As the admission season has proliferated across the nation, major number of colleges have started releasing their cut off marks. The admissions in Delhi University has once again touched the 100 per cent cut off marks for the undergraduate courses. Let us now understand " what is a cut off?" and "I s 100% cut off justifiable?". What is a Cut off? A cut off mark is the minimum mark or percentage required for admission in a course or a college. Cut off varies for different exams and from exam to exam, it also varies with availability of vacancies and competitive level exams . 100% cut off! Really? This year, the university’s admission process has been the highest with Lady Shri Ram College for Women setting 100% cut offs for three programmes , College of Vocational Studies and Indraprastha College for Women setting 100 per cent for the Computer Science program. and a total of 30 programmes across all colleges have cut-offs of 99% or higher. The key fact be