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CG Pre MCA 2025 eligibility criteria will be released by The Chhatisgarh Professional Examination Board, Raipur in its official brochure and notification. All candidates are advised to check their eligibility before applying for the exam.
The eligibility criteria include factors like educational qualification, age limit, and age relaxation for reserved categories. Only the applicants who fulfil the eligibility criteria can fill out the CG Pre MCA application form 2025.
To ensure that one is eligible to take the CG Pre MCA 2025, one can keep reading to know more about CG Pre MCA 2025 eligibility criteria.
CG Pre MCA 2025 Eligibility
Understanding the CG Pre MCA eligibility criteria is crucial to ensure that the candidates can gain admission to top MCA courses and colleges in Chhattisgarh. Eligibility criteria include fulfilling the age, educational, and domicile criteria set by the conducting body.
To be eligible for the CG Pre MCA 2025 test, the candidates are required to meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Domicile:
The candidate should possess the domicile certificate of Chhattisgarh to satisfy the eligibility criteria for CG Pre MCA 2025. Apart from that the other documents required for CG Pre MCA eligibility include the following:
Domicile Requirments |
Certificate Required |
Candidates belonging to Chhattisgarh |
Performa 5 |
Wards of State/Retired State employees of Chattisgarh Government/Qusai-Government Unit/Local Government |
Performa 6 |
Wards of Government of India/Qusai-Government Centre Units posted in Chattisgarh/Government of India public undertaking employees and members of All India Services |
Performa 7 |
Wards of habilitated parents in Chattisgarh (as per Government of India/Chattisgarh rehabilitation scheme) |
Performa 8 |
- Qualification:
- Unreserved Category: As per the CG Pre-MCA 2025 eligibility criteria, the candidates must have a 3-year bachelor's (B.A./BCA/B.Com/B.Sc) degree with at least 50% aggregate marks from any recognized board or university.
- Reserved Category: At the same time, the candidates belonging to the reserved categories must have passed their bachelor’s with at least 45% aggregate marks.
- Subject:
- Candidates should have studied Mathematics as a major subject in class 12th and during graduation, except for BCA degree holders.
- Candidates who had allied subjects, including Basic/Business Mathematics (except for Advanced Mathematics) are not eligible for the CG Pre MCA exam 2025.
- Age:
The following table provides the age limit to appear for CG Pre MCA exam 2025 for candidates belonging to different categories:
Category of Candidates |
Upper Age Limit |
Unreserved Category |
32 years |
OBC/SC/ST/Female |
35 years |
PwD (Unreserved) (Chhattisgarh) |
37 years |
PwD (OBC/ST/SC/Female) (Chhattisgarh) |
40 years |
Notably, the upper age limit does not apply to candidates belonging to the sponsored category. Moreover, candidates must also check the college-wise CG Pre MCA eligibility criteria 2025 as the requirements might change.
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CG Pre MCA 2025 Reservation
As per the Government of India rules, candidates belonging to certain categories are admitted to seats reserved for them based on the relaxation criteria. The reservation of seats in exam counselling was introduced to give an equal opportunity to candidates belonging to weaker sections of society.
One such reservation system is the institutional reservation, where the seats are divided based on the quota for particular institutions. The reservation criteria followed by private and Government institutions for admission through CG Pre MCA exam 2025 are mentioned in the tabular below:
Institutes |
Chattisgarh Quota |
Other states Quota |
Management Quota |
Private Institutes |
75 |
10 |
15 |
Government Institutes |
100 |
NIL |
NIL |
Apart from the Institutional Reservation mentioned above, there is a provision for separate Reservations, prevalent in the Private and Government Colleges under CG Vyapam. The categories under which the reservations include the following:
Caste-Based Reservation (Vertical Reservation)
The Physically Handicapped person has been provided with a 3% reservation in the Government Colleges only. The private colleges don't provide this reservation. Furthermore, there is no provision for reservations for candidates belonging to the Army or Freedom fighter quota.
The Horizontal reservation for Pre MCA which is given in any Government institute is shown in the table below:
Category |
Reservations |
SC |
12% |
ST |
31% |
OBC |
14% |
Others |
42% |
Reservations for Physically Handicapped (Horizontal Reservation)
The Physically Handicapped person has been provided with a 3% reservation in the Government Colleges only. The private colleges don't provide this reservation. Furthermore, there is no provision of reservations for candidates belonging to the Army or Freedom fighter quota.
The Horizontal reservation for Pre MCA which is given in any Government institutes is shown in below table.
Category |
Reservation |
PWD |
3% |
Female Candidates |
30% |
J & K Migrants |
1% |
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Reservation for J&K Migrants
One seat (1%) in each Government and Private college is reserved for the J&K migrant candidates. The candidate need not be a resident of Chhattisgarh for this quota.
Reservation for Girls
There is a reservation of 30% in each category (SC, ST and OBC) provided for the girl candidates. This is also a horizontal reservation, but it is only provided in the Government colleges.
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