St. Stephens college increases cutoff in several subject

Updated on: Friday, June 21, 2013

Cutoff marks at St Stephen's College have increased substantially in several subjects and marginally in others. Increases are in the range of 0.25% to 5.5%. Students from the humanities stream will have it tough as the maximum increase has been for that group in the cases of mathematics (3% increase) and philosophy (5.5% increase).

For economics - Stephen's received the maximum number of applications for this subject - the cutoff score has increased marginally for students of commerce (98% from 97.75% last year), remained the same for science (96.75%) and interestingly, for humanities, dropped by 0.25% from last year's 96.75% to 96.5%.

From this year, there will be two sections of economics at the college as the subject has been given 50 of the 100 seats reallocated after abolishing BA and BSc Programme courses. The slight dip in cutoff for humanities, however, cannot be attributed to the increase in seats as even in case of English, the number of seats doubled but cutoff marks have still risen by 1% for science (96% to 97%) and 0.5% for humanities (95.25% to 95.75%). St Stephen's spokesperson Karen Gabriel says, "The cutoff marks have been decided on the basis of marks of applicants alone."

Minimum scores for chemistry and physics have gone up substantially - 1% (95% to 96%) for chemistry and 0.87% (95.66% to 96.33%) for physics.

For maths, the rise is greatest for humanities students who will now have to score 94.5% or above to be considered for an interview; last year, the cutoff mark was 91.5%. But the biggest surprise is in philosophy which has seen substantial increase in cutoffs for both science and humanities students. For science, the increase is 4% (from 91% to 95%) and for humanities, it is 5.5% (from 89.5% to 95%) - the biggest jump this year. Seats for candidates who will be taking Urdu as Foundation Course and as Discipline Course II (minor which students have to study from the third semester) were reserved in classes for economics, mathematics, English, history and philosophy.

The college will next interview the candidates making the cut for final admission. The list of candidates will be posted by June 22 and interviews will begin from June 24.

The admission policy applied for the 2012-2013 round will continue this year as well. Scores in Class X exams will not be counted.

St. Stephens college increases cutoff in several subject

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