Section 30(1)(ii) in The Bombay University Act, 1974
(ii)four students, two on the basis of their academic merit at the pre-Degree or Intermediate Examination, as the case may be, of the year, from among the students who have offered the subject as one of the subjects at the pre-Degree or Intermediate Examination, and two others on the basis of their academic merit at the Degree Examination of the year in their principal special or major subjects for the Degree Examination or as laid down by the Statutes and who continue their post-graduate studies in that subject, to be appointed as prescribed by the Statutes.