KARACHI, Aug 4 Most students who have obtained the placement forms for college admissions are unable to submit the completed forms because they have not received their mark-sheets of school exams so far while the admissions will close on Aug 8, it has been reliably learnt.

Sources in the Centralised Admission Policy committee said that more than 51,000 brochures containing application forms for admissions to 123 government colleges in the city have been sold so far. However, they said, most students who have passed the secondary school certificate exams or O' Levels examinations despite obtaining and filling in the placement forms could not submit them as they had not received mark-sheets of their respective examinations so far.

The process of admissions to first year classes had begun on July 28 with the sale of brochures/placement forms and the last date fixed for the submission of forms is Aug 8.

The sources said that the CAP committee might extend the deadline for forms' submission in case the candidates who passed their matric and O' Levels exams this year failed to submit their admission forms due to the delay in the issuance of mark-sheets by Aug 8.

They said that though the committee had allowed the sale of brochures/placement forms to the candidates seeking college admissions in the absence of mark-sheets on showing admit cards to the designated bank branches the annexation of mark-sheets along with relevant documents was made mandatory at the time of forms' submission.

An admission committee member said that the candidates have been advised to furnish their placement forms and mark-sheets along with two copies of each document. Besides, each candidate must fill in all eight choices for colleges and avoid leaving the spaces for choices blank while completing their placement forms.“It has been observed that a number of candidates have only filled in two blank spaces while mentioning the names of the colleges of their choice,” the committee member said while referring to the forms already received by the admission committee.

He said such candidates might face difficulties in case the marks obtained by them in their secondary school certificate examinations were below the cut-off marks of the two colleges of their choice.

The sources said that this year 17,800 more students, mostly in the faculty of commerce, would be accommodated in the government colleges in the metropolis. The total number of seats available in the colleges for the new academic session had been increased to 99,800 whereas in all 82,000 admissions were given during the last academic session, they said. However, they regretted that the students of commerce might face trouble because there was an acute shortage of teachers in the faculty in several government colleges in the city.