Around 25,000 students on Saturday appeared for the National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) at 56 centres in 42 cities in the country. The results will be announced on June 17. The test is compulsory for students seeking admission to the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar.
The entrance test was held for admission into the five-year Integrated MSc programme in Basic Science between 10 am and 1 pm without any untoward incident, sources said. As per the procedure, based on the performance in the entrance test, a common merit list of the candidates would be prepared and posted in the NEST-2013 website on June 17, 2013. After it, the successful candidates would be called for counselling and admission would be held strictly according to the merit list until all the seats are filled, said an official at the NISER.
As for OUAT common entrance examination-2013, it will be held on Sunday. The test will held for admission into different undergraduate courses like — BSc (Agriculture) BSc (Horticulture), BTech (Agricultural Engineering), BSc (Forestry) and BSc (Home Science).