Bengaluru: The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has decided to develop and launch an app that will address concerns commonly faced by students during the admission process.
The app will be released later this year for Android phones. The aim, said officials, was to help students register on the app so that they can complete the various stages of the process such as viewing the seat matrix of different courses, keying in their options, and even making fee payment.
The Common Entrance Test (CET) is a gateway for admission to courses such as engineering, agriculture, pharmacy, and veterinary science. Last year, 1.8 lakh candidates appeared for the CET.
Another crucial feature of the app would be that it will help students get their documents verified online. Currently, students have to come to KEA centres to get their documents verified manually although all the other processes are online. Attempts made by the KEA in the past to get documents verified online have gone in vain as some Education Department documents had not been digitised. If the online verification is successful this time, it will spell the end of the long waiting period at the KEA centres.
