Bhubaneswar, May 29: The Class X results of all the boards have been declared and the race to get admission to the best junior colleges of the state has begun.

Anxious students and parents can already feel the "cut off" heat and are getting ready for the e-admission process scheduled to begin on June 8.

With the matriculation students faring much better in the state board this year, authorities in most colleges have predicted a higher cut-off.

In the 2013-14 academic session, BJB (Junior) college in Bhubaneswar had cut-offs of 89.93 per cent, 66.53 per cent and 77.83 per cent for science, arts and commerce streams, respectively. Ravenshaw (Junior) College, Cuttack has cut-offs of 90 per cent for science, 66 per cent for arts and 74.83 per cent for commerce. Gangadhar Meher (Junior) College, Sambalpur, had cut-offs of 77.83 per cent, 52.83 per cent and 61.5 per cent for science, arts and commerce streams, respectively.

The state government has announced one lakh seats in junior colleges. Also, 81 new Plus Two colleges have been added to the e-admission list.

The department has also decided to close 24 private colleges from this year that reported zero admission in the past few years. At present, there are 1,470 junior colleges with a student strength of 3,50,612. There are 1,98,234 seats in the arts stream, 1,16,026 in science and 36,352 in commerce.

Confusion continues over admissions to the newly formed Ramadevi Women's University and the Khallikote Cluster University this year. Though the state government announced that both the institutions would conduct their own admissions, no formal letter had reached the varsities from the higher education department.

Sources in the Ramadevi varsity said that according to the UGC norms, there had to be a minimum of 10 departments to start a varsity. The university has just two - Hindi and home science. "We are confused about how to start the process without sufficient departments or teaching staff members," said a senior faculty of the varsity.