General Admission Guideline

Admission Criteria

1. Students, who have passed 10+2 final examination or equivalent for the institution enlisted by The University of Burdwan can apply for admission into undergraduate courses.
2. Candidature is liable to be cancelled if any wrong data is produced at the time of application/ verification.

Eligibility Criteria

Following instruction issued by the University of Burdwan vide Circular No. RC/PERM/ ADM/539 dated 08.05.07, the formula for calculation of aggregate for admission to the 1styear courses at UG level (Session 2018-2019) will be:

Agreegate =Language 1 + Language 2 + Sum of best 3 electives out of 4 / 5

Aggregate = Language 1 X2 + Sum of best 3 electives out of 4/5 (in case of one language subject) 5

1. Candidates who have passed (10+2) Final Examination conducted by NOS/ IGNOU/ RabindraMuktaVidayalaya/NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY should have at least five subjects of 100 marks each including at least one language subject (English or Bengali) and three conventional subjects will be considered for admission in the 1styear if found eligible.

2. No candidate prior to 2015 will be entertained.

Marks secured by WBCHSE candidates in Environmental Studies will not be counted for calculating aggregate. However, marks secured in Environmental Studies by non-WBCHSE candidates may be counted for calculating aggregate if that marks comes within the best three Electives. If there is just one language, aggregate will have to be calculated with the single language and four best Electives. If there are only four Electives apart from the language, all the Four Electives should be considered for calculating aggregate.

Calculation of Merit Score

MERIT SCORE=(BEST 4 SUBJECTS INCLUDING AT LEAST 1 LANGUAGE)+SUBJECT MARKS*

*For the following Honours subjects, which are not widely taught in most of the schools, marks of the alternative subjects as mentioned will be considered as desired subjects for merit marks calculation:

Application Fee: Rs 100/- only

Important Information for the Admission 2018-19

1. Applications are to be accepted only through the online procedure
2. Applicants have to provide email address and mobile number in the application form. Personal email ID and mobile number of the applicant are mandatory for submission of application.
3. For each Honours subject the applicant has to make payment individually
4. Name of the Applicant (in BLOCK LETTERS) are to be filled up according to the admit card of Madhyamik or equivalent examinations.
5. Category: Please select General, Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Physically Handicapped (PH), OBC (A), OBC (B).
6. The Date of Birth is to be written according to the admit card of Madhyamik or equivalent examinations.
7. Council / Board / University: The name of the Higher Secondary Council or the equivalent exam is to be written for admission in B.A /B.Sc Honours course.
8. Year of passing (last qualifying Exam): The year of passing of the last qualifying Exam (H.S or equivalent exams) is to be written for admission in B.A /B.Sc Honours course.
9. Marks Aggregate in H.S. or Equivalent Exam: The numbers of the Best 5 Subjects are to be considered as Aggregate Marks and the percentage is to be calculated out of 500. Alternative English is to be taken as the compulsory subject where ‘Bengali’ is not a subject in H.S.
10. The number of seats in each subject is fixed. Candidates will be selected according to the result in the H.S or equivalent exams.
11. The admission to the Honours streams are to be made online.
12. The students passed in the Vocational Streams of H.S. (10+2) can only apply for the Honours in Computer Science.
13. The candidates passed H.S before 2015 are not to be considered for admission in B.A/B.Sc Honours course in 2018-19.
14. The candidates who have taken admission elsewhere are admitted to this college provisionally. However transfer certificate or admission cancellation certificate from the previous institution is to be submitted within seven days of provisional admission otherwise the admission to this college may be cancelled.
15. The merit list will be prepared on the basis of the merit score of candidates. In case two candidates have same merit score, then consider the marks of the desired subject and according to that prepare the merit list.
16. . The college authority has the right to cancel the admission if any information in the application form is found to be suppressed or wrong. The decision of the college authority is final in case of admission.
17. All admissions are provisional until the verification and approval of University of Burdwan.

Tentative schedule of admission procedure for session 2018-19

Fee Structure

Step by Step guidelines for online Application Procedure

Mode of Payment

Online- Billdesk and SBI

Offline- SBI (through challan)

Admission Verification

Procedure of Admission

1. 1. After submitting the application form, candidates should pay application fee through online (SBI online or Billdesk by credit/debit card or internet banking) or offline mode by generating challan and depositing the fee in nearest SBI Bank.
2. College will publish a provisional merit list indicating the merit position of all candidates who have applied for each subject. A day will be provided to the candidates to address all the grievances related to provisional merit list, any grievances brought to notice after that day will not be entertained by the college authorities.
3. After addressing the grievances, final merit list will be published for each subject.

Counselling Process

1. First online counselling will be done according to the number of seats for each subject. The number of seats that are available only those numbers of names of candidates will be published in first online counselling list. The selected candidates for each Honours subject will be intimated through email or SMS, candidates have to log in to the website and make the payment either through online or offline mode to complete the admission procedure. On the basis of the seats lying vacant subsequent online counselling will be done in similar manner
2. Candidates do not have to come to college for counselling as it is an online counselling. Candidates have to visit college with documents mentioned at the time of verification. All admissions are provisional until the verification and approval of University of Burdwan.

Choise Based Credit System

In accordance to the guidelines of University of Burdwan, the college has been practising a semester based system instead of previous 1+1+1 Honours course, from previous academic session 2017-18, which will also continue in this session. There will be total 6 semesters each of 6 months duration. The course structure has also been changed to a Choice Based Credit System. The entire assessment is graded-based on a credit system. The course structure of Honours is as follows. According to UGC, Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) makes education broad-based and at par with global standards.

SEMESTER WISE DISTRIBUTION OF COURSES AND CREDITS

B.A./B.Sc. Hons

Subject Combination

The students will presently be admitted solely on the basis of their opted core courses (equivalent to 'honours subject' of the previous undergraduate system). The choice of General Elective courses (equivalent to General combination courses of the previous system) will be offered to the students as soon as clear and final directive regarding this matter is received from the University of Burdwan, considered in conjunction with the resource availability within the college.

The following are the list of core courses offered in this college

Our college offers honours courses in the following 16 subjects. It is to be noted that psychology honours offers option to be pursued for either B.A or B.Sc degrees.
Also note that no General Course is offered in this college.

Note: Seat reservation in all the above cases: Scheduled Caste(SC)- 22%, Scheduled Tribe(ST)- 6%,O.B.C-A - 10%, O.B.C-B – 7%, Physically Handicapped – 3% (for respective categories).