SAAT PG 2023 Admission, Application Form, Counselling, Exam Date

SAAT PG 2023 Admission: or Siksha O Anusandhan University PG Admission Test is a common entrance examination held at the national level for a variety of programs offered by different universities and constituent institutes. The test is commonly known as SAAT PG and it is a university-level examination. The exams are conducted by the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), Siksha O Anusandhan University on an annual basis.

The common entrance test is the first procedure in getting admission into the respective colleges. Once a student clears the entrance exam, then he/she have to face open counseling for admission into various university programs. SAAT provides an opportunity to diploma holders in various fields (such as technology, engineering, pharma, and hotel management) to apply for admission into regular university courses under SAAT’s lateral entry scheme.

SAAT PG 2023 Notification:

• SAAT PG 2023 Application Form will be released on February 2023. Click here to apply.

SAAT PG 2023: Highlights

Exam Name	Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University Admission Test
Commonly known as	SAAT 2023
Conducting Body	SOA (Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University Admission Test)
Exam Level	National
Courses Offered	7 UG courses, 7 PG courses, and a five-year integrated course
Application Mode	Online Mode
Exam Mode	Online Mode
Official website	https://www.soa.ac.in/

SAAT 2023 Exam Date:

Events	Dates
Start the date of the Online application form	February 2023
Last Date for registration	May 2023
SAAT 2023 Exam Date	Slot 1 – August 2023 Slot 2 – August 2023
Result date Declaration (B.Tech only)	August 2023
Choice Filling (Engineering Only)	—
Counseling for B.Tech	August 2023
Result Date (Other Programmes)	August 2023
SAAT Branch Allotment	To Be Announced

SAAT Application Form 2023:

• Candidate can attain the application form from the official website mentioned at the University bureau. Applicants can purchase the application form personally or through post-SOA University, Khandagiri Square, Bhubaneshwar- 751030.
• There are some banks where the application form is available easily and these banks are Punjab National Bank, Syndicate Bank, and Axis Bank easily.
• Pay the application fee of INR 500/- via different modes such as debit card or credit card.
• Submit the duly filled application form at the University office to this address: The Director (Admissions), Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Khandagiri Square, Khandagiri, Bhubaneshwar- 751030.

List of Online Centres/Cities:

ODISHA:

• Angul
• Balasore
• Bargarh
• Berhampur
• Bhadrak
• Bhubaneswar
• Bolangir
• Cuttack
• Dhenkanal
• Jagatsinghpur
• Jajpur
• Jharsuguda
• Kalahandi
• Kendrapara
• Keonjhar
• Koraput
• Baripada
• Nabrangpur
• Nayagarh
• Puri
• Rayagada
• Rourkela
• Sambalpur
• Sundargarh

ANDHRA PRADESH:

• Visakhapatnam

ASSAM:

• Guwahati

BIHAR:

• Begusarai
• Bhagalpur
• Katihar
• Muzzafarpur
• Patna
• Samastipur

CHATTISGARH:

• Bilaspur
• Raipur

DELHI:

• Delhi

GUJARAT:

• Surat

JHARKHAND:

• Bokaro
• Daltonganj
• Dhanbad
• Giridh
• Jamshedpur
• Ranchi
• Saraikela Kharsawan
• West Singhbhum

KERALA:

• Thiruvananthapuram

KARNATAKA:

• Bengaluru

MADHYA PRADESH:

• Indore

MAHARASHTRA:

• Mumbai
• Pune

UTTAR PRADESH:

• Kanpur
• Lucknow
• Meerut
• Noida
• Prayagraj
• Varanasi

WEST BENGAL:

• Bankura
• Durgapur
• Kharagpur
• Kolkata
• Siliguri

Eligibility Criteria:

• Different PG programs have different eligibility criteria. However, in general, the candidate should secure a minimum of 50% aggregate in his/her last exam. The SC/ST candidates should secure a minimum of 45 percent aggregate in their last exams.
• Only for SAAT M.Sc. in Nursing, the candidate should possess an aggregate of 55 percent in the B.Sc. nursing exam from a recognized institute with a minimum of one year experience in clinical area or teaching. Moreover, the candidate should be registered as a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife in the State Nursing Council.
• The diploma holders are required to have an aggregate of a minimum 60% to be eligible for this exam.
• A final year student of the applicable fields is also eligible to apply for the SAAT PG exam.

SAAT PG Exam Pattern:

• The questions for SAAT are in the form of multiple choices, where a candidate would have to choose the best answer out of four choices.
• The total exam duration is of 2 hours and the candidates are expected to answer 120 questions in all.
• The examination also has a negative marking where one mark would be deducted for every wrong answer.
• Any question that has two darkened options would also be considered as wrong and marks would be deducted.
• So, candidates are asked to act cautious, intelligent, knowledgeable, and restraint while answering the papers.

Selection Process:

The selection is based on merit and a candidate’s choice for courses. Hence, admission is on a rank-based process.

Result and Counselling Process:

The outcome of SAAT 2023 will be declared in August 2023. The marks attained by the applicant in the examination will help in creating the merit list is created for each of the courses. The qualified candidates will then be provisioned with the rank card and later called for counseling.

The counseling process is a formal process where a candidate’s certificates would be verified. So, it is important to carry the original certificates for this process. The institute also keeps two sets of attested copies of the mark sheets and certificates for its records. So, it is important to carry the extra attested copies. On selection, a candidate would be provided a university registration card and a registration number that would formally acknowledge the candidate as a student of SOA University.