Where do I find a particular college’s seat count?

On the college’s own admission notice, and on the portal itself — searching for a college during application shows its seats broken down by shift, version and group. The colleges whose figures we could verify are on our college pages; the rest we leave out until we can check them.

If the seats are full, is that the end of it?

Full in one phase is not full for good. Seats left by students who did not confirm, and by those who migrate away, return in the next phase — which is why colleges reopen seats in the second and third rounds.

Can I apply to two shifts of the same college?

You can, and many do. They sit on the preference list as two separate entries, so you have to rank one above the other. Remember each entry uses up one of your total choices.

Can a college’s seats be increased?

Not on its own. Raising or lowering an approved intake is a board and ministry decision, and when it happens it is announced in a notice — do not plan around a verbal assurance.

Class XI Seats — How They Are Counted and Split

বাংলায় পড়তে চাও? দেখো: একাদশ শ্রেণির আসন — কীভাবে গোনা হয়, কীভাবে ভাগ হয়

“How many seats does that college have?” sounds like a simple question and is not. A Class XI seat count is never one number for a college. It is a stack of smaller numbers, one for each combination of shift, version and group.

The distinction matters because the form does not let you choose a college. It lets you choose one exact combination of college, shift, version and group — and you compete for that combination’s seats, not for the college’s.

What one seat actually is

Every college has an approved Class XI intake, and it is broken down at four levels. The morning-shift Bengali-version science seats and the day-shift English-version science seats at the same college are two entirely separate pools — two separate entries on the form, and two separate merit lists in the result.

Level	What it separates
College	The institution itself — government, non-government or project
Shift	Morning, day or evening — how the classrooms are shared
Version	Whether teaching is in Bengali or English
Group	Science, humanities or business studies

So “there are seats left” does not always mean “there are seats left for you”. A college can have humanities seats going spare while its morning-shift science pool filled long ago.

How the seats are divided

Each combination’s seats go two ways. The larger share is filled on merit — 93% of the total under the published policy. The remaining 7% is held for quotas: 5% for the freedom-fighter quota and 2% under the education ministry.

Unclaimed quota seats are not left empty; they fall back into the merit pool. That is why the number of students finally admitted on merit is often higher than the merit share on paper.

The same mechanism returns the seats of anyone who does not confirm. Through the season a seat count is therefore not a fixed quantity — it is rebuilt at the end of every phase.

What a seat number will not tell you

Students routinely read a seat count as a difficulty rating — more seats, easier; fewer seats, harder. In practice the count is only the denominator. The numerator is how many people applied to that exact combination, and there is no way to know it in advance.

A small college with few seats can be less competitive, simply because fewer people applied.
A large intake at a well-known college is not easy at all — applications there run to several times the seats.
Evening or second shifts usually take less pressure, though the syllabus and the examination are identical.
Last year’s cut-off GPA is a far more useful number than the seat count.

The 2026-27 admission policy was published on 24 August 2026, but the board can still revise dates or figures in a later notice. Check the latest notice on xiclassadmission.gov.bd before you apply. The information on this page was last verified on 28 August 2026.