VISAKHAPATNAM: Around 26,000 candidates will attend AUCET/AUEET-2017, which is scheduled to be conducted on May 8 and 9, in three sessions per day. Andhra University vice-chancellor G Nageswara Rao said that the examination would be conducted at eight places in the city, for which all necessary arrangements had been made.
As per the AU authorities, 23,086 candidates have applied for various PG courses and 2,686 applied for six-year integrated (B.Tech. + M.Tech) Dual Degree Programmes offered by AU College of Engineering (A) and College of Engineering for Women, Andhra University.
Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Kakinada, Rajamahendravaram, Eluru, Vijayawada and Guntur will be the examination centres.
AU vice-chancellor G Nageswara Rao flagged off the vehicle carrying examination material to various centres on Friday.
He said that more than 80 per cent of candidates had already downloaded their hall tickets. He said that differently abled candidates, who need a scribe should inform the chief superintendent of the centre at least a day in advance.
Candidates can make corrections in their names and reservation category in nominal rolls which will be incorporated in the original data subsequently, he added. He also instructed that candidates should be present an hour before at the examination centre and they will not be allowed once the test commences.