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Saturday, Apr 30, 2005

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Cut-off marks may drop this year

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The cut-off marks for admission to engineering colleges may come down by three or four in the coming season, while the threshold for medical admissions may climb by 0.75 to one mark, according to a private analyst.

A Salem-based agency, Turning Point, which has made this calculation, noted that the number of students who scored 50 out of 50 in the Maths entrance test in 2004 was just one.

And this year, there may not be any. There were 1,501 students who scored above 40 last year and indications are this figure may drop to hardly 500. As a result, there may be just a handful of students who may score 295 or more out of 300, whereas there were 34 students above that mark last year.

According to Jayaprakash Gandhi, the analyst, compared to 294 students who scored over 290 in 2004 in the engineering group, the number will slump to about 120 this year.

He estimates that about 600 boys and girls could secure over 285 marks and the number scoring over 280 may go up to 1,400 (when compared to 1,803 last year.)

On the contrary, the scenario in medical admissions may be transformed this year. When compared to just 37 students who scored 50 out of 50 in the biology entrance test in 2004, the figure this year may touch 1,000, given the easy paper.

As against 1,034 candidates who secured 49 out of 50 last year, their number may swell to 2,500 this year.

The exact picture, of course, will be known when the results are out.

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