FYJC Standard 11th admission 2020 Zero Round

FYJC Standard 11th admission 2020: Education department starts ‘zero contact’ process for quota round

Maharashtra education department is now sharing the students’ data with colleges to make the 11th Standard admission process easy and simple for first-year junior college (FYJC) aspirants applying under the management, in-house and minority quotas. Because of the Covid-19 situation, the entire FYJC admission process will be based on ‘zero contact’.

A senior education department official said, “We have given students data applying under various quotas to the colleges so that they can make calls to the students to seek details on his/her interest for applying to their institute. Students can complete the entire process online and do not need to visit the college.”

Colleges need to complete quota admissions (also called the zero round) and update the status of admissions conducted on the portal for FYJC admissions by August 22.

Students who wish to confirm their Standard 11th admissions will get a one-time password (OTP) on their mobile phones, which they have to enter before securing a seat at a college. The same process would be conducted if a student wishes to cancel the admission. Once a student confirms admissions under any of the quotas, he/she will be out of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for general admission rounds.

Around 70,000 students had filled Part 2 of their admission forms, which consists of their college preferences. The education department started the process for filling the Part 2 forms from August 12. Admissions for students who are not applying under any quota will start from August 23. FYJC Merit List 2020 Mumbai and FYJC Merit List 2020 Pune is going to release on August 30.

More students scores above 90%, FYJC admission 2020-2021 get tougher

FYJC Admission List 2020 - Admissions to first-year junior colleges (FYJCs) get tougher year-after-year, this year also, principals said, students are likely to face a stiffer competition to get into a college of their choice, as many more students across all the boards have scored in the 90-95% range.

Marie Fernandes, principal of St Andrew’s College, Bandra said “The competition keeps getting tougher every year, and it won’t be any different this year. The cut-offs may go higher than last year and it is likely that more students will be vying for the same seat, especially in top colleges.”

Principals feel students opting for quota admissions too, will face a tougher competition.

Parag Ajgaonkar, principal, NM College, Vile Parle said, “Generally, the rise in overall marks directly affects the cut-offs for general as well as minority quota admissions, and it will be a similar situation this year too. Status will be known once admissions to minority and management quota seats begin.”

While most Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools in the city earlier highlighted that the number of students who scored 95% and above was much higher as compared to 2019, the Maharashtra state board too, saw a surge in the high-scorers.

This year 83,262 SSC students from SSC board managed to score 90% and above this year, of which 14,756 are from Mumbai alone.

Mumbai divisional board received around 1.85 lakh applications from students for the general admission round in 2019. While nearly 1.68 lakh were from the state board, the second highest number of applicants (7,881) belonged to the ICSE board.

With ICSE students scoring big every year, experts said that the state education department needs to come up with a solution for state board students.

The cut-offs at HR College as well as KC College saw a rise from 92% and 88.6% respectively to 92.4% and 90.2% in the commerce stream. In the arts stream, St Xavier’s College closed its first list at 94%, a dip of 0.20% from 2018, while Ramnarain Ruia College and DG Ruparel College, with cut-offs at 92.6% and 86.2% respectively, with a marginal increase. Prominent colleges saw a clear decline in the cut-off marks for the science stream. The fyjc first merit list 2020 schedule will be released soon.

CBSE, ICSE Top scorers apply for FYJC seats in Maharashtra

It seems that SSC students might have a tough time getting a seat in some of the most popular colleges in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as 80% of applications in the 95% and above category are from non-state board students for first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions 2019.

FYJC first merit list 2019 is to be released on July 12 at 6pm.

The state education department released the general merit list for FYJC admissions in which students got to know their merit ranks and could check their scores on the admission portal before the final merit lists. As per the official data, 1,487 students who have scored 95% and above would confirm the FYJC admissions in top colleges this year. Of these, only 301 students (20%) are from the state board, and students are from CBSE, ICSE and IGCSE boards.

Even as over 91% students qualify for admissions are from the SSC board, only a few of them have made it to the top of the charts. Out of the 6,607 students scoring between 90% and 95%, only 3,453 (52%) are from the state board.

A principal of a south Mumbai college said, “We see that a lot of students from the other boards making it to the first merit list every year. But this year as the Maharashtra state board students have scored low as per the new paper pattern, only a few might be able to make it to the top charts”.

After the pass percentage for SSC declined this year, the education department permitted 98 top junior colleges in the MMR to increase their seats by 5-8%. Satram Verhani, vice-principal, CHM college, Ulhasnagar said, “Still after adding the additional seats, there would be a stiff competition as there are many top scorers from other boards. In minority colleges, 50% of the additional seats will be for minority, which would be surrendered only at the end of three rounds”.