Eyeing for St. Stephens�s, journey to St. Stephen�s not a cakewalk

St. Stephen’s College have raised the cut off marks significantly in several subjects and marginally in others. The college has increased the marks from 0.25% to 5.5%. Students from the humanities stream will have to face the more roadblocks as the maximum increase has been for that group in the cases of mathematics and philosophy 3% and 5.5% respectively.

For economics-St. Stephen’s received the maximum number of applications for this subject-this year the college has increased the cut-offs marginally for students of commerce. Last year, it was 97.75% and this year it is 98%, on the other side the cutoff for the science was remained same and for humanities it 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 reallocation after abolishing BA and B.Sc. programmes. The marginal 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 increase by 1% for science (96% to 97%) and 0.5% for humanities. St. Stephen’s spokesperson Karen Gabriel says, “The cutoff marks have been decided on the basis of marks of applicants alone.”

The college will conduct interview for admission after the declaration of the cutoff and the list of candidates will be posted by 22nd June and interviews will begin from 24th June, 2013.