ICAR AIEEA 2026 Cut off: Check Category wise Cut off Marks

ICAR AIEEA PG examination will be conducted in 122 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. 

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. 

Candidates must go through the following points to know the exam pattern of the ICAR AIEEA Entrance exam before they appear for the exam. 
1. Mode of the ICAR Exam is Computer-based Test.
2. Total number of questions is 120.
3. Exam time is 2 hours. 
4. The marking system is 4 marks for a right answer, minus 1 for incorrect answers and 0 marks for not attending the question.

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.

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. 

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. 

The in-service candidates will qualify for admission only if they come in the overall merit list of their concerned Subjects and produce the Sponsorship Certificate/Declaration by their employer for verification at the time of counselling. 

• The in-service candidates must be working in ICAR Institutes, ICAR-DUs, SAUs, CAUs, CUs having faculty of agriculture, Central Government/State Government Departments dealing in Agriculture and Allied Sectors and Public Sector Undertakings dealing with Agriculture and Allied Sectors.

• The in-service candidates qualifying for admission will arrange for study leave/leave of the kind due from their respective organizations themselves and ICAR will not intervene in this regard.

• In-service candidates must retain the computer generated hard copy of confirmation page of the application along with Sponsorship Certificate, in original, for showing to the university officials in the event of their qualifying the examination and recommendation for admission to the concerned university. 

• In no case, the computer-generated hard copy of confirmation page of the application and Sponsorship Certificate (Declaration by the employer)should be sent by the candidate either to NTA or ICAR. 

• The counselling of in-service candidates seeking admission on seats reserved for the purpose at ICAR-DUs (ICAR-IARI, ICAR-IVRI, ICAR-NDRI and ICAR-CIFE) will be done at respective ICARDU level only. Such candidates are, therefore, advised to remain in touch with the respective ICAR-DU’s website for further details such as no. ofseats, eligibility requirements, counselling schedule, etc.

While applying, candidates have to select any four cities of their choice for ICAR AIEEA 2026. The efforts will be made to allot the city of examination to the candidates in order of the choice opted by them in their ICAR AIEEA 2026 application form. However, due to administrative reasons, a different city or nearby area may be allotted.

Indian Nationals and not below 19 years as of August 31, 2026, were eligible to appear in the examination. No relaxation is acceptable about the minimum age limit. Students must check out the eligibility criteria of the exam before they apply for it.

Applicants who want to fill the application form of ICAR AIEEA PG exam. The examination centres where the ICAR AIEEA PG-2024 exam will be conducted are given in Annexure- I hence applicants are advised to refer that before filling the form.

While applying, candidates have to select any four cities of their choice for AIEEA PG 2024 exam. The authorities will efforts to allot city of examination to the candidates in order of the choice opted by them in their application form. However, due to administrative reasons, a different city of nearby area may be allotted. 

Student who belong from general category need to score a minimum of 50 per cent marks and students who belong from the reserved category need to score a minimum of 45 per cent marks in the ICAR Exam to get a seat through ICAR AIEEA Exam. Only the selected candidates will be eligible for the ICAR AIEEA Counselling Process.

The marking scheme of the ICAR AIEEA PG exam includes the applicability of negative marking. For each correct answer, students will be awarded 4 marks.

While penality of 1 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.

There is no penalty or reward for the questions which will be left un attempted in the ICAR AIEEA PG exam.

Yes, the negative marking scheme is applicable in ICAR AIEEA PG exam. Applicants who want to appear in the exam must note that for each correct answer students will be awarded 4 marks while for each wrong answer 1 mark will be deducted. 

If any applicants attempt 4 wrong questions then 4 mark of their one correct answer will be deducted. And overall 5 questions will not carry any marks hence it is advisable to attempt only those questions in which applicants is sure enough or elese leave the questions.