DU announces schedule for new admissions
NEW DELHI: The race for admissions to around 56,000 seats in undergraduate courses at Delhi University will begin from Monday morning. Students can fill the online registration form till June 12. Students can opt for any course out of the over sixty courses being offered by around sixty-three colleges under the university.
The first cutoff will be announced on June 20 with sources saying that it may go down by one to two percentage points from last year on account of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) doing away with the policy of moderation.
The race for admissions to around 56,000 seats in undergraduate courses of Delhi University will begin from Monday morning. Students can fill up their online registration form till June 12.
Students can opt for any course out of 60 being offered by around 63 colleges under the university.
The first cutoff will be announced on June 20 with sources estimating that qualifying marks this year may go down by one to two percentage points from last year on account of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) doing away with the policy of moderation.
Doing away with moderation means CBSE won’t award students extra marks in exams for difficult questions, a reason often cited behind inflated scores in Class 12 board exams that in turn lead to impossibly high cutoffs at the Delhi varsity.
“If doing away with moderation results in students getting lower marks, then hypothetically the cutoffs will also go lower by one or two percentage points. But we can only say this with certainty after the CBSE results are announced,” said university sources.
However, this may not help students much even if cutoffs go lower, because the number of students applying for DU is likely to see an increase.
“Let’s say ‘X’ number of students used to get 98% marks. This year, the highest marks is 96% due to no moderation. The number of students scoring the highest 96% will remain almost same as previous years. So, effectively the number of students remains the same, so the competition remains same,” sources said.
So instead of competing at 98%, students will now compete at 96%, sources added. CBSE had requested DU to give appropriate weightage to its students for this admission season, but the university said it cannot treat students from different boards with different yardsticks.
Almost 80% of applications that DU receives are from CBSE, university officials said.
Interestingly, the online registration form this year will automatically fill the marks obtained by students from CBSE Board when they fill their board roll number.
“CBSE sends us a CD of their results so our system will automatically update the marks received by these students. If other boards send us the result CD, then this can be done for others also,” said MK Pandit, member of DU’s admission committee.
DU will announce six cutoffs this year with the last on July 13. “The academic session will begin from July 20. But if there are seats vacant after the sixth cut off then more lists may be declared,” officials said.