Intermediate first year admissions from April 7 in Andhra Pradesh

The Andhra Pradesh State Board of Intermediate Education on Tuesday (March 25) released the schedule for admissions in junior colleges in the State. The Board has also directed managements of both government and private junior colleges to strictly adhere to the rulebook during the admission process.

The Board will start sale of application forms on April 1, 2025, the admission process will start on April 7, date of completion of the admissions is May 31, while classes for first year students will start from April 7, 2025, according to the schedule.

Board Secretary Kritika Shukla said classes for the second year Intermediate courses will commence from April 1, 2025. She said the Principals can make provisional admissions on the strength of SSC hall ticket of the student initially. However, the admission will be confirmed on production of SSC Pass Certificate or DigiLocker Certificate and Transfer Certificate issued by the school authorities, where they last studied.

The principals have been directed to follow the rule of reservation, which includes reservation of 15 % of the seats for the Scheduled Castes, 6 % for Scheduled Tribes, 29 % for Backward Classes, 3 % for Children with Special Needs (CwSN), 5 % for NCC, Sports and extracurricular activities, 3 % for ex-servicemen and defence personnel residing in the State and 10 % for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). She said 33.33 % of the total seats have to be reserved for girls, category wise where there are no separate colleges for them.

Admissions should be made based on the marks obtained in the qualifying examination and no separate admission test should be conducted, she said warning of stringent action against junior colleges making admissions on any other basis. Unaided junior colleges should admit students only up to the sanctioned strength and up to the ceiling strength of 88 in each section. In vocational Paramedical courses, the ceiling strength is 30 per section and for Non-Paramedical courses, the ceiling is 40 per section only. The colleges should also not make admissions in the combinations dropped by the Board, she clarified.

All principals should enter the relevant details of students taking admissions in their respective colleges through the udiseplus.gov.in portal logins immediately after the commencement of admissions, she said.

Ms. Shukla asked principals of unaided junior colleges to desist from issuing advertisements with inducements and also cautioned them against issue of ranks for the Intermediate Public Examination in any form at any level to protect the interests of students and parents.