Allahabad University declares CRET-12 results

The authorities of Allahabad University have declared the results of the written tests of its Combined Research Entrance Test (CRET)-2012 for most of the subjects. The announcement of result paves way for admission to its DPhil programmes to finally start for the year.

Out of the 46 subjects for which the varsity had conducted the entrance test, it has declared the results for 34 subjects and also made them available online on its official website-http://cret2012.com. The results of a dozen subjects including Ancient History, Anthropology, Bio-informatics, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Defence and Strategic Studies, Economics, Medieval and Modern History, Business Administration, Computer Applications, Zoology and Sociology are however still awaited.

Director, Admission Cell, AU Prof BN Singh informed that the results declared are of candidates found eligible to participate in Level-3 of the CRET-2012 to be held at respective departments. Prof Singh said that no candidate has been found eligible for Level-3 for some subjects including Geology/ Applied Geology/ Geophysics, Nutritional Science and Food Technology.

"Qualified candidates are required to produce all the original documents, marksheets, caste certificates and the other documents required by the respective departments at the time of Level-3 tests for verification," he added.

As per the results, a maximum 97 candidates have been declared eligible for Level-3 in Hindi, 82 in Political Science, 50 in Sanskrit, 42 in Geography, 36 in Education, 31 in Chemistry, 25 in Botany, 23 each in Commerce and Music, 22 each in English and Philosophy, 21 each in Environmental Science and Urdu, 12 in Home Science, 11 in Psychology, 7 each in Mathematics and Physics, 5 in Law, 4 in Statistics, 3 each in Arabic, Biochemistry, as well as 2 each in Agriculture Botany, Agriculture Chemistry, Painting, Material Science, Globalization and Development Studies, Atmosphere and Ocean Studies as well as Behavioral and Cognitive Science besides 1 in Persian.

The varsity had conducted the Leverl-1 and Level-2 tests of CRET-2012 on September 9, 2012.

In the city the entrance was held in four centers- KP Inter College, Allahabad Degree College, Ewing Christian College (ECC) Higher Secondary School and Maharishi Patanjali Vidya Mandir- along with at one centre each in New Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru. Out of the registered 1958 candidates of Level-1 exam, in which UGC NET qualified students were exempted, a total of 1803 candidates had appeared while in Level-2 test, which had 2357 candidates registered has seen 2119 appearing in it.