17,000 Chennai Students Take All India Engineering Entrance Examination - AIEEE

Chennai: For the 17,000 odd city students who appeared for the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) on Sunday, their performance would play a crucial role in college admissions.

The AIEEE Assumes greater significance in the context of the Common Entrance Test (CET) being scrapped this year. Most students are counting on their AIEEE scores to make it to institutions of repute.

Feedback from students revealed that the paper was largely easy However, some students said they found the Physics section challenging. “The paper was overall easy. I found Physics a little difficult,” said Karthik Ravishankar, as student of Padma Seshadri (K.K.Nagar), walking out of his centre – Vidya Mandir (Mylapore). Priya, a student of a State Board school in Avadi, said she had been preparing for over a month. Due to the dilemma regarding conduct of the CET, she thought it would be safer to be better prepared for the AIEEE, which determined students’ admissions into National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other top-notch institutions in the country. Purushotham had come all the way from Andhra Pradesh to take the examination.” I am also preparing for our EAMCET to be held on May 4,” he said. The EAM-CET is the Common Entrance Test administered by the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education. Purushotham, too, found the Physics section difficult.

Ms. Ravindran, who was waiting outside an examination centre, pointed to the additional pressure on students this year due to the uncertainty, earlier, in the CET being held and now, the lack of information on procedures to be adopted for engineering admissions in Tamil Nadu.

The morning paper, which comprised sections on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, had 40 questions in each section. Each question carried three marks. Since the evaluation system provides for negative marking, one mark will b deducted for every wrong answer.

17,000 Chennai Students Take All India Engineering Entrance Examination - AIEEE