If you choose Arts, some colleges offer the option to choose between Hindi and Marathi (or the regional language of the state where the college is located). For Commerce, you might have the option of choosing between Economics and Commerce, Accounts, or any other. So, you can choose the subjects you like and skip the ones you aren’t as interested in or as good at. Science students can choose between Physics and Chemistry, Biology, Zoology, etc depending upon the college. Each college has an online prospectus and or brochure that you can find on their website and download for free for your reference. Read it for all the information that you need. Even outside the prospectus, you can find the information under the menu on their website related to courses/ subjects, admission, facilities, etc. You may choose the subjects based on your school performance, interest, what you can study and score well in, and so on. Also, these subjects become the foundation based on which you choose jobs and specialization for post-graduation studies, masters, MBA, etc.

Later in life, a doctor may decide to quit practice and learn the art of living to be a life coach. A writer may choose to quit writing or perhaps, have a side gig in theater and arts by learning about it later in life. It is not etched in stone that you have to stick to what you started with. However, you do need to have your finances in check to see if you can cover your expenses while and when you change. If you have enough savings or a study loan, a scholarship to pay for your education, a trust, foundation, or a generous donation to cover your fee, etc. you can relax and take your steps forward without stress

Attendance might be taken before each lecture and not at the beginning of the day, like in school.

F. Y. B. A for first-year Bachelor of Arts or 13th in Arts. #* F. Y. B. Com for first-year Bachelor of Commerce or 13th in Commerce. [2] X Research source F. Y. B. Sc. for first-year Bachelor of Science or 13th in Science. #** 14th class is S. Y. B. A for Second Year Bachelor of Arts or 14th in Arts, S. Y. B. Com for Second Year Bachelor of Commerce, S. Y. B. Sc. for Second Year Bachelor of Science. T. Y. B. A stands for Third Year Bachelor of Arts or 15th in Arts. This is your final year of graduation. There is T. Y. B. Com for Commerce graduates. T. Y. B. Sc. for Science graduates. All these are for when someone is still studying in those grades. After completion of T. Y. B. A/ T. Y. B. Com/ T. Y. B. Sc.

  • in three full years in any of these streams - the student will have completed their bachelor’s in that respective stream and will be a graduate. After completing your bachelor’s, you may study further. Next can be a master’s or post-graduation in the field of your choice. There are many professional courses that you can choose from. This can be for 6 months, 2 years, 3, 4, or more depending upon the course chosen and the college or university offering it. After completing your master’s, you can take the National Eligibility Test (NET) or State Eligibility Test (SET) in the subjects you have completed your Master’s in, mostly to become a teacher or jobs in the field of education.

Arts open the door to certain broad work areas like bachelor of mass media (BMM), fashion designing, teaching, bachelor of hotel management (BHM), bachelor of legislative law (LLB) and so on [3] X Research source After studying commerce, you can go for further studies like a chartered accountant (CA), bachelor of computer applications (BCA), business administration[4] X Research source etc. Science opens a plethora of job options like becoming an engineer, pilot, doctor, data scientist[5] X Research source and so on.

You can read some points on their official website under their About, Mission, and Awards section. Other areas like testimonials, social media pages, placement, and alumni pages also help a great deal in seeing if you want to go to that particular college based on their policies. Looking for a government-recognized college or institute is a must. For example, you can find on the first page of Sophia College that they are NAAC accredited which stands for National Assessment and Accreditation Council and that they are affiliated to the University of Mumbai. Such institutes only provide certificates that are considered valid. You must look for all these factors on their prospectus, brochure, and website.

If you cannot find the placement page on the website easily, you can also type the name of the college with the word placement on Google or any other search engine and find the official website’s link to their placement page, other websites like Shiksha, College Dekho, College Dunia, etc. , that are about colleges in India, advertisements about colleges that usually show on top of all the links below and so on.

If you type NIIT, Lovely Professional University, Amity University, etc. , on Google search, you will find the link to their official website and some other links that may be websites that are talking about NIIT or the one that you might have typed. Going to the official website is always beneficial to seek credible information. If a college or institute has many buildings that have different names like in the case of Mumbai University, you can go on their official website here to look for all their affiliated colleges, online learning initiatives like Swayam, other buildings for different courses in their campus and so on. Their website also has a link to getting career counseling here. Some colleges have more than one branch and they have branches in different cities for instance NIT which has many branches for professional courses in various states of India, you can search for your specific city’s NIT by typing, ‘NIT Warangal’ if you live in Warangal or any other with the name of your city or state like Tamil Nadu.

Many videos on YouTube also offer information about various courses, fields, and where they can lead you. You can type specific subjects on YouTube for videos in your native language as well. For instance, if you type on YouTube: Scope of studying Arts, Scope of choosing BBA, Scope of doing a vocational course after class 12, you will get plenty of information on the same and many more related topics that may answer very important questions, however, you didn’t know about them.

If you miss working in a particular field, you can be connected to that area by volunteering in that office. LinkedIn and other job sites offer ample opportunities to volunteer anywhere between an hour to more hours a week at organizations and companies that you want to work with. United Nations and other such prestigious organizations also take volunteers who are qualified and have a strong desire to participate and help. They offer certificates and references for your future job requirement.

After all the metro trains are made in Mumbai, perhaps traveling to and from Vile Parle might be easier. There are tons of great colleges there like Mithibai[7] X Research source , NMIMS[8] X Research source and others. Bandra has a plethora of colleges like R. D. National College[9] X Research source while Churchgate also boasts of the best colleges like St. Xavier’s College[10] X Research source , Jai Hind College[11] X Research source , K. C. College[12] X Research source , Sydenham College[13] X Research source etc. St. Xavier’s College offers freeship or reservations to some students who belong to Schedule Caste (SC), Schedule Tribe (ST) category, persons with disability, wards of freedom fighters[14] X Research source and some others and has a percentage of seats reserved for Christian students as well. Likewise, Jai Hind has reservations for Sindhi people as it is a Sindhi - linguistic minority college[15] X Research source . You can opt for a boys-only college or a women’s college like SVT College[16] X Research source . SVT in Santacruz West also has several buildings within their campus that offer a huge number of professional courses like interior designing, fashion designing, textile designing, jewelry designing, and so on. You can have a great time in such a college with a spacious campus with fantastic infrastructure and facilities. They also offer many extra activities from established personalities like dancers, theater artists, singers, etc.

The curriculum is very simple as compared to State board, CBSE, ICSE, etc. If you are a few marks short of passing your exams, they offer an optional subject like catering or cooking. You can have marks from these subjects be added to your total percentage to get grace marks and pass if you are failing. However, you have to check for individual schools for their grading system. They allow you to complete your yearly exams from the semesters in two years. This means that you can give the exams for half the subjects in one year. And the exams for the rest of the nearly 3 subjects can be given the next year. You can ask if they allow correspondence or distance learning where you can study the whole year at home and visit the center for exams alone. However, it might be a bit of a challenge to understand difficult concepts while learning on your own at home. After completing either class 10 or 12 from an Open school, you might need to apply for a migration certificate to get admission to the college to pursue further studies. All the information can be found online regarding where to get the migration certificate from, how long it takes to be generated, what are documents required etc. One such school is at Andheri East, Sher-E-Punjab called St. Dominic Savio High School. [17] X Research source