The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has declared admission test schedule for various post graduate, under graduate and diploma programmes for the session 2020-21. The entrance exam will be held from October 10 for 126 UG/ PG/ diploma programmes. The decision to conduct the exam was taken in an Executive Council meeting on September 24 after taking into consideration the admission related guidelines issued by the UGC on September 22.  In line with the University Grants Commission’s guidelines that classes for first year students should start in November, a university official said they are trying to begin classes for most programmes on November 1.

On Sunday, the university released a date sheet to conduct 126 papers between October 10 and November 22. The candidates can download the admit card from the first week of October, “The admit card for admission tests will be available on student’s portal jmicoe.in before seven days of the date of admission test,” as per the university statement. The venue of admission test within or outside Delhi will be mentioned on admit card.

Controller of Examinations Nazim Jafri said the university is yet to finalize the exact number of centres in which the examinations will be conducted. “In Jamia itself, usually we have the capacity for 12,000 candidates. However, due to the needs of social distancing and precautions, this capacity has lowered to 4,000. We have asked the Delhi government for support by allowing us to use some of their schools as centres and they have agreed. We are still in the process of understanding how many such centres we will be requiring. The exams will also be conducted in six cities outside Delhi which we mention in our prospectus,” he said.

The six cities where exams will be conducted are Calicut, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, Srinagar and Kolkata. This year, Jamia has seen an increase in the number of applicants for the entrance tests, from 1, 53, 544 last year to 1, 70, 992.

The applicants are advised to visit the website of the controller of examinations JMI- jmicoe.in regularly for latest announcements or changes (if any) regarding admission tests including publication of results.