The current cut-off based admission system puts students from the boards where the marking is "strict" at a disadvantage, Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh said here and expressed the hope that this would change in a year.

Singh said he has constituted a committee to look into the admission data and the recommendations of the panel will be deliberated upon in the coming Academic Council meeting on December 10.

"We have many options for admission - to continue with the existing system, the second could be normalisation of marks of various boards, third could be an entrance test and the fourth can be giving 50 percent weightage to entrance test and 50 percent to (board) marks. Let the academic council and executive council take a call," he told PTI in an interview

Talking about his personal view on the continuation of the cut-off (merit-based) system, Singh said he is "not for it".

Explaining the reasons, he said the students from the boards which have a "lenient" marking system have an advantage over others in the current system, "while those from strict boards are suffering".

"For instance, UP Board students are not getting admissions in Delhi University. Some boards are not lenient. Even students from Haryana

Board and neighbouring states are not getting admission here but we are getting a large number of students from Kerala, but not from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh," Singh said.

 "It is a good thing we are popular in Kerala, but we need to resolve this (the other board students not getting admission to DU)," he said.

Stressing that the time has come to relook at various processes that are in place, he said things will change in a year's time.

Asked about the various admission criterion under consideration, he laid down the pros and cons of every possible system that could be implemented.

"If the student has cent percent marks, what will normalisation do? Even if we take out some average, it will be high. The entrance test is also not a fool-proof system.

"People say it encourages coaching and causes unnecessary stress

for students. Then Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET, the union government has decided to conduct it) is also an option," he said.

Till the fifth cut-off this year, 74,667 students had secured admissions against 70,000 undergraduate seats with some colleges like Hindu College seeing over-admissions.