Fill actual obtained marks in admission form: DU to students

Delhi University Wednesday advised students filling the undergraduate admission forms to fill the actual marks obtained in their board exams and not to deduct or add marks.

As per the admission guidelines, this year the university has notified that if a student, who has not studied a particular subject in class 12 but wants to study the subject then there would be a deduction of two percent from the aggregate of best-four subjects.

In the case of students who studied elective English, they would have an advantage of two percent.

"We strictly want to inform the students to fill in the actual marks obtained and leave it to colleges to deduct or add marks," said Malay Neerav, DU joint dean students welfare (DSW).

Besides, the university informed students to fill in the names of all five subjects they have studied in the optical mark recognition (OMR) forms.

"The students should fill in all five subjects. They need worry because the marks that will be taken into account will be of the best-four," said Neerav.

The admission to DU's four-year undergraduate courses begin June 2.