With the cut-offs in Mumbai’s top colleges at its peak in the last academic year, she failed to get a seat in the colleges she had opted for.
Radhika Nair, a junior college admission applicant from 2010, scored 91% in her Std X exams. Considering that her high score would land her in any of the good colleges in the city, Nair filled only five choices of city’s best science colleges in the online option form, which was the minimum number of choices available.
With the cut-offs in city’s top colleges at its peak in the last academic year, she failed to get a seat in the colleges she had opted for. Nair then had to wait for the admissions to go offline at the end of the admission season to get a seat in a junior college.
Like Nair, thousands of students did not secure a seat in a college of their choice in spite of scoring high percentages, as they had filled in only a minimum of five options in the online admission form. This year, however, the school education department will be increasing the minimum limit of options that needs to be filled in the form to ensure students fill in more choices and get placed in better colleges. The department this year is aiming at reducing the numbers of admissions done offline from last year’s 4,500.
According to an official from the school education department, department officials have started working on improving the system. “In spite of informing the students to fill in more choices in the forms, several students, including high scorers, filled only five.
This year, to ensure students fill in more options, we are increasing the minimum requirement. We will decide the figure soon,” said the official.
The state is trying to resolve the problem faced due to the sports quota. “There were several applications of students under the sports quota. There also was confusion over the quota and the additional 25 marks that were awarded to students who had excelled in sports. After students from other boards moved the court against the state board students getting those additional marks, it was extended to all students. There was less time to streamline the process and, therefore, we also received several invalid applications, which delayed the process further,” said the official.
Last year, admissions of 4,500 students were done offline after the online process got over. This year, the state plans to reduce the offline admissions by a couple of thousands.
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