MHT CET 2021 to be based on Reduced Syllabus
2020-12-30The Commissioner of State CET Cell, Maharashtra, has released the Syllabus & Marking Scheme for its Online Common Entrance Test 2021 for admission in various professional technical UG courses. Taking into account the impact of Covid-19, it has announced that there will be no questions from 2020-21 syllabus of Standard XII which was deleted by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti va Abhyaskram Sanshodhan Mandal due to Covid-19.
Class 11 & 12 Weightage : 20% weightage will be given to Std. XI curriculum and 80% weightage will be given to Std.XII curriculum while setting the question paper.
MHT-CET is conducted for admission in First Year of 4 Year Duration Full Time Under Graduate Degree courses in Engineering and Technology, Pharmacy, 6 Year Duration Full Time Under Graduate Degree course in Pharm D and First Year of 4 Year Full Time Under Graduate Professional Degree courses in Agriculture Universities of Maharashtra.
Course(s) : 5 Year B.Planning, 4 Year B.Tech (including Biotechnology, Food Technology, Agriculture Engg), 4 Tear B.Sc. (H) (Agriculture/ Horticulture / Forestry / Community Science), 4 Year Bachelor of Fisheries Science. 
MHT-CET Pattern & Marking scheme
a) There is no change in the test pattern and marking scheme.
b) For PCM - This paper is having 2 Groups of Physics-Chemistry and Mathematics. First 90 minutes Physics and chemistry will be enabled and only after completion of first 90 minutes’ time Physics-Chemistry group will be auto submitted and Mathematics group will be enabled with 90 minutes’ duration.
c) For PCB - This paper is having 2 Groups of Physics-Chemistry and Biology. First 90 minutes Physics and chemistry will be enabled and only after completion of time response for Physics-Chemistry group will be auto submitted and Biology group will be enabled with 90 minutes’ duration.
d) There will be 50 questions each in Physics / Chemistry / Botany / Zoology) / Maths - sections to be attempted depends upon the subject combination applicable (PCM / PCB as stated above).
e) Each questions in Physics / Chemistry / Botany / Zoology carries 1 mark while in Maths, each question carries 2 marks.
f) There will be no Negative Marking
g) The questions will be mainly application based.
h) Difficulty level will be at par with JEE (Main) for PCM and at par with NEET for Biology.
i) There will be no questions from 2020-21 syllabus of Standard XII which was deleted by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti va Abhyaskram Sanshodhan Mandal due to Covid-19.
No. of applicants in 2020 : Approx. 5.32 Lac candidates had applied for MHT-CET in 2020.