Even as the State government has challenged the September 3 High Court order on CET-2022 repeaters, the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has drawn up alternative rank lists by taking into account II PUC and CET-2022 marks in 50:50 and 75:25 ratio for repeaters, in a bid to be prepared for the scenarios that might emerge.
According to these alternative rank lists, if KEA considers repeaters’ CET and II PUC marks in 75:25 ratio, only five students will find a place in the 1 to 1,000 rank category and if they consider in 50:50 ratio, 64 repeaters will fall in this category. Furthermore, as many as 10,056 students will get placed in between 1,000 to 1 lakh ranks if they consider in 75:25 ratio, while 19,801 repeaters will find place in this bracket if 50:50 ratio is taken into account.
This year, a total of 24,074 repeaters took CET-2022 for entry into professional courses like engineering. However, KEA considered II PUC marks and CET marks in 50:50 ratio for freshers and declared result. But it excluded II PUC marks of repeaters and considered only the marks obtained in the CET-2022. Repeaters had passed II PUC in 2021 without writing exams, as marks were awarded through a special scheme formulated in view of COVID-19.
