The Aligarh Muslim University will hold a Combined Admission Test (CAT) for admission to M.Phil. and Ph.D. courses except the Faculty of Unani Medicine. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has approved the recommendation of the committee for procedure of selecting candidates for admission to M.Phil. and Ph.D. The candidates with 55% marks in the aggregate in the post graduate examination will be eligible to appear at CAT except the faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Technology and Management Studies. Engineering and Management candidates having passed PG examination with 60% marks in aggregate shall be eligible to appear at CAT. The candidates with MD degree with 60% marks shall be eligible in the Faculty of Medicine.
The Combined Admission Test shall consist of two papers, Paper-I and Paper-II, each of two hours duration comprising multiple choice (objectives) type questions with no negative marking. The Paper-II will consist of ten short answer type and ten multiple choice questions. Examination of both the papers shall be held on the same day in order to avoid inconvenience to the candidates. CAT shall be held on July 21, 2009.