CBSE students lost out of the race to gain admission for undergraduate programmes in the city’s autonomous colleges as students from the State stream cornered majority of the seats.
Valuation
The managements attributed it to the liberal valuation in the State stream compared to the tough valuation followed by the CBSE.
“We had courses in which not even a single student from the CBSE stream could get an admission. Many eligible CBSE students could not make it this time as majority of the seats were bagged by students from the State stream,” said Sr. Vinitha, director of the St. Teresa’s College.
The management representatives pointed out that the liberal valuation being followed in the State stream had its own casualties.
‘A’ plus in all subjects
Sr. Vinitha recalled that even students who got ‘A’ plus in all subjects failed to get admission in an undergraduate course in view of the increase in number of candidates, who got cent per cent in all subjects under the State board.
As per the official figures given by the Sacred Heart College management, the per cent of State board students who secured admission for various undergraduate courses in the new academic year was about 60 per cent.
Only 36.7 per cent CBSE students could get admission at the college.
For B.Sc. Physics course, only four CBSE students got admission while the corresponding figure of State board students was 49.
Five CBSE students gained a seat for the B.A. Sociology course while the number of students, who came from the State board was 30.
The intake in the order of Higher Secondary and CBSE students for various courses: B. A. English (16 and 7); B.A. Economics (31 and 21); B.Sc Maths (26 and 7); B.Sc Chemistry (36 and 14); B.Sc Botany (36 and 11); B.Sc Zoology (33 and 16).
Yet to verify
Joseph I. Injodey, executive director of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences in Kalamassery, said that the instituition had not yet verified the exact intake position. “But only a few CBSE students have got admission to the college for B.S.W and B.Com programmes as per the preliminary estimates,” he said.
