With class 12 results being announced by the various boards including Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Indian School Certificate (ISC) and Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) and other boards, colleges in the State capital have started the admission process for undergraduate courses. While some colleges did conduct an entrance exam till last year, this year however, the criterion for admission is purely marks based. The new academic session for all the colleges is slated to begin from October.
At St Xavier’s College for all undergraduate courses an entrance exam was conducted till 2019, however owning to the pandemic this time the admission is on the basis of marks. “This is the first time an entrance exam is not being conducted and admission is being given on the aggregate marks irrespective of the board the student may come from. The State reservation policy is being followed for all the subjects. The last date for admission as per the first list is September 10 while the second list is likely to be declared around September 12,” said an official requesting anonymity.
The college has 900 seats in commerce, 720 in arts which include both morning as well as evening shift while in the science stream there are a total of 450 seats. In Political Science the cutoff for general category students is 90 per cent while for Hindi Department the cutoff has been fixed at 78 per cent. In Bachelors of Mass Communication and Journalism the cutoff for general category is 84 per cent and for Bachelors in Animation is 60 per cent. The Department of Zoology has primarily considered the marks scored in biology and the cutoff for general category is 97.