KOLKATA: Colleges across the city are hopeful of starting admission to under graduate courses by the first week of August if different boards that have cancelled Class-XII board exams and are evaluating students based on class X and XI results publish “results” by end of July as they have assured.
Many principals said they have conducted meetings with admission committees and head of various departments to work out admission details.
Since the process will be online, several colleges are going to launch separate websites for admission so that applicants do not face any problem and the process is not delayed.
“If the results are published on time then we can start accepting applications from the first week of August.
If there is any other notification from the higher education department then we might have to make necessary changes,” said Siuli Sarkar, principal of Lady Brabourne College.
In pre-pandemic times colleges would start accepting applications by the end of May and new session would commence in July.
Last year, pandemic forced boards to cancel examinations which delayed the admission to UG courses.
This year, too, CBSE, ISC and HS have cancelled the Class-XII examinations and using an alternative formula to evaluate the students.
They have claimed to publish the results by end of July.
“If all the boards publish results by the end of July, colleges can start accepting applications from the first week of August.
If the entire process can be wrapped in four to six weeks, both students and teachers will get some more time to complete the syllabus,” said Tapan Kumar Poddar, president of the Calcutta University chapter of All Bengal Principals’ Council and principal of Vivekananda College.
J D Birla Institute will start accepting applications from the first week of July.
Students can apply to ST Xavier’s College as soon as their board results are published.
Presidency University will conduct admission test in the first week of August.
“We decided to start the process early so that candidates are sure that the application to colleges have started and they can fill up forms,” said Deepali Singhee, principal of J D Birla Institute.
“An early start will help us conduct the process smoothly,” said Asok Mukhopdhyay, principal of Jaipuria College.