MHTCET Exam Experience

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Hey there, I am guessing you are a JEE aspirant, putting nights and days together to secure your Engineering college. Still, JEE isn’t the only weapon in your arsenal usually after JEE, down comes the list of several other engineering promising just as good colleges if you ace them. Today let’s take a closer look at one of them MHTCET or the Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test.

This exam is the state entrance test for Maharashtra and difficulty wise relatively easier than JEE, but do not mistake it for being an easy exam altogether, with still lakhs of registrations and no negative marking makes this exam a notoriously tricky one, but with a selective study of topics you can score well in a short amount of time, provided of course you are smart working and disciplined enough to continue the same routine still.

The Syllabus is more or less the same as JEE Mains. Still, you need to access and look at the past year’s papers to search for some peculiar topics or questions that are “MHTCET” specific because they are not that common and will provide you an extra edge over other students who might not have studied the pattern in that detail. After you are done looking at all the previous year’s papers make a list of those select questions or topics and study thoroughly by making short notes. You can take the help of some external sources as well but this process is crucial and my emphasis is on this because this is something I observed very sharply when I gave the exam myself and could recollect those same topics being asked and they are constant and have always been asked, so ensure that you do the same.

This exam usually happens in the month of May, which means you get ample time so if your JEE basics are strong and you in touch with all three subjects you just need to focus on that list and practice mocks or attempt past year papers in the same time frame to be in that exam momentum. 2-3 weeks should be good enough time to achieve a good percentile, provided that you work every day and since the exam content holistically is the same, you get equipped for other entrances as well.

Miscellaneous Tips

• The centers are usually not the best and in places you probably might have heard of for the first time so your ETA should be at least 30 minutes ahead of your reporting time which is 7:30 pm for the first shift.
• The form is a little intimidating as the language is Marathi and then translations are provided so fill the form carefully(I had entered my DOB incorrectly by providing that of my mothers because of this), although there is a correction time period also but that unnecessary hassle and waste of energy, so get it right in the first go
• Revise those notes of that list as some questions are directly asked like that specically in chemistry.
• You have to wait an awful lot of time, so keep your documents handy in a file.
• you might face issues and technical glitches, look for it when you are asked to log in and enter your username or password so that you can switch systems beforehand.
• the count of marked-for-review questions or not attempted gets mixed up sometimes, so don’t rely on that completely be mindful of yourself and attempt all.

I feel that this would be enough for you to ace this exam, this journey is stressful and hectic but only makes your after-exam season sweeter so grind on!

P.S: I scored 97 percentile and got one of the most sought-after colleges in MH with Computer Science, so your 3 mins read is not wasted:) All the best!