DU releases first cut-off list today

Delhi University (DU) managed to announce its first cut-off list on time despite uncertainty brought on by the teachers' agitation. All colleges, except Hindu, had sent their complete first lists to the university by Monday evening.

The qualifying marks for popular courses have shot up to even more dizzying heights this year.

Foxed by the overwhelming number of applications and the absence of advice or help from the teachers, principals have pitched higher cut-off marks for the general category to play safe.

According to the rule, once the cut-off is declared, colleges have to admit all students who come to them with marks equal to or above the cut-off for the next three days.

So if the qualifying mark is mistakenly low, the institution could end up admitting more students than the sanctioned capacity. "We are hoping that the deadlock between the vice-chancellor and the teachers will be resolved by the time the second list is out. Till then, I do not want to take a risk," said Jaswinder Singh, principal, SGTB Khalsa College.

"To avoid overadmission after the first list, I have pegged cutoffs higher than last year's." At Khalsa College, the first list reflects an increase of one per cent for both BCom programme and BCom (honours) as against last year's cut-off of 92.5 per cent and 93 per cent respectively.

At Kirori Mal College, economics (honours) has registered an increase of one per cent for students from all three streams.

The cut-off for commerce students, for instance, is 95.5 per cent as against 94.5 per cent last year and 91.5 per cent for humanities as against 90.5 per cent last year.

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