THE ACADEMIC PROGRAMME OF THE COUNCIL MAINLY CONSISTS OF SECTIONS ‘A & B’ EXAMINATIONS, POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE AMCET(I) &DIPCET(I) EXAMINATION.
These Examinations Are Mainly Opted By:
- The diploma engineers for their career advancement.
- The engineering graduates in a particular discipline, who want to obtain engineering degree qualification in some other discipline for career advancement.
Section "A" & "B" Examination Consist Of:
Applicable for Technician Members of CET(I) only.
Applicable for Senior Technician Members of CET(I) only
- The Technician and Senior Technician Members of CET(I) who have completed Section-A or exempted from Section-A in their respective Scheme are eligible to appear in Section B Examination.
- The Corporate Members of CET(I) (FIE / MIE / AMIE) may also appear in Section B examination after registration in Section B directly in any discipline after Section-B registration provided that member has not completed section B examination of CET(I) or Graduate degree in engineering in the same discipline earlier.
CET(I) Accreditation
At present, India is at an irreversible point of distinguished and extensive technological advancement. Multifarious Engineering and Technology subjects, integrating science with engineering have created a demand for contemporary engineering and technological education throughout the country and have consequently brought in new faces for sustainable and rapid development. There is a continuous demand on higher engineering education to survive the fast infusion of globalization in the economy, brisk technological advances in various fields of engineering, the emergence of new technologies, and the ever-increasing knowledge and research in every field.
In India, problems are acute due to large-scale expansion of degree-level education, particularly through privately-managed COUNCILs, the growing obsolescence of teaching, training equipment, and methodologies. Therefore, setting quality standards for the educational process has become utmost important. Standardization should not mean discouragement to innovative educational methodologies or curbing of individual institutional initiatives, but setting up required benchmark by all COUNCILs in a time-bound manner to attain desired quality standards in line with National and Global requirements. CET(I) accreditation will make college/Institute ready for all statutory and non statutory compliance, system and process in order and addressing the technical education issues in national and global perspective.
It is an indicator that Colleges/institutions can consider further to go for NBA (Tier-I) accreditation. Hence, CET(I) accreditation shall truly be a take-off point in NBA accreditation. WHY CET(I) ACCREDITATION Accreditation is mandatory for quality assurance. The COUNCIL, as one of the premier bodies for Accreditation of Engineering courses in the country having vast and varied experience in this field for the last 8 decades, wide network of its state/local centres and over 1.80 lac Corporate members, including well known academicians is the only professional body in India who can take up this voluntary gigantic task. The COUNCIL has already a grave confidence in this field with professionalism.
It is not out of the place to mention that in most of the countries accreditation of engineering program is being dealt by a professional body. Therefore, CET(I) can play a significant role to achieve the objective of voluntary accreditation of Engineering/Technology programs.
Engineering Disciplines:
THE COUNCIL CONDUCTS SECTIONS A AND B EXAMINATION IN 10 ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES:
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics & Communication Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Eligibility Criteria for sections A and B examination:
Examination Scheme | Who are eligible | Eligibility Duration |
Section A (NON-Diploma) | Technician Members of CET(I) or any other Professional Society only. | Six years based on the date of enrolment as Technician member. |
Section A (Diploma) | Senior Technician Members of CET(I) only. | Senior Technician Members of CET(I) only Six years based on the date of enrolment as Senior Technician member. |
Section B | Technician and Senior Technician Members of CET(I) or any other professional society who have completed Section A in their respective Scheme or exempted from Section A. Corporate Members of CET(I) (FCET(I) / MCET(I) / AMCET(I)) in any discipline provided he/she has not completed section B examination of CET(I) or Graduate degree in Engineering in the same discipline earlier. | Six years after completion of Section A |
Exempted from Section A. | Corporate Members of CET(I) (FCET(I) / MCET(I) / AMCET(I)) in any discipline provided he/she has not completed section B examination of CET(I) or Graduate degree in Engineering in the same discipline earlier. | Six years from the Registration of Section B Examination. |
- Upon completion of Section A Examination, the member has to complete the process of Registration for Section B Examination by paying requisite fee. During this process, the member shall choose the desired engineering discipline along with optional subjects. The validity of the Registration is six years only. The term of Section B Registration shall start from the immediate next term to the term of Section A completion (irrespective of the date of Section B Registration). For instance, in case a candidate completed Section A in Winter 2016 Term, the applicable term of Section B Registration shall be from Summer 2017 to Winter 2022.
