2,000 students yet to secure seat for FYJC admissions

Mumbai: Even after four mandatory rounds, two special rounds and an additional round, around 1,500 to 2,000 students are yet to secure a seat for First Year Junior College (FYJC).  The state’s school education department will announce a final round soon to accommodate these students.

According to an education department source, despite giving students so many opportunities, they have yet to secure a college berth for themselves due to improper handling of the online admission form.

For the academic year 2017-18, the department decided to do away with offline admissions and decided to introduce special and additional rounds so as to let each and every student secure admission. “Despite the procedure of filling the form being explained through guide books and by their teachers, student still made mistakes in the preference list and in filling the other details in the form. This why their names are not there in the final list,” said an education department official.

Even after conducting seven rounds, an insider has confirmed that it will have a final round that will be like an ultimatum for students. So they need to ensure that they do everything correctly, otherwise there is a high possibility of losing a year. To be conducted on a ‘first-come, first-serve’ (FCFS) basis, it will be the last resort for all the remaining students.

In FCFS process, a student who has not taken admission elsewhere, needs to log into the FYJC admission website by using their existing login ID and password. Then they need to select their stream, a list of colleges they prefer with their codes.  

They should then check the vacancy list at the preferred colleges. If they get an option of ‘Apply Now,’ it will reserve that seat at that very minute for whichever student who selects it first.

The department still has around 30,000 plus seats in their possession that includes all the leftover seats, which colleges have surrendered.