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Admission process at Delhi University likely to start early this year

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In continuation with its commitment to thunder bolts from the blue, Admission Committee, Delhi University recently came up with the proposal that will likely make admission process for the next academic season start by March instead of May/June this year. This news comes in succession to the plans of the university to introduce entrance tests for admissions to various Bachelors courses.

Although the decision has not been officially confirmed as yet and no dates have been released, but if sources are to be believed, the registration process shall start by the end of March, and the marks shall have to be updated as and when the results come out.

A professor from the South Campus of Delhi University shared his views with DU Beat about the same. He said, “In the light of recent announcements, this can be seen as one of those better after-plans. These two and a half months time would be crucial and sufficient for the preparations”

This amendment can be a response to the unnecessary conundrum in the admission process last year. The early registration process will give about two and a half months to students instead of the three weeks time which was given earlier. Though the entire online registration process shall most certainly remain the same as previous year, the extended period of registration will likely curb lawlessness and confusion to a significant extent.

Being still in the amorphous stage, It is still some time before this reform is implemented. “It will have to be approved by the academic council and executive council to be implemented,” Hindustan Times yesterday quoted an official as saying.  “If the policy gets the sustainable nods, this might prove a notable leap towards increasing the ease and efficiency of the admission process” according to an administrative staff member of a Delhi University college.

For more latest informations about the Delhi University admissions, stay tuned with DU Beat!

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Admissions 2016

Your 5 step guide for admission withdrawal at DU

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Withdrawal Procedure report

Alas! Finally your dream college has declared its much awaited cut-off and you are filled with utmost joy at the very thought of cancelling your admission at the college you previously admitted yourself into. Though we understand your elation regarding the same, you need to exercise caution and conscience while you plan to take a plunge into the withdrawal procedure.

1. It is always good to secure a seat

With DU always throwing a major blow at students with its high cut-offs each year, one doesn’t usually make the cut in the very first list (not for you, toppers!). It is therefore always advised to secure a seat in a college where you get your desired course and wait for the next cut-off patiently.

2. A tab on the announcement of the next cut-off list

It’s okay if you are currently admitted into a college whose name you can’t seem to recall or if it doesn’t have a happening abbreviation, you still have a chance to make it to a better college in the next list. Always keep a tab on the compiled list of cut-offs on the DU website so that you don’t miss out on any college.

3. Grab your running shoes, head to withdraw your documents

Take a deep breath and exercise rational behaviour. Before jumping in the air that you cleared the cut-off for a better college in the next list, ensure that you give a visit to that college once, confirm that you meet all the admission criteria there and only then head for the withdrawal of your documents in the college you were initially admitted to.

4. How to withdraw?

Let me explain this with an example. If in the first list you admitted yourself in Motilal Nehru College for a particular course, and in the second list you clear the cut-off for Hindu College, go to Motilal on the very first day of the second cut-off list and ask for all your documents that you submitted at the time of admission. Ensure that the college cancels your admission on their online platform so that the centralised online DU form enables you to see the other colleges you are eligible for.

5. No easy refunds, be ready to burn a hole in your pocket!

The colleges this year will not refund your fee on the spot, so keep extra money handy! After ensuring the cancellation of your admission, head to the college you cleared a cut-off in and repeat the admission frenzy from the beginning!

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Admissions 2016

St. Stephen’s College releases cutoffs; touches 99 for English

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St. Stephen’s College released its cutoffs for the undergraduate admissions 2016-17. The cutoffs are expectedly sky-high, with 99% being the required percentage for a Commerce student to be able to study English. Economics stands at 96.75% – 98.25% for the general category, which an additional requirement of having scored 90% in Mathematics. The cutoffs have been released amidst a tussle between the DU admissions committee and St. Stephen’s College about the latter not adhering to centralised DU admissions policies. To know what could be the possible repercussions for students, read: DU extends admissions application date.

