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Yes, some of the courses may be available without CET exam. However Common Entrance Test or CET is the gateway for admissions to various professional colleges situated within the country. A student who wants to pursue a professional degree course in medicine, dental, engineering, architecture, etc., must enroll himself / herself for a recognized CET. However, only Class XII students who have achieved requisite scores in mandatory subjects can register and appear for the test. These highly competitive exams are open to all eligible domiciles of a particular state or the nation. The tests are conducted under the aegis of a state or the Central Government. If a competing student successfully qualifies the Common Entrance Test, then he is granted admission to first year/ semester of the respective course.

The criteria is:
1. Two additional seats per unit per course subject to a maximum limit of four (4) out of the
two girl children from the session 2015-16 are created for admission to a given course in
the Panjab University Teaching Departments, Regional Centres and its affiliated Colleges
provided they are otherwise eligible from all angles. The additional seats will be only for
those girl Children who are either a single girl child of her parents or one amongst the only
two girl Children with no male Child. The additional seat will be available to only one of
the two girl children of a couple.
2. An affidavit on a stamp paper worth Rs. 20/- duly attested by 1st class Magistrate, to be
obtained from the parents of the girl children declaring therein that the benefit of this
scheme is being claimed for only One Girl Child out of the two girl Children and the parent
shall not claim the same for the 2nd girl child elsewhere in future the specimen of the
affidavit is enclosed.