Bhubaneswar: The process for admission to different streams of Plus II courses through SAMS in Odisha will begin on June 7.
In the current academic session of 2024-25, 2,221 higher secondary schools in the state have a student strength of 5,25,465 across arts, science, commerce, Sanskrit and vocational streams. Arts and science streams have 2.94 lakh and 1.66 lakh seats respectively.
Commerce stream has 40,104 seats while Sanskrit and vocational education have 13,088 and 10,504 seats respectively. 154 higher secondary schools are in Khurda and Balasore, each having 39,000 and 34,000 seat strength across the streams respectively.
The cut-off marks for all the streams will be announced soon, he added.
This year, 96.07 per cent of students who appeared for the annual HSC examination, cleared the test which was conducted by the Board of Secondary Education.
At least 5.41 lakh students had taken the examination from February 24 to March 4 this year at 2,991 examination centres. Around 5.30 lakh students cleared the test. District-wise, Khurda registered the highest 97.98 pass percentage.
