Previous year (2015) PG admission cutoff marks of Gauhati University

Gauhati University is progressively becoming a popular destination for higher education for the entire northeast. Thousands of students apply to get seat in almost 40 departments of the university every year. With the limited number of seats availability, cut-off mark for each department of Gauhati University is seen to be prominently increasing every year. For the academic year 2016-17, issuing and submission process of application form is going on and will end up on 22nd of July, 2016. As the application submission process will over, university will conduct a entrance test for other university students and all interdisciplinary subjects, that are- Biotechnology, Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Technology, Micro-Electronics and advance communication, Environmental Science, Instrumentation & USIC, Library & Information Science, Linguistics and ELT, Microbiology, Mass Communication, Psychology, Sociology, Women's Studies and Comparative Indian Literature. The selection list with cut-off marks 2016 will be made available in the respective departments and university website on 5th August, 2016.
By knowing the previous year cut-off marks, an applicant can have a clear self-assessment like whether he or she should apply for a particular department/subject or whether he or she has a chance of getting a seat or not, since the expected cut-off for the present year will be more or less equal to that of previous year. Keeping that in mind, we have brought up below a list of previous year Post Graduate admission cut off marks of every departments of Gauhati University.

Sl. No.	Departments	Cut-off Marks (Percent)
1	Analytical Chemistry	57.58
2	Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology	59.82
3	Anthropology	76.12
4	Arabic	68.82
5	Assamese	72.47
6	Bengali	63.47
7	Biotechnology	54
8	Bodo	70.53
9	Botany	77.35
10	Chemistry	74.82
11	Commerce	73.17
12	Communication and Journalism	62.0
13	Computer Science	67.06
14	Economics	75.59
15	Education	77.88
16	Electronics and Communication Technology	78.35
17	Linguistics and ELT	50
18	English	66.29
19	Environmental Science	61
20	Geography	77.82
21	Geological Science	70.71
22	Hindi	65.70
23	History	68.29
24	Instrumentation	63.18
25	Library and Information Science	58.76
26	Mathematics	70.12
27	MBE	83
28	Micro-Electronics and Advance Communication	73.1
29	Microbiology	77.04
30	Persian	50.37
31	Philosophy	70.76
32	Physics	80.71
33	Political Science	75
34	Psychology	57.32
35	Sanskrit	61.35
36	Sociology	64.20
37	Statistics	72.06
38	Women Studies	48.47
39	Zoology	80.12

It will be worth to mention that, few departments, while preparing the selection list and cut off marks combine the marks of entrance test and degree marks, in contrast some departments only consider the entrance marks. In the above list, Electronics & Communication Technology and Micro-Electronics & Advance Communication cut off marks were prepared combing 50% of marks from entrance and 50% marks from Degree, while Instrumentation department prepared solely on the basis of marks obtained in the entrance test.

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