FYJC Admissions 2017: Second Merit List for Science, Arts and Commerce Released

The second merit/ cut-off list for First Year Junior Colleges (FYJC) in Maharashtra has been released on July 20, 2017. Continuing the trend, the second cut-offs for Commerce, Arts and Science courses are high. Few colleges have dropped the cut-offs for the admission to various UG courses. However, the colleges, which are in high demand among the students continued with high cut-offs. Among the three streams, Arts and Commerce stream witnessed high cut-offs. Compared to the first cut-off list, there was a slight dip in the second cut-offs.

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Comparing the college wise cut-offs, HR College of Commerce and Economics cut-off list witnessed a dip of 0.4 percent from 91.4 percent in the first round. Now, the cut-off for Commerce stream is 91%. The cut-offs of KC College dropped by 3% for science stream making it 82.2 percent. There is no change in the cut-off for Arts courses while the Commerce courses witnessed a drop of 2 percent.

Usually, the second cut-off should witness a marginal dip from the first cut-off list. But, since this year, there is high competition among students to bag a seat at the most sought-after colleges - these colleges had no other option except to reduced the cutoffs by 0.4 to 2%. Surprisingly, Mithibai College increased the cut-off for Arts stream by 0.8 percent. There is no change in the cut-off for commerce stream. There were only a few seats left vacant in the college and the number of top scorers applying for Arts and Commerce stream courses was high.

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In the second merit list, 80,141 candidates bagged admission. Among the total seats allotted in Commerce, Arts and Science streams, 6,239 candidates were allotted seats in Arts stream, 27,757 students in Commerce stream and 49,314 candidates in Science stream.