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Educationists Allay Fears As FYJC Seats Rise To 2.7L
Online junior college admissions have already begun and, once again, the anxiety levels of students have reached new heights. To top it, fewer high scorers and the once praised Best-5 policy did little to boost the results of state board students.
Educationists Allay Fears As FYJC Seats Rise To 2.7L
Online junior college admissions have already begun and, once again, the anxiety levels of students have reached new heights. To top it, fewer high scorers and the once praised Best-5 policy did little to boost the results of state board students.
Colleges and education officials, though, told TOI on Thursday that the students fears are completely misplaced, considering that more than 2.7 lakh junior college seats are up for admissions this time round. Every year, students worry they will not make it through to a college at all and once the admission process is over, thousands of seats go vacant. We have more seats than last year, so students have nothing to worry, said a senior official from the deputy director of education (schools) office. Last year, close to 1.3 lakh seats were left vacant after online admissions got over some in top rung institutes.
With admissions to bifocal courses being pushed offline after the online admissions, students have got more online seats this year. Students will definitely get through to a college of their choice, provided they apply to colleges according to their percentage. Problem arises when students tend to be overambitious and apply to colleges with high cut-offs and then blame this on the faulty system, added the official. This year, even though theres been a marginal increase in the number of junior college seats, those for online admissions have increased.
The first merit list always looks very unrealistic, especially because toppers apply to all top colleges, said Marie Fernandes, principal of St Andrews College in Bandra West. She added that every year, most colleges face a dearth of students applying for Arts. Students fail to understand that they can get a headway when it comes to self-financed courses during degree admissions. All courses have seats reserved for students from all three streams.
Some colleges reduced their seats in the management quota and converted them into open category seats. This gives more opportunity in the general category, said a principal.
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With bifocal admissions being pushed offline, more seats are up for grabs in all streams Arts, Science and Commerce online Several colleges have shut down some Arts divisions and blamed it on reduced demand Several have converted management seats to those under the general category to give more opportunities in open category
Date with Mark Sheets
SSC students will receive hard copies of mark sheets on June 22,following which they can apply to the divisional state board for copies of answer sheets Applications for copies will be accepted till July 2
Helpline nos. State board
27893756,27881075
Others
Vanderwala: 1860 2662345,022-25706000 I Samaritans: 32473267 I Aasra: 27546667 I Mind Temple: 26289792,26288928 I Malini Shah: 9870496238
Timetable for FYJC application
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Online filling of application forms: June 14
to June 21 Corrections to online forms, if any: June 22 (till 2pm)
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Declaration of first merit list: June 27 (at
5pm) Payment of fees for first merit list: Rs 50,June 28-30 from 10am to 4pm
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Declaration of second merit list: July 4 (at
5pm) Payment of fees for second merit list: Rs 50,July 5-6 from 10am to 4pm,and
July 7 from 10am to 2pm
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Declaration of third (and final) merit list:
July 10 (at 5pm)
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Payment of fees for third merit list: Rs
50,July 11-12 from 10am to 4pm
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Admissions for minority or in-house quota:
Offline at junior colleges from June 13 to June 23
Source: TOI
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