Plus one admission; committee to study rearrangement of batches where students are low

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The General Education Department has constituted a five-member committee to study the rearrangement of batches were students numbers are low in plus one admission. The Chairman of the committee is former director of Higher Secondary department, Prof. V Karthikeyan.

After the closure of this year’s plus one admission, less than 25 students got admission in each of the 92 batches in 71 government schools and in some batches of 16 aided schools. According to the committee’s report, the aim is to being plus one admission procedure in June itself.

In many schools, the seats of the higher secondary is not in tandem with the number of those who pass the SSLC. There are high schools without plus two.

The report is prepared considering the SSLC exam pass of the previous five years, the number of those who got admission to plus one from CBSE and other boards, and the admission situation.