Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test
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| Acronym | MHT-CET |
|---|---|
| Type | Electronic assessment |
| Developer / administrator | CET Cell |
| Knowledge / skills tested | Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics or Physics, Chemistry and Biology |
| Purpose | Admission to undergraduate engineering, agriculture and pharmacy courses in the state of Maharashtra. |
| Duration | 3 hours |
| Score / grade range | 0 to 200 |
| Offered | Once a year |
| Countries / regions | India |
| Languages | English |
| Annual number of test takers | 98,000 (2021) |
| Prerequisites / eligibility criteria | Class 12 or equivalent with Mathematics, Physics and any one of the technical subjects prescribed by AICTE from recognised board/university. |
| Website | https://cetcell.mahacet.org/ |
The MHT-CET or Common Entrance Test is an annual entrance exam conducted by the Government of Maharashtra. It is conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education. The degree courses of the following streams are mainly accounted for in this entrance exam:
Earlier the test scores were also used for admissions to Medical degree courses. After the Supreme Court of India insisted that only NEET can be used for undergraduate medicine admissions all over India, MHT-CET has been scrapped for medical colleges. The test is conducted in online mode for the first time in 2019. The State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra released the syllabus and marking scheme for the Computer Based Test (CBT).
The test was also used for admissions to the undergarduate course in Planning at the College of Engineering Pune, this was changed with the introduction of a separate entrance test for Planning in 2022.