Thank you for approaching counsellors at CareerGuide.com. You have mentioned that you have not opted maths at 12th level right? Then this alone very well determines that you cannot apply for BTech biotechnology degree. BTech Biotechnology students will definitely study maths throughout first year that is both in semester one and semester two.

Apart from this BTEch biotech students will also have either Statistics or Biostatistics at year two in either third sem or fourth sem depending on the college syllabus. If you have not studied maths in 12th level then this will put you to struggle to study maths at college level. For this reason it is not advisable to choose BTech Biotechnology degree.

Moreover colleges admitting students themselves will not allow students to be admitted on their BTech program if you have not studied maths. Apart from this, most of the colleges run entrance test, either their own test or national or state level engineering entrance test and maths will be a part of the entrance test. Maths will comprise at lest 40% of the entrance test paper and colleges will check if you have individually passed maths section that is gaining more than 20 out of 40. The questions in the maths section will be framed from 12th standard maths book and if you have not studied maths this will again put you to struggle.

With all these i can sincerely advice you to opt for BSc Biotechnology. You will not have maths in first year, although very few colleges have started adding maths in first sem alone more recently. For example, University of Pune has Mathematics and statistical methods of analysis in their first year syllabus for BSc Biotech students. It is a 100% core theory paper and students are compulsorily to take this paper. This requires you to carefully select universities that doesn't include maths at all. Likewise i cannot promise that certain universities will not offer Maths for BSc students as in recent years universities are in revision to include maths even at BSc levels. But dont worry that universities offering BSc Biotech will be still happy to take students with non maths background as they will very well understand that PCB students common destinations are BSc and not BTech. This will no way affect your BSc admissions. If you still aspire doing a BTech in future, finish BSc and then through lateral entry you can join BTech directly in second year. But frankly speaking there is not much difference between BSc and BTech level. BSc alone is highly sufficient to get a job. All the best.