Marginal dip in most cut-offs in Delhi University

New Delhi: After unveiling the much anticipated first cut-off list on Monday, Delhi University bucked the previous years' trend of skyrocketing cut-offs this year, as a marginal dip was seen in many coveted courses at prestigious colleges.

The relief comes after controversy over the marks moderations policy, which reportedly caused a spike in the number of students crossing the 95 per cent threshold, had fanned fears of high cut-offs.

Among all DU colleges, Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) recorded the highest cut-off with 98.75 per cent for BA (Programme).

SRCC was the first to declare its cut-offs on Monday, with 98.5 per cent for BA Economics (Hons) and 97.75 per cent for BCom (Hons). Both courses recorded a marginal hike of 0.75 per cent. These cut-offs will only be applicable for Commerce students, and will vary for Science and Arts stream students, according to their best of four subjects calculations.

At LSR too, the highest cut-off is for BA (programme) at 98.75 per cent. This is followed by 98.25 per cent for BA Psychology (Hons), while BA Economics (Hons), BA Journalism (Hons) and BA Political Science (Hons) are available at 97.75 per cent. For BA English (Hons), the cut-off is 97.50.

At Hansraj College, cut-offs for many subjects saw a marginal hike. BA Economics (Hons) is available at 98 per cent and BCom (Hons) at 97.5 per cent, similar to last year. For BA (Programme), which received the highest number of applications, the cut-off dipped by 0.75 to 96.25 per cent. Other courses include BA English (Hons) at 97.25 and 97.33 per cent for BSc Physics (Hons).

Following a similar trend, Gargi College also released a high first cut-off list. BA Applied Psychology (Hons), BA Economics (Hons) and BSc Mathematics (Hons) have the highest cut-offs at 97 per cent. Applied Psychology had the same cutoff last year.

In the first cut-off for Hindu College, BA Economics (Hons), BA English (Hons) and BSc Physics (Hons) have the highest cut-off at 98 per cent. Compared to last year, BA English (Hons) and BA Economics (Hons) increased by 0.5 points, while BSc Physics (Hons) increased it by almost 1.5 per cent points.

Last year, SGTB Khalsa College had the highest cut-off, with 99.66 per cent for BSc Electronics (Hons). However, this year, the college has lowered the cut-off by 2.66 points for the same course. Most other courses also saw a dip, compared to the last year's cut-offs.

Out of nearly 2.8 lakh students who applied for undergraduate courses this year at DU, 1,26,327 chose BA English (Hons) as their preferred course, followed distantly by BA (Programme) at 1,05,818 and BA Political Science (Hons) at 1,05,590 applications. Economics and History were the other courses for which over 90,000 applications were received.

The number for students applying for BCom and BCom (Honors) this year is 85,791 and 74,921, respectively.

Most applications are among the Science courses, with most for Mathematics. It is closely trailed by Physics and Computer Science. More than 70,000 students opted for these three courses.