GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT $3335 H.E., Dated: _©7 _/03/2025 HE-PTC-SAMS-0003-20168 From Rajata Kumar Mansingh, OES-I Deputy Director, PTC To ‘The Director Information & Public Relation Department, Bhubaneswar Sub: Publication of Advertisement for Common P.G. Entrance Test- 2025(CPET- 2025) and admission into P.G. Courses for the Academic Session: Sir, | am directed to enclose herewith the copy of the advertisement regarding timeline for Common P.G. Entrance Test- 2025 and admission into P.G. Courses for the Academic Session 2025-26 under project SAMS. The same advertisement may please be published in the following newspapers in the FRONT OR LAST PAGE as per the following schedule, The cost will be borne by SAMS Society, Higher Education Department, Government of Odisha. Date of publication News Paper Editions Three Daily widely circulated Odia Newspapers & One English Newspaper 10.03.2025, \L Odisha Edition Three Daily widely circulated Odia 11.03.2025 | Newspapers & One English Newspaper Encl: Soft copy of the advertisement sent by email. e-Mail: sptc,hed2017@¢mail.com Yours faithfully, Deputy Deeg OM) Memo No: __!'3336 /H.E., Dated: 7/03/2025 Copy submitted to the P.$ to Hon’ble Minister, Higher Edi n for kind information of Hon’ble Minister, Higher Education, Deputy’ MemoNo: 13337 _/HE., Dated: _©7 03/2025 Copy submitted to the P.S to Commissioner-cum- Secretary, Higher Education Department for kind information of Commissioner-cum- Secretary. Deputy biddape LOU‘Memo No: _ 13332 JH.E., Dated: _°F _/03/2025 Copy forwarded to the Joint Secretary to Government, PTC Section, Higher Education Department for kind information. ak OF -02-102%> Deputy Director Memo No: _! 3339 JH.E., Dated: _©F _/03/2025 Copy forwarded to the President/Secretary, State Selection Board, Odisha for kind information and necessary action. 5 ot 20 veputf heer MemoNo:__|3340_ __/H.E,, Dated: __67__/03/2025 Copy forwarded to the General Manager, OCAC with a request to instruct the service provider, SAMS to upload the timeline on the SAMS P.G. Portal. OF-OF oH Deputy Director Memo No: _| 3341 JH.E., Dated: _°F _/03/2025 Copy forwarded to the Regional Director of Education (Bhubaneswar/Berhampur/Balasore/Sambalpur/ Jeypore) for kind information. DeputY trectar oT Memo No: _) 3342. JH.E., Dated: _°F _/03/2025 Copy forwarded to the P.G. Council Chairman of all State Public Universities/ Principals of all P.G. Teaching HEls participating under SAMS for kind information. OR wu Deputy Director Memo No: 13343 JH.E., Dated: © _/03/2025 Copy forwarded to iT Section (Social Media Cell), Higher Education Department with a request to upload this Letter in Department Website as well as on the social media platform. Oh.) «0° Deputy BRectorGovernment of Odisha Higher Education Department Important notice for the applicants seeking admission into P.G. Courses at Coe ial antec kes ee cure oe Rem Cuaron ate it is for information of all concerned that admission into P.G. Courses for the current Academic Session: 2025-26 at the HEls participating under SAMS shall be done through a Common PG Entrance Test (CPET-2025). Accordingly, the candidates are hereby instructed to fill-up the Common Application Form by visiting the SAMS P.G. portal as per the timeline mentioned below. Common Prospectus (CP) for CPET-2025 is available on the SAMS P.G. Portal. Applicants are advised to refer to the CP before filling up the CAF, The key points of P.G. e-Admission for the Academic Year 2025-26 are as follows. 1. For the academic session 2025-26, P.G, admissions will be based exclusively on the scores secured in the Common Postgraduate Entrance Test (CPET), The earlier year's practice of applying the 80:20 ratio (CPET marks: Career marks) for preparing the statewide merit rank will be discontinued, In the current academic session, Phase-| admission will be conducted initially. Based on the availability of vacant seats, the Higher Education Department may consider conducting Phase-Il or SPOT admissions later only for the left out or fresh applicants. . The Phase-I admission will consists of 4 rounds of selection. The reservation and weightage will be continued for 4* and 2% rounds of selection. in the 3" round, the de- reservation of seats will be carried out in case of absence of the eligible applicants of a specific category. The 4" round will be the last round for Phase-I, which will be a Waiting list admission process. Applicants who got selected and taken admission during the Phase: admission rOCess. any of