DU: SOL में बना रेकॉर्ड, 100% स्कोरर ने लिया ऐडमिशन

दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी के स्कूल ऑफ ओपन लर्निंग (एसओएल) में ऐडमिशन के मामले में इस बार एक नया रेकॉर्ड बना है। यह रेकॉर्ड हाई स्कोरर स्टूडेंट्स के ऐडमिशन से जुड़ा है। एसओएल में इस बार 100 पर्सेंट पाने वाले एक स्टूडेंट ने ऐडमिशन लिया है। कैंपस ऑफ ओपन लर्निंग के डायरेक्टर प्रो. सी. एस. दुबे ने बताया कि दिल्ली के किशनगंज के रहने वाले मनेंद्र सिंह ने 100 पर्सेंट स्कोर पर बीकॉम ऑनर्स कोर्स में ऐडमिशन लिया है। इस स्टूडेंट ने ओपन स्कूल से ही 12वीं पास की है और अब डीयू के एसओएल में ऐडमिशन लिया है। इस बार 90 पर्सेंट से ज्यादा स्कोर करने वाले एक हजार से ज्यादा स्टूडेंट्स एसओएल में ऐडमिशन ले चुके हैं। 

वहीं, इस बार केवल बीए कोर्स में ही ऑफलाइन रजिस्ट्रेशन का ऑप्शन है और करीब 5000 स्टूडेंट्स ने ऑफलाइन फॉर्म लिए हैं और एक हजार ने फॉर्म सब्मिट किया है। प्रो. दुबे का कहना है कि इस बार ऑनलाइन रजिस्ट्रेशन पूरी तरह से कामयाब हो गया है क्योंकि ऑफलाइन फॉर्म के लिए स्टूडेंट्स की भीड़ नहीं है। ज्यादातर स्टूडेंट्स ऑनलाइन अप्लाई कर रहे हैं। साथ ही अभी 10 और स्टूडेंट्स ऐसे हैं, जिनका स्कोर 100 पर्सेंट है और देखना होगा कि इस परफेक्ट स्कोर पर कितने और स्टूडेंट्स ऐडमिशन लेते हैं। 

90-99% के बीच 1016 स्टूडेंट्स शामिल: प्रो. दुबे ने बताया कि 90-99 पर्सेंट के बीच स्कोर करने वाले 1016 स्टूडेंट्स ने एसओएल के अलग-अलग कोर्सेज में ऐडमिशन लिया है। वहीं, 95-99 पर्सेंट तक पाने वाले 157 स्टूडेंट्स ऐडमिशन की इस लिस्ट में शामिल हैं। हाई स्कोरर ज्यादातर स्टूडेंट्स ने बीकॉम ऑनर्स, बीए व पॉलिटिकल साइंस कोर्सेज में ऐडमिशन लिया है। डायरेक्टर के मुताबिक एसओएल में अभी तक 86 हजार स्टूडेंट्स ने ऑनलाइन रजिस्ट्रेशन किया है, जिनमें से 40,000 का ऐडमिशन कन्फर्म हो गया है।

SOL degree as good as that of DU colleges

India’s oldest open and distance learning centre — the School of Open Learning (SOL) at Delhi University — is slowly but surely getting a makeover. With a smoother and completely automated admission process in place, SOL is not only improving upon the teaching-learning methodology, it is also giving its students opportunities to earn while they learn. In a three-part series we will take you through the application process, academic standards and career opportunities that SOL provides.

An equal degree

Unlike common belief, a degree from SOL is no less than a degree received after studying in any of the DU colleges. In fact, SOL shares the platform with the conventional admission process at DU in various ways. Both have the same set of admission rules, the same examining body and the same syllabus. “Most importantly, students going to DU colleges and our students will both get the same DU degree after completing a three-year undergraduate course,” said H.C. Pokhriyal, executive director, SOL.

SOL provides five undergraduate programmes, namely BA Programme, BA(H) English, BA(H) Political Science, BCom(H) and BCom.

Application process

Gone are the days when the admission season at SOL meant crowded corridors, long queues and endless waiting. With an automated admission process in place it takes as little as 20 minutes for an applicant to secure admission to SOL. “Last year 65,000 students took admission. So you can imagine the chaos,” said Pokhriyal. “We have updated data from school boards so that as soon as someone submits an application we are able to verify details. If he/she is eligible a printed receipt is given within 20 minutes,” he said.

Web-savvy team

The SOL team is way ahead of Delhi University colleges and administration as far as availability of online information is concerned. The new website sol.du.ac.in has the prospectus and form that can be downloaded. Students can access exam results, request for change of address, check availability of degrees and also find out which section of administration will handle their queries.

Accessible study material

From this year onwards SOL is also giving out course material for first-year students at the time of admission. “As soon as someone secures admission we hand over the course material so that there is no delay as usually happens,” Pokhriyal said.

“To help students access course matter we will also be uploading the material on our website very soon,” he said.

Being an sol student  ( BA(HONS. ) ENGLISH)  as well as a regular college student at Delhi university Delhi college of arts and commerce ( french certification) , i feel that there is no difference in the degree that you are provided with DU . I think studying in SOL is a bit more difficult because you don't get any classes to understand a particular novels including Shakespeare's novels and many more except 6-7 classes in a year.

So, through this column i would like to tell you all that please dont criticize any SOL student in any way . Nevertheless they dont have any less brain power , intellect, aptness , ability , talent than any studying in a regular colleges.

If a degree from Delhi University is all you want despite having no hope of meeting any of the cut-offs required for any of the regular courses, then the School of Open Learning (SOL) is your best bet.

The School takes in 1, 50,000 students on an average and at the end of the course, there is no difference between the degree awarded to a student from any regular college and the SOL students.

“There is no difference between the degree that is awarded by any of the University’s 77 colleges and the one that is awarded by SOL,” said School director H.C. Pokhriyal, adding that SOL was a “window of hope,” for all those students who so badly wanted a degree from DU but just did not have the “marks in the 99.9 percentage range,” to make the cut to any of the University’s colleges.

“All 77 regular colleges together offer around 54,000 seats but SOL has about 1,50,000 student intake on an average every year.”

This past week which was the second consecutive week of mission admission for the University’s undergraduate courses in its regular courses, the SOL was by far the most crowded centre in the University’s north campus which itself has resembled a bee-hive of humanity since the beginning of admissions on June 5.

Last year, the School had set a record of sorts for admitting the most number of students in one day.

In fact, the School will be make it to the 2014 edition of the Limca Book of Records for admitting a record number of students in one day, 4,800 to be exact in the last admission season according to a communication that the Institution has received.

“We have regular contact classes, it is not a wholly correspondence course, and these classes are conducted at the SOL centre in the North Campus as well as colleges all over the city,” he added.

https://sol.du.ac.in/AboutUs.aspx