CBSE students start admission race from much behind

Updated on: Friday, May 27, 2011

Earlier the results, greater the chances of getting into the course of one's choice. This seems to be the case for students who pass Plus-Two.

And, at a disadvantage are those who pass out Class XII from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools.

This time, the State Board results were declared 14 days ahead, leaving the CBSE students with very little course options and seats.

Many students who got the Plus-Two results on May 9 were able to get ‘provisional admission' on the very same day based on the mark lists downloaded from the Internet.

Within a week, almost all colleges had filled in most of the seats available in the open quota.

A few institutions which admitted students under some special quota like sports had a few seats vacant.

In this situation, the results of the CBSE examinations were published on May 23.

What these students have now in terms of options is anybody's guess. Except a handful of colleges, the others do not have even a small percentage of seats left for these students who are looking for commerce and science courses.

K.K. Ramachandran, Vice-Principal of Dr. G.R. Damodaran College of Science, says the college gets students from all over the country mainly for the commerce courses.
Common phenomenon

“This is a common phenomenon in our college. So we have allotted nearly 20 per cent to CBSE students. From Monday we have been having students come in for applications. The crowd is expected to increase by Friday when students from other States will make a beeline,” he says.

Sources in a few other colleges say that they were conforming to the earlier practise of waiting for 10 days after the original mark sheets were received by the students even till a few years ago.

This gave ample time for the CBSE students to join the competition at the same time as the Plus-Two students.

A professor from a college says that this leads to the institution losing out the best students to other colleges. Also, there is a high chance of seats not getting filled in certain courses.

By the first-come-first-served basis admission procedure, the colleges are ensured of not only quality but also quantity.
In a fix

Many academics, however, agree that this does put the CBSE students in a fix.

C. Swaminathan, Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiar University, says there is no Government rule that colleges have to earmark seats for those coming from CBSE schools.

The university too does not have any such rules.

The solution that he and other academicians suggest is to reduce the period between the publishing of the Plus-Two and CBSE results.

This year the colleges under Bharathiar University have been permitted to apply for 20 per cent extra seats for courses that has many takers. The university is at present entertaining such applications.

According to Mr. Swaminathan the colleges can make use of this to accommodate the CBSE students. However, he maintains that the university cannot insist the colleges to do so.

K.M. Chinnadurai, Principal, PSG College of Arts and Science, says that the college gets students from Tamil Nadu as well as from other States who have studied in the CBSE Board every year.
Time gap

“We keep a few seats for such students in all the courses. But it is true that the large time gap between the two Board results certainly narrows down the options available to the CBSE students,” he says.
Competition

With intense competition for admitting meritorious students in the open quota and others in the management quota, colleges say they do not have time to wait for the CBSE students who walk in after a long 14-day gap.

CBSE students start admission race from much behind

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