Several students affiliated to international boards to miss out

With more than five lakh aspirants from across several state boards vying for the coveted courses at Delhi University, there are students who will miss out on seats because of their schooling affiliated to international education boards.

The reason is, by the time their results will come in, the fourth cut off list of DU would be out and the chances for admissions in the top colleges would dwindle.

Mamta has been teaching in Khalsa college and thought that her son will easily make it to DU. However, her son's hopes were dashed when it was found that his school would declare the result in the month of July.

"I came to the University to find out if my son can apply on the basis of predictive marks, but the officials told me that under the centralised system, the predictive marking system has been done away with. By the time his board exam results will be declared, the third cut-off would be announced. Even if he gets 98 percent he will not get admission," said Mamta.

Mamta went up to the admission counselling centre and talked to the DU officials to look into her son's case, saying that in the US and UK uses predictive marking. To this, the official replied, "Why should we follow London and US. We have written to these schools multiple times to change their system, but they still did not do so."

Her son studied in Amity Global School affiliated to the international baccalaureate, in Geneva. There are some other schools like Pathways, GD Goenka, and British School which are affiliated to international boards.

There have been precedents in the past wherein the University would take the predictive marks. With no options left for her son, Mamta now wants him to concentrate on his B Tech exams.

"I am not holding the University or my son's school at fault. But in this tussle, our children lose out on a bright career," she said.