TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: Admissions to graduate courses for the new academic year, opened on Monday at various colleges, with some witnessing a rush for application forms even as many students from the Science stream are busy preparing for the Goa Common Entrance Test slated for May 8 and 9.
The non professional colleges offer undergraduate programmes in Science, Arts, Commerce, management and computer applications.
Often students have to travel long distances to avail college education since colleges are few and mainly located in the towns.
Speaking to Herald, Fr Walter de Sa, the principal of St Xavier’s College in Mapusa said that given that the results are just out, and the NEET-UG and the GCET are yet to be held the rush for admissions at colleges is less.
“Some students are yet to collect their results and leaving certificates from their higher secondary schools, so it will take some time,” he told Herald.
The NEET-UG, which is the National Common Entrance Test for entry into the Medical and Dental Colleges across the country, was held on Sunday May 5, in Goa as in the rest of the country.
The Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) 2013 will be held on May 8 and 9. Besides pure science courses such as chemistry, applied sciences such as microbiology, biotechnology and computer science that are offered by colleges too have a high demand and are the second option for those whom the first choice is a professional degree. In other fields, however, especially that of Arts subjects like psychology, languages, as well as commerce subjects find takers.
Fr de Sa admitted that the increase in the number of seats in professional courses such as engineering and medicine would have an effect on the number and quality of students who study in the non-professional colleges.
“Yes, it will affect the overall quality and numbers,” Fr de Sa said.
Admissions to colleges will continue over the summer with colleges even admitting students who have to answer their supplementary examinations scheduled on June 10 and 11.
There is neck and neck competition for courses especially those that have limited number of seats which get exhausted quickly and those who do not make the grade are left disappointed.
