Exams between June 4 and 8, results on June 24

Hyderabad:  The notification for Telangana State Postgraduate Engineering Common Entrance Test (PGECET) would be released on March 4 and entrance examinations would be held between June 4 and 8.

The PGECET committee, comprising Telangan State Council of Higher Education Chairman (TSCHE), Prof T Papi Reddy, TSCHE, Vice-Chairman-I, Prof  K Venkatachalam, Osmania University (OU) Prof  E Suresh Kumar, PGECET Convener Prof A Venugopal Reddy and PGECET Co-Convener Ramesh Babu which met at OU here on Saturday, decided to introduce textile technology in the entrance from this year making the total number of test papers to 18.

“Last year we have conducted admissions directly. But this year, the admissions for text technology would be made through the entrance exam only,” Venugopal Reddy informed.The Committee also decided to continue to collect registrations through online. It included payment for the registrations. The online registrations would begin from March 12 and last date for applying without late fee is April 27.


 With a late fee of Rs 500 and Rs 2000 is May 11 and 22respectively. Candidates can also register by paying a late fee of Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 till May 28 June 2 respectively. Candidates can download the hall tickets from the website between May 23 and June 2.

Candidates can register at www.tspgecet.org or www.osmania.ac.in.by paying Rs 500 (Rs 250 for SC/ST candidates).The examination would be held from June 4 to 8 in two sessions 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm.

The results of the test would be declared on 24.06.2015.   The examination would be held in two regional centres, such as Hyderabad and Warangal. “We have arranged 40 test centres in two regional centres,” Venugopal Reddy informed.

According Venugopal, the pattern of the test would be of objective type with multiple choice questions. The candidates should answer 120 questions in two hours. For writing entrance test, students should secure 50 per cent marks in qualifying examination for open category and 45 per cent for reserved category. The cut-off mark for qualifying is 30 marks general and for SC/ST there is no minimum mark.

The convener said there were about 262 engineering college offering ME/MTech courses, 122 colleges offering M. Pharmacy courses and four colleges offering M.Arch course in Telangana State during academic year 2014-2015Qualified candidates would be given admissions into M.Tech, ME, M.Arch and M.Pharm courses offered by the colleges in the State.