For a full understanding of St. Stephen’s College’s admissions procedure, read: Guidelines on Admissions Procedure of SSC

Take a look at the course-wise cutoffs below:

To understand the columns, refer to the following key:

NOTE: BFS: Best of Four Subjects Rider: Additional Eligibility Criteria
NOTE: BFS: Best of Four Subjects
Rider: Additional Eligibility Criteria

1. B.A. (Programme)

BAP SSC

2. Economics

Economics SSC

3. Mathematics:

MATH SSC

4. English

English SSC

5. History

History SSC

6. Philosophy

Philosophy SSC

7. Sanskrit

Sanskrit

8. Chemistry

Chemistry

9. Physics

Physics

10. B.Sc Programme (Maths, Phy, Chem)

B.Sc P SSC

11. B. Sc Programme (Maths, Phy, Computer Science)

B.Sc P

Understanding the categories:

1. GEN: General (Non – Christian)

2. SC/ST : Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Non – Christian)

3. CST: General Scheduled Tribe/Dalit

4. CNI: Church of North India

5. CNID: CNI Delhi Diocese

6. COTH: Christian Others

7. PWD: Person with Disabilities

8. CPH: Christian Physically Challenged

9. UR: Urdu Candidate

 

Shubham Kaushik

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Admissions 2016

Required Documents for Undergraduate Admissions at DU

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The University of Delhi has officially declared the date for the commencement of undergraduate admission process as June 1. The admission application process has been decided to go completely online this year including application process for ECA and Sports Quota, Kashmiri Migrants and CW (Defence) Category. Following this, DU has released a list of documents required, self attested copies of which shall be needed to be uploaded with the application.

Here’s the list of documents (self-attested) required for the application process:

1. Class X Board Examination Certificate
2. Class X Marks Sheet (In case it is not combined with certificate)
3. Class XII Marks Sheet
4. Class XII Provisional Certificate/ Original Certificate
5. Character Certificate (Recent)
6. Transfer Certificate from school/college as well as Migration Certificate from Board/ University are required from those students who have passed senior secondary exam from outside Delhi.
7. Recent photograph
8. Scanned copy of Signature
9. SC/ST/PwD Certificate (in the name of the candidate) issued by a competent authority
10. (a.) OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) Certificate (in the name of the candidate) issued by competent authority
(b.) Income Pproof
11. For Kashmiri Migrant Quota : Kashmiri Migrant Certificate issued by Divisional Commissioner/ Relief Commissioner
12. For CW Quote: Educational Concession Certificate issued by a competent authority
13. Sports/ECA Distinction Certificates for the last three years in descending order (1st April, 2013 to 31st March, 2016)

More details regarding procedures of ECA and Sports Admissions shall be released soon.

 

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Arushi Pathak
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Admissions 2016

DU Undergraduate Admission Process to begin from June 1

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The admissions for Delhi University undergrad courses has been pushed a week by the varsity and will now begin from 1st June, 2016.
The entire admission procedure will be conducted online this year, as opposed to last year when both online and offline applications were accepted.

DU Registrar Tarun Das said in an official statement that, “The university will be completing registration of PhD, MPhil, Postgraduate and Undergraduate courses based on entrance examination on May 31. The varsity will be launching registration of UG courses immediately after that on June 1.”

This year, registrations under the Sports quota, Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) quota, Kashmiri migrants and Defence category will also be conducted online. The candidates will be required to upload their self attested documents online.

The university had set up a 24 member committee, comprising of college principals, and deans from faculties of science, commerce or arts, to form an admission policy. The admission policy is uploaded on the website every year a week before the admission procedure begins. This year, however it isn’t clear whether the recommendations of the committee have been accepted or not by the VC. The registrar said that the bulleting of information which will include the guide to admission procedure and subsequent procedures will be uploaded on the website on the same day.

Some questions that are confusing students and parents alike, are concession to girl candidates, number of cutoff lists, admission under ECA and sports quota, formulae for calculation of best of four and the inclusion of minority colleges like St. Stephen’s and JMC in the centralized process.

 

Akshara Srivastava
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Admissions 2016

DU PG Admissions: Registration Date Extended till May 30

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The online registration process for the admission to post-graduate courses has been reopened by Delhi University. The deadline has been extended to May 30th, midnight.

The revival process took place as a result of multiple complaints by students on Wednesday. According to them, the DU server was down for hours on Tuesday, the previous deadline for submission. The students submitted a memorandum to the Dean, requesting for deadline extension.

The university further informed that the students who conform to this deadline will be allowed to submit their fees till 4pm on May 31st.

This year, for the convenience of out-stationed students, the entrance exams will be conducted in 6 cities, namely Kolkata, Chennai, Jammu, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Varanasi. They will be conducted between June 18 and 24 and interviews will be completed by July 4.

