All Entrance Exams in India 2026

The Global Management Common Aptitude Test, referred to as GMCAT, is an aptitude based entrance test used for admission to management programmes, including undergraduate courses such as BBA and postgraduate courses such as MBA, at the institutions that accept it. It is taken by students finishing school who want a management degree at bachelor level and by graduates seeking a postgraduate management qualification. The test is conducted in a computer based online format, which allows candidates to take it at a test centre or from a permitted remote location depending on the arrangement announce

The Global Media Common Entrance Test, known as GMCET, is an entrance test used for admission to media and mass communication courses, mainly at undergraduate level, at the institutions that accept it. It is taken by students who have finished school and want to study journalism, mass communication, film and television, advertising, public relations or related media programmes. The test is conducted online, so candidates take it as a computer based examination, and it has also been known under an earlier name as an all India media entrance test before its present form. Participating colleges u

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Biotechnology (GATE Biotechnology) is an entrance exam for students who have completed or are pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology or related fields. It is a multiple-choice question-based exam taken by candidates seeking admission to postgraduate programs such as M.E., M.Tech., and Ph.D. in Biotechnology and allied disciplines. The exam consists of 65 questions, including 10 General Aptitude (GA) questions and 55 subject-specific questions.

The Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test, known as GPAT, is a national level entrance examination for pharmacy graduates who want admission to postgraduate pharmacy programmes in India. It is taken mainly by candidates holding a bachelor's degree in pharmacy who wish to study Master of Pharmacy courses at participating institutions, and the score is also used by some bodies for scholarship or assistantship purposes. The test is conducted in computer based mode and is held once in an academic cycle, with the conducting body and the exact schedule announced through the official notification. GPAT giv

The Admission Committee for Professional Courses, commonly called ACPC, is the admission authority set up by the Government of Gujarat. It is not an entrance examination and it does not conduct a test of its own. ACPC runs the centralised admission and counselling process through which candidates are allotted seats in professional degree and diploma courses across Gujarat, including engineering, pharmacy, architecture, planning, management and other technical streams offered by government, grant-in-aid and self-financed institutes. Students who have already appeared in the relevant qualifying

Gujarat NEET PG counselling is not an entrance examination. It is the seat-allotment process through which doctors who have already qualified the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for postgraduate courses are allotted MD, MS, PG diploma and, where notified, MDS seats in the medical and dental colleges of Gujarat. It is conducted by the state's admission committee for professional postgraduate medical educational courses under the Health and Family Welfare Department, using the scores of the national examination. The examination itself is NEET PG, held once a year by the National Board of

The Gujarat Post Graduate Common Entrance Test is a state-level entrance test used for admission to postgraduate professional programmes at institutions in Gujarat. It is taken mainly by graduates of engineering, technology, pharmacy and allied streams who want a master's seat in a Gujarat institute and who are not entering through a national score such as GATE. The test is part of the centralised admission machinery run by the state's admission authorities, so a candidate who clears it then goes through registration, merit listing and online counselling rather than approaching colleges indivi

Haryana NEET PG Counselling is a state-level process that uses NEET PG scores to allocate seats for postgraduate medical courses in Haryana. Candidates who have qualified NEET PG and meet the eligibility criteria participate in this counselling to secure admission to MD, MS, and diploma courses in government and private medical colleges of the state.

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

The Himachal Pradesh Common Entrance Test, commonly written as HPCET, is a state-level entrance examination conducted by Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur. It is taken by candidates seeking admission to technical and professional degree programmes in institutions affiliated to the university and in other participating colleges in Himachal Pradesh. The test covers several programme groups, including undergraduate engineering, pharmacy, and postgraduate courses such as MBA, MCA, MTech and MPharm, with a separate paper for each group. Most candidates are students from Himachal Prade

The Himachal Pradesh MSc Nursing Entrance Exam is a state-level test for students who have completed a BSc Nursing degree and wish to pursue postgraduate studies in nursing within Himachal Pradesh. It is taken by registered nurses seeking admission to limited seats in MSc Nursing programs across colleges in the state.

The Himachal Pradesh NEET PG Counselling is the state-level admission process for postgraduate medical courses in Himachal Pradesh. It is taken by candidates who have qualified the NEET PG exam and wish to pursue MD, MS, or diploma courses in medical colleges within the state. The counselling is conducted online by the Himachal Pradesh University of Health Sciences (HPU). Eligible candidates register on the official HPU website, fill their preferred colleges and courses, and are allotted seats based on their merit and choices.

Himachal Pradesh University BEd is the entrance test used to select candidates for the two year Bachelor of Education programme offered by Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, and by the education colleges affiliated to it across the state. It is taken by graduates and postgraduates who want to train as school teachers. The paper is set at the level of a general aptitude and awareness test rather than a specialist subject paper, and candidates are ranked on their score for counselling and seat allotment. Admission is offered on merit in the entrance test, subject to the reservation and domicil

HPUMAT is a multiple-choice question-based entrance exam taken by candidates seeking admission to management courses at Himachal Pradesh University. The exam is conducted in offline mode and lasts for 2 hours. It consists of four sections designed to assess a candidate's aptitude and knowledge in various areas relevant to management studies.

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 ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test, known as IBSAT, is a management entrance test conducted by the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education. It is taken by graduates who want to join the MBA and PGPM programmes offered at IBS campuses in Hyderabad and at other IBS locations across India. The test is a computer based aptitude paper rather than a syllabus based examination, so it measures verbal ability, reading comprehension, quantitative aptitude and data interpretation and adequacy rather than any undergraduate subject knowledge. Candidates who clear the score cutoff set by the institute ar

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) entrance exam is taken by candidates seeking admission to the MBA in International Business (MBA IB) program at IIFT campuses in Delhi, Kolkata, and Kakinada. It is a self-financing business school and an autonomous organization governed by a Board of Governors.

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