KOLKATA: Two reputable colleges affiliated to Calcutta University have uploaded their undergraduate admission criteria before the admission portals start accepting applications on August 2.
Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration and Lady Brabourne College, both government institutes, receive several thousand admission applications every year for a few hundred seats.
At Lady Brabourne College, according to the notification on its site, each candidate can apply for a maximum of four subjects. Students will also have to upload attested copies of Class X marksheets, along with other documents. The candidates’ Class X board exam scores will be given weightage for admission to many courses.
For subjects, such as Bengali, microbiology, physics and geography, weightage will be given to marks scored in the subject as well as related subjects. This is being done because all the boards and councils cancelled their classes X and XII exams this year and the government also ruled out any admission test or interview of applicants. Lady Brabourne, like many other institutes, has devised its own formula to evaluate the candidates and see if they have the aptitude for the subjects and whether they are interested in the fields or not.
At Goenka College the eligibility criteria this year is that a candidate must have passed Class XII boards in 2021 and preceding five years, up to 2016, with at least five subjects of 100 marks each, including English and any one related subject, including accountancy, mathematics, economics, statistics,commerce, costing and taxation. Candidates must have also scored 75% in aggregate and 60% in the related subject. The college has 549 seats, including both morning and day sections.
“All important dates and method of application have been shared on a specially designed portal, which went live on Wednesday,” said a college official.
The government has instructed the colleges to start accepting applications from August 2 and publish the merit list on September 1.First-semester classes will start on October 1.
