Entry to MBBS: No entry to oldies
Entry to professional courses will now be time-barred . The number of older candidates competing with 18-year-old aspirants has been rising with each passing year.
Medical, dental and engineering aspirants will get a maximum of three chances till they turn 25 years old to step into the professional arena. Reserved-category students will be able to take the exam three times till they are 30.
About 12,000 repeaters took the CET in 2007 and, in 2008, the tribe grew to 13,568. DMER data said the oldest candidate was 38 and at least 100 more aspirants were in their early 30s.
Reminds me of the time when we had a Sardarji who had completed a course in Pharmacy before joining us in MBBS. We called him Uncle, and later learnt that his son was preparing for PMT as well. No more ‘back to school’ or “Main hoon na” situations possible in medical school any more?
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