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.