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| Wednesday, Jun 15, 2005
Cut-off band narrows for MBBS aspirants in TN
Chennai: With the Government's decision to scrap the Common Entrance Test to professional courses in Tamil Nadu and take into account only the Plus-Two marks, the question on everyone's mind is: What would be the cut-off marks for MBBS courses?
While the stage has been set for a legal battle, with hundreds of petitions challenging the new policy posted before a Division Bench, the question is the fall-out of the Government's policy and what it means to the average student in terms of actual scores.
Even a raw analysis of the students' Plus-Two aggregate shows that anyone with less than 197 out of 200 may not be able to enter an MBBS degree course in Tamil Nadu. This might include persons with full marks (200 out of 200 in the Standard XII Biology examination). The whole analysis is based on the Plus-Two results and includes those who wrote the improvement examination this time, but it does not include the thousands who took only the TNPCEE (to improve on their last year's entrance scores).
For computing the medical entry scores, the calculation is rather simple:
The marks in biology (out of 200) is converted to a base of 100. Then the Chemistry and Physics marks are added up and divided by four (so that it is also converted to a base of 100). The total marks would then be the score against a base aggregate of 200.
An analysis of the Plus-Two marks shows that 123 students got 200 out of 200 in the Biology, Chemistry and Physics combination, and 207 got 200 in two subjects and 199 in the third. Similarly 230 students got 199 in two subjects and 200 in one subject; 270 got 199 in all three subjects, notes Madhumati N. of Aspire Learning company, Chennai. Another analyst, Jayaprakash Gandhi of Salem, notes that last year the cut off scores for MBBS entrance in the government colleges were (including the TNPCEE scores) — OC-295.74; BC -294.26; MBC-292.13; SC-287.56; and ST-274.00. The marks difference was only about seven marks between the topper and the last ranker in SC. But this time, the gap will narrow down dramatically to just two-three marks.
He notes that the computation was for last year's seat matrix of 1,246 medical seats for the State quota. and the analysis
Another fallout he notes: Candidates under "Open Competition" (but not belonging to the reserved categories) may not be able to get the top notch colleges like such as Madras Medical College or Stanley Medical College, even if they get 200 out 200.
Age factor
Also, students born after July 1987, will have a tough time, because their ranking will come down, in case of a tie in score and ranking. When more than one person gets the same score, then the ranking would depend on the date of birth and preference normally given to the eldest. So the youngest would have a tough time, Mr. Gandhi notes. "In case the improvement candidates get an order in their favour, the ranking of those born after July 1987 would come down further," he adds.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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