ECAT Pakistan

Engineering College Admission Test (ECAT) is a test conducted in Pakistan each year for admission in BE/BS/BSc Engineering degree. ECAT is conducted by University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in the Punjab. It was started in 1998 on the initiative of Chief Minister Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to counter cheating in the examinations at that time. Each year some 45000 students attempt this test while there are some 3000 seats in public sector engineering institutions of the Punjab.

ECAT is a pre-requisite for admission in UET Lahore and its affiliated institutions and all other public sector engineering institutions in the Punjab. Some private institutions also require ECAT as a pre-requisite.

ECAT is taken as multiple choice questions (MCQ). Each MCQ has 4 marks while there is a negative marking of -1 mark for wrong answer.

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.