BUET Admission Test: Preliminary on 24th February, written test on 16th March

Admission tests of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) for the academic year 2023-24 will start after the election in the new year only after the approval of the Academic Council. For this reason, on Tuesday (December 26) at noon, the admission tests organizing committee has recommended to hold the Preliminary tests for admission on 24th February and written test on 16th March.

In this regard, the chairman of the committee, Professor Dr. Jiban Poddar said, BUET admission committee meeting has recommended two dates for preliminary and written tests. It will be approved finally in the Academic Council meeting.

According to the BUET sources, the admission tests will be conducted according to the same pattern as last academic year. There will be no major changes.

Basically, BUET admission test is conducted in two stages. In the first phase, the pre-selection test will be conducted in the MCQ system of 100 marks. There will be a written test at the BUET campus with those who pass it.

The pre-selection test will have negative marking (deduction of marks for wrong answers). For each wrong answer 25 percent of the marks obtained will be deducted from the question marks.

In the last academic year i.e., in the academic year 2022-23, a total of 1 thousand 309 students were admitted. Among these, three seats were reserved for the engineering department and town and regional planning department and one seat each for the architecture department for the candidates belonging to minority ethnic groups of Chittagong Hill Tracts and other areas. How many seats will be taken for admission will be known after the publication of the admission circular.