GUJCET Exam Experience

GUJCET stands for Gujarat Common Entrance Test and is an entrance test for admission to Engineering and Pharmacy courses across the top colleges in Gujarat. This test consists of 120 marks divided into three subjects: Physics, Chemistry, and Maths for the students who want to pursue Engineering and Physics, Chemistry, and Biology for those who want to go for Pharmacy. Each subject has a weightage of 40 marks, totalling 120 marks. The percentile rank of the students is prepared based on the marks obtained in this entrance test and then their rank gets generated by the government body of Gujarat called the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC). Based on their ranks, students get admission to the top colleges of Gujarat.

When I was in 12th standard, I made up my mind that I would appear for the GUJCET exam and I started preparing for it. The best part about this entrance test is that you only need to study the syllabus of the 12th standard, so the pressure was less because I only needed to focus on what my teachers used to teach me regularly. I was a Maths student, so it was easy for me to solve the problems of Maths and Physics. If I have to compare this entrance test with some other exams, then I can say that it is very easy compared to JEE and slightly easy compared to NEET.

There are a lot of local publications in Gujarat that have published reference books for GUJCET. In the exam paper, you will have one hour for each subject and you will get 40 MCQs, each MCQ will have 1 mark. There is also the negative marking scheme and according to it, If you tick 1 MCQ wrong then you will lose an extra 0.25 marks, which means if you tick 4 MCQs wrong, then you will lose 1 extra mark.

If I have to share my preparation experience, then I would say that I didn’t prepare much for this test because my NCERT concepts were very clear and during the last month before the exam I solved some MCQs from a reference book called “Darpan”. In GUJCET, the MCQs asked are more knowledge-based. It means you don’t need to solve very complicated problems. If your fundamentals are strong, then you are good to go. One thing I would like to suggest to you is to solve small problems from the NCERT Textbook and NCERT Exemplar because sometimes they directly ask those small problems in the form of MCQs.

If you are going to appear for GUJCET, then my final tip to you would be to focus on the fundamental concepts of NCERT and in the end, solve some PYQs with a timer for better time management during the exam.