bangalore if you are aiming to take a crack at engineering entrance tests all you need do is get past the puc hurdle with the basic minimum 35 per cent score if the universities in the state agree with the relaxed norms recommended by the allindia council for technical education aicte then you will no longer have to secure 50 per cent marks at the qualifying exam to compete for an engineering seat the aicte notification says that students must pass the 102 examination with physics and mathematics as compulsory subjects along with chemistry biotechnology computer science biology for entry into fouryear engineering and technology courses the candidates will however be required to qualify in the entrance test in all subjects as per requirement the notification said the aicte has also relaxed the eligibility norms for the pharmacy architecture hotel management and catering technology mba and mca courses the eligibility requirements for all these courses are a mere pass in respective qualifying examinations according to official sources the eligibility norms in andhra pradesh and tamil nadu were relaxed last year the notification for karnataka has been issued for 200304 when contacted visvesvaraya technological university vtu vicechancellor k balaveera reddy told the times of india that a meeting of the academic council senate and executive committee would be held soon to discuss the notification the aicte has given the state government and the university the freedom to fix the eligibility requirements the meeting will decide whether we should stick to the aicte norms or fix a minimum per cent less than 50 per cent the aictes norms are not binding on us he said the aicte has questioned the need to fix 50 per cent as a minimum eligibility standard when a separate entrance examination is conducted for admission to engineering besides the large number of vacant engineering seats has also prompted it to take this decision reddy added