All Indian Entrance Examination for Admission ICAR [AIEEA] - Eligibility and Scheme of Examination (UG & PG)

In order to appear in AIEEA (UG) 2021, Indian national candidates must have passed 10+2 Senior Secondary Examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education or any other examination within scope and standard found to be equivalent to the Senior Secondary Examination of a recognised Indian Board/University (Annexure VI), with minimum prescribed marks/grade,
after a period of 12 years of study. The medium of instruction in the admitting University will be English. In order to appear in AIEEA (UG) 2021, Indian national candidates must have passed 10+2 Senior.

Candidate must have passed any one of the qualifying examinations enumerated above securing not less than 50% marks in aggregate for General, OBC (NCL), UPS, EWS categories and 40% marks in aggregate for SC, ST, Third Gender, PwD categories. There will be no rounding-off of the OGPA/percentage of marks of qualifying examination while deciding the basic eligibility
of any candidate for admission e.g. if a candidate obtained 49.99% marks in his/her qualifying examination, then it will not be rounded-off to 50%..

Candidate having a compartment/supplementary in any of the subjects will not be eligible unless proof of having cleared the examination with requisite percentage as above is available

Candidate already appeared in the qualifying examination enumerated above, can also apply but would be required to submit evidence of having satisfied the conditions latest at the time of counselling/admission in the allotted university.

NOTE : No certificates are required to be uploaded along with the Application Form at the time of
online submission.

The documents/certificates etc., shall be verified directly at the time of admission in the admitting university. In case the candidate is found not-eligible at any stage, his/her candidature would be summarily rejected and admission will be cancelled.

Age Limit :
Indian Nationals of at least 16 years of age as on 31.08.2021 are eligible to apply for the
examination. No relaxation is admissible regarding the minimum age limit.

In order to appear in ICAR-AIEEA (PG)-2023, an Indian national candidate must ensure that he/she fulfill the eligibility requirements for the examination as well as admission as detailed in the Information Bulletin. Applying for AIEEA (PG)-2023, appearing in the examination and qualifying the same does not necessarily mean acceptance of eligibility.The applicant for a particular Subject must satisfy the eligibility criteria as specified in this Information Bulletin (or its amendments/corrections from time to time).

Filling of ICAR All India Quota (AIQ) seats in PG programmes will be permitted in Agricultural Universities / Institutes under the ICAR-AU system.

Candidate should note that for admission to Master’s degree programmes through entrance examination conducted by NTA, only the candidates having passed graduation with four/six (12+4/10+6 B.Sc. Ag./B.Tech.) / five years (B.V.Sc. & AH) / 5½ years (B.V.Sc. & AH) degree programme will be eligible.

Equivalence of Degrees will be decided by the admitting university only, as per the UGC Public Notice No.F9-3/2016(CPP-II) dated 19th July, 2016.

The candidates having Bachelor’s degree with 3 years’ duration will not be considered for admission through ICAR AIEEA (PG)-2023 in AUsunder ICAR-AU system except in few courses at two ICAR-Deemed to be Universities (DUs), viz. IARI and NDRI for which the eligibility criteria of the concerned ICAR-DU, including admission of graduates having passed with 3 years’ degree, would prevail for admission.

Further, in case any degree from a particular college/university is not considered for admission by an Agricultural University on account of a particular college/university being derecognized by VCI/UGC, or due to any Court directives (present or future), ICAR will not be responsible for admitting students of that college/university in the Universities not willing to admit such candidates.

The Candidate must have passed Bachelor degree examination securing Overall Grade Point Average (OGPA) of at least 6.60/10.00 in ten-point scale, 5.88/9.00 in nine-point scale, 5.22/8.00 in eight point scale, 4.57/7.00 in seven point scale, 3.92/6.00 in six point- scale, 3.25/5.00 in five-point scale, 2.60/4.00 in four-point scale for General, OBC, UPS and EWS categories whereas for SC/ST/PwBD/Third Gender candidates, the said requirement is an OGPA of at least 5.60/10.00, 4.98/9.00 in nine-point scale, 4.42/8.00 in eight point scale, 3.87/7.00 in seven point scale, 3.32/6.00 in six point- scale, 2.75/5.00, 2.20/4.00, respectively. In other cases, where grade points are not awarded and only marks are awarded, the candidate must have secured at least 60% marks for General, OBC, UPS and EWS categories whereas for SC/ST/ Third Gender /PwBD categories the requirement is 50% marks. (Please note that equivalence between OGPA and % marks will not be acceptable). There will be no rounding-off of the OGPA/percentage of marks of qualifying examination while deciding the basic eligibility of any candidate for admission e.g. if a candidate obtained 49.99% marks in his/her qualifying examination, then it will not be rounded-off to 50%.

For admission in M.V.Sc., candidates must have completed B.V.Sc. & A.H. with internship at the time of verification during Counseling in the allotted university.

The candidates must complete the graduate degree in all respects and should have all the degree-completion requirements at the time verification during Counseling in the allotted university; failing which they will not be considered for admission and the award of scholarship. Please note that ICAR/University will NOT be held responsible for denial of admission to non- eligible candidates.

Candidates reporting for the admission in the allotted university must have final year/final semester result in hand clearly indicating final OGPA/CGPA or final percentage of marks where grade points are not awarded. Candidates will be required to produce Provisional Degree certificate (PDC) /Degree certificate of qualifying graduate examination issued by the university for this purpose. The candidates should note that theuniversity may deny admission in case the PDC is not produced at the time of verification during counselling. No correspondence shall be entertained by the Council in this regard.

Since VCI has already issued instructions to Veterinary colleges to finish the Academic year for B.V.Sc. & A.H candidates during the month of December. Therefore, all the State Veterinary Universities (SVUs) and constituent colleges of veterinary sciences underthe StateAgricultural Universities (SAUs) have to synchronize the start of their Academic Session accordingly. Since the OGPA of such candidates would be available, and internship grades are reflected as satisfactory/unsatisfactory only, they would be deemed provisionally eligible to appear in the ICAR’s AIEEA (PG) examination.However, such candidates will be mandatorily required to produce evidence of completion ofgraduation degree in all respects including successful completion of Internship training programme at the time of verification during counselling in the allotted university.

The admission of the candidates shall be valid only for the Academic Session (2023-24) in which the examination has been conducted by ICAR.

Mode of Examination:

Duration:

Number of Questions:

Type of Questions:

Scoring :
 4 marks for each correct response
 -1 mark for each incorrect response (negative scoring)
 0 for non-attempt

Medium of Paper English and Hindi

Syllabus for the Test :
The Questions in the test shall be based on the syllabus prescribed by the ICAR, which is available at the website https://icar.org.in/content/icar%E2%80%99s-aice-jrfsrf-pgs-2020-examination.

The test of AIEEA (PG)-2023 has a single paper of 2 hours duration. Details of the test are given below:

Mode of Examination CBT (Computer Based Test)

Number of Questions 120

Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)

Type of Questions Multiple Choice Questions

Medium of Paper English only

4 marks for each correct response

-1 mark for each incorrect response (negative scoring)

0 for non-attempt

The Question Papers for the test shall be based on the syllabus prescribed by the ICAR, which is available at the website: https://icar.org.in/content/icar%E2%80%99s-aice-jrfsrf-pgs-2020- examination.