When the second merit list for the First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions was declared yesterday evening, seats were allotted to over 30,000 candidates who went in for a betterment option after the first merit list. However, over 15,000 candidates who have not been allotted any seat yet. Officials say many of these are students who have low scores but have listed popular colleges in their admission forms, whose cut-offs are above 90%.

Officials are going to wait until the next round to decide if the students’ preferences need to be re-arranged, because there was similar situation last year as well. However, by the third merit list, most of the students were allotted colleges. Representational pic