Admission Procedure for Master Programme
The Institute admits students to its post-graduate programme by rigorous screening procedure through five streams viz., open competition, foreign students, in-service candidates of Agricultural Universities under faculty up-gradation scheme, departmental candidates of IVRI and ICAR in-service nominees for admission to M.V.Sc. courses in the University.
All the seats at Masters'
level are to be filled on the basis of combined examination for admissions
and award of ICAR Junior Research Fellowships conducted by the Indian
Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
On the basis of merit and after counseling, ICAR finalizes the students for Post-Graduate degree programme(MVSc) in this university in 22 various disciplines. For more information on the details of the discipline and eligibility criteria, please visit the Master Programme page.
Doctoral Programme
Advertisement inviting applications for admission is published in the first/second week of March every year in the newpapers and also in the website of IVRI (http:/ /www.ivri.nic.in) every year around he first/second week of March inviting applications for admission. The last date for receipt of applications shall generally be last week of April every year or a date as may be specified from time to time.
Doctoral programme is offered in 19 various discipline. For more information on available seats in varoius discipline and eligibility criteria, please visit the Doctoral Programme page.
Admission in the PhD programme will be held on the basis of an entrance test, academic records and an interview. The written entrance examination for admission to Ph.D. courses is conducted by the University on All India basis
Selection Criteria
Selection of candidates for admission to Doctoral Programme will be
made on merit with weightage of marks (100) as follows:
| i. |
Marks of the written entrance examination in subject |
60% (out of total marks of 200) |
| ii. |
Marks of interview |
20%. It is mandatory to appear in the interview. |
| iii. |
Marks of Academic Score |
20% (Master's degree -12%)(Bachelor's degree 8%) |
Written Examination
- The candidates who fulfill the prescribed minimum qualifications are only
eligible to appear in the competitive written examination.
- Submission of application form for admission is not itself a guarantee for
appearing in the written examination for admission at this Institute.
The minimum qualifying marks in the competitive entrance examination
for consideration of admission to Ph.D. programme shall be as under :
| Sl.No. |
Examination |
Minimum qualifying marks in Competitive entrance test
|
| General candidates |
S.C./S.T. candidates |
| 1 Part A*(100 Marks) |
| |
i) English |
35% |
30% |
| ii) General Knowledge |
35% |
30% |
| 2 Part B Subject matter of 200 Marks |
50% |
45% |
* The marks of English and General Knowledge will not be considered for
preparation of merit list.
Selection criteria for sponsored candidates
Sponsored candidates are exempted from written examination but they
have to appear in an Interview on 03-04 August, 2009 (Monday & Tuesday) at
I.V.R.I., Izatnagar.
| i) |
Marks for Academic Score (Master's degree-12%)
(Bachelor's degree-8%) |
60% |
| ii) |
Marks obtained in the interview |
20%. It is mandatory to
appear in the interview. |
| iii) Weightage of service experience shall be calculated @ of 2 marks for
each year of service, subject to a maximum of 20 marks. |
* The marks of English and General Knowledge will not be considered for
preparation of merit list.
Subjects for written examination
The candidates may appear at the written examination in any one of
the subjects / subject combination as given under para 4.4. The medium of
examination will be English only.
The subjects/subject combination and its code for entrance examination
should be clearly indicated in the application form. (For syllabus, please see
Annexure in the Information Bulletin).
Duration and type of entrance examination
The entrance examination in the subjects/subject combination
mentioned above, will be of 3 hours duration in Part A and B and will contain
mostly objective type questions.
Part-A of the question paper pertaining to English and General Knowledge
tests will be common for all the candidates and cover the following topics :
| Subject |
Topics |
| English |
Correct usage of different parts of speech and ability
to have a logical comprehension of published literature,
precis writing, paraphrasing, etc. |
| General Knowledge |
This is to test general intelligence and awareness of
the candidates. There is no rigid syllabus. |
The Part-B of the question paper will be devoted to the subject/discipline
opted by the candidate.
Reservation
Fifteen (15%) percent seats for scheduled caste, 7.5% seats for
scheduled tribe, 18% of the total number of seats for Other Backward Category
(being second phase) and 3% for physically handicapped candidates will be
treated as reserved subject to their being otherwise eligible. The reservation
of seats stated above for SC/ST category is interchangeable in a particular
discipline amongst the SC/ST candidates depending upon the availability of
such candidates. This reservation is applicable only in case of candidates
who are admitted through the entrance examination. The details of tentative
allocation of seats reserved for various category have been shown in the
Information Bulletin at para 4.5 A (ii) allocation of seats. In case any reserved
seat remains vacant in a particular discipline on account non availbility of
suitable candidate, will be filled up in other discipline from amongst the eligible
concerned category candidate on merit basis.