There are thousands of open seats as a result of Delhi University’s new undergraduate admission policy, which requires applicants to identify their academic and college preferences before CUET results. Manoj Sinha, the principal of the DU-affiliated Aryabhatta College, advises that colleges be permitted to fill these seats without using the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS). “The colleges should not be bound by restrictions such as the requirement that the student should have applied beforehand for the college and the course,”
Sinha told The Telegraph. “Vacant seats serve no purpose. It’s in the interest of the nation that they are filled.”
Due to the implementation of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) and the Common Entrance Survey (CSAS), Delhi University, the largest university in India, had a shortage of 5,000 undergraduate seats.
The CSAS restricts applicants’ freedom to change their preferences after the results are announced by requiring them to declare their preferences before learning their CUET scores. Individual DU colleges used to set their own cut-offs for each subject and accept students based on their Class XII grades prior to the CUET and CSAS.
According to the CSAS, students are required to list a hierarchy of course and college interests, and the system assigns them a specific course at a certain institution based on their CUET scores and preferences. Only later rounds of online CSAS admissions, which fill open seats, allow students to modify their preferences.
Sinha said: “Even if a student has not applied for certain courses or colleges, the seats should remain open for her.”
Sinha also expressed dismay about 22,000 students scoring 100 percentiles in the CUET. One of the reasons the university moved away from board-results-based admissions to the CUET had been the 100 percent subject cut-offs the colleges were being forced to set thanks to the generous marking by some higher secondary boards.
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