Students need to score KVPY cutoff marks in total to qualify the exam. Subject-wise marks do not matter in KVPY.

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This is the good thing that the subject wise score in KVPY doesn't matter for the final result. However one has to score the minimum qualifying score in both exams (i.e., Written Exam and Interview).

For publishing the Stage 1 result, The total score in the written exam is taken into account, Also the section wise score doesn't matters.

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http://www.kvpy.iisc.ernet.in/