After nearly a month of talks and discussions, the state government has finally announced the seat matrix and fee structures for the medical and dental, PG and UG, courses beginning in 2010. While the seat matrix has been left unchanged the fee structure has seen some change.

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Giraffe Learning, the coaching institute based in bangalore, is offering students the chance to prepare themselves for the up-coming NATA exams. NATA (National Aptitude Test for Architecture) is a requirement of Karnataka CET for students who wish to pursue higher studies related to Engineering in Architecture.

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Barely a month after the PUC board opened up its phone lines to students, it's SSLC's turn now.The helpline was inaugurated by Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Mr. Visweshwara Hegde Kageri at KSEEB (Karnataka State Secondary Education Examination Board). The decision to provide counselling was made after educators observed the stress and pressure exams put on students.

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Learning a lesson from international teaching styles, the Human Resource Development ministry has decided that CBSE schools abroad will receive a face lift with the introduction of an international syllabus. It has also been decided that the CBSE schools in India will also be free to implement this new international syllabus from 2011.

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All students who are about to write exams have questions that need answering. To answer just this issue, PUC administration had opened up its phone lines to students last year and on seeing the number of calls that poured in, they have decided to continue the practice this year also.

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The Karnataka CET 2010 brochure was released by the Minister of Higher Education Aravind Limbavalli yesterday, but for the first time the brochure will not contain the seat matrix or the fee structure for medical colleges. There is a demand of nearly 1.35 lack brochures this year and all of them will have only the Engineering college fee structure and seat matrix.

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Most students tend to take attendance casually and feel quite comfortable in bunking classes. The practice is becoming increasingly common and more and more often you see students roaming around outside college rather than being in it. Most of these students are relaxed because they know that even if they have an attendance shortage at the end of the year, they can pay the fine and get their hall ticket to appear for the board exams.

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Students have to gear up to shell out Rs 100 more than last year for Karnataka CET 2010. Last year the fee for General category was Rs 550 and that for backward classes was Rs 400. This year the prices have been raised to Rs 650 for General category students and Rs 500 for Scheduled Cast, Scheduled Tribes and Category - 1 students.

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KEA (Karnataka Examinations Authority) announced that it will be starting a service that will aim to update students about all the latest developments regarding the Karnataka CET 2010 exams via an SMS. The data for this service, they claimed, is to be acquired from the PU department.

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The debate is finally over and the outcome is a mixed one. For a long time now, the government has been involved in a struggle to merge CET and COMED-K exams in Karnataka. The issue has finally been laid to rest, for now, with the decision to continue with CET and COMED-K being agreed upon.

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