Hi guys,
sometime ago i read in THE TIMES OF INDIA that in 2007 the INDIVIDUAL cut offs for Physics Chemistry and Maths were 3,4 and 1 marks respectively.
Before any one thinks that i am insane let me tell u hw the cutoff's were calculated.... [ acc. to the newspaper ofcourse ]
a total merit list was prepared and the cutoff were decided acc. to the marks of the last 20% students [ out of total lot ]....
Now, the last 20% are non-serious students, so they can never go beyond 1,3,4..
But, the overall cutoff was high as it should be [ around 200-210 marks out of 486 ]
This was done becuse in 2006 there were some flaws in the decided cutoffs and RTI had asked IITs to get a method which did not have discrepancies....
The conclusion that i took out of the data was that :
We have 3 individual cutoffs and one overall. If the individual cutoffs are so low, then we can easily clear these cutoffs. So, a student whose 2 subjects are strong and one is weak, can clear the cutoff easily. So, this means, that the student just bothers to clear the cutoff in the subject in which he is weak, and try to do as many questions for other two subjects as possible, to get near to the overall cutoff.......
What say ????