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subjects it offers but the dip won’t be more than 0.25 percentage points, principal Simrit Kaur said. Under the first list, the cutoff for B.com (Hons) was 97.75% and f or Economics (Hons) it was 98.50%.
“For B.com (Hons), the second cutoff is likely to be 97.3% but we haven’t taken a call on Economic (Hons),” Kaur said.
Hans Raj College will release a second cutoff list for all subjects. “Popular courses will drop it by 0.25 percentage points for general candidates. The rest is likely to go down by 1 percentage points,” officiating principal Rama said.
Keshav Mahavidyalaya’s principal Madhu Purthi said the cutoff for B.com (Hons) may go down by 0.50 percentage points.
At Swami Shraddhanand College, there may be a dip of up to 2 percentage points for popular subjects such as BA Programme, B.com (Hons) and B.com Programme. The cutoff under the first list for these subjects was 86%, 93% and 90%, principal PV Khatri said.
Kalindi College for Women said there could be dip by up to 3 percentage points in various subjects. “For some courses, the decrease could be 3 percentage points
At Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (Evening), B.com (Hons) will be closed for the second list but other courses will have a dip of up to 2 percentage points, principal PK Khurana said.
“In total, we admitted around 15,000 students till Friday. We had given admission to 2,201 students in the first list last year. This year, most colleges released realistic cutoffs due to which so many admissions were processed,” said MK Pandit, chairman of the university admission committee.
This year, the university will only release five cutoff lists and if there are seats left it will conduct a centralised counselling to fill the seats in colleges.
Last year, the university had announced 11 cutoff lists with the last list being released in August end.