Friday, August 19, 2011

AP Eamcet 2011 Spot Admissions B.Tech Colleges Waiting for Get Lower cut-offs

Cut-off marks of 45% to 35% required for admission bring more to fill AP engineering colleges

75,000 seats vacant now after the first phase of Eamcet engineering seat allotment, the of engineering college managements are looking for decision of state government to reduce the cut-off marks in Inter to 35 per cent from the present 45 per cent. Engineering college managements have already put pressure on the A.P government on to write to AICTE to reduce the cut-off marks and save hundreds of colleges from closure. More than 256 colleges across the A.P face the risk of closure as they recorded admissions of less than 100.
The managements showing examples of reserved quota students particularly SC and ST cannot pursue engineering courses because they have not got the required marks. AICTE had for the first time introduced minimum cut-off marks for engineering admissions from this year. It fixed cut-off marks of 50 per cent for open category students and 45 per cent for reserved quota students. It later reduced the cut-off marks to 45 per cent and 40 per cent respectively.
Engineering college eyeing on 50,000 students will be eligible for admission if the cut-off marks are reduced to 35 per cent for all students. In Andhra Pradesh 78,596 engineering seats are vacant after the first phase of seat allotment.

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