Top Lists Thanks To Normalization And Higher Marks
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Mumbai: The minority is now the majority. The city’s premier institution for science, D G Ruparel College, which had admitted about 100 students from the state board last year, has a whopping 209 SSC students in its first cut-off list. The institution has a total of 286 science seats.
When the first merit lists for admission to junior colleges were put out on Thursday afternoon, it became apparent that thanks to higher marks and the normalization of scores, SSC students wouldn’t be bulldozed off the merit list by their ICSE and CBSE counterparts this year.
Principal of the Matunga-based Ruparel, P P Kulkarni, said his college had never had so few ICSE or CBSE candidates. “Last year, we had at least twice the number of ICSE students in our college. This year, there are just 70 who have managed to get into the first merit list.’’ His college’s first merit list for science closed at 92% last year. This year, the cut-off was from 92.8% to 94.43%.
Thanks to the marks normalisation scheme, introduced by the state government to put SSC scores on par with those of other boards, the number of SSC students who have made it to junior college merit lists has dramatically increased.
For instance Ruia College, which has 680 seats and closed the first list in the 95.24 percentile, saw more than 50% of SSC students make it. A closer look at the actual marks showed that if an SSC student needed a minimum of 91.54%, her ICSE counterpart was required to score at least 93.14% to get in. The first list in this college closed at 92% last year.
National College principal Manjula Desai, whose college also had a large percentage of SSC students making it to the first list, said, “We closed our eyes to the fact that this year SSC students have an edge over others.’’
In south Mumbai, the city’s top college for commerce, HR College of Commerce and Economics, which has some 950-odd seats, had over 500 state board students in the first list. Principal Indu Shahani said, “The tables have been turned. But at the end of the day, all students will have to perform well in college. These marks only give entry into college.’’
Cut-off for arts soared by almost 5% as compared to last year. Cut-offs for science and commerce went up by an average of 3% to 4%
At Xavier’s, the No 1 slots for arts and science were occupied by SSC students. Around half of the students in the arts merit list and nearly 50% students on the science list were from the SSC board
In Ruia, which has 680 seats, over 50% of seats went to SSC students
At HR College of Commerce, more than 500 SSC students made it. The college has 950 seats
When the first merit lists for admission to junior colleges were put out on Thursday afternoon, it became apparent that thanks to higher marks and the normalization of scores, SSC students wouldn’t be bulldozed off the merit list by their ICSE and CBSE counterparts this year.
Principal of the Matunga-based Ruparel, P P Kulkarni, said his college had never had so few ICSE or CBSE candidates. “Last year, we had at least twice the number of ICSE students in our college. This year, there are just 70 who have managed to get into the first merit list.’’ His college’s first merit list for science closed at 92% last year. This year, the cut-off was from 92.8% to 94.43%.
Thanks to the marks normalisation scheme, introduced by the state government to put SSC scores on par with those of other boards, the number of SSC students who have made it to junior college merit lists has dramatically increased.
For instance Ruia College, which has 680 seats and closed the first list in the 95.24 percentile, saw more than 50% of SSC students make it. A closer look at the actual marks showed that if an SSC student needed a minimum of 91.54%, her ICSE counterpart was required to score at least 93.14% to get in. The first list in this college closed at 92% last year.
National College principal Manjula Desai, whose college also had a large percentage of SSC students making it to the first list, said, “We closed our eyes to the fact that this year SSC students have an edge over others.’’
In south Mumbai, the city’s top college for commerce, HR College of Commerce and Economics, which has some 950-odd seats, had over 500 state board students in the first list. Principal Indu Shahani said, “The tables have been turned. But at the end of the day, all students will have to perform well in college. These marks only give entry into college.’’
Cut-off for arts soared by almost 5% as compared to last year. Cut-offs for science and commerce went up by an average of 3% to 4%
At Xavier’s, the No 1 slots for arts and science were occupied by SSC students. Around half of the students in the arts merit list and nearly 50% students on the science list were from the SSC board
In Ruia, which has 680 seats, over 50% of seats went to SSC students
At HR College of Commerce, more than 500 SSC students made it. The college has 950 seats
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