With University of Delhi (DU) colleges witnessing a large number of admissions of students from the Kerala state board, the university has issued guidelines on the inclusion of subjects from other state boards equivalent to ones taught under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the calculation of cut-off marks.
There is an equivalence committee that decides which subjects from state boards would be similar to CBSE subjects and their inclusion while calculating the cut-off score — the average of best-of-four marks.
“If they (committee) say that a subject is not equivalent, it cannot be included in Best of Four,” said Rajeev Gupta, Chairman, Admissions at the university.
A meeting was held on Tuesday with colleges and a list was shared with them.
Citing an example, Gupta said that CBSE has started Applied Mathematics as a subject to help students who are not well-versed with Mathematics, which means it is easier than Mathematics.
The committee considers factors like theory and practical component, syllabus, etc. while deciding on the equivalence, Gupta said.
For instance, Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has a subject titled Mathematics and Statistics, which according to the guidelines will be considered equivalent to CBSE Mathematics, while Nagaland Board of School Education’s Fundamentals of Business Mathematics will also be considered as the equivalent of Mathematics in CBSE.
However, the Bihar School Education Board has 50-mark Hindi and English papers, in addition to 100-mark papers of both the subjects. The committee has stated that the 50-mark papers will not be considered for calculation of best-of-four average for applying to DU colleges.
Similarly, the guidelines state that the subject titled Accountancy with Computer Accounting taught by the Kerala Board of Higher Secondary Education will not be considered equivalent to Business Studies of CBSE. The Business Economics paper of Madhya Pradesh will not be considered equivalent to CBSE Economics.
