NED College of Engineering and Know-how has revised its admission coverage for the 2025/26 tutorial session, responding to the considerably low go charges in intermediate exams, Categorical Information reported.
The brand new coverage reduces the weightage of intermediate outcomes for BE and BS admissions and will increase the weightage for the doorway take a look at. The advantage record will now be ready primarily based on this up to date system.
The choice follows a pointy decline within the go fee for intermediate college students in Karachi, with the outcomes for pre-engineering and pre-medical college students falling to 29% and 35%, respectively.
The coverage change comes after a fact-finding committee, led by provincial schooling minister Syed Sardar Shah, didn’t implement its suggestions to deal with the problem.
The very fact-finding report had instructed a 15-20% improve within the marks for physics, chemistry, and arithmetic for pre-engineering and pre-medical college students. Nevertheless, the report has but to be acted upon, and its suggestions have largely been ignored.
In gentle of those developments, NED College has adjusted its admission standards. Beforehand, admissions have been primarily based solely on intermediate examination outcomes, however with the poor efficiency in Karachi’s intermediate exams, solely college students with outcomes of 57% or larger can be eligible to use for admission. Consequently, numerous college students could also be excluded from the applying course of.
The Vice-Chancellor of NED College, Dr Tufail Ahmed, defined that the brand new weightage system for admissions can be 60% for the doorway take a look at and 40% for the intermediate outcomes. Beforehand, the weightage was equally divided at 50/50, however this has now been revised.
The tutorial council’s determination implies that the commercial for admissions can be launched within the final week of March. The primary entrance take a look at will happen on Could 24, adopted by the second take a look at on July 12.
The brand new tutorial session is scheduled to start on August 18. This 12 months, 3016 seats throughout 35 programmes can be provided, with a further 100 seats added to the consumption capability.
The coverage change is a part of the college’s ongoing efforts to keep up the standard of its admissions course of in response to the difficult circumstances within the schooling sector.