ICAR AIEEA PG 2025: Registration, Eligibility, Application Form, Exam Dates, Syllabus & Other Details

The ICAR AIEEA PG 2024 exam will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) only. This exam will be conducted across India at various exam centres in online mode. The official notification is released and exam is scheduled to be conducted on June 29, 2024. 

Applicants are advised to keep checking this page for any the latest updates regarding ICAR AIEEA PG exam.   

The application form of ICAR will be filled in online mode only. It first involves registration by entering the basic details, followed by entering academic and other personal details as well as uploading the mandatory documents, and lastly paying the application fees. 

Students need to ensure that all the details are filled in and documents that are to be uploaded as per the ICAR AIEEA PG exam guidelines.

The application correction of ICAR AIEEA PG 2024 exam could be done between May 13 to 15, 2024 in online mode. Students who made any mistake while filling the application form were advised to make the correction in the given period otherwise they could not be eligible to get the admit card of ICAR AIEEA PG 2024 exam. 

Yes, National Testing Agency reopened the link to fill the application form of ICAR AIEEA PG 2024 exam on May 21, 2024. Students who wanted to fill the form and pay application fees can do it till May 23, 2024.

This is an opportunity for those who could not fill the form earlier.   

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has entrusted the responsibility of conducting All India Competitive Examinations for admission to Bachelor (UG), Masters (PG) & Doctoral (Ph.D.) Courses in Agricultural Universities (AUs) and award of scholarships & fellowships, to the NTA from 2019 onwards.

The ICAR AIEEA (PG)-2024 examination will be conducted in 89 cities across the country. To enable participation of a large number of candidates seeking admission in Master's degree programmes in AUs in different disciplines of Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Veterinary, Animal Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Community Science (erstwhile Home Science), Fisheries, Dairy Science and other allied sciences.

Students for 30 percent of seats in Master's degree programmes in AUs are admitted through AIEEA (PG). All (100 per cent) seats of the four ICAR-DUs namely, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) and the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) and CAUs, viz. RLBCAU, Jhansi and Dr RPCAU, Pusa are also filled up through the same examination. 

The ICAR-AU System of India has 74 Agricultural Universities comprising 63 State Agricultural, Veterinary, Horticultural and Fisheries Universities (SAUs), 4 ICAR-DUs, viz. IARI, IVRI, NDRI and CIFE, 3 Central Agricultural Universities (CAU, Imphal, Dr. RPCAU, Pusa and RLBCAU, Jhansi), 4 Central Universities (CU) having Faculty of Agriculture (BHU, AMU, Viswa Bharati and Nagaland University). 

The National Agricultural Research, Education and Extension System (NAREES) of India are one of the largest in the world, admitting more than 28000 students at the UG level and over 17,500 students at the Master’s and Doctoral level annually, in different disciplines of Agricultural and Allied Sciences.

The notification of ICAR AIEEA PG 2024 exam was released on April 11, 2024. Along with the release of the notification, the authorities also released the application window to fill the form. 

The application form will be filled in online mode. After filling the form students need to pay the application fees also.

For postgraduate studies, the ICARPG Scholarship shall be awarded to limited candidates based on merit in this examination as per their overall merit rank and seat availability in different disciplines. Also, the eligible admitted students may be awarded NTS(PG).

Applicants who face issue that different question paper is displayed on their computer screen in the examination, then they need not worry and immediately inform the investigator or the superviosr who has duty in the exam hall. 

The authority will do the needful to get this issue rectified ASAP. In case if the question paper starts then applicants need to ask for more time from the authority and complete the paper as per time allotted. 

There is no provision for direct nomination for admission through ICAR in any Master’s degree programme without qualifying in the ICAR AIEEA (PG) examination.

Candidates who are Indian Nationals and are not below 19 years as of August 31, 2025, are eligible to appear in the examination. No relaxation is permissible regarding the minimum age limit.

