Jadavpur University will accept online applications to undergraduate humanities courses from August 10, a university official said on Tuesday.

The admission committee of the arts faculty approved the dates and the mode of admission: only Plus II board marks.

The committee passed a resolution that it was not feasible to conduct written admission tests because of the pandemic.

The application and admission process will be held online through the JUMS (Jadavur University Management System) portal. The university will publish a list of candidates selected provisionally for admission to various departments.

“Documents uploaded by such candidates will be sent to department heads for verification. A detailed routine will be announced soon,” the university official said.

After verification, the provisionally selected candidates of each department will get a link to pay admission fees online. The fees have to be paid within three working days. Failing to do so will lead to cancellation of candidature and those on the waiting list will get an opportunity, the official said.

“However the modalities suggested here are applicable for this year only to address the exceptional circumstances arising out of the pandemic,” the admission committee has said. “This is not to be taken as a precedent in subsequent years.”

The university has been admitting students to humanities courses based on equal weightage to admissions tests and Plus II board results for the past two years.

The statement on not making this year’s modality a precedent was noted in the resolution as the university administration had in 2018 tried to scrap admissions tests in deference to an education department’s suggestion and teachers had to launch a protest to retain tests, an English department teacher said.

Among the seven departments in humanities, five — English, comparative literature, international relations, sociology and Sanskrit — will admit students based on their Plus II board marks.

The Bengali and economics departments will admit candidates based on Plus II and Class X board marks.

The economics department will consider the marks in the secondary board exams only for candidates from the Bengal board. The department will consider aggregate marks obtained in the secondary board exams (out of 100), along with marks obtained in the language group at the Higher Secondary (out of 100), a teacher said.

“The weightage will be combined with marks obtained in mathematics in the Higher Secondary exams (out of 200). A merit list of candidates from Bengal board will be based on a weightage of 400,” the teacher said.

For students of the CBSE board and the ICSE council, marks in core language /compulsory language obtained at the Plus II level (out of 100) will be considered with marks in Mathematics at Plus II (out of 200).

The HS council could not hold tests on physics, chemistry and statistics among others; so, the weightage from Madhyamik will be taken.