Entrance examination after passing 12th: A pocket view!

 

Gone are the days when only doctor, engineer were considered as the top career choices, and equally gone are the days when college or undergraduate entry to college education(other than engineering and pharmacy)was taken only on merit basis i.e. test score of 12th standard. The entrance examination is now compulsory for any stream science, commerce, Arts, Architecture, Pharmacy and so forth. For example, students wishing to pursue engineering may opt for various examination options like JEE, BITSAT, SRMJEEE, COMEDK, VITEEE, Symbiosis engineering entrance test or SET etcetera.

 

However, students from other streams like science, commerce, arts have to face competitive examinations after 12th. Apart from engineering or Pharmacy/Medical streams, exams are there for Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology), Arts, Management, Law, Architecture and also various other common/uncommon but trending career options after higher secondary.

 

Let’s discuss a few...

 

Entrance Exams for Commerce Ugs

 

SAT, CLAT ACLAT, CUSAT, NCHMCT, NIFT MRNAT (Manav Rachna). For those commerce students willing to pursue professional careers like Chartered Accountancy, Company Secretary or Cost Accountancy will have to face tests like Common Proficiency Test (CPT) for Chartered Accountancy, the entrance exam for Company Secretary, ICWAI entrance examination for cost accountancy program.

 

 

Entrance Exams for Science Ugs

 

Science students belong to two categories: there are 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Maths and 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Such students need to appear in the entrance examination as per their 12th specialisation. They can also appear in Joint Entrance Examination or JEE for entry into Engineering, Medical fields. Here again, the exam types are JEE Main, JEE Advanced, NATA, NEET, AIIMS, CLAT, AILET, NIFT, NID, AIEED, SAT, MRNAT (Manav Rachna)

 

 Entrance Exams for Arts Ugs

 

 Similarly, students from 12th Arts steam appear in entrance exams like NCHMCT JEE,

NIFT,SAT,CLAT, MRNAT (for Manav Rachna)

 

Entrance Exams for Unconventional career options for Ugs

 

We have discussed the most common entrance examinations for conventional career options. But there are many other trending career options and their respective entrance examinations as well. Some of these are...

 

Exam for Fashion Designing 

 

Various entrance exams are there which interested students can pursue fashion designing career UG courses to become a fashion designer or a merchandiser after completing the graduation. NIFT is a famous entrance examination for fashion designing undergraduate courses at a national level where successful students can acquire admission in the designing institute of their dreams.

 

Exam for Hotel Management Entrance 

 

 There are various hotel management colleges that organise entrance exams. There are college-specific exams while there are national-level exams as well. For example, NCHMCT JEE is the national level hotel management entrance exam.

 

Exam for Agriculture Entrance 

 

With technology and management entering agriculture promising successful career opportunities in various fields in the agriculture sector, youngsters have started taking interest in this field. Many universities offer various courses in agriculture and students can get admission to these by successfully passing the National, State or University-specific entrance exams. For example, ICAR (AIEE) is a national level entrance exam.

 

Exam for Architecture Entrance 

 

Youngsters interested in planning, designing, construction of buildings and structures seek entry into the field of Architecture. They can do so by clearing some of the top national level architecture entrance exams like NATA, JEE-MAIN.

 

Entrance Exam Biology Students

 

Students with Physics, Chemistry and Biology specialisation can appear for examinations like NEET, AIPMT, AIIMS MBBS

 

 Symbiosis (a deemed university) as an educational institution, after operating for about four decades has become quite famous in India. Under its banner, it has 15 institutes in Pune, Nagpur, Noida and Hyderabad offering 21 different Symbiosis UG courses and conducts various entrance examinations under the banner Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET).

Engineering Entrance Tests: A 3-Minutes Gist

In India still, Engineering is considered by masses as the most desirable career options. Lakhs of candidates apply to hundreds of colleges, universities, each college having its own entrance test, again with various examinations at the state and Central/National level, it is at times very daunting to make out what is what. With the burgeoning population, the entrance exams are getting tougher day by day. However, with so many different colleges to choose from, students have various options as well to choose from like JEE, BITSAT, SRMJEEE, COMEDK, VITEEE, Symbiosis engineering entrance test or SET etcetera.

 

In fact, more than fifty different types of engineering entrance exams are conducted throughout the country mostly at the undergraduate (UG) level. And as we mentioned, some exams are held at the state level, some at National while different institutions/colleges conduct exams at the institutional level. Usually, most of the engineering students apply in more than one examination in order to maximise their admission chances due to high competition rate.

JEE

JEE, the most well-known engineering entrance examination in our country has two parts. JEE Main and JEE Advanced. JEE Main is conducted by National Testing Agency or NTA. While JEE Advanced is conducted by the seven IITs under the guidelines of Joint Admission Board of JAB.

BITSAT 

Birla Institute of Technology and Science conducts its own entrance examination for getting admission in programs like Pharma, BE, MSc which are offered by the different BITS colleges at Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad

WBJEE

West Bengal conducts its state level of entrance examination for admission to various state colleges in Engineering & Technology, Architecture and Pharmacy courses. The examination is conducted by the Joint Entrance Examinations Board of government of West Bengal.

MHTCET

This is a state-level engineering entrance examination conducted by the government of Maharashtra. The examination is conducted for admissions to first-year Engineering and Technology programmes (BE/BTech) and Pharmacy programmes (BPharma/PharmD) offered by the colleges in the state of Maharashtra.

VITEEE

Yet another quite popular institution-level entrance test conducted by the Vellore Institute of Technology or VIT for admission to its own BTech programs.

Symbiosis SET

Symbiosis institution has become quite famous in India now with over four decades of its education journey and it is a deemed university. There are 15 institutes under Symbiosis spread across the cities of Pune, Nagpur, Noida and Hyderabad offering 21 different undergraduate programmes.

Symbiosis conducts different entrance tests like Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET)-A, Symbiosis Entrance Test - B (SET B), Symbiosis Law Admission Test (SLAT), SIT Engineering Entrance Exam (SIT EEE) and Non SET exams as well. Symbiosis application form for SET or Symbiosis Entrance Test for 2021 is released already and the examination will be held in May 2021