ICAR JRF/SRF (AIEEA-PG) study guide
ICAR JRF/SRF (AIEEA-PG) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ICAR's All India Entrance Examination is delivered through the National Testing Agency (NTA) as a single listing covering two separate streams: ICAR-AIEEA (PG), the postgraduate admission stream, and AICE-JRF/SRF (Ph.D.), the doctoral fellowship and admission stream. Candidates preparing for either stream should treat the official NTA notices for this examination as the controlling source for dates, eligibility and procedure, because the two streams run on their own schedules and announcements. The NTA site shows the full annual cycle for the 2026 examination: an online application window (with an extension notice and a correction-of-particulars window), release of admit cards, conduct of the examination, display of provisional answer keys together with question papers and recorded responses for challenge, publication of final answer keys, and finally declaration of results for the 2026-27 academic year. The answer-key challenge stage is a real part of the process, so candidates should review their recorded responses rather than discarding the exam after the test day. Topics on this exam: ICAR AIEEA (PG) - postgraduate admission stream and AICE-JRF/SRF (Ph.D.) - doctoral fellowship/admission stream. The ICAR JRF/SRF (AIEEA-PG) study guide has 2 sections and about 790 words.
01ICAR AIEEA (PG): postgraduate admission stream
ICAR AIEEA (PG) is the postgraduate admission stream for Master's programmes in agriculture and allied sciences at ICAR-deemed universities and participating State Agricultural Universities. It is a computer-based objective paper in the subject you select at the time of application, and the questions sit at the level of the undergraduate core of that discipline rather than at a single textbook's end-of-chapter exercises.
384 words, about 2 min02AICE-JRF/SRF (Ph.D.): doctoral fellowship and admission stream
AICE-JRF/SRF (Ph.D.) is the doctoral admission and fellowship stream. It tests whether you can move from knowing a discipline to designing and defending research in it.
406 words, about 2 min