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MANGALORE: It is common to see students flock to the Dakshina Kannada district, an education hub in Karnataka, for cutting-edge teaching. But what is not so common is that students prefer the district’s coaching centers to train for the Common Entrance Test, the gateway examination for professional courses in the state.

With less than five months left for the CET, students are approaching coaching centres that dot the city. The Expert Coaching Classes (ECC) has declared its seats are filled for this year. Students are trained for CET after the second-year pre-university course exams end.

ECC communications and marketing chief Ananth Prabhu told TOI some 2,000 students from across Karnataka, a good number of them from North Karnataka, land in the district. "Some of them are from Bangalore," he said.

CET coaching centers in the district have been attracting students for at least a decade. The USP is the winning combination of easy-to-understand coaching and descontructed approach to crack the seemingly tough Physics and Mathematics papers. He said most lecturers who author Science PU textbooks and CET assistance literature are from the district.

Anil Mascarenhas, teaching faculty at Boscoss Tutorials, said CET toppers since 2000 are products of the district’s coaching centres. "We conduct coaching in two batches with 60 students in each batch. At least 30 of them are from outside of Dakshina Kananda," Anil said.

As is the practice, CET coaching centres admit students with sound academic record. But Cosmos Tutorials has been reserving 15 seats per batch for 12 years for students who need handholding.

Cosmos Tutorials founder Mohammed Nadeem said at least five of these 15 academically disadvantaged students are from outside of the district. "They come to Dakshina Kannada because the region is known for quality education and its sterling record in SSLC and PUC exams."