As the competition becomes tougher every year, colleges keep increasing their cut-off marks for admission which puts more pressure on the students. This year, the cut-off percentage for certain undergraduate courses of Delhi University has touched 100. Even for a subject like English, the cut-off has been very high. St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, has kept the cut-off for its English (Honours) course at 99 per cent. Is this a fair move? Students express their views.
Barath. S, III B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, NoidaIf just physics, chemistry and mathematics were prerequisites for engineering, this process of selecting students would have been fair. However, learning is a continuous process and hasn’t got a specific end. It’s very hard to digest the fact that only people who have scored 100 per cent would get a chance to study in certain colleges. Engineering is more of a research-based field and not solely based on school education. One does not need 100 per cent marks to pursue engineering at an esteemed university. Interest and innovative thinking are important, too.
Vishikha Chugh, III BMM Journalism, Jai Hind College, MumbaiIt is absolutely unfair that colleges are not judging the calibre of students based on their talent but on the marks they score in the board exams. Students are not encouraged to think out-of-the-box, to be confident about themselves and to be empathetic and good human beings. Instead of having such high cut-offs, colleges should conduct an entrance test where the students are judged based on their performance in that test and not solely on the marks they score in the board exams.
Kavin P, III Industrial Design, D J Academy of Design, CoimbatoreCome May and Class XII students are bombarded with these questions —How much did you score? Which college are you applying to? Everyone is so caught up in scoring high marks that nothing else matters to them. It has come to a point where it is automatically assumed that only people from the reservation quota will get admission in good colleges while the others will be left struggling. A person who scores 195/200 will not stand a chance against 1000 others who manage to get a single mark more. It is high time the nation realised the need for a change in the education system.
