On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> This is a cut off for SCIENCE STREAM people. > > Basically a way to keep out candidates who take a commerce seat as a > fallback and dump it as soon as they get into an IIT / BITS etc, leaving > the college stuck with unfilled seats. > Science stream or not, Udhay's point is well made. Sibal said in a statement yesterday that there was only one person who fit the criterion, i.e., science stream student who secured 100% and wanted to to pursue B.Com (Hons.) at SRCC. It is clearly grandstanding - it appears the College wants to be the first to this ridiculous mark and clearly wants to exclude all science students. The bigger issue is that with greater objective questioning and far more lax marking on the subjective questions, more students are above 95% than ever before. Is it fair to keep marks obtained in the Boards as the sole basis for determining admission? There is an interview, but it is fairly cursory. We just don't seem to have a grip on the diverse skills and personality traits that can make for a successful person in the future. And we simply don't account for differing ages at which people find maturity. All in all, the system is ridiculous. Colleges like St. Stephen's etc. are out of the firing line even though they have cut offs as high as 99%. Regards, Nikhil Mehra Advocate, Supreme Court of India Tel: (+91) 9810776904 Res: C-I/10, AIIMS Campus, Ansari Nagar (East) New Delhi - 110029.