the rounds) any subject at_any her Education Institutions (HEIs) will not be eligible to participate in further phase/round of admission process, which will be available exclusively for the left out or fresh students. . This implies, only the left out applicants who have not been admitted to any of the HEIs in Phase-I admission process will be allowed to participate in the further phase/round of admission pracess. . An applicant with Elective Papers which carries at least 24 credits at U.G. Level are eligible to apply for that subject to get admission into P.G. Courses. Hf an applicant enters incorrect details (not having at least 24 credits but mentioned the same in the CAF), his/her candidature will be canceled during the admission and document verification process or even after the admission is completed. For this Academic Year, applicants wish to be considered for scholarship from the Higher Education Department must upload the Residence, Income & Caste Certificates while filling up the CAF, Hence, they are advised to keep ready the required certificates rn » = Nin well advance before filling up the CAF. If the applicants fail to upload the certificates, during filting up the CAF, another chance will be given to upload the certificates during updation of graduation marks/choice filling timeline. 8. For the current academic session 2025-26, the P.G. admission process will start early, regardless of the declaration of final results. However, admitted students must submit their graduation or equivalent certificate to their respective institutions within two months of admission, If students fail to provide the required certificates within two months from the date of admission or their final marks do not meet the eligibility criteria specified in the Common Prospectus, their admission will be cancelled by the concerned University/College. Further, those seats can be allotted to other eligibile applicants. 9. Whenever a seat is allocated, applicants are compulsorily required to choose one of the option - Freeze, Float or Slide - carefully. The detail process of “Freeze”, “Stide” and “Float” is mentioned in the Common Prospectus(CP) availbate on the SAMS portal. If the applicant will not choose any of these options that implies the applicant is rejecting the offered/allocated seat and s/he will be out of the counselling process for the subsequent rounds of that Phase. Pee) Sree een kee mare ecu eee) The timeline for e-Admission into P.G. Courses for the session 2025-26 in the State Public Universities and Colleges participating in project ‘Student Academic Management System {SANS)’ is given below. Any changes in the dateline will be published in the newspapers as well as in the website www.samsodisha.gov.in. The Common Prospectus (CP) for the said Course is available on the SAMS Portal. Kindly refer the CP for the below mentioned activities. Slt Activities Timeline | Availabitity of Ontine CAF in the website 10-Mar-2025 (Monday) www. samsodisha.gov.in (04:00 PM) 2_ | Last date of applying ontine CAF through 28-Mar-2025 (Friday) www.samsodisha.gov.in (11.45 PM) Editing of the CAF (If required), by the eligibile 3 | applicants for the CAF submitted earlier (New CAF submission is not allowed on this day) ‘Submision of applicant’s data to State selection Board (SSB) by OCAC Availbality of Hall Ticket/Admit Card on the website 5 | of the State selection Board ( www.ssbodisha.ac.in) for downloading by the Applicants 29-Mar-2025 (Saturday) (10.00 AM to 11.45 PM) 04-April-2025 (Friday) 28-April-2025 (Monday) (11.00 AM onwards) 04-May-2025 (Sunday) 6 | Conduct of Entrance Examination (CPET-2025) to 18-May-2025 (Sunday)7 Handing over the entrance marks to OCAC by SSB, 26 May-2025 (Monday) isha Publication of subject-wise and State-wide merit list, Updation of Graduation/Equivalent marks, Choice Dates will be notified by 8 | filling of HEls by the eligible applicants and the Higher Education Publication of Provisional Allotment of Seats for Department Later different Rounds ee Peo oa SEED EEOC EE ed) NI To enroll into the P.G. Courses, the applicants must have completed their graduation/ eq lent courses from an UGC recognized university. Subject Wise eligibility criteria is available on the SAMS portal. Applicants are advised to check the same before filling the Common Application Form (CAF). Candidates, whose final U.G. results are awaiting (not published), can also apply on-line by filling up the Common Application Form (CAF) to appear the CPET-2025. Sos OS Deputy Director PTC Section