The online junior college admission procedure is a tricky affair.
Already students are bogged down by filling multiple forms on a website that constantly crashes because of heavy traffic.
The online junior college admission procedure is a tricky affair.
Already students are bogged down by filling multiple forms on a website that constantly crashes because of heavy traffic. And then there are the guidance officers, who themselves have clue how to guide students to fill the forms. End result: Chaos.
Barun Sinha, who recently moved to the city from Chennai, had sought the help from a guidance centre in MD College at Parel, but was shocked to find that the officer in-charge did not turn up at the centre for three consecutive days.
“Every time I would go to the centre, they would tell me to come the next day because the officer was not present. Other staff members were not able to help me,” said the 16-year-old, who scored 81% in his ICSE exams.
After wasting three days, Sinha filled the application and option forms on his own from his Sewri home. Then another problem arose — the submit or confirm link was not visible on the website — fyjc.org.
After spending 90 minutes on a visual tour of the website, according to which the option should be on the end of the page, it was not visible on his form. Upset, he again approached the centre. “But I got even more confused there,” Sinha added.
Others applicants faced the similar problems.
Tanushree Shinde, who recently shifted to Borivli from Pune, said: “First I thought I was doing something wrong, so I filled the admission form again. When I went to a nearby guidance centre, the officer there told me that the link will be activated only after July 7. But, when I checked with my friends, I realised he was wrong.”
Rajesh Shewale from Jogeshwari seems to have had the worst encounter. When he asked the officer at the guidance centre if he had to fill the names of 35 or 15 colleges on the form, the officer confidently replied: “15”.
“It was only after I read the newspapers I realised that the officer had misled me. I was supposed to fill a minimum of 35 college options,” said Shewale, who scored 90.45 in his SSC exams.
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