Delhi University admission: Finally, the 100% cutoff is here
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This means, humanities and science students wanting admission in BCom (H) at SRCC will need to have 100% marks in their best-of-four subjects! In other words, no non-commerce student will be admitted in the course, at least in the first list.
The first cut-off list for the admission to undergraduate courses in Delhi University, released on Tuesday, brought more shock than hope. Science courses played hard-to-get with Daulat Ram College hiking its cutoff for chemistry (H) by as much as 13%. Gargi College followed suit and increased the cutoff marks for chemistry (H) by 12%, closely followed by SGTB Khalsa which raised its physics (H) cutoff to 92% this year — a hike of almost 10% from last year. At Miranda House the cutoffs for chemistry (H) and physics (H) went up by 8%.
"Last year, most students admitted in science courses chose to continue with their courses instead of dropping out like in previous years. In fact, many colleges faced overcrowding in classrooms. Most colleges had kept science cut-offs at a reasonable level, aiming to admit more students than the intake so that they were not left with vacant seats if students dropped out," said Meera Ramachandran, principal Gargi College.
The fear of over-admission plagued all colleges in absence of pre-admission forms this year. With no way of knowing how many students would take admission in a course, the best way for colleges to tread on the side of caution was to inflate cutoffs.
While SRCC has completely closed the doors for students who did not study commerce in school by keeping the cutoff at 100%, the hike for commerce students is "reasonable". The college is not sure if there will be another list. "We have hiked the BCom (H) cutoff by 0.75% and economics (H) cutoff by 1.75%. The cutoffs should go down in the second list but our first cutoffs for commerce students are quite reasonable. And there are chances of filling up all seats in first go," said P C Jain, principal, SRCC.
Non-commerce wanting to study BCom (H) are unwelcome at Hindu too. The college has announced a cutoff of 99% for BCom (H) for non-commerce students though the cutoff for those who have studied commerce is 95.5%.
Surprisingly, Kirori Mal College and Lady Shri Ram College have come out with 97% as the first cutoff for BCom (H) — higher than the cutoff for commerce students at SRCC. The highest increase in BCom (H) cutoff was 8% at Satyawati College (evening) followed by 6% at Bharati College. There is an increase of 1.5% to 3% in the cutoff for economics (H) across the board. The dependable BA programme too has shown a sharp hike this year. There is a clear hike of 5% (Bharati, Bhagini Nivedita) to 10% (Ramjas) in the first cutoff as compared to the first list in 2010.
Amidst spiraling cutoffs, English (H) is one course which still seems to offer hope even in non-CATE colleges. Though Kalindi College hiked its cutoff by 10% this year, the highest cutoff rests at 88% at Hans Raj, Gargi and Ramjas. Contrary to the trend, there is also a welcome drop in cutoff at Motilal Nehru, Rajdhani, Saheed Bhagat Singh and SGTB Khalsa colleges ranging from 1% to 4%.
Colleges will start admissions from Thursday.
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