I came across a newspiece yesterday regarding a guy who couldnt feature on the first list of the College. FYJC admission time is round the corner and everyone is making a rush to all the colleges. Anyways, this guy had opted for Ruparel Science, but couldnt get through. Now its a different thing if your percentage is less and you opt for such top class colleges. But this guys had scored 93%. Now if 93% dosent get on the first list how much more is needed?!!? I was flabbergasted at the situation.
This year the govt has decided to follow a percentile scheme to as to put the SSC students at par with the ICSE and CBSE boards as these boards generally have a higher percentage of passouts. Well, the system of ICSE and CBSE is such that apart from the marks scored at the final written exam, a student has to perform throughout the year to get those 20 internal marks. SSC pattern laid all the stress on the final written exam. But this year they incorporated the 20 marks for internal assessment pattern. Results were quite good. But now on top of that, the givt has decided to use a perscentile system, where a students marks when considered for college admissions will be out of 600 or 650 as opposed to out of 750 as is their normal pattern. Naturally the percentages are bound to jump.
This jump in percentage has a cascading effect. Students initially scoring in the 70s have now got into the 80s, but at the same time the 80s junta has not increased that dramatically. Overall this will raise the overall cutoffs for the colleges, as this time its not only ICSE n CBSE but also SSC students with higher percentage. The results are for all to see.
If students with 90% plus donot get into a college of their choice, what is he/she supposed to do. During my 10th ICSE, i had scored 87% so i was pretty safe off, as my situations would have been really bad had i got into the 80-84% bracket. Now that safe slot has increased by atleast 4-5% more. So now student have to cross the 90% mark to be in the running, and if you want to crack the first list of colleges like Ruia, Ruparel, Jai Hind, you better score in excess of 93-94%.
This is crazy! Feel very sad for the students. Puts undue pressure on them and even more on the parents. Its a cut throat world really. I mean i cant even imagine the plight of those who have scored in the 80-85% bracket. Ofcourse they will get admissions but it definitely wont be in the college of their liking.
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