ICAR AIEEA Centres 2025: Check City/State-wise Exam Centres List

The ICAR AIEEA PG examination will be conducted in 89 cities across the country. To enable participation of a large number of candidates seeking admission in Master's degree programmes in AUs in different disciplines of Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Veterinary, Animal Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Community Science (erstwhile Home Science), Fisheries, Dairy Science and other allied sciences.

Students for 30 percent of seats in Master's degree programmes in AUs are admitted through AIEEA (PG). All (100 per cent) seats of the four ICAR-DUs namely, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) and the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) and CAUs, viz. RLBCAU, Jhansi and Dr RPCAU, Pusa are also filled up through the same examination. 

Applicants who face issue that different question paper is displayed on their computer screen in the examination, then they need not worry and immediately inform the investigator or the superviosr who has duty in the exam hall. 

The authority will do the needful to get this issue rectified ASAP. In case if the question paper starts then applicants need to ask for more time from the authority and complete the paper as per time allotted. 

For postgraduate studies, the ICARPG Scholarship shall be awarded to limited candidates based on merit in this examination as per their overall merit rank and seat availability in different disciplines. Also, the eligible admitted students may be awarded NTS(PG).

There is no provision for direct nomination for admission through ICAR in any Master’s degree programme without qualifying in the ICAR AIEEA (PG) examination.

Candidates declared eligible for registration and choice filling for online counselling by ICAR will only be considered for allocation subject and the Agricultural University. The schedule for online counselling is notified separately on the ICAR website, after the declaration of result. The admission and scholarship will be granted only when the candidate wish to get admission through counselling process, which is held by ICAR AIEEA and shall be awarded only after the completion of Online Counseling.

Candidates who will be declared eligible for registration and choice filling for counselling by ICAR will only be considered for allocation of subject and the Agricultural University. There is no provision for direct nomination for admission through ICAR in any Master's degree programme without qualifying in ICAR AIEEA (PG).

The ICAR AIEEA counselling schedule will be released in online mode by the exam conducting authority on the official website on October 13, 2026, tentatively. The starting date for the registration and choice filling is expected to be October 14, 2026. Students must go through the tentative counselling dates based on the previous year.

The ICAR AIEEA PG counselling process is expected to be held in the third week of October 2026. This is conducted for students to complete the counselling and choice-filling process for all counselling rounds. Round 1 of the counselling process is held for the seat allotment process.

Candidates reporting for admission through ICAR AIEEA Exam, to the allotted university must have final year/final semester results in hand indicating final OGPA/CGPA or final percentage of marks where grade points are not awarded. Candidates will be required to produce a Provisional Degree Certificate (PDC) /Degree certificate of qualifying graduate examination issued by the university for this purpose. The candidates should note that the university may deny admission in case the PDC is not produced at the time of verification during counselling. No correspondence shall be entertained by the Council in this regard. 

ICAR AIEEA Answer key is released with the purpose of allowing exam takers to evaluate their expected scores and to challenge the answer key. However, the process to raise an objection is simple.

1. Candidates need to visit the official website of the ICAR Exam.
2. Candidates need to click on the objection link by using their login id and password.
3. Go through the Answer key and ICAR AIEEA Question paper.
4. Candidates need to submit the valid proof to support their objection along with the question number, and then they need to submit the answer key.

Once the ICAR AIEEA Answer key is out, candidates who appeared for the exam get the opportunity for two to three days to raise objections against the provisional answer key.

They need to submit an objection fee along with the valid proof to challenge the answer key. If the objection is valid, there will be changes made accordingly. Also, candidates can calculate their expected ICAR AIEEA score before the result is declared. 

If the answer key is out on the official website, then all the exam takers need to visit the official website to go through the answer key to evaluate their expected ICAR Scores. In case candidates want to raise an objection, they need to submit an objection fee of INR 200. 

Candidates should know that they will get a total of 120 questions when they appear for the ICAR AIEEA Exam, and they will get a total of 2 hours to complete their exam. The mode of exam is online, a computer-based test, and the language of the question paper is english.