Karnataka has launched e-learning initiative, GetCETgo, to initiative offering a comprehensive online crash course for Karnataka Common Entrance Test, NEET and JEE. This crash course will cost of less than Rs 40 for registered students. ‘GetCETgo’, is launched on Monday by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
At the launch of the initiative at Vidhan Soudha, Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwatha Narayana, who holds the Higher Education portfolio, told reporters that this course facilitates learning, revision, and taking up tests. GetCETgo has launched for the students who belong to backward sections of the socio-economic structure, and this also comprises LMS (learning management system), he added. This year, the course had been introduced for JEE.
GetCETgo is available through the web portal, an android app, and YouTube Channel, an official release said, adding it would offer preparatory material for KCET, NEET, and JEE and the test will be available in the JEE Main format.
This was to help students offset the challenges for students from last year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when many of them were off track with their exam preparations and had limited access to academic content.
GetCETgo 2021’s support services include,’ login support, tech back-end support, doubt clarification, and customer service 24/7, it added. Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan, who also holds the higher education portfolio, said the objective was to increase the number of students of Karnataka in IITs.
“This course facilitates learning, revision and taking up tests. Videos, synapses and interactive tests, especially in terms of scale on an online platform, will be the first initiative by any state in the country,” he said.
GetCETgo is intended to benefit all students (above two lakh) nationwide who have registered for the program, Narayan said. Through this, the government will be able to deliver quality crash course content at a cost of less than Rs 40 per registered student, the deputy CM said.
GetCETgo would be made available for the entire year from the coming academic year and the Karnataka Examinations Authority will be entrusted with this responsibility, he said.
