The syllabus for the CET will be based on the SSC syllabus. “By next week, we will release the subject and chapter-wise details based on which the tests will be conducted,” said Patil.

Students of non-SSC board students will have to pay around Rs 170 to register for the CET.

The syllabus for the CET will be based on the SSC syllabus. “By next week, we will release the subject and chapter-wise details, based on which the tests will be conducted,” said Patil.

Since board exams for Class X have been cancelled across boards and final results have been calculated through internal assessments done by schools, the Maharashtra school education department has announced a CET for admissions to Class 11, to ensure uniformity and to give equal opportunity to all students.

Until last year, admissions to FYJC used to take place at the college level, based on Class 10 marks except in six areas – Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporations, and municipal corporation areas of Nagpur, Nashik, Aurangabad and Amravati – where a centralised online admission process was conducted based on Class 10 merit and the student’s college preference.

Students who have taken the CET will be given priority in all junior colleges, based on merit in the CET. The FYJC admissions will take place in phases and in the first phase, students who have appeared for the CET, irrespective of board, will get admission as per merit. After their admission, students who had not opted for CET will be given admissions based on Class 10 merit.

The CET will be held offline and students will have to go to designated exam centres to appear for the test. It will be a 100-mark multiple-choice question format exam, based on the Class X, SSC syllabus. The duration would be two hours.

How will the CET be held?

The Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) based question paper will have questions from four subjects, i.e. English, Mathematics, Science and Social Sciences subjects, with each subject carrying 25 per cent weightage of marks.

A six-member committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Maharashtra Education Commissioner Vishal Solanki to finalise the dates and further details of the entrance exam.