Eligibility:
A graduate from any discipline, with a minimum of 15 years (10+2+3) of education, having 50% (45% for SC/ST/PwD) aggregate marks at the graduation level can apply for admission. The percentage of aggregate marks is to be calculated as per the practice followed by the concerned university or institution. Those who are in the final year and who expect to complete all the requirements of graduation before June 06, 2011 can also apply. Only Indian nationals are eligible to apply for PRM. There is no management quota for admission to PRM at IRMA. IRMA encourages the employees of its designated organisations to apply with sponsorship from their employers. IRMA encourages applications from candidates with diverse academic backgrounds. The number of applications received for PRM 2010–12 was about 15000
Examination Fee: There is a common application form for PRM and FPRM programmes. An applicant may apply for two programmes by using one application form.
Examination Fees for Applying in Hardcopy
No. of Programme General & OBC SC/ST/PwD*
One Programme Rs. 1050- Rs. 550/-
Two Programmes Rs. 1550/- Rs. 800/-
'PwD- persons with disability
How To Apply:
An applicant can opt for one of the following options; apply online and pay through payment gateway; make payment at any IMS learning centre, after getting IMS receipt, apply through IRMA website by using IMS receipt number; take a print out of SBI challan available on IRMA website in the admission link. Make payment at any branch of SBI by using the challan. SBI would then issue a unique ID number. Use this unique ID number and apply online through IRMA website; printed application material (prospectus, application forms, etc.) may be obtained from admissions office, IRMA, Anand-388001 on payment of full fees. All the payments to IRMA should be made in the form of a demand draft favouring IRMA and it should be payable at Anand
No refund will be made after the payment is made
Prospectus and sample question papers will be sent to the candidates after their application is received at IRMA. It is compulsory for all applicants to send a hard copy of application form at admissions office, IRMA, Anand-388001, Gujarat. Those applicants are required to attach IMS Receipt or SBI Challan respectively with application form. Candidates should retain a copy of the completed application form for their reference. The completed applications should reach to IRMA on or before September 30, 2012. Postal delay is not the responsibility of IRMA. All correspondence related to admission should be addressed to Admissions office, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) Anand-388001, Gujarat
Important Instructions for filling in online application: Register at https://www.irma.ac.in using Applicant’s Registration Service in admissions link directly. Provide relevant information as required (email ID is necessary for registration). Please ensure you do not apply separately for each programme. There are three ways for submitting your online application i.e. apply online and pay through payment gateway, pay to any IMS learning centre and apply online, pay to any branch of SBI and apply online
In either case you have to enter data required for the application form. Please ensure you opt for any of these three options
Selection process: All eligible candidates, including sponsored candidates, are required to appear for a written test conducted by IRMA. The written test (200 marks), comprises four sections; analytical reasoning (50 marks), quantitative ability (50 marks), English comprehension (40 marks), and issues of social concern (60 marks)
The test will be conducted on November 11, 2012
Anand, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Delhi, Guwahati, Jaipur, Kochi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Raipur, Rajkot, Pantnagar, Patna, Pune, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur
Based on the performance in the written test candidates will be selected to attend a personal interview and a group discussion, to be conducted at IRMA between January 28 to February 9, 2013. There is a sectional cut-off of marks, in order to judge the candidate’s performance across the sections.
(IRMA does not accept any other test-score; IRMA reserves the right to change or cancel any test centre at its discretion; the entrance test is common for all the academic programmes of IRMA, Xavir Institute of Management, Bhuvneshwar (XIMB) also uses IRMA’s test score for its rural management programme)
The final selection of candidates will be done on the basis of the overall performance in the written test, PI, and GD. The marks obtained in PI and GD will be normalised across the evaluating panels. The marks obtained in the written test and the normalised marks obtained in PI and GD will be reduced to the equivalent marks of 50, 40, and 10, respectively. An overall merit list will be prepared based on the total marks obtained out of these 100 marks. Such a listing will be prepared separately for the different categories of applicants, and the required number of candidates will be selected from the different categories according to their order of merit. IRMA has positive discrimination policies for admissions to disadvantaged sections of the society
The total number of seats available for PRM 2013–15 is 120. The programme will begin on June 17, 2013. All the selected candidates will be required to report to IRMA by this date. Candidates who did not have a mathematics paper as part of their undergraduate degree requirements will have to report on June 10, 2013 for remedial classes in mathematics
Important Dates:
Last date for receipt of completed applications: 30th September, 2012
Written test: November 11, 2012 (9.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.)
Announcement of written test results: December 26, 2012
Group Activity and Personal Interview: January 28, to February 09, 2013
Last date to deposit the first term fee: May 06, 2013
Beginning of remedial classes in Mathematics: June 10, 2013
Beginning of the Programme: June 17, 2013
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