With the announcement of Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC), Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) matriculation results, city intermediate colleges are witnessing long queues of students for the admission forms.
The students as well as parents are seen waiting for long outside college counters to seek form for their ward.
One of the prominent colleges of the city, St Xavier’s College, this time has received around 21,000 applications of boys and girls for two year course in science and commerce. The college has only 3,600 seats for the two streams. The last date for the form submission is May 31.
Besides, Ranchi Girls Marwari College has received more than 8,000 applications against 800 seats in science stream and more than 7,500 applications against 900 seats in commerce stream.
Meanwhile, Gossner College has accepted more than 4,000 forms against only 750 seats in science and commerce streams respectively. Nirmala College has received over 2,000 applications for 400 seats in Science and around 4,000 applications for 500 seats in commerce.
The selection of the students will be done on the basis of college entrance test which is scheduled on different dates. The minimum qualification marks in the entrance examination is 45 per cent for Schedule Caste (SC), Schedule Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Class (OBC) and 50 per cent for general student.
St Xavier’s College Principal Nicholas Tete said, “We do not restrict the number of form distribution because our motive is to select best from the better. Every year there is around ten per cent increment in sale of college forms.”
Meanwhile, the rush for admission forms has increased the problems of parents and students as many have to return empty hand from the counters.
Student of Ursuline Convent School Muri, Alankar Gupta who all the way from Silli came for the procurement of St Xavier’s college form for commerce stream said, “From past two days I have to return home without form. I start from my house early in the morning to get first in the line but to no avail as the queue get longer by the time I reach.”