St. Stephen’s College sets the bar at 98.5%

Cut-offs register a marginal dip compared to last year; short-listed candidates will have to give aptitude test and interview

June 15, 2017 01:36 am | Updated 01:36 am IST - NEW DELHI

St. Stephen’s College on Wednesday released its cut-off list for admission into merit-based undergraduate programmes. Based on this cut-off list, students will be short-listed for the next stage of the admission process, which includes an aptitude test and interview.

The highest cut-off required for general category students by the college is 98.5% for admission into BA (Hons.) Economics and BA (Hons.) English for students from the commerce stream.

Marginal drop

This is a fall from the 99% required for BA (Hons.) English last year and a 0.3% increase in the percentage required for BA (Hons.) Economics.

Apart from BA (Hons.) Sanskrit, which has seen a 10% drop in cut-off required, the cut-off for other courses has either remained the same or seen a marginal change.

BA (Hons.) History, B.Sc (Hons.) Physics, and B.Sc Programme (Math, Physics, Computer Science) have seen a 0.25%, 0.67% and 0.67% drop in cut-off percentages required while it has increased by 0.33% for B.Sc Programme (Maths, Physics, Chemistry).

The college has released different cut-offs for commerce, humanities and science students with specific “riders” for certain courses. (See Table)

Separate cut-offs

There are separate cut-offs for Christian Scheduled Tribes, Church of North India (CNI), CNI Delhi Diocese, Other Christians, Christian Person with Disability, Person with Disability for some particular subjects, and for Urdu students.

The college said that it received 24,168 applications for the 410 seats it offers in 11 courses.

The courses offered by the college are BA (Hons.) in Economics, English, History, Philosophy and Sanskrit; B.Sc (Hons.) in Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics; BA Programme and B.Sc Programme in Physics, Computer sciences.

Impact on DU cut-offs?

Commenting on whether the cut-offs released by St. Stephen’s college could be an indicator of what to expect from the cut-offs that Delhi University will release on June 23, Gurpreet Tuteja, member of the admission committee of the university, said that St. Stephen’s has a two-step screening process and is a minority institution so its cut-off list cannot be taken as an indicator of what DU’s list will be like.

The college informed that based of these cut-off marks, candidates will be short-listed for the aptitude test and the interview.

“A short-list of applicants along with their interview schedules will be put up on the website and notice boards on June 15,” informed the college.

The weightage for marks in the qualifying exam, a written aptitude test and interview will be 85%, 5%, and 10%, respectively.

The aptitude test will be of 30 minutes’ duration and will be conducted on the same day as the interview.

The syllabus for the test will be according to the the programme/course that the candidate is applying for.

The college has put up details of the type of questions that will be asked in its prospectus.

Applicants belonging to Persons with Disability (PwD) Category and those applying through sports quota will be exempted from the written Aptitude Test.

Sports admissions will be done based on academic merit accounting for 30% [Class XII marks (15%) + interview (15%)], and sports merit accounting for 70% [certificates (28% ) + field trials (42%)]

Half of the seats are reserved for Christian candidates. Applicants to the college had to first fill the centralised DU admission form and then fill the St. Stephen’s application form as the college follows a different admission procedure from other DU colleges.

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