The state of Maharashtra has come out with the first merit list for Std XI students, with 1,33,323 students being allotted colleges across the Mumbai region in the first list, where cutoffs were slightly lower compared to previous years. The maximum number of students were allotted for commerce, followed by science and then humanities. The first merit list was released for the students on Friday, May 29, following several portal hitches that came up in the previous week owing to student traffic on the FYJC portal.

Like every year, colleges across Mumbai saw soaring cutoffs with HR College closing their first list cutoff at 93 per cent while RA Podar closed theirs at 94.2 per cent. For humanities, St Xavier’s College closed its cutoff at 92.6 per cent for humanities, and colleges like Ruia and BK Birla closed their science cutoff at 466 marks or 93.2 per cent. This year, 67 thousand students of the 1.3 lakh allotted secured the first preference of their college.