centralized admissions for the BA (Honors) Journalism programme for
the academic session 2011-12.
This is the first time that the university is conducting a common
entrance test for journalism. The test will be held on June 19 and
will be conducted for journalism courses offered at all five colleges.
These colleges include Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Kamala
Nehru College, Kalindi College, Maharaja Agrasen College and Lady Shri
Ram College.
The forms for the Combined Journalism Entrance Test (C-JET) will be
made available online from May 20 to June 5. The test in its first
year will be conducted by Maharaja Agrasen College.
Sunil Sondhi, Principal of Maharaja Agrasen College said that the
whole admission procedure will be centralized for making it easier for
the candidates.
"Every year, all journalism aspirants had to run about a lot to buy
individual forms for all colleges and take five different entrance
tests. This time, no college will admit an individual in the
journalism programme on their own. We had held a lot of meetings and
discussions for conducting this common entrance test for journalism,"
he said.
Colleges have decided to allot a weightage of 50% to the score of the
entrance test, 35% to marks in Class 12 and 15% to the personal
interview that will be conducted. The results for the C-JET will be
declared on June 29 and the interviews will most likely be conducted
between July 2 and 8.
General category candidates should have at least 70% marks in four
subjects in Class 12 to be eligible for the test and at least 60% in
English. For reserved categories, the minimum marks in four subject
for eligibility are required to be 65%.
Only five colleges in DU currently offer this course. However, the
C-JET will be conducted across 10 colleges as DU is expecting nearly
5000 applications this year.
Sunil Sondhi said that last year, the colleges offering Journalism
programmes had received around 3000 applications in total. "The whole
procedure has been made online this year so the number of applications
is expected to increase this year," he said.
The total number of seats that are available in all five colleges are only 181.
The pattern of the entrance test will have multiple choice questions
with answers on an OMR sheet to test the general knowledge of
students. Also, there will be essay-type questions to test writing
skills through book and film reviews, critical analysis of
contemporary media and commentary on contemporary issues.
Candidates will be expected to have good communication skills as well
as interest in writing in English to be suitable for the course. The
duration of the test will be two hours and thirty minutes.
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