allahabad the authorities of the university grants commission ugc have released the muchawaited cutoff marks for various subjects under national eligibility test net which was conducted in december the cutoff for different categories has been prepared on the basis of the aggregate of all three papers for which the exam was conducted by the ugc in december 12 a total of 28824 candidates had applied for net dec 12 while 23445 had finally appeared in the exam from allahabad centre out of these just 377 managed to secure the junior research fellowship jrf in the exam while 3440 candidates succeeded in attaining eligibility for lectureship ugc from this year had followed the new norms for preparing results under which a merit list of top 15 of the total candidates making a place in the result was prepared and only they have been declared successful while others have been declared unsuccessful even if they had managed to secure the minimum marks specified for each of the three papers among merit of the main 10 subjects for jrfs just sociology has registered a rise while the merit of all others has fallen as compared to the june2012 net the cutoff for general category jrf of sociology was 7241 in the june2012 net and has risen to 7371 for the december 2012 net the obc merit however for the subject has dipped from 7126 to 7029 the sc cutoff has risen from 6552 to 6571 in net the maximum candidates chose history as the subject of their choice to appear in the exam historys cutoff for jrf has witnessed a dip this time around the cutoff for general category candidate of the subject was 6914 last time around but has dipped to 68 in the december 2012 net obc cutoff too has come down from 6743 to 6514 for jrfs of history while sc cutoff too has fallen from 6286 to 6057 the fall in cutoff has been much below the june2012 net when 580 had managed to secure the fellowships in the exam while 4347 candidates had succeeded in attaining eligibility for lectureship the fall in the number of candidates this time is owing to the new norms for preparing results the cutoffs for dec 12 test of major subjects for jrf under various category includes economics 7143 gen 6686 obc 6171 sc and 6629 physically handicapped for political science the cutoff for jrf is 6629 gen 6343 obc 5667 sc and 6000 ph in philosophy the cutoff is 7257 gen 7029 obc 6514 sc and 6457 ph for psychology it is 6914 gen 6571 obc 6343 sc 6229 ph for sociology the cutoff is 7371 gen 7029 obc 6571 sc and 6514 ph in history it is 6800 gen 6514 obc 6057 sc and 6171 ph for education it is 6743 gen 6400 obc 5829 sc and 5829 ph and in hindi it is 7314 gen 6914 obc 6457 sc and 6514 ph for geography it is 6914 gen 6613 obc