INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT ANAND
Admission to Postgraduate Programme in Rural Management
and Fellow Programme in Rural Management
Reporting Time: 9.15 a.m. on 14.11.10
INFORMATION HANDOUT
Dear Candidate,
This booklet contains general instructions, detailed instructions pertaining to filling up the information in your Answer-
sheet, marking/revising your answer and other related information about the examination and penalty relating to
malpractices (if any).
The assessment of Answer-sheet is computerised. Hence, you should carefully read instructions regarding
handling of the Answer-sheet and the method of marking answers.
1. General Instructions: Your attention is called for the following:
You must not carefully your Roll Number, date, time and venue for the examination given in the Admit Card.
No travelling allowance or other expenses in connection with the examination will be paid by IRMA.
Candidate without having an Admit Card or arriving late at the examination venue will not be permitted to enter
the examination hall. Candidate should take their Admit Card back with themselves.
Every Candidate is required to put his/her counter signature on the attendance sheet in front of invigilator in the
examination hall. The attendance sheet will be retained by the invigilator and sent to IRMA for verification.
Compliance with instructions given below as well as those given by the test administrators and the invigilators at
the examination venue at all stages of the examination is obligatory. Any violation of instructions will be viewed
seriously, resulting in expulsion from the examination and disqualification from present and future examinations.
No calculator-separate or with watch, any other calculating device, cell phones, slide-rule, books, note-books or
written notes will be allowed inside the examination hall.
For the examination, you will require two HB pencils, one ball-point pen, a good eraser and a sharpener only. No
other items will be allowed inside the examination hall.
You are advised to do all the rough work on the blank space in test booklet itself. If any rough work is done on the
Answer-sheet, your Answer-sheet will not be assessed.
Mark your answers only on the Answer-sheet and not on the booklet.
There will be appropriate negative markings for wrong answers. You are, therefore, advised to mark an answer
only if you are fairly sure about the answer.
2. Handling Answer sheet: Please handle your answer sheet with extreme care and keep it free from dust, moisture etc.
If it is mutilated, torn, folded, wrinkled or rolled, it may not be evaluated. After the test is over you should handover
both the answer-sheet and the Question Booklet to the invigilator before leaving the room. Any candidate
who does not return the question booklet and/or the answer-sheet will be disqualified.
A sample answer sheet (side 1) is attached to this booklet. The answer-sheet has two sides; the facing side(side 1) is
the bio-data component and side 2 is for marking the answers to the question in the test booklet.
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3. Instruction for filling up the information on the side 1 of the answer-sheet:
I. For box nos. 1 to 5 and 8 to 11, use ball-point pen only.
ii. Leave box nos. 6 and 7 blank.
iii. Information needed for boxes 8 to 10 will be available to you after you receive the test booklet. You will have to
transfer this information on to your answer-sheet using ball-point pen.
iv. Put your signature in box no.11, using a ball-point pen.
v. Information required in box no. 13 to box to no 28 is to be filled in with HB pencil only as explained below,(Leave
box nos,. 15, 16 and 18 blank)
vi. Candidate’s Name (Box No.13): There is row of 10 boxes for writing the name. Just below each box you will find a
column of 26 ovals each containing a latter of the alphabet. Write one letter in each box using HB pencil, and darken
the appropriate oval under each box. Please leave one box and respective column of ovals blank betwee two parts
of the name. If your name contains more letters, write only the first ten letters, which you can accomodate in the
boxes provided.
vii. Candidate’s Roll Number (Box Nos. 5, 14 and 29): Your Admit Card has your roll number, which is in 8 digits.
Write your Roll No. with ball point pen in box no.5.
In box no. 14, there is a row of 8 boxes provided to write the roll number. Just below each box there are 10 ovals
numbered from 1 to 9 and 0. Write your roll number in the box, and darken the corresponding ovals under each digit,
with HB Pencil.
You must also write your Roll Number in box. 29 (at the left hand bottom corner of side 2) with HB pencil.
If you do not write your Roll No. in all the places indicated for it (including cover page of the test booklet), your
answer-sheet will not be assessed.
viii. Test From No. (Box No.17): You will have to write the test form number (3 digits) under item 17. Write each of the
digits in the boxes provided and darken the appropriate ovals.
