On the second day of the ‘Open Days’ the interaction with the students, the Delhi University on Tuesday announced that the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) for the academic session of the four-year undergraduate programme will have a minor change.
Addressing more than a thousand students flocked to the convention hall of the University Suchitra Gupta, the Deputy Dean of Students Welfare said that from this academic session there will be two types of OMR admission forms.
The OMR this time has been divided into two different categories, one is for the students of General, OBC category, and other is for the SC/ST, Physically Handicapped students. Both sides of the OMR form is same, but a minor change with few name of courses has been written on the other side of the forms to keep the students familiar with the new courses and structure of university.
Earlier forms were free of cost but this time the SC/ST students might have to pay cash for buying them. “The students belonging to SC/ST and physically handicapped might have to pay for the OMR forms. It is because after the submission it requires to be scanned,” said a university official.
Questions related to entrance examinations, admission forms, interviews, and CATE were raised by the anxious students and their parents on the second day as well. The Students welfare officials of Delhi University answered all questions and addressed all queries. They encouraged the students and assured them for having a smooth admission procedure.
Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, Dean of students welfare underlined that the admission to the four year undergraduate degree course shall be based on the Discipline-1 (Major discipline) and the colleges shall admit all students who have marks that meet the announced cut-off criteria adding that no first come first served policy is permitted.
The third open house session will be held at the Tagore International, Vasant Vihar South Delhi on Wednesday at 10 am.