DU's first cutoff to be released tonight, June 25
Cutoff list for admission to more than 60 colleges of Delhi University (DU) will be out tonight. Students can check out the DU cutoff list late at midnight on DU's official website.
Admissions following the first cutoff list will begin tomorrow. However, the University has made some changes in the admission period, which has been reduced to three days per cutoff list. DU will announce the second and third cutoffs on June 28, and July 3, respectively. Admission for the second cutoff will start on June 29, 2012.
Last year, we saw Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) coming up with 100 per cent cutoff, much to the disapproval of HRD minister Kapil Sibal who feels that SRCC's 100% cutoff was an attempt to keep science students away and science students cannot be stopped from studying commerce. (Read more)
However, Sibal has assured worried parents that there will be no 100 per cent cut-off this year in DU. Nonetheless, this year's cutoffs are expected to remain high. Sources at DU told the Times of India that majority of courses across colleges are going to see an increase in cutoffs between 1 to 5 per cent. St Stephen's announced their cutoff on June 20, showing a 7% increase from the previous year. This is likely to set the trend for this year's forthcoming cutoffs. (Read more)
According to Deccan Herald, senior officials at DU informed that the number of students scoring 90 per cent or above have increased twofold, which will result in an increase in cutoff percentage as compared to last year.
Even if DU officials have sent CDs containing data of the optical marks recognition (OMR) forms to various colleges for determining their cutoff marks, many colleges are still deciding the cutoff based on last year's list. "We got the CD's on Friday evening. It would be very difficult to analyze the whole data in such a short span of time. Thus we will decide cut-offs on the basis of last year's lists," V K Kawatra, principal, Hansraj College, told Deccan Herald. (Read more)
On the other hand, admissions for BA (honors) in English through Combined Aptitude Test for English (CATE) scores in 21 colleges will also start simultaneously. The first CATE cutoff will come around 77% and above. Colleges such as Hindu, Lady Shri Ram and Kirori Mal college are likely to come out with the highest cutoffs among the CATE colleges.
DU has also released the first cutoff for admission to BA/ B.Com programmes in Non Collegiate Women's Education Board (NCWEB). SRCC, Zakir Hussain, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Miranda House and several other colleges are on the final stages of preparing their cut-off lists.
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