DU Vice-Chancellor Professor V.R. Mehta said: ``Students who secured less than 60 per cent will also get a chance. They might, however, have to restrict themselves to courses like Hindi, Sanskrit and Philosophy,'' said Professor Mehta.

He also said that from this year, they would ask students to disclose their criminal records, if any. He also said: ``From this year, the CBSE will give us a floppy of the results. We have informed all colleges that they could check any applicants' marks, if they had any doubts. But for state boards like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and others, we have no such solution.''

Dismissing the idea of centralising the admission process, Dr Amrik Singh of Punjabi University, said the university was federal in nature. ``Every college has its own identity. They guard it quite jealously. We believe that every college should define its own objectives. Moreover, at present we do not have the infrastructure to centralise the admission process,'' he said.

He pointed out that admissions were centralised for students applying for seats in the reserved category. ``We have 10,000 seats in the reserved category,'' he said. But the only problem was that they had received only 6,000 applications last year. ``If they are not filled, then colleges have the option of throwing them open.''