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Karnataka Govt Drops Free KCET Crash Course, Students Forced to Pay Rs 18,000 for Coaching

With only a month left for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET), the state government has announced its plan of cancelling the free CET crash course.

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With only a month left for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET), the state government has announced its plan of cancelling the free CET crash course. The students of government PU colleges had the provision of studying for free. With this announcement, the students will now have to spend at least Rs 18,000 for a 30-day coaching programme at private institutes.,Earlier, the Department of Pre-University Education had planned a 30-day residential crash course for science students.

Karnataka Govt Drops Free KCET Crash Course, Students Forced to Pay Rs 18,000 for Coaching

The aim was to help them prepare for entrance exams like CET. The department wanted to select interested students and conduct classes in one school in each district.

However, due to some reasons (undisclosed), the plan did not move forward. Even a three-day teacher training programme, which was supposed to be held in the second week of March, did not take place.,(This is a developing story),Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Education, CBSE, JEE, UPSC and around the world.

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