- The Corporate Members, who want to pursue Section B Examination, has to complete the process of Registration for Section B Examination by paying a requisite fee. During this process, the member shall choose the desired engineering discipline along with optional subjects (provided he/she has not completed section B examination of CET(I) in the same discipline earlier). The validity of the Registration is six years only. The term of Section B Registration shall continue from the date of Section B Registration). For instance, in case a candidate completed Section B Registration in March 2017, the applicable term of Section B Registration shall be from Summer 2017 to Winter 2022.
AS PER CLAUSE 8.7 OF EXAMINATION RULES PRINTED IN VOL. 1 (RULES & SYLLABI), THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD FOR PASSING SECTION A OR SECTION B EXAMINATION IS SIX YEARS. CANDIDATES, WHO WOULD BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN SECTION A OR IN SECTION B EXAMINATION AFTER THE EXPIRY OF SIX YEAR PERIOD, WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR EXAMINATION RE-REGISTRATION AS PER RULES.
Candidates, who are unsuccessful to qualify Section A Examination in six year, shall be permitted to appear afresh in Section A Examination. Subject(s) exemption(s) secured during six years, if any, shall be forfeited. They would be required to pass Section A Examination afresh as per the existing scheme by paying the requisite fees along with Re-registration Application Form.
Candidates, who have already qualified Section A Examination but unsuccessful to qualify Section B Examination in six years, shall be permitted to appear afresh in Section B Examination in existing scheme retaining their Section A status, by paying the requisite fees. They would be required to apply for Re-registration and also Section B Registration in the prescribed proforma. In such cases, subject(s) exemption(s) secured during six-years, if any, shall be forfeited and they would need to pass Section B Examination afresh as per the existing scheme . Also, they would be required to do project work and the laboratory experiments afresh.
- Six years period shall be counted from Summer examination. For example, if six years period of a candidate expired in Winter 2013 examination, re-registration period of six years shall be counted from Summer 2014 irrespective of the month and year the candidate submits his application during the currency period of re-registration.
- Candidates are advised to apply for the same so as to reach at the Headquarters office latest by April 10 and October 10, failing which they will not be eligible to appear in immediate Summer and Winter Examination, respectively.
- No separate identity card will be issued after re-registration. In case the candidate desire to change the address/ replace the identity card/ report lost of identity card, she/he may approach to Membership Department with relevant application form available in the website.
CANDIDATES, BE PERMITTED TO APPLY FOR PRE-MATURE RE-REGISTRATION, AFTER THE EXPIRY OF FIVE YEARS OF STIPULATED SIX YEARS PERIOD WHEN THEY HAVE NOT SUFFICIENT TIME TO PASS THE BALANCE SUBJECTS OF SECTION A/ SECTION B EXAMINATION. SUCH CANDIDATES MAY SUBMIT THEIR PREMATURE RE-REGISTRATION FORM FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS PERIOD TO APPEAR AFRESH IN ALL SUBJECTS OF SECTION A/ SECTION B WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITION(S).
- Candidates passed only one subject in Section A (Non-diploma) till the expiry of five years of stipulated six years period, are eligible to apply for premature re-registration. [Candidates passed two or more subjects in Section A (Non-diploma) after the expiry of five years of stipulated six years period are not eligible to apply for premature re-registration.]
- Candidates in Section A (Diploma) are not eligible to apply for premature re-registration.
- Candidates, who are unable to pass any subject in Section B till the expiry of five years of stipulated six years period, are eligible to apply for premature re-registration. [Candidates passing one or more subject(s) in Section B after the expiry of five years of stipulated six years period are not eligible to apply for premature re- registration.]
1. Six year period shall be counted from Summer examination of the year in which a candidate submits his / her application for this purpose.
2. For Section A candidates, subject(s) exemption, if any, shall be forfeited after premature re-registration. For Section B candidates, pass status of Section A will remain unaltered.
3. Candidates are advised to apply with requisite fee for the same so as to reach at the Headquarters office latest by April 10 for Summer examination and October 10 for Winter examination, failing which they will not be eligible to appear in the respective session. However, Such candidate will be eligible to appear in immediate next examination on submission of examination application form with requisite fee.
4. No separate identity card will be issued after premature re-registration.
Section A candidates are requested to apply on the prescribed format for Application for Premature Re-registration along with requisite fee mention in the application form. In case of Section B candidates, they would be required to apply for Premature Re-registration and also Registration of Section B on the prescribed proforma along with the respective fee as mention in the application forms.