98.75%: After 2 years, St Stephen’s raises cutoff
NEWDELHI: St. Stephen’s College, usually the first to release its cut-off list that sets the tone for other institutions in Delhi University, announced a slight increase in the humanities courses compared to last year on Monday evening. For science courses, however, there was a slight dip from 2017’s cut-offs.
The highest cut-offs were for Economics (Hons) at 98.75% for Commerce students, and 98% and 97.5% for Humanities and Science students respectively. Last year, the cut-offs for the three streams were 98.5%, 97.5% and 97.5%. The highest dip, five percentage points, was for Sanskrit (Hons), with the subject being available at 65% for students from all streams. Last year, it was available at 70% in the first list.
St Stephen’s college, which always releases different cutoffs for students from different streams, had been seeing a dip in cut-offs for the last two years.
The college, which reserves 50% seats for Christians by virtue of being a minority institution, conducts an aptitude test and an interview for applicants who meet the cutoff. In its final selection criteria, applicants are given 85% weightage for their Class 12 marks, 5% for the aptitude test and 10% for the interview.
The interviews are starting from June 18.
For English (Hons), the cutoff is 97.5%, which is .25 percentage points up from last year’s 97.25 % for humanities students.