Entrance Exam in Lovely Professional University

The eligibility criteria for the LPU NEST exam vary from course to course.

Lovely Professional University is known for its quality education. Its process for selecting students plays a vital role in maintaining the quality of education and therefore helps the university maintain its brand image in academics. Based upon the philosophy of 'zero compromises' the university conducts its entrance exam to select its students for various courses. The LPU entrance test is known as LPU NEST. It is a National Entrance and Scholarship Test so it is abbreviated as LPU NEST. 

What is LPU NEST?

LPU NEST creates the basis of eligibility and also an opportunity of getting the scholarship. It is a computer-based test for a duration of 150. A candidate is supposed to attempt 125 questions in the given time. It is for a total of 500 marks. Lovely Professional University charges a fee of INR 1,000 from male candidates and INR 500 from female candidates. There is no negative marking in this test and each question carries four marks. Detailed information on this test can be fetched from the website nest.lpu.in.  

Eligible candidates can apply for LPU NEST both online and offline; admissions.lpu.in can be used if someone wishes to apply online. The application process can be completed online using the above-mentioned link. If you want to apply offline, then visit the university campus and purchase the LPU NEST kit by paying the requisite amount. 

The admission process starts in the month of May like this year it started on May 26, 2022. The last date for submission of an application is usually fixed in the last week of June every year. This year it was June 30, 2022. The beauty of the whole process is students can choose the test slot at their convenience. Students get at least one month to book the slots from June first week to July first week. So the date of examination is also between the same duration. Students get their LPU NEST result twenty-four hours after the test.

Counselling in LPU

LPU also does counselling of the selected candidates and then they allocate seats for every selected candidate. This whole process of counselling starts just after seven days of result declaration. The eligibility criteria for the LPU NEST exam vary from course to course. For undergraduates, 10+2 is required, and the subjects at ten plus two determine which undergraduate courses you can choose. Say for example if you have opted for a BTech course then you should have Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as major subjects at the 10+2 level. The same goes for the postgraduate level. Subjects required to be eligible for PG courses depend on the type of post-graduate program the student chooses.

In terms of marks weightage, a candidate should have at least sixty per cent marks in 10+2. There is a relaxation of five per cent marks for candidates belonging to the northeastern part of India. The same reservation goes for people who have served in the Indian Defence Services. Their dependents would also be entitled to this reservation. Wards of Kashmiri migrants also get this benefit.  

About The Author

Amit Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University. With ten years of experience in teaching organisational behaviour and HRM, he has also conducted 13 faculty development programs at the school level and two management development programs at the industry level.

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely the author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha.