The DU cut-off climbs

Delhi University released its first cut-off list for admission to the next academic session late Tuesday night.

3 min readNew DelhiJun 15, 2011 01:22 AM IST First published on: Jun 15, 2011 at 01:22 AM IST

Delhi University released its first cut-off list for admission to the next academic session late Tuesday night. The list will be uploaded on its website du.ac.in by Wednesday morning.

As expected,the cut-offs for most colleges were very high,a move that is an aftereffect of the University order to colleges that all students who clear the cut-off must be provided admission.

Admissions are expected to start on June 16,and go on until June 20. Four more cut-off lists will be released on June 21,June 27,July 2 and July 8.

Even principals admit that the cut-offs are at least a percentage point or two higher than ‘normal’. However,cut-offs will come down and normalise as subsequent lists are released.

After flirting with the idea of the perfect student for years,the cut-offs touched 100 per cent for the first time in the University — at Shri Ram College of Commerce.

Hindu College and Keshav Mahavidyalaya were just a step behind — for admission to BCom (Hons) in these colleges,a student will need a score of 99 per cent.

Daulat Ram College’s B Sc Chemistry (Hons) saw the steepest rise in cut-offs — from 77 per cent last year for general candidates to 90 per cent this year. The cut-off for OBC candidates is 89 per cent.

Following in the steps of high cut-off courses like Commerce and Economics,Science also headed north. Maitreyi,Gargi and Deshbandhu colleges increased the cut-off for B Sc Physics (Hons) by 10 percentage points.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College raised its cut-offs for Physics and Chemistry (Hons) for general candidates from 76 and 70 last year to 82 and 80 this year.

Miranda House also raised its Science cut-offs. Physics (Hons) now requires 92 per cent compared to 84 last year,while Chemistry requires 90 per cent compared to 82 per cent last year.

Acharya Narendra Dev College,however,did not bring in any steep change. The college increased its B Sc Physics (Hons) and Chemistry (Hons) cut-offs by two percentage points (from 74 last year to 76 this year for Physics and 73 last year to 75 this year for Chemistry).

Taking cue from last year’s experience with high cut-offs,the college chose to decrease cut-off for B Sc Biomedical Sciences from 89 last year to 82-85 per cent this year. Botany and Zoology also saw a decrease.

Besides the uncertainty regarding the new admission procedure,a good performance by CBSE students appeared to be another factor that pushed up the cut-offs.