Online application form will be live at admission portal of Gauhati University from 22 May, 2019 after 5pm to 15 June, 2019. The whole admission process will be fully online, including payment of application, entrance and admission fee.
Eligibility
a) BA/BSc /B Com. (in 10+2+3 pattern) with major / honours courses in the concerned subject or BA/BSc /B Com. (in 10+2+3 pattern) with a general pass course with at least 45% marks in the concerned subject as well as in aggregate or equivalent CGPA. [45% marks is to be calculated on the basis of marks obtained in Part I and Part II of the (2+1) pattern and part I, part II and Part III of the (1+1+1) pattern are eligible to seek admission to the University through the entrance test. However, certain specific eligibility criteria have been fixed by the concerned departments and these are applicable especially for the interdisciplinary subjects.
b) Entrance test will be held for all students and all programs of study for admission, irrespective of any University they belong to.
c) The admissions will be conducted on the basis of merit to be prepared as per the guideline in the Admission Ordinance of the University amended up to date.
d) 60% weightage will be on UG marks/qualifying examination marks while 40% weightage will be on the marks obtained in the entrance test for GU students applying to traditional courses against the seats reserved exclusively for them.
e) The selection of students for admission into interdisciplinary programs of study will be purely on the basis of entrance test only. This also applies to other University students applying to any Course.
f) The entrance test will be of 100 marks of two hours duration, if otherwise not specified. The proportion of descriptive questions and MCQs may vary with respect to different subjects.
g) An applicant who have completed a Postgraduate Course from GU on an earlier occasion or got admitted into a Postgraduate Course of GU, whether completed or not, will be considered for fresh admission irrespective of whatever quota he / she claims, if any, only when all fresh candidates including those from Wait List and all statutory quotas, including other quota like EC, NCC, Fringe Village etc. are admitted and seats remain vacant. Alternatively, he/she is not entitled to admission until the fresh applicants (first timers) are completely admitted subject to fulfilment of eligibility criteria. However, these rules may be relaxed in case of professional courses coming under the purview of regulatory bodies like AICTE, NCTE, BCI, (courses like MBA, MTech, LLM, etc.).
Reservation of seats
- Schedule Caste: 7%
- Schedule Tribes (Plains): 10%
- Schedule Tribes (Hill): 5%
- OBC & MOBC: 15%
- Differently Abled: 3% (for each Discipline of Faculty)
- Sons and daughters of permanent GU Employees: 1 Seat in each dept with intake capacity 40 or less and 2 seats when the intake is more than 40 students.
- Fringe Village: 10 seats
- GU Ex-Employees: 5 seats
- Ex- Defense: As per EC resolution
- Moran Community of Assam: 2 seats.
- Extra Curricular: 1 seat in each department.
- NCC & NSS: 5 seats.
University- wise seat Matrix
- 50% seats in traditional programmes of study are exclusively reserved for GU students while they can also compete for the remaining 50% seats along with the other university students.
- All interdisciplinary seats are open to all students irrespective of any university to be admitted on the basis of merit of entrance tests and other eligibility conditions only.
Step by step AsmissiOn Process
- Students and parents/ guardians are advised to visit the webpages of particular departments and colleges for neccessary information they look for.
- Keep ready all documents and information required to submit the Application Form.
- Follow the instructions step by step and proceed.
- An applicant can apply to one Traditional Course and two Interdisciplinary Courses only. Please check the list of Traditional and Interdisciplinary Courses.
- The Application Form for Admission is editable but once you pay the fee, it will no longer be editable.
- You can submit the form even if your result is not declared; you will be given a few days time from 5 July, 2019 to 15 July, 2019 to feed your marks obtained in the qualifying examination. After this period, the window will be closed.
- The e-mail id and phone number of the students and parents/guardians may be used for further communication.
- Please check the eligibility conditions before submission of the Application. Because, even if you clear the entrance test, your admission is subject to fulfilment of the eligibility criteria of the Course/Subject applied. All original documents will be verified at the time of Admission.
- The provisional merit list of students will be published in the University website only. • Appearance of your name in the provisional merit list is not a guarantee of your admission. It depends on fulfilment of eligibility conditions and intake of the department/colleges for the concerned Course.
- All are advised to keep visiting the website for any update regarding the Admission process from time to time.
Exam Schedule
| Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Half (11 a.m to 1 p.m) | 2nd Half (2 p.m to 4 p.m.) | |
| 29-06-2019(Saturday) | Psychology, Linguistics and ELT, En-vironmental Science, Electronics & Communication Technology | Mass Communication, Microelectronics and Advance CommunicationTechnology, Philosophy, Sanskrit and M.Tech in Signal Processing andcommunication, Cancer Biology |
| 30-06-2018(Sunday) | Assamese, Mathematics, Hindi, Arabic,Botany, Environmental Managment | Library & Information Science ,Computer Science / Information Tech-nology , Anthropology and Comparative Indian Literature |
| 1-7-2019(Monday) | Sociology, Biotechnology, Instrumentation & Applied Physics , and History | Political Science, Geography , Wildlife Science, MTM. |
| 2-7-2019(Tuesday) | Economics, Education , English,Geology, Microbiology | Commerce, Bio-Physics, Chemistry, Zoology |
| 3-7-2019(Wednesday) | Bengali, Bodo, Persian, M.Tech - Ma-terial Science & Technology , Women’s Studies and M.Sc. Nursing (Psy. Nsg.)under LGB Regional Institute ofMental Health in Tezpur,Herbal Science | Physics, Radiological Physics, Statistics, M.Tech. in the following Programmes: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Signal Processing & VLSI Design,European Studies |
Date sheet
| Opening of online Admission Form | 22 May, 2019 to 15 June, 2019 |
|---|---|
| Issue of online admit cards | from 18 June, 2019 |
| Opening of Window for feeding marks of qualifying examination in the online form | 60 |
| Biology (Botany & Zoology) | 5 July, 2019 to 15 July, 2019 |
| Date of entrance test | 29 June, 2019 to 3 July, 2019 |
| Date of publishing the selection list | 20 July, 2019 |
| Date of Admission | 24 July, 2019 (for the university departments; separate dates will be announced for admission in the colleges) |
| Commencement of Classes | 1 August, 2019 |
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