Telangana State Council for Higher Education chairman Papi Reddy announced the schedule of EAMCET, the test for admission into the engineering and medical courses of Telangana colleges, for the academic year 2018-19.
The notification will be released on February 27 and applications will be accepted from March 3. The last date for receiving the applications will be April 4. The medical entrance exam will be held on May 2 and 3. The engineering entrance examination will be held on May 4, 5 and 7.
The examination will be conducted online for the first time this year.
Addressing the media, Reddy said that candidates who came late even by one minute to the examination hall would not be allowed. He said that that rule was not to trouble the candidates but to enforce discipline. He suggested to the students that they leave for the examination assuming that it would start at 9 am instead of at the actual 10 am.
He advised the media to create awareness among the students on the "one-minute" condition.