Admission to Reputed Colleges
Hopes dashed by seat crisis
Number of GPA-5 achievers under Ctg board increases
With the celebration of success over, anxiety grips the highest grade point achievers in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations due to seat crisis in the reputed colleges in Chittagong.
A good number of students who obtained GPA-5, the highest grade point, under Chittagong board would be denied enrolment at their preferred colleges as seats in those institutions are less than the number of GPA-5 scorers.
Out of 68,386 students from 917 schools under the board, 49,451 students passed successfully with a percentage of 72.31.
The pass rate is more than 2.07 per cent higher than the previous year while the number of GPA-5 scorers stands at 5,800, highest in last six years.
Of them, 4,248 students achieved GPA 5 from the science group, 1477 from the business studies group and 75 from the humanities group.
Around 14,426 students scored between GPA 4 and 5 under the board.
All these 20,226 brilliant students prefer to get admitted to the five government colleges in the port city -- Chittagong Government College, Government Haji Muhammad Mohsin College, Government City College, Government Commerce College and Nasirabad Government Women's College.
But irony is that around 76 per cent of them will not be able to get admitted to these colleges as the institutions have capacity to accommodate only 4,800 students under three groups.
Of them, Chittagong Government College has 450 seats under science group and 300 seats under humanities group while Haji Mohsin College has 450 seats under science group, 300 seats under humanities group and 450 seats under business studies group.
City College has 450 seats under science group, 450 under humanities and 600 under business studies group while Nasirabad Women's College has 300 seats under science group, 300 under humanities and 150 under business studies.
There are only 600 seats under business studies group in Commerce College.
The smiling faces of many GPA-5 achievers from science group are already getting different look as they may not get scope to study in any of the four government colleges -- Chittagong College, Hazi Muhammad Mohsin College, City College and Nasirabad Government Women College -- due to shortage of seat.
These colleges can accommodate only 1650 students under science group against 4,248 GPA-5 achievers.
Tanvir Ahmad, a GPA-5 achiever from science group from Chittagong Collegiate School, said, “It will be really frustrating if we do not have scopes to get enrolled in the reputed colleges even after scoring highest grade point.”
Dibendu, also a GPA 5 scorer from the same school, said “It is in no way acceptable that brilliant students would not be able to study in the reputed colleges only for seat crisis.”
The situation has also worried the guardians and teachers.
Hasmat Jahan, headmistress of Dr Khastagir Govt Girls School, said, “Every year we are experiencing the same situation that many of our brilliant students are deprived of getting enrolled in colleges of their choices as the problem remains unchanged for years.”
Chairman of Chittagong Education Board Prof Abu Jafar Chowdhury said the number of GPA-5 achievers has increased this year and this would definitely create the admission crisis.
He underscored the need for increasing the number of seat in the colleges to cope with the crisis.
Prof Jafar, however, said it is not so easy solution since more teachers and classrooms and other facilities are also required with the increased seats.
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