Odisha CPET 2021: Common PG Entrance Test to begin today

The 12-day-long Common PG Entrance Test (CPET-2021) will start on Monday. The entrance test is required for admission into PG courses in-state public universities and autonomous colleges. It will continue till September 3.

Students will have to answer objective-type questions of 70 marks in the one0and-half-hour exam. There will be mp negative marking. As many as 26 exam centers have been opened across the state to accommodate their native places.

The test will be held in three shifts every day. The first shift will be between 10 am and 11.30am, the second between 12.30 pm and 2 pm, and the third from 3 pm to 4.30 pm.

More than 52,000 will appear for exams in at least one subject. One student can appear in more than a subject.

On the first day, exams will be held in anthropology (both arts and science), geography, marine science (oceanography), and MBA courses. Tests for physics, LLM, electronics and telecommunication, and commerce will be conducted the next day.

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