Entrance exams after Class 12

National engineering entrance route; check Paper 1 and admission requirements.

IIT admission route with a separate Main qualification and eligibility gate.

First-degree routes listed by BITS, with programme-specific subject rules.

The national medical entrance route; allied-health admissions differ by programme.

Used for certain nursing routes; it is not a universal nursing-admission rule. Many states run their own nursing entrance test. In Uttar Pradesh, ABVMU conducts the Common Nursing Entrance Test (CNET) for B.Sc Nursing at its affiliated colleges (abvmuup.edu.in). Check your state's official notice.

Some participating universities use CUET. Confirm the exact nursing programme first.

Includes the specified B.Pharm route. Check PCM or PCB eligibility.

Relevant only where the chosen university lists its pharmacy programme under CUET.

Match each university programme to its required language and domain tests.

Participating national law university undergraduate route.

Separate undergraduate law route for NLU Delhi.

Fashion and design pathways with programme-specific test stages.

Design aptitude selection with preliminary and main stages.

Undergraduate design test with separate institute admission conditions.

Paper 2A (B.Arch) and Paper 2B (B.Planning) are used by NITs, SPAs and some other institutes; this is not Paper 1. Most other B.Arch colleges use NATA, the Council of Architecture aptitude test (nata.in), so check which test your college accepts.

Hospitality and hotel-administration degree route through the NCHM system.

Academy route with written, selection-board and medical stages.

IIM Indore integrated programme route; other institutions may use different tests.

In the 2026 ICAR bulletin, CUET (ICAR-UG) scores fill 20% of seats at agricultural universities (all seats at a few central institutions), through separate ICAR counselling. Most other seats use the state's or university's own entrance or merit process, so check your state's official notice.

Uttar Pradesh engineering diploma Group A; other groups differ.

Uttarakhand JEEP engineering route; check domicile and programme group.

Haryana qualifying-examination merit and counselling route, without a separate DET test.

Foundation stage of the ICAI professional course, followed by further stages.

Restructured entry stage to the ICSI course from June 2026.