new delhi the supreme court on friday directed the cbse to reconduct and declare the results of all india premedical and predental entrance test aipmt by august 17 it also fixed the time schedule for counseling of successful medical aspiring students to prevent undue delay in the academic session the court on june 15 cancelled this years aipmt finding it rigged by techsavvy students and directed the cbse to conduct a fresh exam within four weeks but a bench of justices r k agrawal and a m sapre extended the deadline by one month after the cbse expressed its inability to conduct the exam by july 15 attorney general mukul rohatgi told the bench it was impossible to conduct the exam within a month and it would take a minimum of four months time to hold the fresh exam he said that the cbse was to conduct seven other competitive exams in the coming months and the board required more time to conduct aipmt ags contention was strongly opposed by advocate pushp gupta who was appearing for students who had appeared for the may 3 test she contended that the board had the wherewithal to conduct the exam within a fortnight the bench after hearing their arguments extended the deadline for one more month it directed the board to take the task of holding the exam on most urgent basis the court also directed medical council of india mci to complete the counseling process by september 11 so that the academic session could begin from midseptember it directed the mci to hold first counseling by august 28 second counseling by september 4 and third counseling by september 11 aipmt is the gateway for admission to 15 of seats in all central government medical colleges and participating state government medical colleges the new academic session was scheduled to begin from august 1 but it will get delayed by one and half months the court on monday cancelled the aipmt in view of largescale cheating by students the erring students got answers to questions through electronic devices they smuggled into test centres across the country around 63 lakh aspiring medical students appeared at 1050 centres across the country for the exam on may 3