SAJC - From The Eye of a Student.

The course is of course outdated. Teaching methods are old. No case studies, competitions or project of any sort is there in the curriculum. Although a project of 100 marks is there in the final sem, but I don't think that's enough. There is no practicality in the curriculum and usability in career. The syllabus really needs an uplifment.

The fees for each sem was in the range of Rs.2200-Rs.3000. Apart from that there was examination fees each sem for Rs.200-Rs.500. There was no scholarship and the fees was same for all caste categories as far as I know.

The infrastucture is quite modest. There were common room, gym, labs of all sorts and a canteen. It was mostly always filled with people associated with College Union, I hardly ever got to use it. There was a shop available inside the college for all the books and stationary needs. The library was the best part. It was big and air conditioned. Most students spent their most time in Library only. Almost every book for every subject was present. So never got the requirement to buy any book from outside apart from one or two books. There was no event happenning apart from fresher party, which also was quite irregular in my time(Covid). Teachers day, Holi and Farewell party was there. Sports was quite exclusive. Sports events always happened outside the college as there was no big ground inside the college. You had to reach out to the sports team and be in a quite a close acquaintance with them to be included in those. There is also NCC in the college. I found that to be very good as I joined.

There was only 3 better colleges I couldn't apply to. They were St.Xaviers Kolkata, Goenka and Maulana Azad. Seth Anandram Jaipuria College is among the top 5 colleges and is well known. It is also the best college in North Kolkata, some might not agree to me though. The deciding factors for me were very low fees, decent quality teachers, and the most important, quality of crowd and reputation of the college. I could go on and explain how I got admission, but the admission process has changed and I don't know it very thoroughly.

The faculty-to student ratio is very bad. There are a limited no. of teachers and a vast amount of students. Although, some teachers are decent, you won't find it in you to approach them. Although, there were some very very good teachers also, but a few. They would go to no extent to come to your level of understanding and explain anything. Rather, they already expect you to know everything. Again, few teachers are exceptions as I said. The exams are the worst part. Although the colleges is only responsible for 20 marks across subject, for the rest CU conducts the exam. I would like to mention CU is the worst university to study from. There is absoultely no amount of money that can convince me to study from CU again. The difficulty level is the highest across India and their scoring system is supe random. You can fail in your strongest subject and pass in a subject where you wrote nothing in exam. I myself saw almost everyone fail in a subject and those who passed only got 12-20 marks out of 40. No one got more than 20. It was said that CU forgot to check other half ot the paper. However there was no accountability and explaination from university part.

Out most time was spent in Library, chilling with our friends. That was the best time. Although, there was common room and gym present in the college, but it was mostly occupied with College Union members.