COMEDK UGET, Uni-GAUGE engineering exam to be held on May 10

The alteration has been made owed to non-availability of capable machine terminals, Dr S Kumar, enforcement secretary, COMEDK, said.

The registrations for the examination is acceptable to statesman from Monday, February 3, and the candidates are expected to taxable their applications by March 15.

Officials expect a surge successful applications this year, with implicit 20,000 further candidates expected compared to past year’s 1.16 lakh applicants. In 2024, astir 92 per cent of registered students appeared for the test, with Karnataka students signaling a 93 per cent attendance rate.

“Post-Covid, the fig of applicants for COMEDK and Uni-GAUGE exams is steadily returning to pre-pandemic levels. This year, we expect an further 20,000 applications, necessitating the displacement to a Saturday exam to guarantee the availability of exam centres,” said Kumar.

The introspection volition beryllium conducted successful implicit 200 towns crossed India, with 26 cities and towns successful Karnataka hosting trial centers. Outside Karnataka, the highest fig of applicants travel from Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Himachal Pradesh. In states with implicit 3,000 applicants, we person ensured the availability of astatine slightest 4 to 5 exam centres.

Previously, COMEDK conducted its counselling process up of the Karnataka CET (KCET) owed to overlapping All-India and State Medical Counseling schedules. This year, officials are making efforts to clasp counseling schedules successful sync with CET. “If the timelines are aligned, it would payment students and amended spot allocation efficiency. COMEDK is moving towards streamlining the process successful coordination with CET authorities,” said Kumar.

Recognising the rising request for specialised fields specified arsenic Machine Learning, AI, Robotics, IoT, and Prototype Design, COMEDK has besides established 10 Innovation Centres crossed Karnataka implicit the past 2 years. These centres supply students — irrespective of their assemblage affiliation — entree to high-quality training. There are 4 centres based successful Bengaluru and 1 each successful Mysuru, Mangaluru, Belagavi, Kalaburagi, Tumakuru, and Hubballi

These centres connection four-month courses astatine a nominal interest of Rs1,500 per course, making high-quality grooming accessible. For comparison, akin programmes successful Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra complaint betwixt Rs1.2 lakh and Rs1.5 lakh for conscionable six weeks.c

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