper setter and examiners and the method adopted to ensure that papers are not leaked, whenever such information is called for by the Permanent Committee.
(ii) The Committee of EdCET-AC shall preserve the question paper and the answer papers for the period as indicated by the Permanent Committee.
(iii) After holding EdCET-AC and declaration of results of EdCET-AC, each member college of Association of Colleges shall immediately display the merit lists on the notice Board of all colleges which have choones to admit students on the basis of rank obtained at EdCET-AC.
(iv) Committee of EdCET-AC shall also communicate a copy of the merit list forthwith to the competent authority and the
* [(i)]In the event of any malpractice or leakage of question paper or in any other circumstances leading to the stopping of Ed.CET-AC as scheduled, the Permanent Committee may issue necessary directions to the Committee of Ed.CET-AC to conduct re-examination for the reasons to be recorded in writing without collecting any fees for such re-examination.
* [(ii) If the Permanent Committee is of the opinion that the conduct of the Ed.CET-AC including the procedure adopted is neither fair nor transparent, it may, after giving opportunity to the concerned, recommended to the competent authority to step in to take appropriate steps to conduct re-examination. In such an event the Association of Colleges shall reimburse the expenditure incurred in that regard as directed by the competent authority.]
Any institution which has been established and permitted to adopt its own admission procedure for last, at least (25) years shall submit that records to the Permanent Committee and obtain permission to adopt its own admission procedure. Such Colleges shall follow all procedure of fair, transparent and merit based selections.
The amounts that are collected from the candidates towards cost of application and examination fee shall be utilised to meet the expenditure for items/services connected with the Ed.CET-AC. Accounts shall be subjected to audit and report thereof shall be submitted to the competent authority and Permanent Committee.
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