Delhi University declared its first cut-off list on Friday with Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) announcing its cut-offs for BCom (Honours) and BA (Honours) Economics at 97.75 per cent for the current academic session.
Notably, SRCC, the premier college for commerce, brought down the cut-off fractionally for both the courses from last year. It has set its cut-off at 98 per cent for BCom (Honours) and 98.25 per cent for BA (Honours) Economics. SRCC has asked the candidates to visit the college between 9 am and 1 pm from June 24 to June 28 for document verification and admission.
Other colleges are likely to announce their cut-off later on Friday. The admission will start only on Saturday. More than 2,50,000 candidates have applied for around 55,000 seats across the colleges in the university.
Bringing relief to the students, prestigious Ramjas College has lowered its percentage by 1.75% for BCom (Honours). It has been pegged at 97.5% for BCom (Hons). For the Economics (Hons) cut off is 1% lower than last year and stands at 97.5% and for the English (Hons), History (Hons) and Chemistry (Hons), the cut-offs are 96.5%, 97%, 98% respectively.
Hansraj College, a sought destination in the hallowed North Campus has raised cut off for BA program by 1% and it stands at 97%. However, the college has lowered its cut- offs for courses such as English (Hons), Economics (Hons) and BCom (Hons) are; 97%, 97.25% and 97.5% respectively. For the students seeking admissions into science stream, the cut-off for Chemistry (Hons) is 97.33% cut and Physics (Hons) at 97%.
Another sought after college of North Campus, Kirori Mal College (KMC), has lowered its cutoff for Physics (Hons) from 98% last year to 96%. However Political Science is gone up to 97%. Daulat Ram College for Girls has hiked its cut off for English (Hons) to 97%, whereas for BA course, it is at 91%. Cut-off has gone down in courses such as B.Com, (Hons), Economics, History, Political Science.
lady Sri Ram (lSR) College, and Maharaj Agrasain College have also come out with their first cut offs. It may be noted that St Stephens college had released its first cut-off earlier this week. The cut-offs for English (Honours) and Economics (Honourss) at the college were the highest at 98.5 per cent for Commerce students.
It may be recalled that Ramjas College had put 99.25 per cent for admission into BCom (honours) last year which was followed closely by SGTB Khalsa which pegged the cut-off of 99 per cent for admission into BSc (Honours ) in Electronics.
SRCC had admitted 188 admissions students for B Com (Honours) and out of that 129 students were from Tamil Nadu including 33 from one school only. This year also a large number of students from the southern part of the country have applied for admissions in various DU colleges.
A senior DU official said that while seeking admissions, the students should remember that varsity will not allow multiple admissions by a single candidate. It is amply clear that during the current academic session, students can get admission to only one Under Graduate course at one college at a time. If they take admission in two colleges at once, their admission will become invalid, he added