Thiruvananthapuram: The first round of allotment to Plus-One courses began on Tuesday amidst confusion over the delay in SSLC certificate distribution.
The certificates, mandatory while taking admissions, have not reached many schools except in Thiruvananthapuram, Idukki and Kannur districts. There are also complaints of errors in details entered in the certificates of some students.
However, the Higher Secondary directorate has clarified that students can get admitted to schools using the mark sheet downloaded from the website.
Students will have to be personally present at the time of admission. Admissions for the first round of allotments will be completed on June 18 and classes will commence on July 8.
The last date for admission is July 31 after all rounds of allotments. There are 5, 16,455 applicants for the 2, 45, 795 seats to be filled in the merit quota through the single window admission process. Of them, 1, 20, 280 are in the science group, 52, 810 in humanities and 72,705 in commerce.
In the management quota, science group has 20, 910 seats, humanities 7,020 and commerce 10,945 while the community quota has 11,310 seats for science group, 3,720 for humanities and 5,800 commerce.
In the unaided sector, science group has a total of 33,532 seats, humanities 6,338 and commerce 15,760 seats. However, it is for the managements to make admissions to these seats.
