UPCATET MSc Exam Dates 2024: Get Complete Exam Schedule Here

 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. 

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.

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 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. 

 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.

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.  

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.