UPCATET MSc Counselling 2024 Seat Allotment: Check Dates, Fees & Procedure

Yes, the Banda University of Agriculture and Technology has released the UPCATET Counselling Round 3 Seat Allotment Result 2026 on its portal.

The exam conducting authority has clearly mentioned in the official broucher that "Open & Distance Education" will be considered for educational qualification eligibility criteria of UPCATET. 

Applicants who have completed their education as full time course will be eligible to fill the form and apply online. Only those students are required to fill the application form who fulfill the eligibility criteria prescribed by the authorities. 

UPCATET asks only multiple‑choice questions (MCQs). Every question has four options. Students must choose the right answer. These questions help to analyse the speed and basic knowledge. This type of question is used for undergraduate, Postgraduate, and PhD courses. The difficulty changes, but the format remains the same. MCQs help students finish the exam on time and cover many topics in one test.

No a student who belong to Bihar can not appear in UPCATET exam. As according to UPCATET eligibility criteria:

A) Such students who are living in UP from the last 5 years and have completed the required qualification from state only. 

B) Such citizens of India whose father’s residence or place of origin is UP and he/she also belong to UP. 

C) Such citizens of India whose father’s residence or their residence is not from UP but they acquired and have been living in the state for 5 years.

Yes, there is a negative marking scheme in the UPCATET exam. For each correct answer applicants will be given 4 marks. For each incorrect answer, 1/4th of the total marks or 1 mark will be deducted. 

The calculation of the score for the respective programmes will be taken into consideration by taking into account all correct & incorrect answers. After preparing the list of all candidates the authorities will prepare the list of successful applicants based on the availability of seats. 

The UPCATET exam is compratively easy in comparison to JEE Main, BITSAT etc. exam. Applicants who have secured atleast 60 % marks in their academic exam are more likely to qualify the exam. Since it is state owned examination and number of users are also less in comparison to other competitve exam. 

Applicants just need to complete the syllabus within time and practise more and more to qualify the exam with good marks. 

The UPCATET Cutoff marks are based on the following factors:

• The overall difficulty of the exam.
• Number of students appear for the UPCATET Exam.
• Total number of seats for UG and PG courses.
• Since the paper is marked out of 800 marks, cut‑offs typically reflect relative performance.
• After the result, UPCATET cut‑off is released for all categories.
• Students need to fulfil the minimum scoring criteria to get admission to their preferred courses.

UPCATET syllabus consists of Class 11 and 12 topics of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Agriculture, and Home Science.

The UPCATET Syllabus is also based on the paper group selected by the students, like PCB/PCM/PAG/PHS. The NCERT is suggested for all Science subjects.

Check out the following points to know relevant strategies while preparing for the UPCATET entrance exam. 

• Include main subjects and topics from the NCERT books.
• Use objective‑type MCQ books to practise daily. 
• Select the preferred groups out of PCB, PCM, PAG, PHS and solve last year's UPCATET question papers. 
• Practice OMR sheets because the UPCATET exam is held offline. 
• Practise mock tests within 3 hours. 
• Also, include important chapters to improve the UPCATET score.

Follow the below mentioned steps for counselling process. 

1. Online UPCATET counselling registration (fees submission) and documents upload.
2. Online choice filling and Locking.
3. Seat allocation and Security fee deposit.
4. Report at respective universities.

By following these steps the admission process of a candidate will be completed after declaratio of UPCATET results.

There are different eligibility criteria decided by the exam conducting authorities whcih includes both age as well as education for UG courses. There is no age limit for PG and PhD courses.  

For BVSC & H course the minimum and maximum age limit of candidate need to be 17 and 25 by December 31. While for all other course the minimum and maximum age limit of candidates need to be 16 and 22 by December 31. 

Note: Person with Disability (PwD) will be given a relexation of 5 years in upper age limit.  

No, there will be seperate counselling schedule is to be released for UG, PG & PhD courses by exam conducting authorities in online mode after declaration of the results. The authorities will release seperate counselling schedule for all the courses in online mode only. 

Since the counselling will be held in online mode only hence applicants need to prepare the important documents ready while appearing in the counselling. 

There are various courses which can be offered after qualifying UPCATET exam. 

UG Courses

• BSc (Hons) Agriculture
• BSc (Hons) Horticulture
• BSc (Hons) Forestry
• BSc (Hons) Home Science
• BVSc&AH
• BFSc
• BTech Biotechnology
• BTech Agriculture Engineering
• BTech Dairy Technology
• BTech Computer Science
• BTech Mechanical Engineering
• BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering

PG Courses

• MSc Agriculture
• MSc Home Science
• MSc Veterinary Science
• MSc Horticulture
• MVSc
• MTech Agricultural Engineering
• MTech Mechanical Engineering
• MTech/ MSc Biotechnology
• MBA Agribusiness

Applicants who will qualify the exam will be able to take admission in the above mentioned courses. 

Yes, UPCATET offline counselling is done in offline mode. Applicants who want to take part in admission process can participate in offline counselling.

There will be two rounds of counselling in UPCATET exam for PhD course. The first counselling will be done in online mode while the second round of counselling will be done in offline mode. The exact dates of offline counselling does not release in the official notification only the dates of online counselling schedule is released in notification. 

The exact dates of offline counselling will be further notified in the counselling letter by the authorities.  

The UPCATET application fee is required to be paid after filling out the form. otherwise the form will not be accepted by the authorities. Every year, the updated fee structure is given in the UPCATET 2026 notification. But according to the previous year's information, male students who belong to the General & OBC categories have to pay INR 1350. Other students, both male and female, have to pay INR 1100 application fees. 

The application fees need to be paid online via Debit card, Credit card, Net banking, etc. Once the fee is paid, students are required to download the receipt of fees. 

Applicants who qualify the UPCATET exam for the respective courses for which they have applied further need to appear in counselling. Applicants need to join counselling process possess the following items i.e Mobile phone, email id, date of birth, roll number and scanned copy of documents. 

The process of counselling includes registration, choice filling, seat allotment, uploading of document, document verification, dowloading of allotment letter and last admission process of the allotted universities.

There are four participating universities offering admissions on the basis of UPCATET results which are as follows:

• Banda University of Agriculture & Technology
• Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology
• Chandra Shekhar Azad University
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology.

Applicants who want to participate and take admission in these universities must appear UPCATET exam and pass the exam with good marks.