nagpur the provisional merit list for std xi common admission process cap shows signs of nagpur city heading for yet another year of high cutoffs scoring above 90 is now not enough to guarantee a spot in a top colleges bifocal stream with the top 1000 rankings closing at 946 this year the 90plus club ends at merit rank number 3284 though the final merit list will be published on july 7 only very little change can be expected in the rankings as the entire process was online and details were checked by both student and college authorities before being submitted overwhelming majority of the top scorers have applied for science stream and thats expected to push up the cutoffs in bifocal course up north the highest scorer applying for commerce has 988 with a merit rank of 47 arts was at the last position with the highest scoring application coming in at 942 with a merit rank of 1162while nagpur does have many good junior colleges among them it is usually ambedkar college deekshabhoomi and shivaji science college that witness highest cutoffs if the same trend continues this year too then keeping in mind the limited availability of seats and a huge number of high scorers cutoffs may very create a new record so far the highest cutoff recorded under cap has been 98 for ambedkar college the high scores are courtesy the bonus marks given to students for sports arts and culture for ssc these marks were already added to the marklist and percentage calculated accordingly for cbse students have submitted their certificates verifying their extra curricular achievements pramod gharpure an official actively involved in looking after cap in city said we have to go by the marks given by board regardless every student has been given the opportunity to mark the category thats applicable to them like sports cultural etc the top 100 merit rankers contain only one commerce applicant with everyone else opting for science the push for bifocal course is mostly by students who are preparing for entrance exams of engineering and medical choosing bifocal gives them an academic edge helping them focus more on the core subjects bifocal is a branch within the science stream offered for std xi and xii it allows the students to take an elective electronics computer science fisheries etc instead of a language