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Despite a relatively smooth admission process, high cut-off marks have shocked students.
The announcement of the PUC cut-off lists for colleges across the City seems to have effectively clamped down on the euphoria of the SSLC results.
With cut-off percentages hitting the roof, students are left disoriented and uncertain of their next move.
No matter that the introduction of a common PU form — available online — has smoothened out many bumps in the admission process; the combination of the ridiculously high percentages and the logistical issues faced by students once they actually approach colleges to submit their forms has dampened their enthusiasm significantly. Metrolife speaks to a few students to find out their experiences.
Jahnavi Jayagopal, who recently completed her SSLC at MES Kishore Kendra, is one of the lucky students – with an average of around 98 per cent, she’s managed to snag seats in the colleges of her choice.
“I applied at MES Kishore Kendra and Vidya Vardhaka Sardar Patel — I’ll probably end up going to the latter,” she says. Although her marks are more than sufficient, she admits to being shocked when she first saw the cut-off percentages.
“It’s rather unfair. If the first list itself includes percentages like 96 for science students, what happens to the rest? If they wait for the second list to come out, admissions will close at other colleges. Many of my friends have lost out on seats by a mere fraction of a mark,” she laments.
Other than this, she feels that the admission process was relatively simply.
“Life is easier with the common PU form. We can avoid the process of going from college to college, filling applications and paying around Rs 100 at each one. Here, there was just one form which cost around Rs 20,” she explains.
Yash, a student of Sindhi High School, has applied at Christ Junior College, St Joseph’s PU College and Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College.
Although the high cut-off marks have shocked him as well, he’s pleasantly surprised by how smoothly the entire admission process went off.
“It was easier than I thought. We downloaded the form online and the colleges I visited were practically empty — there were no queues and we could submit the form fairly quickly,” he describes.
However, he feels the experience would be less of a hassle if forms could be submitted online as well.
It would appear, however, that he was one of the luckier ones. Anirudh, also from Sindhi High School, is extremely disappointed by the whole process.
“Firstly, the cut-off marks were much too high — not only in Bangalore but in other parts of the state as well. The competition is quite tough.
I had applied at MES Kishore Kendra and since I haven’t got admission in the first list, I’m waiting for the second — however, I think I would prefer to take a seat in a college in Mangalore,” he says.
He’s also rather let-down by the situation at the colleges which he visited to submit his form.
“The entire process took me around two hours. It was organised well — with separate lines for the different streams — but the queues were very long. It would be much better if we could submit the form online — they could allocate seats accordingly,” he concludes.