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UG cutoff released by St Stephen’s, 99.5% Economics highest

• BySheetal Sidhu     |    September 4, 2021

Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College on Friday released the cut-off for ten undergraduate courses with the highest cut-off set for the Economics (Honours) course at 99.5% for students with commerce and humanities stream. Applicants from the science stream need to have a score of 98.75% to get admission to the course. This year, the college has increased the cutoff for the course with a marginal increase of 0.25 percentage points for students from commerce background. Like last year, applicants seeking admission for Economics (Honours) need to score 95% or above in Mathematics.
The college has also set a 99% cut-off for History (Honours), English (Honours), and BA Programme for students with commerce and science backgrounds. For humanities students, the cut-off in these subjects stands at 98.25%, 98.7% and 97.75% respectively. Last year too, commerce students needed 99% in these three subjects.
With around 220,000 students scoring 90% and above marks in CBSE class 12 results this year and 70,000 of them scoring around 95% or more, several principals and stakeholders had said that the UG cut-offs were likely to soar this year.

St.Stephen’s College, however, has only increased the cut-off marginally in a few subjects while keeping it the same or reducing it fractionally compared to last year.
At 97.66%, the cut-off for BSc Physics (Hons) has not been increased this year. For Chemistry (Hons), the cut-offs are kept at 96.33%, a marginal dip from 96.67% last year. For Mathematics (Hons), applicants from science and commerce backgrounds need to score 98.5% – a marginal increase of .50 percentage points from last year – and applicants from humanities background need to score 98% to seek admission – recording a jump of 1.5 percentage points from last year.

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