Few Vocational Subjects Not Listed in DU Application; Students Confused
- Students from Delhi Government schools face problem while filling DU application form as subjects are not listed.
- DU has advised students to specify vocational subjects under ‘other’ category if they are not listed in the form.
Delhi University aspirants who have passed class 12 board exams from Delhi Government schools are facing difficulty in filling Delhi University applicationforms. These students are not able to find some of the vocational subjects that they had studied in the DU application form such as agriculture, commercial art, engineering graphics, etc.
Students from Delhi Government schools reported that the major challenge while filling the DU application form is that they are not able to find some of the vocational subjects on the list. Delhi Government schools offer a total of 23 vocational courses but only a few are mentioned in DU admission form.
Ritu, a DU aspirant from a government school in Paschim Vihar, is a humanities student and scored 90 in commercial art in Class 12 exams but she is not able to fill the DU application form as she could not find the vocational subjects she pursued in the DU admission form.
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In order to complete the DU admission form, students are required to fill up every subject that they have taken during class 12 board exams. Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, DU’s Officer on Special Duty for admissions, said that students can select the ‘other’ option in order to specify the subjects that they have taken in class 12 exams, in case they are not in DU’s vocational subject list.
However, including vocational courses in the best four adds a little disadvantage. Students who include vocational subjects while calculating best-four subjectsforDU cut-offs will get 2.5% deducted for each vocational subject while evaluation.
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The Delhi University has also added the provision to cancel the admission from June 6, 2018. The applicants who have made errors in the application form can cancel their application, however, this is not mandatory. The university has informed applicants that only one application per candidate will be retained.