Sindh government reduces marks required for inter-admission

The Sindh government has decided to reduce the required marks benchmark for intermediate first-year admission in public colleges of the province.

Director of General Colleges, Dr Naveed, has announced that marks for admission in various government colleges across the province have been reduced to a range of 20-50.

He informed Geo News that seats had been increased in some colleges, and complaint centres have been set up in six different colleges due to the high number of complaints. He added that a new admission list will be released by August 23.

Complaint centres have been established at DJ Science College, Government College for Students Nazimabad, Government Degree Boys College Gulistan Johar, Government Girls College Shahrah Liaquat, Sirsyed College and Khurshid Girls College.

He said that 169,890 students applied through the student portal for admission to pre-engineering, pre-medical, commerce, humanities, home economics, and computer science groups, out of which 167,309 students were given admission.

DG Colleges confirmed that 1 lac 147 students applied for admission in colleges, out of which more than 98 thousand were admitted.