JU extends date PG entrance test form submission by April 5

JU extends date PG entrance test form submission by April 5
Yash Khajuria	3/29/2011 9:53:08 PM
JAMMU, Mar 29: Jammu University (JU) has extended that date for the submission of application form of common entrance test for PG courses to April 5.  It is pertinent to mention that JU is introducing common entrance test pattern for the very first time in their Post Graduation (PG) courses. Which will be helpful for the average ranking students, by qualifying this entrance test and get admission in any stream of PG course under JU.  When contacted Assistant Registrar, Department of Application Affairs, JU Khem Pal Singh Sambyal said that the department has fixed the last date for submission of the forms was March 29 but seeming the response of the submitted application forms, now the department has extended the date upto April 5. However, forms will be received after that till April 8 with late fees.  “The department has received only 7000 forms from the total of 12000 forms sold”, he added.  He further said that the JU has printed 12000 thousands form, but the kind of response they get by the applicants they have printed 3000 more forms.  When asked about the entrance pattern being followed by the Jammu University. He said that every college is following the same pattern in this time of competition since they are following the same pattern from this session of PG courses.  He elaborated that this kind of entrance tests offers equal opportunity for the students. He said that last year only 6000 students had applied for the PG courses but this year the response by the students is overwhelming, so that they have extended the date of application forms. But he also said that because the forms are being submitted before the result of final year, this is one of the reasons that we have got this kind of response by the students.  About the entrance exam he said that there would be reserved 30 per cent seats for academic merit and other would be cast to those who qualify the test. Reserved quota would remain as pre norms for the students following under the respective quota.