BENGALURU: Karnataka’s Common Entrance Test (CET) will not go online this year as the higher education department is not ready for the transition. Higher education minister GT Devegowda on Thursday confirmed that the 2019 test will not be an online affair. He discussed the issue at a review meeting of vice-chancellors. “We have two months left for CET and it’s not possible to conduct the exams online now. We will work towards upgrading the infrastructure, and can possibly conduct an online test by 2020,” he said.On Wednesday, Devegowda had announced that the test may go online this year or in 2020. CET 2019 is expected to be attended by over 1.8 lakh students. The plan to make the CET transition comes in the wake of JEE Mains going online this year. However, the department seems to lack a strategic plan to make it a reality.In case of JEE Mains, after the registrations, the National Testing Agency (NTA) chose a few centres across states for conducting the exam online. Since the exams are conducted over a period of time, say about a week, there are different sets of question papers for students appearing for the exam everyday.The proposal to turn CET into an online affair is facing opposition from students in rural areas. They wonder if they will be given training in answering mock test papers if the test goes online. “The Centre had come up with test centres to help us practise papers online, but will KEA and the higher education department do that,” asked Ambrish K, a student.

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