Colleges in the Capital City are planning to increase intermediate seats to accommodate a large number of students clearing matriculation examinations this year.
Most of the colleges in the State capital are contemplating to increase seats. At Marwari College there are 3072 intermediate seats in both boys and girls sections, in all three arts, commerce and science streams. Stream-wise both the sections have 512 seats in all three streams.
Marwari college, till date has received 6800 applications, has released the cut-off marks in all three streams. In arts the cut off marks for general category students is 76.6 per cent, BC-I-74.2 per cent, BC II- 72.6 per cent, ST- 42.2 per cent and SC- 61.6 per cent.
For commerce aspirants general category cut off is 74.4 per cent while BC -I the cut off marks is 71.6 per cent. Sources at Marwari College said that this year the college is likely to get more applications, the college administration witnessing a large number of applications is planning to increase seats in all three streams at both boys and girls section.
Ranchi Women's College, one of the premier institutions for girls education too has released cut off marks.
The cut off marks for general category students in arts stream at Ranchi Women's College is 77 per cent, while for OBC candidates the cut off marks is 72.8 per cent, ST candidates 66.6 per cent while SC candidates the cut off marks is 59 per cent.
Similarly, in science stream the general category students cut off marks is 76.4 per cent, OBC candidates the cut off marks is 66.6 per cent, for SC candidates the cut off marks is 47.6 per cent, while ST candidates it is 51 per cent.
The seats in all three arts, science and commerce streams is 640, 512 and 512 respectively.
Vishal Kumar, a student who has received 70 per cent marks in matriculation and interested to join Marwari College said, "I have applied for commerce at Marwari College, but came to know that cutoff marks in commerce is above 75 per cent, but still I am hopeful that I will get admission in second and third list."
Same is the situation at Gossner College, the cutoff marks for general category students is 65 percent. The college on Wednesday released the merit list. There are 512 seats in all three arts, commerce and science streams.
Colleges in the capital have decided to increase the seats as this year a record number of students have cleared matriculation examinations. Last year 2.89 lakh students passed the matriculation examination, while this year the figure is 4.15 lakh students. Around 2.70 lakh students have received first division. In the Capital this year, students passing matriculation examination is 17 per cent more than previous year. Around 37,700 students had appeared in matriculation examination this year from Capital out of which 25,000 students have got first division.