Candidates reporting for admission through ICAR AIEEA Exam, to the allotted university must have final year/final semester results in hand indicating final OGPA/CGPA or final percentage of marks where grade points are not awarded. Candidates will be required to produce a Provisional Degree Certificate (PDC) /Degree certificate of qualifying graduate examination issued by the university for this purpose. The candidates should note that the university may deny admission in case the PDC is not produced at the time of verification during counselling. No correspondence shall be entertained by the Council in this regard. 

The in-service candidates will qualify for admission only if they come in the overall merit list of their concerned Subjects and produce the Sponsorship Certificate/Declaration by their employer for verification at the time of counselling. 

• The in-service candidates must be working in ICAR Institutes, ICAR-DUs, SAUs, CAUs, CUs having faculty of agriculture, Central Government/State Government Departments dealing in Agriculture and Allied Sectors and Public Sector Undertakings dealing with Agriculture and Allied Sectors.

• The in-service candidates qualifying for admission will arrange for study leave/leave of the kind due from their respective organizations themselves and ICAR will not intervene in this regard.

• In-service candidates must retain the computer generated hard copy of confirmation page of the application along with Sponsorship Certificate, in original, for showing to the university officials in the event of their qualifying the examination and recommendation for admission to the concerned university. 

• In no case, the computer-generated hard copy of confirmation page of the application and Sponsorship Certificate (Declaration by the employer)should be sent by the candidate either to NTA or ICAR. 

• The counselling of in-service candidates seeking admission on seats reserved for the purpose at ICAR-DUs (ICAR-IARI, ICAR-IVRI, ICAR-NDRI and ICAR-CIFE) will be done at respective ICARDU level only. Such candidates are, therefore, advised to remain in touch with the respective ICAR-DU’s website for further details such as no. ofseats, eligibility requirements, counselling schedule, etc.

While applying, candidates have to select any four cities of their choice for ICAR AIEEA 2025. The efforts will be made to allot the city of examination to the candidates in order of the choice opted by them in their ICAR AIEEA 2025 application form. However, due to administrative reasons, a different city or nearby area may be allotted.

Candidates who will be declared eligible for registration and choice filling for counselling by ICAR will only be considered for allocation of subject and the Agricultural University. There is no provision for direct nomination for admission through ICAR in any Master's degree programme without qualifying in ICAR AIEEA (PG).

Candidates declared eligible for registration and choice filling for online counselling by ICAR will only be considered for allocation subject and the Agricultural University. The schedule for online counselling will be notified separately on the ICAR website, after the declaration of result. The admission and scholarship will be granted only when the candidate seeks admission through counselling conducted by ICAR AIEEA 2025 and shall be awarded only after the completion of Online Counseling.

National Talent Scholarship (NTS) will be provided to eligible candidates as per NTS guidelines, which will be intimated at the time of Counselling.

Counselling for in-service candidates seeking admission to reserved seats at ICAR-DUs (ICAR-IARI, ICAR-IVRI, ICAR-NDRI, and ICAR-CIFE) will be conducted at the respective ICAR-DU levels only. These candidates are suggested to check the respective ICAR-DU’s website to learn about the number of seats, eligibility requirements, counselling schedule, and more.

If the participating candidates want to appear for the ICAR AIEEA Exam then he/she should have studied and passed class 12 with at least three subjects out of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology and Agriculture as core courses.

It is important for candidates to be thorough with their coaching modules, preparation notes, and revision, all these three things are more than enough. Also, students who are self-preparing for the exam should properly prepare for their subjects like Biology, Chemistry and NCERT. 

The syllabus for both exams, NEET and ICAR is the same because both classes 11 and 12 syllabus is included for these entrance exam preparation . There is only one difference and that is the exam pattern. However, with practice one should be able to crack both exams.

If a candidate of the OBC Category scores 300 or higher in the ICAR AIEEA (UG) exam then, it is a good score. If the score is 450 or above then it is considered to be a good score for general category candidates.

In case any degree from a particular college/university is not considered for admission by an Agricultural University on account of a particular college/university being derecognized by VCI/UGC, or due to any Court directives (present or future), ICAR will not be responsible for admitting students of that college/university in the Universities not willing to admit such candidates.

