IIMC Admissions 2020: The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will not be conducting entrance tests for admission to PG Diploma courses this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The premier institute for media education has decided to skip the entrance exam for all the eight post-graduate diploma courses offered in its six regional centres, for this year’s session (2020-21).
The students will be selected based on the marks obtained by them in the qualifying exams including class 10th 12th and graduation, followed by an online interview. Aspirants will not be able to come to the exam centres to take the entrance exam amid the pandemic.
“In view of the worsening situation of COVID19 in many regions and receipt of enquiries from concerned candidates and parents about the need to travel to centres for appearing in the entrance examination, the Institute has, now, decided to go for a marks based selection process, as a special case, this year,” the IIMC has notified.
However, the notification released is related to the admission process of PG Diploma courses in Advertising and Public Relations, Radio and Television Journalism, Hindi Journalism and English Journalism.
For 2020 session, students will be granted admission based on the marks secured in graduation, class 12th and 10th and interview.
“Accordingly, instead of the traditional mode of entrance test, that IIMC has been resorting to in the past, it has been decided to adopt an admission process for all the courses this year, in which more weightage is given to the marks scored by candidates in qualifying examinations, up to Graduation level, including Intermediate and Matriculation examinations, followed by an online interview to be conducted by IIMC,” the institute has said.
Deadline extended:
IIMC has also extended the last date to apply for admission to four languages – Urdu, Odia, Malayalam and Marathi as notified on July 3, till August 14.
Application fee:
The Application Fee is Rs 1,000 for General Category and Rs 750 for OBC/SC/ST/Differently-abled/EWS category
Important Dates:
- Date of Issue of Notification 28th July, 2020
- Last date for Submission of Application 14th August,2020, till 5 pm.
- Announcement of Short List 31st August,2020
- Dates of Online Interview 3rd September, 2020 Onwards
- Announcement of Rank List 10th September, 2020
- Last date for Remitting Fees 20th September, 2020
Meanwhile, the institute also said that the first semester of all PG Diploma courses will be held in online mode only. Apart from this, it is expected from all the concerned students that they have access to a good quality laptop or computer with a strong internet connection at their place of stay, IIMC has notified to students.
The detailed notification about this will be issued by the IIMC today (July 30) and applicants will be provided with sufficient time to fulfill the formalities.
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