Cut-offs drop by as little as 0.8%

With a 95.20% score in his Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams, school-topper Sahil Bhatia was certain he would get admission in any top city college. Payoshaa Shah reports.

With a 95.20% score in his Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams, school-topper Sahil Bhatia was certain he would get admission in any top city college.

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Bhatia, however, was in for a shock when he didn’t make it to the bachelor of commerce (BCom) merit list at NM College, Vile Parle, where the cut-off was 96.83%.

Colleges put up their second merit lists on Tuesday evening. Cut-offs fell only marginally in top colleges, especially for the much sought after BCom (Accounting and Finance), Bachelor of Mass Media (BMM) and Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) courses.

At Jai Hind College, the BMM cut-off for commerce fell from 94.6% to 93.8%, at KC College the BMS cut-off for commerce fell from 93% to 90.4% and the BMM cut off fell from 94% to 93.2%. At NM College the BMS cut-off for commerce fell from 93.4% to 92%, while at RA Podar College the Bcom cutoff fell from 93.5% to 91.4%. At St Xavier’s College in Dhobi Talao, the arts cutoff for outsiders fell from 95.4% to 94.6%.

“The fall has been very small, many took their admissions and there were fewer vacancies now,” said Manju Nichani, principal of KC College in Churchgate. “There may be a third list for a few courses.”

Seats for courses such as BCom have been filled with in-house students at Hinduja College, Charni Road, which did not have a merit list for students from other colleges while a few other colleges such as NM College issued their first merit list for outside students for BCom only on Tuesday.