The trend, according to many, has its own share of advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it ensures that a student gets admission to Class XI irrespective of his or her board exam results. On the other, on many occasions, such admissions seal their future.

"The schools give provisional admissions on the basis of internal assessments.

In case a student does well in the board examination, there is little chance if he or she can change the stream or the school," said a student of Loreto Convent, Entally who is desperately looking for provisional admission to another school as her school offers only up to Class X.

Such students also have to pay a high admission fee along with quarterly tuition fees. When the board results are out in a couple of months, many of them cannot change the school as the money that he or she has already paid will not be refunded.