Remember that sarcastic line; “Bro 100% cut off ? Even Dettol won’t clear that. Voh bhi sirf 99.9% karta hai.”
Well, that’s not a joke anymore. Swipe and find out how this sarcasm, turned into reality.
Skyrocketing Cut offs
For the past three years, Delhi University has been on news from time to time regarding cut offs it releases for admissions to it’s various UG courses. But this time, making sure petrol and diesel aren’t feeling lonely, Cut offs for around 10 UG courses are too at 100%.
Reasons for the Rise
Handicapped of conducting offline exams cause of Covid 19, CBSE and many other State Boards came up with alternate methods for drafting the result. These particular marking schemes ensured a higher number of students scoring above 95% compared to last year.
Plight of Students
Icing on the so skyrocketed cutoffs, is the ‘non uniformity in the marking scheme’ adopted across boards for preparation of result. An easily noticed consequence, is the fact that over 95% of the 206 students admitted against the unreserved seats in the 100%-cut off programmes, are from the Kerala State Board solely.
Marking Scheme Dilemma
Marking scheme adopted by State Board utilizes both Class 11th and 12th marks to obtain the final result. On the other hand CBSE uses only the Class 12th result. So, A Kerala Board student who has done well in the Board results, you will notice that they in all likelihood, would have scored 100% in most subjects in Class 12th and not in Class 11th. Now the average of both, normalises their overall result. But however, since DU only considers the Class 12th performance, several Kerala Board students who haven’t scored full marks in their overall Board results, are eligible to take admission in DU programmes with 100% cutoff.
With this non uniform scheme across boards, when the merit in the senior secondary school examination, becomes the sole criterion for admission, DU fails to provide an equal eligibility platform for accepting students into its UG courses.
Ripley’s Believe it or not
When a student addressed the court, arguing that her right to equality has been violated, the court simply replied with, “As you grow, sometimes you will have to take the cookie as it crumbles. In some years, a particular board may have better results, a particular Board may have less good results. We have to accept that. “
The DU counsel further backed their Admission criteria stating, “This was the policy which we have adopted for all the times to come; now the thing is if there are more students who have scored 100% marks by one particular Board, being a central university we cannot deprive them. We have to invite applications from all Boards.”
Conclusion
The air of unrest and agitation among the students, is less due to the skyrocketed cut offs, which, to be frank was predicted when the results were announced. It is more due to fact of a ‘Non Uniform Marking Scheme’ across Boards. Delhi university being the sole central university which still grants admission on 12th result rather than a Common Entrance Test, needs to acknowledge this variation of marking scheme. As also attested by several Professors from DU colleges, A better way to move forward would be either bringing reforms into their current admission criteria or a Common Entrance Test. Both of which, will atleast provide an ‘equal and uniform eligibility criteria’ for students across boards.
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