FACTORS INFLUENCE ON COURSE SELECTION AMONG HSC COMMERCE STUDENTS
After 12th board examination selecting a course appears to be challenging task for students. Today’s generation students have ample of career opportunities in their selected stream of education. Even though students feel stressful and overwhelming, when they are asked’ what are your career planning after HSC Board examination’? If the students have no sense of purpose or direction, it would be wastage of
precious time in pursuing selected course. Many students fail to recognise the importance of choosing right course and then regret it later. Covid-19 Pandemic cause substantial changes in all areas of life including education sector. Schools, colleges closures, online teaching methods have affected students career planning and career decisions. Especially for HSC pass out students selecting the best possible course is a key decision to make and often a challenging one. There are many factors to be considered in selection process of right course at graduation level such as family-members guidance, influence of peer group, economical background, environmental factors, opportunity awareness, teachers counseling. This research study was conducted in the contest of HSC Commerce pursuing
students in junior commerce colleges located in Latur city in Maharashtra. The Proposed research study was based on primary data captured through selfstructured questioner. For the purpose of the study total of 50 respondents were selected using convenience and simple random sampling. The research findings could be used to opt the right career path for HSC students for future education and
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