Pune: The merit list for bifocal admissions to first year junior college (FYJC, Std XI) will be announced on Thursday by the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) committee.Officials said bifocal subjects help students who want to go for professional courses in technical fields after standard XII.For two consecutive days after the first merit list is announced, admissions will be open for selected students after which colleges will display their vacancies. Interested students, who have not been allotted any college, can fill up the preference form a second time following which a second merit list will be displayed on June 28.Sayyadshaha Parvin, professor at Moledina High school and Junior College said bifocal subjects are good for students who wish to go for both engineering or banking.“If a science student takes up bifocal subject, he will have a sounder base in technology which will help him crack the entrance and during his first year of engineering. Secondly, even commerce students will have an upper edge if they are looking for immediate job opportunities,” Parvin said.The subjects offered in the science stream for bifocal are electronics, computer science, scooter-motor cycle servicing, mechanical maintenance and others, while the subjects offered in commerce stream are banking, marketing and others.The bifocal subjects carry 200 marks whereas conventional subjects carry only 100 marks. This 200 marks is divided into 100 marks for practical and 100 marks for theory exam. Hence, a science student will have to take, for eg, physics, chemistry, mathematics, English and a bifocal subject in his FYJC.Another official from CAP committee said, “Earlier, the admissions to bifocal subjects would happen after the general admissions. But this year we decided to take a zero round which will again be divided into two rounds for students to choose to get admitted in an allotted college or not. If the student doesn’t opt for the college allotted, he will be considered for further admission process. Students who have taken general mathematics in their standard X will not be eligible to take admission in bifocal subjects.”Students who confirm admissions for bifocal subjects (if allotted) will not be considered for further admission process. “However, the options of arts/commerce/science/HSVC for those students not confirming bifocal admissions will remain intact and these students will be considered for further admission process. The reservations for bifocal subjects will be as per the arts/commerce/science faculties,” the official notification from Central Admission Process Committee said.

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