New Delhi: Finally the most awaited Delhi University’s first-cut offlist for admission into undergraduate courses into its various colleges have been declared today, i.e. on June 22, 2010.
This year, DU’s first cut-off list witnessed a slightest change only. With more students securing merit certificates in CBSE exams, it was anticipated that the DU cut-offs would soar high. Excluding for science courses, commerce and humanities saw a minor raise. In some cases, the cut-off for these courses, in fact, dipped. However, DU teacher’s dissociation from the admission process over the implementation of the semester system seems to have been the reason for low cut-offs, this year. Most of the colleges were bound to follow with last year’s cut-offs.
Hindu College had declared cut-offs for four courses only, while Ramjas College preferred to stick to its last year’s cut-offs. Shri Ram College of Commerce, DU’s most popular college for Economics (Hons) and BCom (Hons), saw only a marginal increase of 0.5 per cent in both its courses. PC Jain, Principal SRCC, has said that they have only marginally increased the percentage, since, they have got a lot of applications this year and inflating the cut-offs would not have helped get good candidates. He also indicated that the college may close admissions with the first cut-off.
Among the Humanities courses, there has been only a marginal increase. Kanika Khandelwal, Media Coordinator, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, has said that this is due to the experience of the last year. She added that declaring high cut-offs means that they have to wait till the second list or in some cases third lists to fill up the seats. In case of BA (programme), the most sought after course in Humanities, with second highest number of applications this year, witnessed an average rise of one per cent. However, the cut-off for English (Hons) in colleges that do not have a joint entrance exam (CATE), has gone up to two per cent.
