KARACHI, Sept 25: The Centralized Admission Committee of the city government on Thursday issued the list of 12,994 female students placed for admission to first-year Humanities classes at different government run colleges and higher secondary schools.

A maximum of 801 students have been listed for admission at Abdullah Government College for Women, another 800 at Sir Syed Government College, followed by Sharah-e-Liaquat Government College for Women (702), Korangi-6 Government College for Women (655) and Khurshid Government College for Women (602).

As many as 145 A-1 graders, 729 A graders, 2,390 B graders, 5,055 C graders, 4,349 D graders and 325 E graders have been placed for the Humanities faculty and have been advised to finalize their admissions within seven days. Those who are not satisfied with their placement could submit claim forms at three centres established and already functional at three colleges.

With the latest list, the number of male and female students placed for admission to the Faculties of Home Economics, Science General, Humanities, Commerce and Science for the 2003-04 session reached a tally of 69664, including 3,9513 female students. Last year about 6,6000 admissions were given to first-year classes.

Giving details about placement of students, EDO (higher education), Prof Muhammad Rais Alvi, said the process of placing the students had been completed, while decisions on claims submitted by students were also in progress.

“We received a total of 8,960 claims from students till September 24, decisions on 50 per cent of the claims have already been taken, while the remaining cases will be settled within the next ten days,” he said adding that about 14,000 claim forms were submitted last year.

He said those students who could not apply for admission and wanted to get admission could do so at higher secondary schools where principals were authorized to give direct admission to students.

He further informed that principals could allow change of faculty to only those students who had already been admitted, provided such students matched the admission merit of the faculty desired by them.

For the new session, a maximum of 19,997 students have been placed in the Pre-Engineering faculty, 19183 in the Commerce faculty, 15466 in the Humanities and 13414 in the Pre Medical faculty.

Prof Rais said the allocated number of seats for female students in the arts faculty was 14065 and 1071 seats were still vacant. Of the received total 72000 applications about

2500 were rejected as they pertained to failures of SSC examinations or to those who entered more than one forms, he added.

According to the CAP committee data, increase in cutoff marks for admission was recorded this year at St Joseph’s College where a total 300 seats were available for the Humanities group, PECHS Girls College, St Lawrence College, Sir Syed College, Abdullah College, APWA College and Korangi-4 College for Women.

According to a press release of the admission committee, commerce classes at female colleges will begin from September 26, while humanities classes at male and female colleges would start from September 29 and October 1 respectively.