This year, DU has introduced a new admission policy that uses CUET scores to admit students to undergraduate courses. It has reduced board exam scores to a qualifying mark and has ensured that an anomaly that often arises with students of a particular board filling up several seats due to “inflation of marks” has not arisen.

‘Common platform’

Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh on Friday said, “CUET has provided for a common platform and equal opportunity to all, as individual boards have their own rules, regulations and methods of evaluation. We wanted to minimise this disparity and CUET is a good option as it provides an equal platform.”

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Last year, of the 146 students admitted to B.A. (Hons.) political science in Hindu College after the first two cut-off lists, 120 were from the Kerala Board of Higher Secondary Education. The cut-off for the course in the first list was 100%. This year, only one student from the Kerala Board has got admission to the same programme.

In 2016, students from Tamil Nadu State Board bagged the majority of seats at Shri Ram College of Commerce, which had set its cut-off at 98%. This, however, is no indication that students from a particular region are not getting admitted to DU as CBSE has affiliate schools across the country, a Delhi University official said.

At the end of the admission season 2021-22, the then Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi had set up a nine-member panel to study why the Kerala Board students secured admission in such high numbers. The report by D.S. Rawat, Dean of Admissions, found that there was a significant variation in the marking scheme across the State boards in India.

CUET was introduced this year and while making the announcement, University Grants Commission Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said CUET aimed to provide equal opportunity to students from across the country who seek admission from different boards and apply from different regions.