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Latest News |
| 06th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Pune Edition |
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ICSE students prefer 7 subjects score,find Best-5 a
disadvantage
Pune: The Best 5 policy has found only a few takers among
the students from the non-SSC boards like the ICSE,CBSE,IGCSE
and other boards.
Only 372 ICSE board students of the total 44,017 standard
XI applications were found eligible for admission by the
centralised admission process committee.The panel had
no specific information on the number of applicants from
the CBSE,IGCSE,IB and other boards.
Deputy director (education) Sunil Magar said,Only 28 out
of the total 287 non-SSC board students,who applied for
the science stream,opted for the Best 5 benefit.The rest
preferred to go by their normal system of calculation
of aggregate score.
Similarly,only eight of the total 50 non-SSC board students,who
applied for the commerce stream,opted for the Best 5 benefit
while 26 of 168 students,who applied for the bifocal seats,chose
the option.
The CAP committee found 87 applicants eligible for admission
against the grace marks given through the sports quota.Four
students were from non-SSC boards.
The Supreme Court had allowed the state government to
go ahead with the Best 5 policy,which calculates the aggregate
score on the basis of the best five marks of the total
six subjects,provided the benefits were extended to students
from the ICSE board too.
For an ICSE student,the apex court had ruled that the
marks scored in one subject from Group III be eliminated
while the best five from the remaining six subjects__
four from Group I and two from Group II__ be considered
for calculation of aggregate.
The court had also ruled that student wishing to take
the benefit of Group III subject score may opt for an
aggregate based on all seven subject marks.
Several ICSE students found that they were at a disadvantage
if they opted for the `Best 5 benefit.Such students have
largely stuck to their aggregate from all seven subjects.
ATKT FOR 2,826
* As many as 2,826 students have opted for standard XI
admission for the allowed-to-keep-term (ATKT) benefit
this year.It may go up to 3,000 during the admission process,
deputy director (education) Sunil Magar said.* The benefit
is being extended from last year to those SSC students,who
failed in two of the six subjects.They were allowed to
clear the subjects in the supplementary exam in October.The
ATKT admissions will be held from August 14 to 17 at Fergusson
college amphitheatre through a counsellingbased table
round process,said Magar.
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