Following are the standards for admitting a student to an engineering course.…
2025
Following are the standards for admitting a student to an engineering course. The student must:
(1) Have passed 12th standard in science subject with Maths and have scored at least 65 marks.
(2) Be of 19 years of age or above as of June 30, 2010.
(3) Have scored 70% marks in the entrance exam.
(4) Be able to pay the fees of Rs. 25,000 at the time of admission.
(5) Satisfies all above conditions except (3) but has successfully obtained 85% in 12th standard science exams should be raised to the authority.
(6) Satisfies all above conditions except (4), but can pay half the amount at admission time, can be tentatively admitted.
Vishakha Khanna was 16 years of age on January 14, 2009. She scored 80% in her 12th standard science exams with Maths. She obtained 58% in her entrance test and can pay Rs. 25,000 as admission fee. Should she be admitted to the engineering course?
- A.
She should be admitted.
- B.
She should not be admitted.
- C.
She should be raised to the authority.
- D.
She should be admitted tentatively.
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Correct answer: B
A selection decision table requires a candidate to satisfy every base condition to qualify outright. Each numbered exception clause is a narrow override that forgives failing exactly the one condition it names, provided every other base condition is met — it does not extend to a candidate who falls short on more than that one condition.
Condition (1) — 12th standard science with Maths: she scored 80%, well above the 65-mark threshold, so this condition is met.
Condition (2) — age 19 or above as of June 30, 2010: she was 16 on January 14, 2009, making her about 17 and a half by the cut-off date, so this condition is NOT met.
Condition (3) — 70% in the entrance exam: she obtained 58%, below the threshold, so this condition is NOT met.
Condition (4) — pay Rs. 25,000 at admission: she can pay the full Rs. 25,000, so this condition is met.
She therefore fails two base conditions — age and the entrance-exam score — not just one. Exception (5) forgives only a shortfall in the entrance-exam condition while every other condition (including age) holds; it also requires 85% in the 12th-standard science exams, and she has only 80%, so this exception fails on two independent grounds, not just the age mismatch. Exception (6) forgives only a shortfall in the fee condition, which she has not failed at all. Neither exception clause applies.
Since two mandatory conditions are unmet and no exception clause covers a two-condition shortfall, Vishakha cannot be admitted.