Most DU colleges likely to announce higher cut-offs

New Delhi: The cut-off released by St Stephen's College which marginally increased by 0.25-1 per cent for Humanities courses from last year, may not have any impact on the cut-off for the rest of the Delhi University colleges as most of the institutions are likely to announce similar or slightly higher cut-off than 2017 as number of aspirants are quite high comparatively from last year.

St Stephen's College announced its cutoff on Monday for admission to undergraduate courses with the required marks percentage seeing a dip in the science courses. But other colleges said this will not have any impact on their cutoffs as St Stephen's has an elimination round after selecting students based on the cutoff but they have to admit all students who come to them with the announced cutoff score.

Like last year, St stephen's, Economics (Hons) has the highest cut-off at 98.75 percent for commerce students; 98 percent for Humanities; and 97.5 percent for science students. Students also need to have 90 percent in mathematics to make the cut. There has been an increase of 0.25-0.5 percentage points across the three streams, compared to last year.

"The college authorities are expected to come up with realistic cutoffs, we are carefully going through the last year's data and then only a clear picture will be revealed," said Suman Sharma, Principal, Lady Shri Ram College of Commerce.

The number of students scoring more than 90% and above are around 72,000 in Delhi alone this year, a major boost in the scorer as per the CBSE. While overall the number of students with 95% and above score has increased. In Delhi this number has gone up to 12, 500 ( approx).

According to a source, Colleges announce cutoff based on the number of applications received and the CBSE results. The number of students scoring 95% and above has increased as per CBSE and we have to keep that in mind while announcing our cutoff. This year, the university received 2,78,574 applications as compared to last year's around 2,07,751 applications.

"Number of candidates scoring above 90 per cent are higher this time around and the number of applicants has also increased considerably, so the cutoffs are set to go higher than the previous year" said Anju Srivastava, principal of Hindu College.

"Last year, Computer Science was a major surprise with 99.6 per cent cutoff, a few surprises can spring up this time around too but the cutoffs would not see any drastic surge." Amarjeet Singh Chahal, the head of Admission Committee of SGTB Khalsa college iterated.