The candidates having a Bachelor’s degree with 3 years duration will not be considered for admission through ICAR AIEEA (PG)-2024 in AUs under the ICAR-AU system except in a few courses at three ICAR-Deemed to be Universities (DUs), viz. IARI, IVRI and NDRI for which the eligibility criteria of the concerned ICAR-DU, including admission of graduates having passed with 3 years’ degree, would prevail for admission.

Candidates reporting for admission to the allotted university must have final year/final semester results in hand indicating final OGPA/CGPA or final percentage of marks where grade points are not awarded. Candidates will be required to produce a Provisional Degree Certificate (PDC) /Degree certificate of qualifying graduate examination issued by the university for this purpose. The candidates should note that the university may deny admission in case the PDC is not produced at the time of verification during counselling. No correspondence shall be entertained by the Council in this regard.

Candidate should note that for admission to Master’s degree programmes through entrance examination conducted by NTA, only the candidates having passed graduation with four/six (12+4/10+6 BSc Ag/BTech)/five years (BVSc & AH)/5½ years (BVSc & AH) degree programme will be eligible.

The test of AIEEA has a single paper of 2 hours duration. Details of the test are given below:

• Mode of Examination: CBT (Computer-Based Test) 

• Duration: 120 minutes (2 hours) 

• Number of Questions: 120 

• Type of Questions: Multiple Choice Questions 

• Scoring: 4 marks for each correct response, -1 mark for each incorrect response (negative scoring) and 0 for non-attempt Medium of Paper English only

The marking scheme of ICAR AIEEA PG exam includes the applicability of negative marking. For each correct answers students will be awarded 4 marks. 

While penality of 1 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer. 

There is no penality or reward for the questions which will be left un attempted in the ICAR AIEEA PG 2024 exam. 

Yes, the negative marking scheme is applicable in ICAR AIEEA PG exam. Applicants who want to appear in the exam must note that for each correct answer students will be awarded 4 marks while for each wrong answer 1 mark will be deducted. 

If any applicants attempt 4 wrong questions then 4 mark of their one correct answer will be deducted. And overall 5 questions will not carry any marks hence it is advisable to attempt only those questions in which applicants is sure enough or elese leave the questions.  

There will be a total of 120 questions which will be asked in the ICAR AIEEA PG exam. The time allotted to attempt these 120 questions is 120 minutes or 2 hours.

The exam will be conducted in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode. 

The language of questions asked in the ICAR AIEEA PG exam will be in English only. 

The entire application process of AIEEA (PG) is online, including uploading of scanned images, Payment of Fees and Printing of Confirmation Page. Therefore, candidates are not required to send/submit any document(s) including a Confirmation Page, Sponsorship Certificate/ Declaration by the Employer of the Candidate (By In-Service Candidate) to NTA/ICAR through Post/ Fax/ E-mail/By Hand.

No request for refund of fee once remitted by the candidate will be entertained by NTA under any circumstances. The final submission of the Online Application Form will remain incomplete if a candidate does not submit the ICAR AIEEA Application fee. Such forms will stand rejected and no correspondence on this account will be entertained.

Here are the Instructions for filling Online Application Form:

Step 1: Apply for Online Registration using a unique Email ID and Mobile No.

Step 2: Fill in the Online Application Form and note down the system-generated Application No. Upload scanned images of the Candidate’s Photograph (file size: 10 kb - 200 kb), Candidate’s Signature (file size: 4 kb – 30 kb) and Thumb impression (file size: 3 kb-30 kb) in JPG format.

Step 3: Pay the fee using Canara/HDFC Payment Gateway through Debit Card/Credit Card/NetBanking/UPI and keep proof of fee paid. In case the Confirmation Page is not generated after payment of the fee then the transaction is cancelled, and the amount will be refunded to the candidate’s account. However, the candidate has to make another transaction, in case the Confirmation Page is not generated. 

