Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | Posted by Syed Amir Mian

Aligarh Muslim to hold a Combined Admission Test for M.Phil. & Ph.D

Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim will hold a Combined Admission Test for admission to M.Phil. and Ph.D. courses except the Faculty of Unani Medicine.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has approved the recommendation of the committee for procedure of selecting candidates for admission to M.Phil. and Ph.D.

The candidates with 55% marks in the aggregate in the post graduate examination will be eligible to appear at Combined Admission Test (CAT) except the faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Technology and Management Studies. Engineering and Management candidates having passed PG examination with 60% marks in aggregate shall be eligible to appear at CAT. The candidates with MD degree with 60% marks shall be eligible in the Faculty of Medicine.

The Combined Admission Test shall consist of two papers, Paper-I and Paper-II, each of two hours duration comprising of multiple choice (objectives) type questions with no negative marking. The Paper-II will consist of ten short answer type and ten multiple choice questions.

Examination of both the papers shall be held on the same day in order to avoid inconvenience to the candidates. CAT shall be held on July 21, 2009.

The cut off merit shall be 40% marks in the aggregate of papers and candidate securing 40% marks in the aggregate shall be called for interview. Final cut off merit shall be decided on the basis of number of research seats available. The number of available seats shall be calculated using 5:4:3 formula for professors, readers and lecturers.

The final merit list of the candidates appearing at the CAT shall be prepared as per the following: Admission Test-50%, Interview-25% and qualifying examination-25%.

The candidates who qualify JRF shall be exempted from appearing at the Combined Admission Test. However, the candidates who qualify National Eligibility Test (NET) shall be required to appear at the Combined Admission Test for admission to M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes.

The Interview Board shall be headed by the Chairman of the Department concerned. The chairman and three senior most teachers of the Department shall comprise the Interview Board.

Foreign candidates are exempted from appearing at the Combined Admission Test.