Delhi University (DU) 1st cut-off list: List of colleges with 100% marks

Colleges including SRCC, Hindu, Ramjas, Hansraj and Khalsa announced 100 percent cut off for admission to 10 undergraduate courses, while in some colleges the first cut off marks for some courses increased by six to seven percent compared to the previous . Year.

Other colleges that set a perfect score for admission are Jesus and Mary College, Deen Dayal Upadhyay College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

Lady Shri Ram College for Women, which last year was the only college to come up with 100 per cent cut off for its three courses- BA (Hons) Economics, Political Science and Psychology, has reduced its cut off by 0.25 per cent. Percentage-0.5 percent for courses this year.

This year the cut off for Economics, Political Science and Psychology is 99.50 percent, 99.75 percent and 99.75 percent respectively.

College principals attributed the increase in board exam scores to the hike in cut-offs, with over 70,000 CBSE students scoring above 95 per cent this year.

Many students who have scored more than 95 per cent are now pinning their hopes on extra-curricular activities (ECA) and sports quota, with the latter limiting the chances of scores falling in the cut-off or leaving seats vacant.

SRCC has demanded 100% marks for admission to BA (Hons) Economics and BCom (Hons). Last year, the college had pegged the cut-off at 99 per cent for BA (Hons) Economics and 99.50 per cent for BCom (Hons).

Jesus and Mary College (JMC) has set the cut-off for BA (Hons) Psychology at 100 percentile for those who do not include the subject while calculating their best of four (BFS) percentile.

The cut-off for students who include the subject in their BFS marks is 99 percentile.

Last year, the cut-off for Psychology (Hons) was 99.5 per cent if the subject was not included in the BFS or if a student scored less than 85 per cent in the subject, while it was 98.5 per cent for others.

For admission to B.Sc (Hons) Computer Science in Hansraj College, a student needs to have 100% marks, which is a significant increase compared to last year when 97.25 percentile was required for admission to the course.

This year, Hindu College and Ramjas College have kept a perfect score for admission in BA (Hons) Political Science. In 2020, the minimum marks required for admission to BA (Hons) Political Science in Hindu was only 0.50 per cent less than 100 per cent, while the cut-off at Ramjas College was 99 per cent.

For admission to B.Com in SGTB Khalsa College, students will need 100 per cent marks this time, a significant increase compared to last year when 96.5 per cent was required for admission to the course.

Ramjas College has set the cut-off as 100 percentile for combination of BA programs under which a student can choose any one of the two subjects (English/ Hindi/ Political Science/ Economics/ History/ Mathematics).

Last year, the minimum eligibility requirement for this combination was 96 percent. The college has set the same requirement for Physics (Hons).

Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies had last year pegged the cut-off for BSc (Hons) Computer Science at 97 per cent, but this time it is 100 per cent.

Deen Dayal Upadhyay College had last year had a cut-off of 96 per cent for admission to BSc (Hons) Computer Science and now it is 100 per cent.

The colleges which have declared 100 percent cut-off are Shri Ram College for Commerce (SRCC) for BA (Hons) Economics and BCom Honours, Hindu College and Ramjas College for Political Science (Hons), SGTB Khalsa College for BCom, Hansraj included. College, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies and Deen Dayal Upadhyay College for BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Jesus and Mary College for BA (Hons) Psychology and Ramjas College for a combination of BA programme.

Deshbandhu College cut-off has seen a significant increase as compared to last year. The college has set a cut-off of 97 per cent for some BA program combinations. In Aryabhatta College, the cut-off for BA (Hons) Hindi has seen an increase as compared to last year. In 2020, the cut-off for the course was 80 per cent but this year it is 86 per cent.

Last year the cut-off for BA program combination was between 86 per cent and 88 per cent.

The highest cut-off was 90 per cent for the combination of English and Political Science and History and Political Science, which has increased by seven per cent this time.

It was in 2015 that two colleges – the College of Vocational Studies (CVS) and the IP College for Women – required correct scores for admission to the BSc (Hons) Computer Science.

Students will start applying to colleges from October 4.

More than 2.87 lakh students have applied for Delhi University’s undergraduate courses, which is less than 3.53 lakh applications last year in which maximum number of CBSE candidates applied.

Over 2.29 lakh applicants are from CBSE affiliated schools, followed by Board of School Education Haryana (9,918), Council for the Indian School Certification Examination (9,659) and UP Board of High School and Intermediate Education (8,007).