‘Z – Score’ cut off marks released

February 10, 2013, 10:40 pm , The Island

by Dasun Edirisinghe

The much delayed ‘Z–score’ cut–off marks, for admission of students to universities, based on the GCE (Advanced Level) examination 2011 results, were released online by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Saturday night.

Secretary of the Higher Education Ministry Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne told The Island that the cut-off marks had been released on the UGC website www.ugc.ac.lk as it had already been delayed by one year.

Normally, in previous years, the ‘Z-score’ cut–off marks were released to the media first, Dr. Navaratne said.

University admissions, based on GCE (A/L) examination 2011, were delayed due to a Supreme Court order which stipulated that the Z-score rankings for old and new syllabi be prepared separately, following a petition filed by some students.According to the SC order, an additional 5,609 students should be admitted to universities and the total intake increased to 28,000 with those additional students.

Normally, the students were admitted to universities in October, but the new intake could be admitted only by the end of March, Dr. Navaratne said.

He said that the third batch of leadership training programme would commence tomorrow. Two batches had successfully completed the programme.