Mumbai FYJC admissions: Cut-offs ease across streams in first merit list

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The state of Maharashtra has come out with the first merit list for Std XI students, with 1,33,323 students being allotted colleges across the Mumbai region in the first list, where cutoffs were slightly lower compared to previous years. The maximum number of students were allotted for commerce, followed by science and then humanities. The first merit list was released for the students on Friday, May 29, following several portal hitches that came up in the previous week owing to student traffic on the FYJC portal.

Like every year, colleges across Mumbai saw soaring cutoffs with HR College closing their first list cutoff at 93 per cent while RA Podar closed theirs at 94.2 per cent. For humanities, St Xavier's College closed its cutoff at 92.6 per cent for humanities, and colleges like Ruia and BK Birla closed their science cutoff at 466 marks or 93.2 per cent. This year, 67 thousand students of the 1.3 lakh allotted secured the first preference of their college.

2,11,660
Students applying for the first merit list

1,33,323
Total allotment students in first merit list

67,583
Students with first choice junior college

PrincipalSpeak

Pooja Ramchandani, principal of HR College
‘The cutoffs have slightly slid down this year, with ours being 0.2 per cent lower. This could be the result of stricter correction for the Maharashtra State Board and the CBSE board Std X papers, since the pass percentage for both has come down this year'

Karuna Gokarn, principal of St Xavier's College
‘We have seen a dip across the junior college streams; however, cutoffs for a few graduate courses have dipped too, since students are now opting for professional courses over traditional ones'

Portal problem

Principals also indicate that the initial glitches in the portal could have resulted in several students forgoing the first list and waiting for the second list applications, while many students also delay applications since they are travelling during this period.

The education department has now advised students who have not been allotted colleges to lock their admission form Part 2 ahead of the second merit list.