Andhra Pradesh Common Entrance Testa for entry into Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Medical and Dental Courses Rules 2004
(1) These rules may be called “the Andhra Pradesh Common Entrance Test for entry into Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Medical and Dental Courses Rules, 2004.
(2) They shall apply to Professional Courses in Engineering (including Technology, Architecture), Pharmacy, Agriculture (including Veterinary) and Medical and Dental Courses for entry into the first year Under-Graduate Courses.
(3) They shall come into force with immediate effect.
(4) Rules of Admission into the above Courses shall be issued separately.
(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 (Andhra Pradesh Act No.5 of 1983).
(ii) “Chairman” means the Vice-Chancellor of any University in the State nominated by the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education for each academic year for conducting and discharging the functions as specified relating to Engineering (including Technology/Architecture), Agriculture (including Veterinary) and Medical (all systems of Medicine including Dental) Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) held by the State. He shall also be the Chairman of the Common Entrance Test Committee.
(iii) “Committee of EAMCET” means the committee empowered to conduct EAMCET for Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Medical
Candidates satisfying the following requirements shall be eligible to appear for EAMCET/EAMCET-AC.
(1) Candidates should be of Indian Nationality.
(2) Candidates should belong to the State of Andhra Pradesh. 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.
(3) For Engineering, Bio-Technology (M.P.C), Architecture, Pharmacy (M.P.C), B.Tech Dairying, B.Tech (Ag. Engineering) B.Tech (Food, Science and Technology (FST)/B.Sc. (Commercial Agrl. & Business Mgt. (CA & BM) Courses :
(i) Candidates should have passed or appeared for the final year of Intermediate Examination (10+2 pattern) with Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry as optionals or related v
(1) The EAMCET shall be conducted by a Convenor, 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 EAMCET Committee.
(2) The Convenor of EAMCET shall give a notification in the widely circulated daily News Papers as decided by CET Committee calling for the applications in the prescribed form from the candidates satisfying eligibility criteria as laid down in Rule 3.
(3) The notification, among other things, shall indicate the cost of application. Entrance Test Fee, the last date for receipt of the duly filled in applications and the date of conduct of EAMCET.
(4) The Date of the entrance test as notified above shall not be revised without the prior approval of the Government.
(5) The Medium of EA
The Convenor of EAMCET shall follow the following rules in preparing the merit list and assigning the ranking.
(1) The candidate who have secured qualifying marks in EAMCET and candidates belonging to the category of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe to whom qualifying marks have not been prescribed, shall be assigned the ranking in the order of the merit on the basis of marks obtained in the EAMCET.
(2) For the preparation of merit list, in case of more than one student scoring the same marks at EAMCET, the tie shall be resolved to decide the relative ranking as follows :
(i) By considering the marks scored in Mathematics/Biology as the case may be at EAMCET.
(ii) If the tie persists marks obtained by a student in Physics - shall be taken into consideration.
(iii) In case of candidates getting equal marks in each of the three subjects
The competent authority shall constitute the EAMCET Committee to deal with the matters connected with the test. The composition of the Committee shall consist of the following:
(1) Chairman, who shall be the Vice-Chancellor of any University nominated by the Competent Authority for each academic year for the purpose of conducting EAMCET.
(2) One representative of each of the University to be nominated by the Competent Authority in consultation with the Vice-Chancellor concerned.
(3) The Commissioner and Director of Technical Education, A.P. or his nominee not below the rank of Joint Director.
(4) The Director, Medical Education, A.P. or his nominee not below the rank of a Joint Director.
(5) Representative of Higher Education Department in Government dealing with Technical Education, not below the rank of Deputy Secretary.
The EAMCET Committee shall take decisions on the following issues relating to the EAMCET:
(1) Cost of the application and fee to be collected from the candidates of EAMCET.
(2) Norms for the payment of remuneration for different items/services undertaken in connection with EAMCET work.
(3) Date of announcement of results.
(4) Such other issues as may be referred by the Chairman of the Committee and Competent Authority.
Chairman of the Committee:
(1) shall preside over all the meetings of the committee and in his absence he may nominate one of the members of the committee to preside over the meetings.
(2) shall appoint paper setters, moderators for the EAMCET and decide upon the printing press or presses where the confidential material of the Test shall be printed.
(3) may appoint a competent officer to assist the Convernor.
The Convenor of the EAMCET shall subject to such directions as may be issued by the Chairman to discharge his duties in the matters relating to the EAMCET. The Convenor is specifically responsible for discharging the following functions :
(1) The printing of application form of EAMCET.
(2) Issuing the notification inviting application for the Entrance Test.
(3) Sale of application forms and issue of Hall-Tickets.
(4) Appointment of Co-ordinators/Chief Superintendents/Observers of various Test Centers.
(5) Coding and decoding of Response sheets (Answer Scripts).
(6) Appointment of Members of confidential team for assisting computer process in valuation of answer scripts.
(7) Payment of remuneration for various items/services utilized for the purpose of EAMCET.
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(1) 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.
(2) The Convenor of EAMCET shall draw advances from the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education. Necessary expenditure for items/services connected with the EAMCET and submit for audit to the Local Fund Audit and report thereof be submitted to the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education.
(a) Association of Colleges-Formation and its Functions:
(1) There may be Separate Association of colleges recognized by APSCHE representing the two types of Professional Colleges as defined in Rule (2) (ix) of these Rules to conduct EAMCET-AC.
(2) The Secretary of Association of Colleges formed for each type of Colleges as in (1) above shall intimate its formation, rules and bye-laws and the names of the office bearers, before a stipulated date, to the Competent Authority and Chairman of Permanent Committee.
(3) The Competent Authority shall issue notification, inviting options from the Managements of all Professional Colleges for admitting their students either through EAMCET or EAMCET-AC.
(4) The option of choosing, between either of EAMCET or EAMCET-AC shall be exercised by the Managements of the colleges and shall be intimated before a stipulated date to
(1) EAMCET-AC shall be conducted in a 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 papers are not leaked, whenever such information is called for by the Permanent Committee.
(2) The committee of EAMCET-AC shall preserve the question paper and the answer papers for the period as indicated by the Permanent Committee.
(3) The records of an Institution which has been established and which has been permitted to adopt its own admission procedure for the last, at least, 25 years shall be examined by the Permanent Committee and the Committee may permit such an Institute to adopt its own admission procedure.
(4) After holding EAMCET-AC and declaration of Results of EAMCET-AC, each member college of Association of Colleges shall immediately
The amounts that are collected from the candidates towards cost of application and examination fee shall be utilised to meet expenditure for items/services connected with the EAMCET-AC. Accounts shall be subjected to audit and report thereof shall be submitted to the Competent Authority.
(i) In the event of any malpractice or leakage of question paper or in any other circumstances leading to the stopping of EAMCET as scheduled the Government may for the reasons to be recorded in writing direct the conduct of a re-examination of the EAMCET/EAMCET-AC. In such a event the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education or any other body so nominated by the Government shall cause the EAMCET re-examination by appointing/nominating such functionaries or committees as considered necessary, without collecting any fees for such re-examination.
(ii) In respect of EAMCET-AC, the Permanent Committee constituted in G.O. Ms. No.91, Higher Education (EC) Department, dated 22nd December, 2003, may issue necessary directions to the Committee of EAMCET-AC to conduct re-examination for the reasons to be recorded in writing without collecting any fee for such re-examination.
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