Last week, the first list of qualifying marks for admission to some of the undergraduate courses in colleges affiliated to the Delhi University was set at a ridiculous cutoff of 100 per cent. The courses are BCom (Honours), Economics (Honours), Computer Science, Political Science (H), and Physics (H). The principals of different colleges informed that over 9,200 candidates of the 3 per cent of the total registered in DU have an aggregate of 100 per cent in Std XII. Astonishingly, nowadays students score cent per cent in Std XII not only in the above subjects but also in English. With such marks our students should join Ivy Colleges instead of Indian ones. With such brilliant students, in the coming years, India should have a clutch of Nobel Prize in Physics, Literature and Economics. Parody apart, how can students score full marks in English? Are we better than the native speaking English people? With such high scores, our students should be waived off from appearing in international competitive exams such as TOEFL, IELTS, GRE etc. None of the Indian Universities figures in the top 100 in the world and when this is the case the DU cannot feign or act like an elitist and demand the highest cutoffs. Where would the students, who have scored less, go? The government needs to have some checks and balances in the education system else India would be a laughing stock in the world.
