New Delhi, July 10: The Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts the examination to fill the 15 per cent all India quota medical seats in all state-run medical and dental courses, wants to change the present pattern of entrance examination from next year onwards. On a petition filed by CBSE seeking to change the present objective type of test for the entrance test, the Supreme Court today issued notices to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Medical Council of India (MCI). The Supreme Court in 1993 had framed the scheme pertaining to reserving 15 per cent of seats in all state-run medical and dental colleges selected through an all India entrance test conducted by CBSE. A bench comprising Justice R C Lahoti and Justice Ashok Bhan asked the respondents to file their replies within two weeks.

CBSE stated that it wanted to change the entrance test question papers from the present objective type only by adding a section having non-objective type questions. The CBSE counsel stated that all the entrance tests for engineering and other professional courses have non-objective type questions in their question papers.

Bureau Report