Time to enter Mass Communication

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will conduct an entrance test for its M.A. Mass Communication programme on 4th May 2012 from 10:00 to 12:00 pm. This course is of 2 year duration comprising 4 semesters. A total of 20 students will be admitted into this programme.

 

Eligibility Criteria:

 

• All graduates with not less than 50% marks in their graduation.
• All those in their final year are also eligible.

 

Test Structure:

 

This entrance is of 2 hours duration and comprises of two parts viz. - General Awareness and Descriptive Test. It has a total weightage of 100 marks and will comprise of 40 objective questions and 4 descriptive type questions. The General Awareness section is an objective type test comprising of 40 marks with questions on current social, political and economic, national and international issues, major national and global events (sports, scientific and technological breakthroughs), and media awareness. The descriptive section tests communication skills around writing of news, features, interviews and opinion; critical evaluation of mass media and its media content; reviews and criticism (books, films, radio and television programmes), sentence structure, idioms, synonyms and antonyms, composition and comprehension, precis writing etc.

 

The test will take place in Aligarh on 4th May 2012.

 

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