DU to extend time for receiving completed forms at all admission centres

Updated on: Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Expecting a last-day rush for pre-admission registration for its undergraduate admissions on Wednesday, Delhi University has decided to extend the time for receiving completed optical mark recognition forms to 4pm at all the designated admission centres.

Apart from the rush for submission of the offline OMR forms across 18 designated colleges and centres, DU might also see a spurt of last-minute online registrations as a large number of aspirants have created their accounts but are yet to complete the procedure by making the payment of the registration fee. DU will continue to receive online registrations up to 12 midnight (June 19, 2013).

While DU has already recorded the highest ever submission of forms on Tuesday the number is expected to cross 2.5 lakh on Wednesday. As per dean of students' welfare office, till the filing of this report, the total OMR forms received stands at 1,15,306 as against total sale of 1,59,271. The total online registration is 95,926 excluding SC/ ST/ PWD category submissions. Registrations for St Stephen's College and Jesus and Mary College also close on Wednesday. Most colleges will also close the registration process for ECA/sports category aspirants.

With the deadline for registrations ending Wednesday, DU and its colleges will start the next phase of admission process—the trials for ECA/ sports admissions and entrance tests for various courses. The colleges will also start working out the cut-offs and many are expected to have their meetings on Friday.

Aspirants need to check the cut-offs of individual colleges and keep checking even if admissions have closed in previous lists—admissions in economics had reopened at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Miranda House and Hindu necessitating the fourth list. Another unexpected trend spotted last year was the drastic increase in cut-offs at off-campus colleges.

This year, however, cut-offs will be influenced by a large number of factors—the large number of 90-percenters in Class XII exam, increase in number of seats in certain subjects (it has doubled in the case of commerce) and increase in DU's undergraduate roll strength by a third of its original strength due to the addition of a year.

Delhi University offers undergraduate courses in four foreign languages — French, German, Spanish and Italian — with 39 seats allotted to each. The department of Germanic and romance studies which offers the courses — classes take place at the department itself and not in colleges — has, till now, received 2,200 applications, up from about 1,800 last year. Admission is through a common entrance test scheduled for June 22.

At undergraduate level, these languages were taught as part of the now abolished BA Programme course. "Colleges are not introducing these as Discipline I courses as special arrangements need to be made. But where these were being taught as a part of BA Programme, these will be introduced as Discipline II courses," says Kusum Aggarwal, head, GRS. She adds that there are five colleges where one or more of these languages (except Italian) will be taught as Discipline II.

DU to extend time for receiving completed forms at all admission centres

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