As expected, cutoffs for admission into Delhi University's undergraduate courses went sky high as colleges released the first list late on Monday. For BSc computer science, the bar was as high as 100% in at least three colleges — Acharya Narendra Dev (95-100), Atma Ram Sanatan Dharm (98-100) and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (97-100).
Though 'popular' colleges didn't raised the bar too high — there wasn't much scope for it either — cutoffs in other colleges increased by as much as 20 percentage points for some courses as compared to 2012-13, when the same programmes were last on offer.
The increase is attributed to uncertainty over the number of applicants due the sudden rollback of the four-year-undergraduate programme.
Barring courses such as Sanskrit, Hindi or Anthropology, cutoffs for a majority of popular courses were above 93% aggregate in best of four. And there is a 100 percent aggregate this year as well, recorded at Acharya Narendra Dev College for BSc computer science.
The cutoffs released by the colleges are also riddled with additional criteria and aspirants need to carefully analyse them, as simply making the cutoff will not make them eligible for admission.
Off-campus colleges played it safe to the extent that not many may see much of action during the first cutoff admissions. For example, Zakir Husain Delhi College increased its cutoff from 70 in 2012 to 90 this year for English honours while Ram Lal Anand (evening) upped the bar for its BA programme by 20 percentage points at 85%.
"We are aware that these are pretty high cutoffs. But colleges have to be careful because there has been no registration for programme courses and there is reduction in the seats for honours courses (as compared to FYUP). Once students come for registration and we have more data, we can work on more realistic cutoffs. We have the liberty as there will be seven more lists to fall back on," said principal of a south campus college.
Colleges like Gargi, Deshbandhu, Acharya Narendra Dev, SGND Khalsa and host of others increased their cutoffs by over 10 percentage points. In fact, of the 57 colleges (excluding St Stephen's, Jesus and Mary, Institute of Home Economics and Lady Irwin College) 45 recorded a jump of 10 percentage points in cutoffs as compared to 2012.
Some of the highest cutoffs are recorded at Acharya Narendra Dev, Hindu, Hans Raj, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri Ram College, Indraprastha College and Ramjas. Hindu placed its BCom (honours) cutoff even higher than SRCC by offering admissions at a range of 97.25 to 99.75 (best of four aggregate). SRCC is offering BCom (honours) at a range of 97.5 to 99.25. At Hans Raj, the highest cutoff is for BSc computer science at 98.33- 99.33 (best of four). Economics cutoff is equally high, with Hindu keeping the bar at 97.5-99.
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Though 'popular' colleges didn't raised the bar too high — there wasn't much scope for it either — cutoffs in other colleges increased by as much as 20 percentage points for some courses as compared to 2012-13, when the same programmes were last on offer.
The increase is attributed to uncertainty over the number of applicants due the sudden rollback of the four-year-undergraduate programme.
Barring courses such as Sanskrit, Hindi or Anthropology, cutoffs for a majority of popular courses were above 93% aggregate in best of four. And there is a 100 percent aggregate this year as well, recorded at Acharya Narendra Dev College for BSc computer science.
The cutoffs released by the colleges are also riddled with additional criteria and aspirants need to carefully analyse them, as simply making the cutoff will not make them eligible for admission.
Off-campus colleges played it safe to the extent that not many may see much of action during the first cutoff admissions. For example, Zakir Husain Delhi College increased its cutoff from 70 in 2012 to 90 this year for English honours while Ram Lal Anand (evening) upped the bar for its BA programme by 20 percentage points at 85%.
"We are aware that these are pretty high cutoffs. But colleges have to be careful because there has been no registration for programme courses and there is reduction in the seats for honours courses (as compared to FYUP). Once students come for registration and we have more data, we can work on more realistic cutoffs. We have the liberty as there will be seven more lists to fall back on," said principal of a south campus college.
Colleges like Gargi, Deshbandhu, Acharya Narendra Dev, SGND Khalsa and host of others increased their cutoffs by over 10 percentage points. In fact, of the 57 colleges (excluding St Stephen's, Jesus and Mary, Institute of Home Economics and Lady Irwin College) 45 recorded a jump of 10 percentage points in cutoffs as compared to 2012.
Some of the highest cutoffs are recorded at Acharya Narendra Dev, Hindu, Hans Raj, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri Ram College, Indraprastha College and Ramjas. Hindu placed its BCom (honours) cutoff even higher than SRCC by offering admissions at a range of 97.25 to 99.75 (best of four aggregate). SRCC is offering BCom (honours) at a range of 97.5 to 99.25. At Hans Raj, the highest cutoff is for BSc computer science at 98.33- 99.33 (best of four). Economics cutoff is equally high, with Hindu keeping the bar at 97.5-99.
Read more at : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Delhi-Universitys-first-cutoffs-soar-to-100-in-three-colleges/articleshow/37547611.cms
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