The mechanics of online seat allotment
G. MAHADEVAN
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Joint Commissioner for Entrance Examinations S. N. Kumar explained in detail how students would have to go about making their choices during the online centralised allotment process.
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The template of a web page for online selection of courses and colleges.
The mechanics of participating in the centralised allotment process for professional courses conducted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations was the central theme of the presentation made by Joint Commissioner for Entrance Examinations S.N. Kumar at the pre-admission guidance programme organised by The Hindu-Educationplus at Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
When the dates for the allotment are announced, candidates should log on to the web site cee.kerala.gov.in and enter their roll number in the designated space. Once this is done, they will be taken to a web page where they have to enter their application number and key number, set a password and confirm it. The password can be up to 15 characters in length and can be a combination of alphabets and numerals. (This year the key number has not been given with the admit card, but will be sent to each candidate along with a data sheet.)
“It is vital that the candidates do not disclose their key number or their password to anybody,” Mr. Kumar said. “This will help prevent misuse of the computerised facility to submit options. Moreover, the candidate should make sure that he logs out of the computer each time he finishes working on his options list. This is all the more important if a candidate is submitting options from an Internet café or a public facility.”
On this web page, the candidate can access a list of courses and colleges to which he is eligible for admission.
Once the candidate logs in, he is taken to his homepage. The homepage lists all the course and college combinations available to him. It contains three sections: one listing all courses and colleges open to the candidate, another listing all course and college options selected by the candidate and the third listing all the course and college options deleted by a candidate.
This year, the options available to a candidate will be bunched according to a particular course. For instance, all colleges offering the applied electronics course will be listed together. Similar is the case with civil engineering or any other disciplines. If a candidate has as his first option an applied electronics course in college X, he has to mark ‘1’ in the box against that particular course-college combination in the homepage.
According to Mr. Kumar, it is advisable to click on the “save” button after marking each option. Each time an option is saved, it appears in the section “selected options” in the order in which the candidate selected it. After all options are registered, the candidate can click on the “view” button to see all the course and college options in the order of preference he has given.
The joint commissioner pointed out to the candidates that it might be a good idea to take as many printouts as possible at different stages of submitting options.
To delete an option, all that a candidate has to do is to erase the option number that he gave to that particular course and college combination. Immediately, that option will appear in the “deleted options” section of the homepage. If, by any chance, a candidate wishes to restore that option all he has to do is to assign a priority number (1, 2, 3, 4 …) to that combination and it will reappear in the list of selected options in the appropriate slot.
Candidates can submit options and reorder their options list any number of times during the “window” specified by the commissioner, who may, depending on the time available, carry out two or three “sample allotments” to give candidates a rough idea of the final allotment they may get.
Fee payment
Once the first allotment list is published, candidates will be asked to pay the required fee at the designated bank. In the case of students getting allotted to MBBS or BDS courses, they will have to report to the college concerned after paying the fee.
The first re-allotment will be done by deleting the names of candidates who do not pay the fee within the stipulated time. After each re-allotment, the candidate is bound to pay the difference in fee, if any, at the bank. Failure to do so will lead to his exclusion from the allotment process for that stream.
If at any point of time during the allotment and re-allotment processes, a candidate is satisfied with the course and college he gets, he should immediately cancel his higher order option list. Otherwise, the candidate may be allotted to another course or college during the next re-allotment. There may be three or four re-allotments depending on vacancies and last dates for admission.
Focus on the course
In his presentation on professional education and the IT sector, the first Chief Executive Officer of Technopark, G. Vijayaraghavan, said candidates would do well to focus on the course they were going to select and not just on the college. He predicted that for 10 to 20 years, the information technology sector would continue to be a major job provider. He said it was better for candidates to choose a core engineering course (such as mechanical, electronics, civil and so on).
C.R. Soman, health activist; Ajay Antony, vice-president of T.I.M.E., co-sponsor of the event; and G.P.C. Nayar, president of the Association of Managements of Self-financing Engineering Colleges, spoke.
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