DU announces first cut-off list, 100% to study Computer Science at CVS, IP College

Some colleges such as Shri Ram College of Commerce seem to have exercised caution this time, demanding slightly lower cut-offs than last year. While the cut-off percentage for BCom (H) is 97.375, for Economics (H), an applicant needs 98.25. Last year, while BCom (H) cut-off ranged from 97.5 to 99.25, for Economics (H) it was from 97.25-98.25.

Other colleges such as Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) have also witnessed a slight increase in cut-offs for courses like BA, BA (H) English, BA (H) Journalism and BA History (H). While cut-offs for BA have increased from 95.5 to 97, for English Honours and Journalism, they have risen by one percentage point from 97.25 to 98.25 and 96 to 97 per cent, respectively.

North Campus colleges Hindu, Hansraj and Miranda have witnessed higher cut-offs in most subjects.

University officials attributed the surge in the cut-offs to the larger number of high-scoring applicants. There are 28,999 aspirants who have scored 90-95 per cent and 6,850 are in the 95-100 per cent bracket in five subjects, according to the applications received by colleges.

Admissions to the academic session 2015-16 will begin on Thursday. Based on the first cut-off list, students can take admission until June 27.

Some colleges, such as Janki Devi Memorial College, have seen a sharp rise of 7 percentage points for Mathematics (H) – from 88 last year to 95 this year. Similarly, Deshbandhu College has also registered a rise of 6 percentage points for Chemistry (H), to 94 per cent this year. Likewise, Maitreyi College has seen a hike of 5 points for BSc (H) in Physics. The cut-off requirement has risen from 85-90 per cent last year to 95 this year.

Cut-offs for courses in Humanities at popular colleges are as high as 98 per cent, for example for Economics in Hansraj, Hindu and LSR. Moti Lal Nehru College has the highest cut-off requirement for BCom (H) at 95-99.5.

As many as 68,866 students had applied for Commerce in the centralised optical mark recognition (OMR) forms. For students who wish to study BA Economics (H) and BCom (H), it is mandatory to have secured pass marks in Mathematics in Class XII.

English (H), which was opted for by 90,331 applicants, the most for any subject, has the highest cut-off requirement of 98.25 per cent in LSR. For studying English (H) at Hindu and Hansraj, students need 97.75 and 97.5 respectively.

After touching the 100 mark last year, studying Computer Science (H) at Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma, Acharya Narendra Dev and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College this time requires 99, 95 and 90-95 respectively.

Cut-offs in Psychology (H) also remained high. Gargi College announced the highest cut-offs in the subject at 96.5%.

DU will stick to its “best of four” formula while admitting the new batch of students. Admission-seekers can include marks of the subject in which they wish to do Honours and one language subject, along with two other subjects.

However, they will have to face a deduction of 2.5 points in the best of four aggregate in case they have not studied the subject in which they wish to major.