Allow me to explain the Physics/Chem part of his comment. The education system in India offers a fork-in-the-road twice: 1. Grade 10 - at which point you get

Allow me to explain the Physics/Chem part of his comment. The education system in India offers a fork-in-the-road twice: 1. Grade 10 - at which point you get to choose the general direction you want to head in (primarily Arts, Science, or Commerce streams) 2. Grade 12 - at which point you get to choose a slightly more specific stream, pursuant to the stream you chose in grade 10. Science students continue to study Physics, Chemistry and Maths until the end of grade 12 at which point they are presented with the above fork-in-the-road. To get into a college that offers an engineering degree (or any applied-sciences degree, for that matter,) you need to have a good score in PCM, i.e. Physics, Chemistry & Maths. It is in this context that your Physics & Chemistry scores are relevant. Also, one of the basic requirements for getting into a engineering course is that you should have graduated from a Science stream. Someone who has completed grades 11 and 12 in the commerce stream can't get an applied sciences course.