Monday, March 23, 2009

Competitive Examinations in India after graduation

Competitive Examinations in India

UPSC Competitive Exams

Central Police Forces (Assistant Commandants Examination)
Civil Services (I.A.S.) Exam
Combined Defence Services (C.D.S.)Exam
Combined Medical Services (C.M.S) Exam
Combined Engineering Services Exam
Geologists Exam
Indian Economic/Statistical Services Exam
Indian Forest Service (IFS) Exam
National Defence Academy (N.D.A.) Exam
Section Officers/ Stenographers (Grade ‘B’/Grade-I) Limited Departmental Competitive Examination

SSC Competitive Exams
Assistants Grade Exam
Clerks Grade Exam
Combined Graduate Preliminary Exam
Combined Matric Preliminary Exam
Divisional Accountants /Auditors/UDC Exam
Income Tax/ Excise Inspectors, etc.. Exam
Stenographers' Grade 'C' Exam
Stenographers' Grade 'D' Exam

Defence Competitive Exams
Combined Defence Services (C.D.S.) Exam (UPSC)
National Defence Academy (N.D.A.) Exam (UPSC)
I.A.F. Airman (Technical Trades) Exam
I.A.F. Airman (Non-Technical Trades) Exam
I.A.F. Airman (Educational Instructors Trade) Exam
Indian Navy Sailors Matric Entry Recruitment Exam
Indian Navy Artificer Apprentices Exam
Indian Navy Dockyard Apprentices Exam
Indian Army Soldiers (Technical) M.E.R. Exam
Indian Army Soldiers Nursing Assistant's M.E.R. Exam
Indian Army Soldiers General Duty (NER) Exam
Indian Army Soldiers Clerks Exam

L.I.C/ G. I.C Competitive Exams
L.I.C Officers' Exam
G.I.C Officers' Exam
L.I.C Development Officers' Exam
G.I.C. Assistants Exam

Bank Competitive Exam
State Bank Probationary Officers Exam
Reserve Bank Grade 'A' / 'B' Officers' Exam

Railway Competitive Exam

Special Class Railway Apprentices Exam (UPSC)

University Grants Commission (UGC)

National Eligibility Test (NET)

XAT (Xavier Admission Test)

The XAT is conducted for admission to Post-Graduate degree programmes in Management at XLRI, XIM, XISS, LIBA etc. The XLRI is ranked amongst the top 5 B-Schools in India and XIM Bhubaneshwar is ranked among the top 20 management institutes in India.

The Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur conducts the Xavier Admission Test (XAT). The advertisement for form appears in late August. The entrance exam is usually held on the first Sunday of January and the Interviews are in the month of March.

The XAT is a two-hour duration paper, with number of questions being 200. The paper divided into 3 sections with sectional timings being enforced.

The method of scoring is:
Right Answer: 1 mark & Incorrect Answer: -1/3 mark.

Section

No. Of Questions

English

80

Reasoning & Quantitative Ability

60

General Awareness

60

In the last 20-min you are expected to write a 250 – 300 word essay with topics ranging from those of social relevance to propositions to abstract.

Registration for XAT

To register for XAT, candidates have to fill the XAT Form that is available online at www.xlri.edu/xat. Once the candidate logs on to this site, a full set of instructions will appear and following them, the candidate can obtain his/her ID and password.

This ID and password are to be indicated for all the future correspondence with XAT Office, Jamshedpur. For writing the XAT, the candidates should select their convenient cities from the list of city-choices available on the web site.


JMET (Joint Management Entrance Test)

The Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) is the first step for admission to Post Graduate degree programmes in Management at the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and the IISc (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore).

Currently IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee offer such Programmes in Management.

Students have to apply for JMET and send separate application forms to different IITs and IISc as per their choice.The IITs and IISc will use the results of JMET to short list candidates for the subsequent part of the selection process.

The JMET is usually conducted on the 2nd Sunday of every December and has many test centres all over India. The application deadline is usually in the third week of October and the forms are available at the GATE offices of the institutes as well as online on the websites of the institutes.