new delhi the delhi high court monday dismissed a petition which alleged a disproportionate number of admissions of students from kerala state board in delhi university saying fixing of cutoffs was a matter of the universitys admission policyjustice prateek jalan said that matters of academic policy were best left to the university and the court would be slow in interfering with the samethe court was hearing a petition by a duaspirant seeking a scaling mechanism for marks scored by students from different boards in order to provide a level playing fieldto me it is entirely a matter of policy how do we say what should be fixed as a cutoff how do we say soandso board marks have been higher and soandso have been lower i dont think a court can get into this based on this kind is reverse engineering the judge saidwe are of the view that the grievance of the petitioner is incapable of adjudication and is best left to the policy decision of the university the court further saidthe petitioner argued that in spite of securing over 98 per cent in class 12 she was unable to score admission in her preferred course and collegetake the cookie as it crumbles we have to accept that there is no reason to feel disheartened you will get admission there are great colleges and universities all over india the judge told the petitioner gunisha aggarwal who was present during the hearing conducted through video conferencinglawyers vipul ganda and annirudh sharma representing the petitioner claimed that 49 per cent of students who got admission in the first cutoff list belonged to the kerala state board as opposed to 136 per cent and 1480 per cent from cbse and isc respectivelythe counsel added that 27 per cent of successful candidates in the first cutoff were from the rajasthan state boardfor the kerala board both class 11 and class 12 marks are being considered which is leading to a disproportionate number of admissions from there counsel for the petitioner statedit has come to the knowledge of the petitioner that the maximum number of 100 per cent marks have been awarded by the kerala state examination board and a total of 6000 students from the kerala state board have scored 100 per cent marks similarly other state boards have adopted their own mechanism to award marks to students the petition saidi am at the disadvantage as i am from cbse suddenly this year the students of other boards have become brighter the counsel submittedthe court noted that not only was the scheme of marking for cbse approved by the supreme court earlier this year on account of the pandemic the petitioner filed the petition after participating in the admission processthe fact that certain state boards may have evolved a different manner of assessment leading to some variation in the average marks does not make the admission process manifestly arbitrary so as to require interference the court saidthe judgements of the supreme court make