Getting admission to Honours courses of one’s choice has become easier for students in Delhi University. Students are no longer required to meet the criterion set by individual colleges for Honours courses and instead they can apply for Honours courses if they have just achieved passing marks in the respective subject. However, the student will need to meet the general cut-off set by the colleges. According to earlier admission rules, students had to fulfill the college’s criteria of having a minimum percentage for a particular subject for admission to certain courses irrespective of meeting the cut-off. As a result of this, a great many students were denied admission for Honours course in popular subjects like English, Economics and Mathematics. The minimum percentage for Honours courses varied from one college to another. While in some colleges the percentage was set at 55; in some prominent colleges, it was above 75 per cent.
Officials at the Dean of Student Welfare (DSW) office said that the rider was removed in order to serve the students an opportunity to pursue the course. “Whoever clears the paper as per their board rules is eligible to sit for the exam. No college can put a limit on how much percentage they need to have in a subject to get admitted in that course,” said Malay Neerav, Joint DSW.Additionally, the college has also put fixed guidelines regarding the courses where Mathematics is a compulsory subject to have. Neerav added, “Only students wanting to pursue an Honours degree in Mathematics, Economics and Statistics need to have studied Math in Class XII and cleared it. For BCom Honours, Accountancy will be treated as equivalent to Commerce wherever any board is not offering Commerce as a subject.”
The procedure for calculation of the best of four subjects as deemed by the university is the average of one language (Core/Elective/Functional), subject in which admission is sought (Discipline I) and any two other academic subjects. Admission guidelines were uploaded on the university website on Monday.