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Lovleen Kaur

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Admissions 2016

St. Stephen’s College releases tentative schedule for admission procedure

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St. Stephen’s College has released a tentative schedule for the Aptitude Test and Interviews for various courses as part of the admission procedure for the year 2016-17. The college has also announced on its website that its Prospectus and online application form will be available on the website from 28th May, 2016 onwards.

The admission dates have been sorted as per course, beginning with Sanskrit (Hons) on 20th June, with Economics (Hons.) scheduled for 21st, 22nd and 23rd June. English (Hons.) is tentatively scheduled for 28th and 29th June. Find the entire list of scheduled dates on this link.

Aptitude tests for all courses have been introduced as part of the admission procedure from 2015 onwards, carrying 5% weightage in the selection process. The aptitude test is part of the college’s drive to provide a level playing field to students from all backgrounds, thereby giving students an alternate platform to perform well, according to a message from Principal John Varghese to prospective applicants, available on the website. The test will be followed by an interview.

From the current academic session onwards, minority colleges like St. Stephen’s and Jesus and Mary College are likely to join the University’s centralised admission procedure rather than have separate registrations. However, the two colleges will continue to retain their own individual admission policies.

 

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Abhinaya Harigovind

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Admissions 2016

CIC Opens Admission For B.Tech in Information Technology and Mathematical Innovations

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About CIC:

Cluster Innovation Centre has been designed to seek and drive innovations from industrial clusters, village clusters, and educational clusters. It strives to stream relevant ideas and programmes stemming from the above mandate into its learning and research programmes.  Set up with an objective to foster an ecosystem that could connect and facilitate various stakeholders on all aspects of the innovation process including training and support, it offers some of the most innovative undergraduate courses and post-graduate courses in Delhi University. It runs two flagship undergraduate programmes, named B.Tech (Information Technology and Mathematical Innovations) and B.A (Hons.) in Humanities and Social Sciences.

About the course:

BTech (IT and MI) is a four-year course which is one of the first of its kind in the entire country. This unique course is designed to foster the skill of innovation and entrepreneurship through its unique curriculum and pedagogy. It uses IT as a means to connect mathematics with various other disciplines. It is a blend of physics, mathematics, IT Skills, and Innovation. Admission for this course is through an entrance exam.

Eligibility criteria:

Students who have passed the 10+2 level with Mathematics as one of their subjects and have secured a minimum aggregate as mentioned below are eligible to appear for the

1. General category: 60% in any four subjects (including Mathematics)

2. OBC category: 54% in any four subjects (including Mathematics)

3. PH category: 57% in any four subjects (including Mathematics)

4. SC/ST category: Passing marks with Mathematics as one subject

Entrance Test:

The applications for the entrance test should can be found online here.

Last date of online registration:  May 31, 2016, Tuesday.

Date of Entrance Examination: June 23, 2016 (Thursday)

The details of the entrance syllabus can be found in the information handbook of Delhi University Admissions

Why B.Tech (IT and MI):

B.Tech (IT and MI) allows its students to test the applicability of classroom teaching in its ‘Engineering Kitchen’. Engineering Kitchen allows students to learn sciences in a whole different way. Students are provided with personal laptops as well as classroom laptops in order to facilitate the process of learning with a digital edge. The students also get to work on real life problems in mathematics, electronics, signal processing, genetics, computer sciences, managerial economics, molecular biology and robotics.

The students also get an exclusive chance to become a part of some prestigious clubs like Autonomi, the Robotics club of CIC, which is well known in popular robotic circuits of India. Apart from all the learning that takes place students also get to go on annual study tours and educational trips. The students recently visited the Israeli Water Pavilion to study effective water management systems in the world. Students are also provided with accommodation in University Hostels but the number of hostel seats is highly limited. This course will also give you a chance to intern with prestigious institutes like DRDO and HAL. The entire academic experience also comes up with a great opportunity- of having your own start-up. If you have an idea that can turn into a great business, you can pitch it to The Technology Business Incubator of CIC and receive funding as well as support from Ministry Of Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt. Of India to turn your idea into a company.

For more information, visit CIC’s official website.

Srivedant Kar

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Admissions 2016

DU Admissions 2016: Online applications and lesser cut-off lists

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With the new academic session about to arrive, the admission process in the University of Delhi is all set to undergo some major changes, as reported by the Press Trust of India. Every year there are a number of speculations about variations that are likely to take place, but the process majorly remains the same. However, as confirmed by the Admissions’ Committee to the PTI, the forthcoming session is going to see a lot of differences which are aimed at simplifying the process.

