Thursday, June 16, 2011

The SRCC Cut-off Hungama

The Lady Sri Ram College of Commerce of the prestigious Delhi University has set the cut-off level for admissions in commerce stream at 100%. Strange? Shocking? Awful? All at the same time, plus Hungama, Indian style.
The reputed college has said that any one having secured less than than 100% is not entitled for admissions in Commerce in that college. The media (which has nothing else to do) and politicians, led by none other than Mr. Kapil Sibbal, the HRD Minister, himself have duly expressed their shocks. Unfortunately, Sibbal did not foresee a few years earlier that this scene had been painted on the wall the day he started harking"don't fail any student".
SRCC, or any other college for that matter, fills its seat on merit. If, say, its 100 seats fill up at 100% scorers, why should it consider the 99.99% holder? Just to hold a lolly pop to the not-so-poor students! SRCC would be to blame only if it keeps its seats vaccant and still not allowing a lower ranker. Is it really the case? Probably not, and that is why SRCC is right.
As already mentioned sometime earlier in this blog itself, Sibbal is only making shadow boxers out of the students in his new educational policy. Semester exams, objective questions and no-failure are making our bright children only the pale shadows of what they really could be. To top it all, a 92 percenter is a poor student! At 74% my friend, Sanjay Kumar Sinha, was the District topper of Dhanbad district in 1979 Matriculation exam.
The error is not with the SRCC but with Suibbal.