Admission form commencing today in different colleges of Patna University

 

PATNA: Even as the sale of application forms for admission to the three-year degree courses in different colleges of Patna University (PU) is commencing on Friday, students as well as their guardians have already started making anxious inquiries about the process of admission. For the first time, PU has introduced entrance test for admission to the undergraduate courses this year.
The principals of all the PU colleges, including Patna College, Patna Science College, B N College, Magadh Mahila College, Patna Women's College and Vanijya Mahavidyalaya, are busy finalizing the admission-related matters, including the entrance test procedure. As per the decision of PU's academic council, candidates having at least 45% marks in the Plus Two examination will be eligible for the test.
PU students' welfare dean Ejaz Ali Arshad said the entrance test would be held separately by each college and the test questions would be of objective type. The test would contain 100 questions of one mark each on general awareness and the subjects concerned. A meeting of the college principals would be held on June 4 to look into related issues, said Arshad.
Patna Science College principal Arun Kumar Sinha said the sale of admission forms would continue up to June 25 and the entrance test for admission to the B.Sc. Honours classes in the college would be held on July 6. The test will be held at Science College. But, if the number of applicants exceeded 5000, the test may be held at some other centres too, he said.
The dates of entrance test for other colleges are: Magadh Mahila College (July 2), Patna Women's College (July 3), Patna College (July 4), B N College (July 5), and Vanijya Mahavidyalaya (July 7). The results of entrance tests are to be published latest by July 16 and all the admissions are to be completed latest by July 31, said the dean.
The minimum qualifying marks in the entrance test is 50% for general category candidates and 45% for SC, ST and EBC category students.
All the colleges of PU are expecting brisk sale of application forms this year as even candidates securing low marks in class XII examination, who otherwise could not have dreamt of getting a berth in a PU college, would also try their luck. Patna Science College had received more than 4,000 applications last year, but this number would definitely increase this year, said principal Sinha.