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As the Delhi University (DU) begins admitting undergraduate students in complete semester mode for the first time after much bickering between the administration and teachers, officials are confident that the revised syllabi for all courses will be available in another 10 days.
The transformation from annual to semester mode saw a prolonged stand-off between the administration and teachers, many of whom refused to participate in syllabi revisions.
The delay in the process meant that the revised syllabi for some of the subjects have not been made available for students' reference ahead of the admission season.
But Dean Students' Welfare JM Khurana today said nearly all syllabi have been sent to the colleges of the University and will be available soon on the website.
"For those courses for which the syllabi were not yet ready the work is underway and by next week or another 10 days they would also be completed and made available," he said.
The University begins selling its information bulletins for the admissions on May 28 and the cut off lists will be announced beginning June 15, exactly one week before it came out last year.
The next four cut-off lists will be released on June 21, June 27, July 2 and July 8 respectively.
The University also announced its academic calendar for the upcoming year, which will see semester mode being adopted in all courses. While the classes will begin from July 21, the first mid-semester break will be from October 1 to October 9.
"Since we are into semester, we have no time to waste. The classes will begin right from July 21," Khurana told a press conference.
In the absence of pre-admission forms this year, there have been apprehensions on how the students will be admitted if the aspirants meeting the criteria are large in numbers.
Khurana said it needs to be made clear that there is no first-cum-first serve policy on the part of colleges and they will have to admit all students who meet the cut-off criteria.
The percentages have been better this year and 23,000 students have scored above 90% as against 16,000 last year. The number of candidates in the 65 to 75% bracket is less this time, he said.
"There is no need to panic, there is no drastic change. The number of admission days after the cut-off is announced have also been increased from three to four this time," Khurana said.
On the sports quota policy this year, he said the colleges will be conducting their own trial this time unlike the centralised trials held last year but the norms of giving 75% weight age to certificates will remain in place.
The registration for sports quota starts on the day the second cut-off is announced, that is June 21.
Last year the University had introduced the concept of giving 75% weight age to students' performance in events, unlike earlier when only trials used to decide, and centralised trials were held last year.
"This year due to unavoidable reasons and other factors the University decided that colleges will conduct trials on their own but follow the same criteria," he said adding that this is only an interim arrangement for this year.
Some colleges had last year found the centralised trials unhelpful as they said it is they who know for which sports students are needed in their colleges.
