UPCATET Dates 2026: Application process, Admit card, Exam date, Result & More

The UPCATET 2026 admit card will be out on the official website on May 27, 2026, tentatively. Candidates who wish to appear for the UPCATET 2026 Exam must download their Hall ticket from the official website.

 No, it is mandatory for candidates to carry a hard copy of the UPCATET admit card on exam day as required by the invigilator for exam attendance formalities. Since applicants will not be allowed to appear by carrying mobile phone in the exam hall hence applicants must carry the admit card of UPCATET to the authorities. 

Students just need to carry their original id & photo id proof to the UPCATET exam centre. 

Follow these ways here to be able to download the UPCATET Hall Ticket.

1. Go to the official UPCATET portal
2. Fill in the registration number, preferred course and date of birth.
3. Click on the download and take a printout of the entry card.

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. 

Applicants who want to prepare and qualify UPCATET exam in first attempt must have a concrete plan and then execution becomes important to qualify it. The UPCATET exam is held once in year hence candidates preparing for the exam must complete their syllabus in advance at least 3 months before the commencement of exam.

• Now devotee last 3 months to practise the previous year question papers. 
• Candidates need to ensure that they are completing the practise paper less than the given time in examination, which will eventually boost their confidence to attempt the paper within time in the examination hall.  

Normally, UPCATET offline counselling is not be done in offline mode. Applicants who want to take part in admission process must participate in online counselling done by Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology ( Ayodhya). Candidate must note that after declaration of UPCATET results the exam conducting authorities will release the dates of UPCATET counselling schedule. 

But authorities also releases the special schedule of offline counselling. Candidates who want to take part in counselling must prepare the required documents as well as security fees which needs to be deposited during counselling process. 

The Undergraduate syllabus is similar to Class 12 Science. It includes Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, and General Studies. Students who want to study Agriculture also learn Agril. Botany, Agril. Chemistry, Horticulture, Agronomy, and Animal Husbandry. These subjects help students understand basic agriculture ideas. The syllabus is not difficult for students who have a Science background in school.

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.  

Applicants while filling their application form will be given four choice, PCB, PCM, PAG, and PHS. Students will have to choose any of this choice in the form as per their education qualification. They will be given paper of their choice in the UPCATET exam. There will be no change in the examination hall for any paper under any cicrumstances hence applicants must choose carefully while filling the form. 

Candidates will be given admission to the similar course for which they have appeared in the exam. There will be 200 questions in exam out of them 20 questions will be from General Knowledge topic and rest 180 will be from the group for which they have applied.  

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. 

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 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.  

 No, it is mandatory for candidates to carry a hard copy of the UPCATET admit card on exam day as required by the invigilator for exam attendance formalities. Since applicants will not be allowed to appear by carrying mobile phone in the exam hall hence applicants must carry the admit card of UPCATET to the authorities. 

Students just need to carry their original id & photo id proof to the UPCATET exam centre. 

As per previous years' statistics, the application numbers are increasing each year, and therefore, students need to buckle up to prepare for the competitive exams. 

To get an idea based on the previous year's statistics, students must know that if they want to score well, it should be more than 400 marks, then 370 marks is also good, the average score is 300, and the below-average score is less than 300. However, these scores are based on the difficulty level of this exam, and this has nothing to do with students' capability as individuals.

Candidates are suggested to always go though the counseling instruction, to understand the counselling process for UPCATET Exam candidates must read the following points.

• The first steps is to register themselves by visiting the official website
• Then, candidates need to submit their online counseling registration fee
• Once registered, candidates must login through their login credentials.
• Then, candidates need to complete the choice filling and locking process.
• Then comes the upgradation rules.
• Candidates go through the seat availability process for UG programs
• At last, candidates go through the seat availability for master's programs

The Counseling Fees for the UPCATET Exam for the academic session 2026-27 for Unergraduate and postgraduate candidates is mentioned below:

• All the selcted candidates need to pay an amount of INR 500 as counselling fee, to be eligible for the further rounds of UPCATET Counseling.
• Those candidates who are allotted seats need to submit INR 5000 as a security deposit during the counseling rounds.

Applicants while filling their application form will be given four choice, PCB, PCM, PAG, and PHS. Students will have to choose any of this choice in the form as per their education qualification. They will be given paper of their choice in the UPCATET exam. There will be no change in the examination hall for any paper under any cicrumstances hence applicants must choose carefully while filling the form. 

Candidates will be given admission to the similar course for which they have appeared in the exam. There will be 200 questions in exam out of them 20 questions will be from General Knowledge topic and rest 180 will be from the group for which they have applied.  

Candidates who have filled the application form of UPCATET successfully can download the admit card. The exam conducting authorities released the admit card more than 10 days before the commencement of the exam. Students can download it by visiting the official website. 

To download the admit card applicants must enter their login credentials which will be provided to them after filling the application form.