DU Colleges announce first cut-offs

Updated on: Thursday, June 21, 2012

The first college cutoffs for this year are in, and they're bad news for most admission seekers. St Stephen's College on Wednesday announced a 98% cutoff for commerce stream aspirants to the BA English (honours) course. That's also the highest among all cutoffs for the college this year, followed by 97.75% for economics.

Barring Sanskrit, the cutoffs have been increased for all other undergraduate courses in the college, with each of them touching a new high this year. The biggest jump has been for philosophy (honours), where the cutoff for science students has been hiked to 91% from 84% in 2011. For humanities students, it has been raised to 89.5% from 83% in 2011.

While BA English (honours) recorded the highest cutoff, ranging from 95.25% to 98%, the economics (honours) cutoffs ranged from 96.75% to 97.75%. Humanities students too will face far higher cutoffs this year, ranging from 0.75 to 6.5 percentage points. The only course to have not hiked its cutoff is Sanskrit (honours), which retained last year's cutoff of 65%.

"Commerce students tend to score high, but even humanities students are scoring pretty high marks which has been reflected in the cutoff this year. While going through the application on a random basis, we found a large number of students scoring 97% or 98% in humanities," said the tutor of admissions, K M Mathew.

There is no relief in the science courses either. Barring a marginal increase in physics (honours), the rest of them have seen hikes of 1 to 3 percentage points, with BSc (honours) in mathematics recording a cutoff of 96.25%.

There are a total of 420 seats for which the college has received over 22,000 applications - 15,000 online applications and 7,000 physical applications. The highlight of the pre-admission registration process this year has been the significant increase in the number of applicants scoring 97% and above in their best of four subjects (including one language).

Based on the cutoffs the college will shortlist students for the next phase of the admission process, the interview. The names of the shortlisted candidates will be announced on Friday afternoon.

According to the 2012-13 admission policy, the college will not give weightage to Class X scores. Otherwise, the college is going to continue with most of the reforms introduced in 2010-11, including that of keeping the merit differential between any reserved and general category at a maximum of 15%.

Final admissions will be based on the interview which has been given 15% weightage and Class XII marks, which have 85% weightage.

DU Colleges announce first cut-offs

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