2-3% hike likely in first Delhi University cutoffs

Updated on: Saturday, June 11, 2011

With no rush for forms, colleges are busy working out their first cutoffs these days. Expect a clear rise of up to 3% in the first cutoffs in campus colleges while the others may hike it only slightly.

Colleges have to submit their cutoffs to the university by 1 pm on June 14 though teachers in many colleges admit they have already calculated their first cutoff marks for admissions this year. The first list is scheduled to be out on June 15.

With the kind of hike likely on the campus, aspirants may require a near perfect score to make it to some of the popular courses like BCom (honours) and BA (honours) economics in the first list itself. As colleges do not have any application to base their cutoffs on, admission committees are relying on previous years' cutoffs, current Class XII results, past experience and also 'guesswork' to arrive at cutoffs.

"We are carefully looking at the lists released last year and also the number of admissions made under each list. At least four of our departments have already submitted the cutoffs and all teacher-in-charges are going to meet on Monday to finalise everything. There may be an increase of 2-3% in some courses and may be less in others," said Vinay Kumar Srivastava, principal, Hindu College. He added: "Our concern is to have such a cutoff that we do not over-admit. A lot of brainstorming is going on in our college."

Although their number of seats is limited, colleges tend to over-admit as no eligible student can be denied admission. Many colleges are also taking into account the marks of students who registered with them online to work out the cutoffs. "The first cutoffs are bound to be higher as the number of students scoring more than 90% has really gone up this year. Besides the online registrations, we have also received the CD of CBSE results from the university and we are still in the process of compiling the cutoffs," said Jaswinder Singh, principal, SGTB Khalsa College.

Another teacher from a North Campus college added: "Though we can't already say how much the hike this year is, the cutoffs are really enhanced. Probably, the first cutoff is going to be useless for most candidates. We are ready with cutoffs for all courses."

Every college has an idea about the popularity of each of its courses - more the demand, higher the cutoffs. However, there is still hope in colleges outside the main campus. Geetesh Nirban, who teaches at Kamala Nehru College, said: "We used our past experience and present CBSE results to work out the cutoffs this year which may be only marginally higher than last year."

Times of India

2-3% hike likely in first Delhi University cutoffs

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