KARACHI, Sept 27: The centralised admission committee for city colleges on Wednesday released the names and placements of 6,904 male applicants selected for admission to the first year classes of humanities faculty at 39 government colleges and higher secondary schools.
The number of students placed for admissions in the humanities group has increased almost by 90 per cent as compared to the last year. However, interest of students for the humanities group has decreased over the years, as students having passed the matriculation exams with flying numbers preferred to get admissions to commerce classes.
The placement list of the humanities for male students for the session 2006-2007 included four A-1 graders, 29 A-graders, 127 B-graders, 607 C-graders, 5481 D-graders and 625 E-graders. About 3,636 students, including one A-1 grader, two A-graders, 13 B-graders and others were placed for humanities admissions last year.
A senior education officer commenting on the situation said that qualitative changes were needed in the humanities and social sciences education at college and university levels in order to make it more attractive.
Talking to Dawn, the Centralised Admission Policy Committee Secretary Prof Mohammad Asghar Khan said that of the entire 80,000 students who applied for admission to different faculties, the number of male applicants desiring humanities group education was around 1900, which made around 2.37 per cent of the total applicants this year.
He said that originally 5,130 seats were allocated for humanities students, but that was increased up to about 7,000 in order to accommodate and place the leftover male applicants of low grades belonging to science or commerce groups. The latest list contains over 4,500 leftover candidates of groups other than humanities, he pointed out.
A maximum of 606 students were placed at Jamia Millia Degree College (Morning), where the maximum and minimum marks of admissions were 609 and 287 respectively. The placement at Govt College Razzaqabad, Degree College Quaidabad, Boys College Konkar Gadap remained substantially low in respect to their seat allocations.
According to CAP committee, the opening (maximum) and closing (minimum) marks of placement lists meant for different educational institutions are as follows:
National College-morning 673/418, National College-evening 564/338, Islamia Arts/Comm College-morning 614/373, Islamia Arts/Comm College-evening 552/323, Jamia Mallia Degree College-morning 688/287, Liaquat College-evening 513/370, Degree Arts/Comm College Landhi/Korangi-evening 622/369, Allama Iqbal College-evening 555/364, Govt College Razzaqabad 569/284, Degree College Murad Memon Goth 627/296, Degree College Qaidabad Jogi More 689/317, Boys College Korangi 2-1/2 714/293, Haji Abdullah Haroon College-morning 618/339, Haji Abdullah Haroon College-evening 613/280, S.M. Arts/Commerce College-morning 624/369, S.M. Arts/Commerce College-evening 673/354, City College Moosa Colony-morning 592/375, City College Moosa Colony-evening 520/317, Sirajudallah College-morning 632/368, Sirajudallah College-evening 466/295, Boys College Konkar Village 507/282, Jinnah College Nazimabad 643/377, Degree Boys College Jungle Shah 626/303, Quaid-i-Millat College-evening 420/300, Degree Boys College Shams Pir 507/296, College for Boys Baldia Town 640/324, Boys Higher Secondary School Kamal Khan Jokhio 464/366, Baba Willayat Higher Secondary School Orangi 423/280, Ghazi Muhammad Bin Qasim Higher Secondary School Lyari 550/308, Allama Iqbal Boys Higher Secondary School F.B. Area 618/288, Boys Higher Secondary School Ahmed Dawood, Gadap 494/322, Comprehensive Higher Secondary School Korangi-III 444/306, Comprehensive Higher Secondary School Azizabad 493/302, NJV Boys Higher Secondary School (Urdu Medium) 617/319, Boys Higher Secondary School No-2 K-Area Korangi 507/278, Mumtaz Boys Higher Secondary School Landhi 423/273, Boys Higher Secondary School Konkar Village Malir 509/326, NJV Boys Higher Secondary School (Sindhi Medium) 566/280, and Boys Higher Secondary School Haji Natho Malir (co-education) 480/334.
