Due to the pandemic, board exams for Class 10 have been cancelled and students are being given marks through internal assessments done by schools. To ensure uniformity during admissions and give equal opportunity to all students, the Maharashtra school education board will hold an optional CET for admissions to first year junior college (FYJC) seats. The CET will be held offline. It will be a 100-mark multiple choice question-format exam conducted over two hours. It will be based on the syllabus of Class 10 SSC, and have questions from four subjects –. English, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences — with each subject carrying 25 per cent weightage of marks.The CET will be conducted for students of all boards — state board, CBSE, ICSE, IB and others — whose students wish to study in junior colleges affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.