bangaloremysore karnataka on monday said it will go ahead with its common entrance test cet for mbbs and bds in may 2013 but theres a rider the move is subject to the decision of the supreme court which is due to hear the case on january 15 16 and 17 earlier the state had directed students to appear for national eligibility cum entrance test neet the decision was taken at a meeting chaired by medical education minister sa ramdas on monday since the decision is subject to outcome of petitions pending before the sc we have directed the karnataka examination authority kea to prepare a bridge course the step will be beneficial in case the sc decides in favour of neet said sc venkatesh director of medical education medical education minister sa ramdas said karnataka agreed to neet rankings as it would have got 4804 mbbs seats of the total 6005 against the 2212 seats under cet this is because 85 per cent of seats in karnataka colleges will be reserved for state quota but as several colleges states and autonomous institutes have filed petitions questioning the validity of neet the apex court directed the states to conduct cet as cet results are subject to the court verdict in january the minister said the court has even directed medical council of india and dental council of india to hold neet simultaneously he said neet would have spared students from attending multiple entrance tests ramdas denied that neet will burden the state students as they are illequipped to face the examinations which follow cbse syllabus question papers for neet are prepared keeping in view the syllabi of various states and karnataka students would have fared better than other state students in tackling them he claimed he has directed the department to prepare students to face neet by releasing study material holding tests and lessons