New Delhi, June 17 (IANS): The cut-off for admissions to the four-year undergraduate economics and English programmes for students with commerce background in Delhi University's St.Stephen's College has been set at 98 percent, according to figures released by the college Tuesday.
"This cut-off set is determined on the basis of the marks scored by the applicants. The cut-off registered this year is almost the same as that of last year," St. Stephen's principal Valson Thampu told IANS.
At 97.25 percent, the cut-off for the four-year undergraduate programme in mathematics has been set over three percent higher than last year.
For the four-year undergraduate programme in philosophy, then cut-off has been set at 97 percent.
Similarly, in the science stream the cut-offs for the chemistry and physics subjects are 96.3 percent and 96.66 percent respectively.
There has been no change in the cut-off percentage set for the Sanskrit programme, which is 65 percent.
St.Stephen's reserves 50 percent of its seats for Christian candidates, 8.5 percent for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, 1.5 percent for differently-abled candidates, while the remaining 40 percent of seats are for general category students.