Govt sets up exam centres in all 30 districts for CPET-2025

Bhubaneswar: State govt has arranged an exam centre in each district for the convenience of students appearing for the Common PG Entrance Test (CPET)-2025, starting from Monday. Last year, CPET was conducted at 21 centres across the state.
Students who want to take admission in postgraduate (PG) courses offered by state public universities and autonomous colleges need to appear for CPET. More than 62,000 students applied for the test this year.
Candidates need to answer objective-type questions worth 100 marks. CPET will be an OMR-based test conducted by State Selection Board (SSB) of the higher education department. "SSB has chosen major degree and autonomous colleges as examination centres in all 30 districts," said board secretary Rajesh Kumar Sahoo.
The first exam will be conducted between 9 am and 10.20 am, while the second sitting will be from 11.30 am to 12.50 pm. The last sitting will be held between 3 pm and 4.20 pm.
On the first day, exams will be conducted in commerce, economics, electronic science, environmental science, education, physics and microbiology in three sittings. On Tuesday, candidates will appear for English, geology, wildlife and biodiversity conservation, psychology, zoology and history papers. On Wednesday, the applicants will sit for exams on Odia, atmospheric science, marine science and marine biology, public health, marine science-oceanography, women studies and philosophy.
SSB will hand over the test marks to the Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC) on May 26. The department will notify the dates for the publication of subject-wise and state-wide merit lists, official sources said.
As many as 116 higher education institutes in the state have a total of 29,732 PG seats. Last year, 62,544 candidates registered for CPET-2024 compared to 28,926 PG seats.