DU Cut-off 2020: Delhi University cut-off likely to go up as students scoring above 95 percent higher in CBSE

Delhi University cut-offs for admissions to the 2020 academic year to go higher as compared to previous year, offficials said.

DU cut-off 2020: Delhi University cut-offs for the admissions to the 2020 academic year are expected to be higher than the previous year as a large number of students have got more than 95 per cent in CBSE 12th Exams this year, the officials said. This prediction comes a day after St. Stephens college set its highest cut-off at 99.25 per cent for the BA (Hons) Economics. The Delhi university this year has received a total of 2,85,128 applications from the CBSE Board students.

St Stephen's College released the first cut off for the undergraduate courses with the highest cut-off for 99.25 percent for the BA (Hons) Economics for the students from commerce background. In 2019, the cut-off for the BA (Hons) English and BA (Hons) Economics was set at 98.75 percent for students from the commerce background. The cut-off for the humanities programme is 98.75 percent and 98 percent for the science stream, students. BA (Hons) English cut-off stands at 99 percent for commerce students and 98.75 percent for science and humanities stream students. The cut-off for the course is higher by 0.25 percent for commerce and science students. 

As per the experts, with high cut-off set by St.Stephens College, other colleges are also expected to have higher cut-off. Dean of DU Admissions, Shobha Bagai stated that the cut-off is likely to be announced after October 12, 2020. A schedule has been sent to the administration and is awaiting the UGC Calendar and is hopeful that the schedule for the cut-offs will be announced this week.
With regard to the probability of cut-offs being higher, the dean said that it is not that the university will be arbitrarily increasing the cut-offs. The officials have stated that the cut-offs will be determined by the number of applicants falling under a certain bracket. 

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