All Entrance Exams in India 2026

The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Common Entrance Test (IPU CET) is a university-level entrance exam for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, including programs like B.Tech, BBA, and BCA. Candidates seeking admission to these courses must appear for this exam.

The Haryana State Technical Education Society, known as HSTES, is not an entrance examination but the state body that conducts centralised online counselling and admission for technical courses in Haryana. It handles registration, choice filling, merit list preparation and seat allotment for programmes such as engineering and technology degrees, architecture, pharmacy and diploma courses in government, government-aided and private self-financing institutes across the state. Students apply to HSTES after taking whichever qualifying or entrance examination applies to the course they want, becaus

Himachal Pradesh NEET Counselling is not an entrance examination but the state-level admission process through which medical and dental seats in Himachal Pradesh are allotted to candidates on the basis of their NEET UG result. It is conducted by Atal Medical and Research University, Himachal Pradesh, which runs the online counselling for the state quota seats in government medical and dental colleges in the state as well as the seats in private institutions covered by the state process. Candidates who have qualified NEET UG and who meet the state's domicile and category conditions register on

ICAR AIEEA PG is a national computer-based entrance examination conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to Master’s degree (M.Sc.) programmes in agriculture and allied sciences. Indian citizens who hold a relevant Bachelor’s degree are eligible to apply for this exam.

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication, known as IIMC, is a government institution for journalism and mass communication education, and its admission process is the route through which students enter its postgraduate diploma and master's programmes. It is not itself an entrance examination, because the institute admits students on the basis of scores in the national common entrance test at the postgraduate level, conducted by the National Testing Agency, followed by its own counselling and seat allotment. Candidates are usually graduates from any discipline who want to study journalism, ad

IIT JAM, the Joint Admission Test for MSc, is a national entrance examination conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology for admission to postgraduate science programmes. It is taken by science graduates who want to join MSc, Joint MSc-PhD and other post-bachelor degree programmes at the IITs, and its scores are also used by the Indian Institute of Science and by several centrally funded technical institutions for their own admissions. The test is organised each year by one of the IITs on a rotational basis on behalf of the others. Candidates choose one or more test papers according to t

The Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM) is a multiple-choice question-based test taken by students who want to enter M.Sc. (Two Years), M.Sc.-Ph.D., Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.S., and other postgraduate programs at select Indian institutes. It is a computer-based examination conducted for admission to programs offered by the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER Bhubaneswar), and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM).

JNU CEEB is the name still widely used for the entrance examination through which candidates enter postgraduate biotechnology programmes at participating universities in India, now conducted by the National Testing Agency as the Graduate Aptitude Test in Biotechnology and the Biotechnology Eligibility Test on behalf of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, an institution under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The aptitude test is taken by graduates seeking admission to master's level biotechnology programmes supported by the Department of Biotechnology at universities and

The Joint Entrance Examination Main, commonly called JEE Main, is the national-level entrance test used for admission to undergraduate engineering, architecture and planning programmes across India. It is conducted by the National Testing Agency and is taken mainly by students who have completed or are completing class 12 with science subjects and want to study for a B.Tech, B.Arch or B.Planning degree. Scores from JEE Main are used by the National Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Information Technology, other centrally funded technical institutions, and a large number of sta

JEE Advanced is the national-level entrance examination taken by candidates seeking admission to undergraduate engineering, science and architecture programmes at the Indian Institutes of Technology. It is written by students who have already qualified in JEE Main and who fall within the rank band announced for that year, so it works as the second and final stage of the IIT admission route. The examination is conducted by one of the IITs on a rotational basis under the guidance of the Joint Admission Board. Most candidates are students who have completed or are completing Class 12 with Physics

Karnataka NEET PG Counselling is the state-level process through which candidates who have passed the NEET PG exam apply for admission to postgraduate medical courses in Karnataka. Only those who have qualified in NEET PG are allowed to participate in this counselling conducted by the Karnataka Examination Authority.

Kerala NEET counselling is the state level admission process through which medical and allied course seats in Kerala are allotted to candidates who have qualified the national eligibility cum entrance test at the undergraduate level. It is a counselling and seat allotment process, not an entrance examination. It is conducted by the Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Kerala, on behalf of the state government, and it covers the state quota seats in government, government controlled, self financing and private medical and dental colleges in Kerala, along with other courses noti

Kerala NEET PG counselling is not an entrance examination. It is the state seat allotment process for postgraduate medical and dental admissions in Kerala, conducted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations of the Kerala government. Candidates do not sit any test at this stage, since the merit used is entirely the score already obtained in the national eligibility cum entrance test for postgraduate courses, the single qualifying examination for postgraduate medical admission in the country. The process fills the state quota seats in government medical and dental colleges in Kerala togethe

The LPU National Entrance and Scholarship Test, known as LPUNEST, is the entrance and scholarship examination conducted by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, for admission to its own programmes. It is taken by students applying for undergraduate, postgraduate and, in some cycles, doctoral programmes at the university across streams such as engineering, management, computer applications, sciences, agriculture, design, hotel management, law, pharmacy and the arts. Besides deciding admission, the test result is used by the university to award scholarships on the basis of performance, which

Madhya Pradesh Counselling is the centralised admission process run by the Directorate of Technical Education, Madhya Pradesh, through which seats in the state's technical and professional colleges are allotted. It is not an entrance examination: candidates who already hold a valid score or rank from the relevant qualifying examination register on the state portal, fill in college and branch choices, and are allotted seats according to merit, category and the choices they submit. The process covers degree and diploma programmes in engineering, pharmacy, design, management and computer applicat

The Maharashtra Hotel Management Common Entrance Test (MAH BHMCT) is a state-level entrance exam conducted by the State CET Cell, Maharashtra. It is taken by students who wish to pursue undergraduate courses like Bachelor of Hotel Management and Catering Technology (BHMCT), BBA, BCA, BMS, and BBM in Maharashtra.

The Mahatma Gandhi University Common Admission Test, referred to as MGU CAT, is a university-level entrance examination conducted by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, in Kerala. It is taken by graduates seeking admission to postgraduate programmes offered by the university departments, schools and affiliated centres, including master of science, master of arts, master of commerce and other specialised courses. The test is used to prepare a merit list for each subject, and admission is then offered through the university centralised allotment process. It is a single-university examination ra

The MCAT is a computer-based exam conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for admission to MD programs in the United States and Canada. Indian students take the MCAT after completing a bachelor’s degree at international test centres. It is often compared with NEET, but the two exams serve different purposes: NEET is required for MBBS admission in India immediately after Class 12, whereas the MCAT is used for graduate-level medical school entry abroad.