AU CRET 2024 - Allahabad University Combined Research Entrance Test : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

AU CRET 2024 – Allahabad University Combined Research Entrance Test acronym AU CRET is conducted by the University for Providing Admission to Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) Program in various disciplines.

AU CRET 2024 Important Dates

Date of Notification & Start of Online Registration

• Yet to be announced.

Last Date of Submission of Application Form

• Yet to be announced.

Date of Entrance Exam

• Yet to be announced.

Date of Declaration of Result

• Yet to be announced.

AU CRET 2024 Eligibility Conditions

Educational Qualification

• Aspiring candidates must hold a master's degree (or a degree recognized by the University as equivalent thereto) in a relevant subject from the University, or any other university or institution recognized by it.

Important: Regular teachers of the University of Allahabad and of any institution maintained by it or admitted to its privileges and International Students are exempted from appearing at CRET for admission to the D.Phil program.

Note: All other candidates for admission to the D.Phil. Program in the concerned subjects is required to appear at CRET.

AU CRET 2024 Syllabus

AU CRET consists of questions from the following subjects/topics.

AU CRET detailed Syllabus-

Agricultural Chemistry

• Elements in Soil and Plants
• Elements used as Fertilizers
• Theoretical aspects of Analytical Chemistry
• Phytochemistry
• Soil Microbiology
• Environmental Chemistry of Soils

Atmospheric & Ocean Sciences

• Mathematical Modelling
• Probability Density Function
• Radiation Laws
• Density
• Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

Anthropology

• Social-Cultural Anthropology
• Physical/ Biological Anthropology
• Archaeological Anthropology
• Indian Anthropology and Development Anthropology
• Growth of Anthropology in India

Behavioural & Cognitive Sciences

• General Issues and Foundations of Cognitive Science
• Research Methods
• Computing
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Computational Models of Cognition
• Psycholinguistics

Decision Making

Zoology

• Principles of Taxonomy
• Principles & Application of Light Phase Contrast, Fluorescence, Scanning & Transmission Electron
• Principles and Applications of Gel-Filtration, Ion-Exchange & Affinity Chromatography
• Principles and Techniques of Nucleic Acid Hybridization and Cot Curves
• Principles of Biophysical Methods used for the Analysis of Biopolymer Structure X-Ray Diffraction, Fluorescence, UV

Ancient History

• Ancient India (from earliest times to A. D. 1200)
• Age of Political Fragmentation C. 200 BC-AD 300
• Age of the Imperial Guptas
• Socio-Economic History - Earliest times to 1200 AD

Arabic

AU CRET 2024 Pattern

CRET 2021 is divided into 02 parts : Part 1 & Part 2.

Level 1

CRET 2021 Question Pattern Scheme

Level 2

The test shall entail an interview and may include Presentations, group discussions or other modes of appraisal & shall be administered by the Doctoral Programme Committee of the Department / Institute / Centre concerned.

How to Apply for AU CRET 2024 Exam?

Aspiring candidates who fulfill the minimum Eligibility Criteria and seek to appear in CRET in a Subject that is available and is also admissible to him/her must complete, and submit through the Internet, as per the modality and schedule set out, the prescribed On-Line Application/ Registration form for appearing for the Level 1 Test / Level 2 Test / Level 3 Test (as the case may be) at CRET in the concerned/admissible Subject and must remit, within due time, the admissible Test Fees.

Note: Candidates are supposed to fill only one Online Application / Registration Form for CRET. In case the candidate submits more than one On-line Form, all the Forms submitted by him shall stand canceled.

AU CRET 2024 Exam Fees

Test Fees for Candidates required to appear for AU CRET Exam 2024 are-

Mode of Payment of Fee

• The candidate has to separately remit the prescribed Test Fees, for the amount specified for his / her category by a Demand Draft (Bank Draft) of any national bank, drawn in favor of "DIRECTOR CRET-2021, University of Allahabad", and payable at Allahabad.
• The candidate should cross the Demand Draft, and write his / her full name, Father's Name, and the Subject in which he/she is to appear at CRET and Application ID generated upon successful submission of the Online Registration Form, on the reverse (back) lower left-hand corner of the Demand Draft. The candidate should also get Photo-copies (Xerox) made of the two sides of the Demand Draft, and keep them secure for his / her own reference and record.
• Immediately after the successful submission of the Form candidates should get the hard copy (Print-out) of the Form from the Website by entering his/her EMAIL and PASSWORD and write his/her full signature on the back of the Photograph and then STAPLE the Photograph on the space specified for it on the hard copy of the-Form and Securely attach the Demand Draft with the hard copy of the Form and Put his/her full signature at the place provided for the purpose in the hard copy of the Form and the form should be submitted to by Registered / Speed Post to the given address.

AU CRET 2024 Exam Dates

AU CRET will be held in the months of September/October tentatively.

AU CRET 2024 Test Centres 

AU CRET exam will be conducted in-

• Agra, Allahabad
• Bhopal, Bareilly, Bangaluru
• Delhi
• Gorakhpur
• Kanpur, Kolkata
• Lucknow
• Patna
• Srinagar
• Varanasi

AU CRET 2024 Contact Details

The Director
CRET-2021, Monirba
Chatham Lines Campus
University of Allahabad
Allahabad 211002
Ph: 0532-2641049
Web: http://www.allduniv.ac.in/