The committee’s first recommendation is to turn the entire procedure online. The varsity has tried to scrap off the offline filling of applications earlier as well, but thr changes could not be implemented. The arguments against the process going online are the concerns about the feasibility of the process for students and parents. Another suggested change is the collection of fee by a centralized system and the reduction in the number of cut-off lists from eight to five or six.

The University had constituted a 24-member committee, comprising of deans from faculties of various streams, along with nine college principals and members of the executive and academic councils, to decide upon the course of the process to be undertaken.

When asked about making the process online and the attempt to implement the same last year, a committee member told the PTI,“Even the UGC has given the go-ahead for the same and the process has been already tested so the admissions are likely to be completely online from this year,”.

“So far, with the offline admission system being in place, the application centers used to collect the fees. However, we are thinking of making it centralized this time. All the payments will be made by the candidates to the university which in turn will reimburse the respective colleges,” the member said. “Also, with seven to eight cut-off lists being announced every year, the process drags to the month of August, by when the classes have already begun. So the number of cut-offs are likely to be limited to five from this year onwards,” he added.

However, the move has not gone down well with the students. A delegation of students, including members of the Students Federation of India (SFI), met the Dean of Students’ Welfare in this regard after staging of a protest at the varsity’s Faculty of Arts.

“The number of applicants for Delhi University’s undergraduate seats keeps on increasing every year and limiting the admission process to online form will restrict access to a significant section of students coming from the resettlement colonies, JJ clusters and working class backgrounds who have limited access to Internet,” a student protester argued.

The final suggestions will be presented to the Vice Chancellor for final confirmation, but with the University admitting 54,000 Undergraduate students, it is yet to see how the process actually takes place this May.

Tanya Agarwal

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Admissions 2015

Are Board Exam Results the end of our world? – The harsh story of college admissions in India

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Come May and one can see around is the extravagant anticipation regarding the year’s board results. Every year, the fate of thousands of students is sealed in envelopes stamped upon by vintage authorities who seldom realise the worth of the work they’re doing.

And while the kids develop anxiety disorders hoping to be able to ‘make the cut’, we tend to see reassurances from all around that board exam results are not the end of the world after all. When comedian and celebrity, Vir Das broke the internet with his marksheet; the youth seemed to be infused with an unusual gusto to break away the status quo. However, the question, and a very important one in the Indian society, still stands staring at us- Are Board Exam results really NOT the end of the world?

The answer, sadly, is a big fat no. Because let’s face it, when the nosey aunt shows pity when you just scored a 90% while some Sharma ji’s son managed to score a 98% all you want to do is to get away from the situation as soon as you can. Let’s take a simple example. An author at the age of 17 would not be able to pursue English Honours course in DU’s premier colleges simply because she failed to score a 99% in her board exams; which is the metric for her intelligence and brilliance, isn’t it? Because being an author at such a young age means nothing but messing up that Physics numerical and losing out on a few marks keeps her from attending the best college in the country.

And with this big question follows another big one- Is it fair? And that’s a question all of us know the answer to. Certainly, students who aren’t able to score exceptionally alien 100% scores also make it big in life. But at this point in this developing country, we cannot turn a blind eye to this mismatch. As an observer, one can see aspirants crying when they score a 98.25% because Stephen’s has set its cut off at 98.5%.

With 28 boards running in India, there is no common metric that can keep all students at par. While someone with “mah lyf, mah rulezz” captions is able to score a 95 in English, the other one with “full fathom five thy father lies” cannot climb beyond an 85. So even though the Indian education system runs away from practical knowledge, the system of theoretical knowledge is full of loopholes which indeed make the board result a life changing event for all students.

When we realise the problem of increase in student suicides across the country, why is it so difficult to think of a solution that brings all of us out of this 100% cut-off mesh? Are the students who are not 95% scorers any less deserving than the ones who are? Why are marks solely our judgement metric for a student’s intelligence? Most importantly, why is the flowchart shaped like: Less than 95% is equal to losing out on the country’s best education facilities?

So no matter how much Vir Das or Amitabh Bachchan or Arvind Kejriwal harp about board exam results not being the end of the world, the hard reality is that the status quo points out very different facts which in fact prove the very opposite. And while we’ve all faced it in our lives at some point or the other, there isn’t much that has changed in the Indian Education System in the past three decades.

Acche din might help. We’ll know soon!

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Arushi Pathak
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