 Note: All the 3 Steps can be done together or in separate sittings

Candidates should ensure that all information entered during the online registration process is correct because if the online information provided by candidates like name of candidate, contact/address details, category, PwBD status, educational qualification details, date of birth, etc., during online registration for AIEEA (PG) will be treated as correct/final and NTA will not entertain, under any circumstances, any request for change in the information provided by the candidates.

The exam conducting authority National Testing Agency (NTA) released the official notification. The dates releated to release of application form, exam date were only mentioned in the official brochure. The admit card release date is not mentioned on the notiification.  

As per previous year trend the ICAR AIEEA PG 2024, admit card can be released on June 14, 2024 tentatively in online mode. It can be downloaded till June 29, 2024 which is also the exam date. 

Candidates MUST bring the following documents on the day of ICAR AIEEA PG exam at the test centre. 

1. Print copy of Admit Card
2. One passport size photograph (same as uploaded in application form)
3.  Any one of the authorised Govt. photo IDs (original, valid and non-expired), viz. PAN card/ Driving License/ Voter ID/ Passport/ Aadhaar Card Ration Card.
4. PwBD certificate issued by the Competent Authority, if claiming the relaxation under PwBD category. 

If any applicants fail to produce any of the above mentioned document then their candidature may be rejected at the examination hall. 

The exact number of exam citites will be notified after the release of the notification. However last year ICAR AIEEA PG exam was conducted at 89 cities for the academic session 2023-24. 

NTA will increase or decrease the number of test centres as per the number of application recieved by the students. Applicants are advised to first check the official annexure abut their the nearest exam centres and fill in the application form accordingly. 

Diabetic students will be allowed to carry eatables like sugar tablets/fruits (like bananas/apples/oranges) and transparent water bottles to the Examination Hall. However, they will not be allowed to carry packed foods like chocolates/candy/sandwiches etc.

Applicants who want to fill the application form of ICAR AIEEA PG exam. The examination centres where the ICAR AIEEA PG-2024 exam will be conducted are given in Annexure- I hence applicants are advised to refer that before filling the form.

While applying, candidates have to select any four cities of their choice for AIEEA PG 2024 exam. The authorities will efforts to allot city of examination to the candidates in order of the choice opted by them in their application form. However, due to administrative reasons, a different city of nearby area may be allotted. 

Candidates are NOT allowed to carry the following things inside the ICAR AIEEA Examination hall on the day of the exam.

• Instrument

• Geometry

• Pencil box

• Handbag or Purse

• Any kind of Paper Stationery/Textual material (printed or written material).

• Eatables and Water (loose or packed)

• Mobile Phone

• Ear Phone

• Microphone/Pager

• Calculator

• DocuPen

• Slide Rules

• Log Tables

• Camera

• Tape Recorder

• Electronic Watches with calculator

• Any metallic item or electronic gadgets/devices in the Examination Hall/Room.

After filling the form, applicants are required to pay the application fee of their respective category. The general category applicants need to pay INR 1175. 

The category-wise bifurcation is mentioned in the table below:

If two applicants secure the same marks then their merit and rank will be decided by the authorities following the below-mentioned procedure in the order. 

(i) Firstly, students who will do fewer incorrect questions will be rated higher. 

(ii) Secondly older applicants (higher in age) would be given preference. 

(iii) Last, an applicant who has a higher percentage/CGPA in the class 12 exam would be considered higher in merit. 

The NTA score is a percentile score of the candidate in the test in which he/she appeared. It indicates the candidate's position visà-vis others who appeared in it. It is not mark.

It is an indicator of the relative position of the candidates amongst those who appeared in the ICAR AIEEA PG test. 

Applicants who want to ace the ICAR AIEEA PG exam with good marks need to first know the syllabus as well as the exam pattern. Make short notes while preparing the topics to quickly revise at the last moment. After this practice from the previous year question papers and evaluate yourself. 

Students who will follow all the above mentioned practises along with discplined schedule, there are high possibility of them qualifying the exam.