No major increase in cutoffs for commerce, English and economics this year

Updated on: Saturday, June 15, 2013

There is unlikely to be any major increase in cutoffs for commerce, English and economics this year. These subjects are the top gainers in the seat re-appropriation process, meaning that the number of seats available in them has increased substantially.

However, Delhi University officials said cutoffs would not decrease due to a 10% increase in the number of high scorers at class XII level. In fact, cutoffs for BTech courses are likely to see a significant increase.

Under its new four-year-undergraduate programme, DU will discontinue courses like BA, BSc and BCom and re-appropriate the seats to other bachelor programmes. These courses used to have around 15,000 seats of the total 54,000 seats across colleges.

According to the updated seat strength, commerce has the highest intake, followed by English, economics and mathematics. The commerce intake has been increased to 12,455 from 6,500 in 2012, while the English intake will be 4,375 this year against 3,500 last year. The intake in economics will rise by nearly 1,200 seats to 4,302 this year. The mathematics intake will be 3,250.

"These subjects got the maximum of the re-appropriated seats because the majority of the BA seats were distributed among economics, English and political science, while the BCom programme's 6,000 odd seats went to the commerce programme. Similarly the biggest gainers because of the discontinuation of BSc programme are physics and chemistry," said dean of students' welfare J M Khurana.

"Cutoffs will not see any major changes and definitely no decrease if we go by the number of high scorers in class XII and the increased applications in DU," said Khurana. "While it is unlikely that the cutoffs will dip anywhere, it is also a fact that there is hardly much scope for any significant increase as well," said principal of SRCC, P C Jain.

But according to the DSW's office, BTech courses are likely to see a significant increase in cutoffs owing to the large number of applicants with high scores. "This year BTech in electronics, computer science, food technology and even polymer science is likely to see a jump in cutoff as many engineering aspirants would prefer to join the four-year programme in DU rather than opt for a private college with exorbitant fees," said Khurana.

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No major increase in cutoffs for commerce, English and economics this year

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