High 90% Fetches Seats in Top Pune Colleges

PUNE: The cut-off percentage for admission to standard XI at prominent junior colleges in the city and neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad have gone up marginally this year keeping with the trend that was set last year following the introduction of the Best-5 policy.



The policy allows the state board students to calculate their standard X aggregate score, based on marks in the best five out of total six subjects. Last year, the cut-off (percentage point) where admission to a given college is closed, went up by 3% to 4%. It showed marginal improvement of 1% to 2%, this year.

Laxmanrao Apte Junior College was once again among the sought-after colleges, recording the highest 97.27% cut-off for science stream __ a 0.91% improvement over last year's cut-off of 96.36%. In 2009, admissions at Apte college closed at 93.84%.

The next best science stream cut-off, at 94.55%, was shared by Deccan Education Society's (DES) Fergusson College, Pune and Jaihind College, Pimpri. Last year, science admissions at Fergusson College closed at 94.20% while the Jaihind College has ended up with the same cut-off that it had registered in 2010.

In the arts stream, Fergusson College maintained its lead status with admissions closing at 90%, up by 2% over last year's 88%. Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce recorded the second best cut-off at 85.45%, a 19.27% improvement over last year's cut-off of 66.18%.

The DES' Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) remains the most sought-after college for commerce stream with admissions closing at 93.09%, up by 1.09% over last year 92%. The next best cut-off for commerce was 84.36% recorded by the Symbiosis College.

In all, 46,545 seats have been allotted in the Round 1 of the standard XI CAP, the merit list for which was released on Monday by deputy director (education) Sunil Magar, who heads the multi-member CAP committee. "All students, who applied through the CAP, have been allotted a seat. This includes 2,949 students from CBSE, ICSE and other non-SSC boards," Magar said.

The Std XI classes will commence from August 8 instead of the previously announced date of August 4. "The delay is mainly due to the issues relating to the CBSE students," he said. Last year, the legal tussle over the Best-5 policy had impacted the admission schedule and the classes finally started on August 18. "This year, we are starting 10 days earlier than last year despite the delay caused by CBSE issues," Magar said.