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Software to help students with choice of engineering college
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Feb'12
Software to help students with choice of engineering college
Students seeking admissions in engineering courses will now be able to find out which college they can be reasonably sure of getting an admission. The Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL), a non-governmental organisation in the field of education, has developed a software tool where students can enter their entrance examination score and find out their tentative colleges based on the cut-off marks.
Cut-off marks are not openly known to students while they are filling the forms. It often becomes difficult for them to mark the colleges of their preference in the admission forms. This software tool, which will be free to use, would help them sort out their preference colleges, said Ketan Deshpande, founder of FUEL.
The engineering admission takes place through the centralized admission process based on their score in the entrance examinations, such as the Maharashtra centralised entrance test as well as the All Indian engineering entrance examination.
"To claim admission through centralised process, students have to specify up to 30 preferences of colleges in the form. The computer-aided system allots them one college out of these preferences, if that student has secured marks more than the cut-off marks of that college," said Deshpande.
"Students have no idea about the colleges they can be sure of getting admission to and apply based on their own perceptions. Many of them lose out on admissions in good colleges and land up in the ones that were not their first choices. They need to know the right colleges before they fill up their forms," he said.
Students can use the free software tool to find out the colleges they can be reasonably sure of getting admission. They will have to enter their marks and personal details and simply walk away with a print out of cut-off marks of all colleges. Keeping the rural students in mind, we have developed the helpline software in such a way that one can access it without an email address. It provides last three year's cut-offs and minute details of engineering colleges of Maharashtra.
"This is definitely a good initiative. Filling college preferences is a very tricky job while submitting forms. Students do not know what the cut-off of a particular college would be. This tool can at least help us identify what range of colleges would our marks fit into, said Soham Rane, a std XII student."
An official from the common admission process, said, "The software is not official. It may just be an indication of the colleges that students might secure admissions to." The tool is available on the FUEL website.
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