Entrance Exam India

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What is Entrance Exam?

An Entrance Exam is an Examination which is conduct by different Educational Institutions/collage to select students for admission in various College or Universities. Basically, these Examinations can be administered at any level of education, although these are conducted at higher level of education. Mostly, Entrance Examinations are the testing grounds for any Student to evaluate one's abilities and capabilities in relation to the Admission into a Course he/she has chosen and in relation to one's chosen Academic Stream. Most of the Entrance Examination is conducted by well known Institutes. These Institutes are known for their Superior Result oriented, cream of faculty and Candidates and as such have gained a lot of standing. Most of the Popular Entrance Examinations in India are AIEEE, IIT-JEE, CLAT, MBBS, BDS, CAT, MAT, GCET, CMAT to name a few. Indian Entrance Exams are widespread with just about most of the Institutes conducting their own divide Entrance Exams on the same basis as of National Entrance Examinations. Some of the Entrance Examinations like the IIT-JEE, CAT and AIPMT are considered ...
... in the middle of the toughest in the world, with JEE having a success rate of around 1 in 45. Over the year these Examinations have gained high importance, have become very relevant, important and in the process have garnered controversies which have exaggerated students, parents and the administrators.
Various Entrance Exams in India

• Most of the Government and Private Educational collages conduct Entrance Exams for various professional courses. These Entrance Examinations are basically Objective Questions or more popularly known as MCQ's [Multiple choice Questions] in the Academic language. This Pattern was introduced as it was considered that scores obtained by school students are based on conventional, long-answer papers which might not represent the actual potential of a student. The reason being given that these scores can signify a Human Examiner's error and as such these would be intolerable in a closely spirited environment where even a mark or two could affect a student's career. This bias was eliminated with the introduction of a Special Examiner. It is known as OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) interpretation Laser which was introduced in 2006.

• Typically Engineering Institutes in India admit 15% of their students through the national-level AIEEE and the residual 85% based on their scores in the entrance exam conducted by the state in which the college is located.

• Government Medical Institutes go after the same process, basing admissions on the candidate's rank at the All India Pre-Medical Test [AIPMT].

• Indian Institutes of Management [IIM] conducts a Common Admission Test for the candidates.

• Indian Institutes of Technology [IIT] conducts IIT-JEE.
Engineering Entrance Exams:

AIEEE - All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Exams.
IIT-JEE - Joint Entrance Examination.
GATE - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.
NATA - National Aptitude Test in Architecture.
SLIET - Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology Entrance Test.
State Engineering Entrance Exams - PTU CET, GUJ-CET, RPET etc.

Medical Entrance Exams:

AIPMT - All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Exam.
AIIMS - All-India Institute of Medical Sciences Entrance Examination.
AICEE - All India Common Entrance Examination, by Veterinary Council of India.
State Medical Entrance Exams - PTU CET, RPET etc.

Science / Computer Entrance Exams:

CST - Competence in Software Technology Exam.
GSA - Graduate School Admission Test.
JAM - Joint Admission Test to M.Sc.
JEST - Joint Entrance Screening Test for Ph.D. Admission.

Management Entrance Exams for MBA Admission:

ATMA - AIMS Test For Management Admission.
CEMAT - Commonwealth Executive MBA & MPA Programmes Admission Test.
CAT - Common Admission Test.
CMAT – Common Management Aptitude Test.
IBSAT - ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test.
IIFT - Indian Institute of Foreign Trade MBA Admission Test.
ICET - Integrated Common Entrance Test.
JMET - Joint Management Entrance Test.
K-MAT - Karnataka Management Aptitude Test.
MAT - Management Aptitude Test.
NAT - National Aptitude Test.
NCHMCT - National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology - Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
NMAT - National Management Aptitude Test.
OPENMAT - Open Management Admission Test - India Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
RMAT - Rajasthan Management Admission Test.
SET - Symbiosis Entrance Test for Symbiosis Undergraduate Institutes of SIEC Deemed University.
UPES-MET- UPES – Management Eligibility Test.
SNAP - Symbiosis National Aptitude Test.
TANCET - Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test.
WAT - Written Admission Test - Army Welfare Education Society (AWES).
XAT - Xavier Admission Test.

Law Entrance Exams:

CLAT - Common Law Admission Test.
Kerala Law Entrance Examination.
Nalsar Entrance Test.
NLSIU - National Law School of India University Entrance Test.
LSAT - Law School Admission Test, India by LSAC.
GPAT - Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test
Fashion & Technology Entrance Exams:
CEED - Common Entrance Examination for Design.
NID Entrance Exam.
NIFT Entrance Exam.
Pearl Academy of Fashion Entrance Exam.

Film & Television Entrance Exams:

Film and Television Institute of India Entrance Examination.
PUNE Film Institute Entrance Exam
National School of Drama (NSD) Screening Test.

UPES Entrance Exam

RESERVED FOR UPSC RT/EXAM
SCRA (Special Class Railway Apprentices’ Examination)
C.D.S. EXAM.
N.D.A. & N.A. EXAM.(I), 2012
ENGINEERING SERVICES EXAMINATION, 2012
Civil Services Preliminary Exam
COMBINED MEDICAL SERVICES EXAM, 2012
RESERVED FOR UPSC RT/EXAM
Indian Forest Service Exam 2012
RESERVED FOR UPSC RT/EXAM
S.O./STENO (GD-B/GD-I) LTD. DEPTTL. COMPETITIVE EXAM.

Apart from this above listed Entrance Exams, There are many Bank Exams are conducted by different Banks in India like Axis Bank, State Bank of India [SBI], Punjab National Bank [PNB] etc. There is now Common Entrance Exam from All Banks, as known as IBPS Bank Exam.

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