The machine first reads the Test Form No. on the answer-sheet and then undertakes evaluation. Therefore, you
must show your test form no. correctly by filling in the correct ovals on the answer-sheet by HB Pencil. If the test
form No. is not dakened, your answer-sheet will not be evaluated.
ix. Date of Birth (Box No.20.): Date of birth of this candidate is 28.12.1978. See how the candidate has eneterted the
date, month and the year in the boxes and darkened the appropriate ovals correctly. If the date or the month
happens to be single digit you should indicate this after adding ‘zero’, as a prefix.
x. Discipline (Box No.21): indicate your discipline at HSC, degree and Post Graduation in this box.
xi. Medium of Instruction (Box No.22): Use the language codes given below to indicate your medium of instruction
at SSS, HSC, Graduation (DEGREE) and Post Graduation (PG) levels.
Code Language Code Language
11 Assamese 19 Marathi
12 Bengali 20 Oriya
13 Engish 21 Punjabi
14 Gujarati 22 Sanskrit
15 Hindi 23 Sindhi
16 Kannada 24 Tamil
17 Kashmiri 25 Telugu
18 Malayalam 26 Urdu
The candidate in our example has studied in Hindi Medium at SSC level whereas for HSC onwards up to Post
Graduation, his medium of instruction was English. Therefore, he has written Code 15 under SSC and Code 13 under
HSC, degree and PG. Also, he has darkened the appropriate ovals in the column below each box.
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xii. Percent of Marks (Box No.23): indicate your percentage of marks obtained (rounded off to two digits) at each
level of examination in the boxes provided and also darken the appropriate ovals. In case grades are given by an
examining agency, convert the same into equivalent percentages and indicate as above.
xiii. Place of School/College (Box No.24): indicate your place of study (village, Tehsil, District, State Capital,
Metropolis), for each level of examination (SSC, HSC, Degree, PG) by darkening the appropriate ovals.
xiv. Annual family income (Box No.25): Darken the oval that corresponds to your family income.
xv. Parental Education (Box No.26): Darken the appropriate ovals to indicate the level of education of your Father
and Mother in columns.
xvi. Religion (Box No.27): Indicate by darkening the appropriate oval.
xvii. Sex (Box No.28): Darken the appropriate oval using HB pencil.
xviii. You should fill in your bio-data in the sample answer-sheet provided with this booklet. Use it to fill in the information
on the side 1 of the answere-sheet, which will be given to you in examination hall. Your Biodata information should tally
with the information provided by you in the application form, except box number 21 and 25.
4. Instruction for filling up the information on Side 2 of the answer-sheet.
I. Ensure that you have written your Roll Number in box no.29 with HB pencil.
ii. How to indicate your answers:
On Side 2, you will be required to darken the appropriate oval as the answer to the question given in the test
booklet. Your answer choice must be marked by darkening the relevant oval in the corresponding line of the
question number, as shown below.
15. 1 2 3 4 5
Some examples of Wrong Method of marking answers are shown below:
15. 1 2 3 4 5
(Incompletely darened space is wrong).
15. 1 2 3 4 5
(Incomplete erasing of wrong answer is wrong).
15. 1 2 4 5
(Use of Tick Mark is wrong).
In all the above cases, though you may show your answer, it may not be read by the computer correctly because of faulty
method of answering.
iii How to Change Your Answer
If you wish to change your answer erase completely the already darkened oval by using a good quality eraser and then
darken the new oval bearing your revised answer number.
While changing the answer, erasing the earlier answer completely is extremely essential. If it is not erased completely
smudges will be left on the erased oval as shown below and the question will be read as having two answers and will be
ignored for giving any credit.
Q.2 1 2 3 4 5
(Smudge left in oval No.3 due to bad erasure, and the fresh answer in oval No. 4 will be read as two answers 3 and 4 and
therefore no credit will be given even if the oval No.4 happens to be the correct answer).
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iv. Use HB pencil only for marking answers.
If a question is skipped, care should be taken while marking the answer of the next question. It should be marked against
the appropriate question serial number leaving blank the answer-space (s) for the skipped question(s).
No extra time will be given for darkening the ovals after the time for the objective test is over and the ‘stop’ signal
is given.
5. Penalty for Malpractices
The malpractices, which will entail imposition of penalty by IRMA, are listed below:
Appeal by candidate for favourable consideration or mercy for awarding of marks/grades, etc.
Possessing of personal notes, books, calculators, slide-rules or such other non-permitted material.
Candidate or anyone on his/her behalf attempting to influence the examiner/other staff.
Candidate disobeying the instructions of the invigilators/Test Personnel.
Individual or Mass copying cases.
Using or actual copying from notes or books on the subject of the examination.
Copying or seeking/using the answers of another candidate/s.
Allowing another candidate to copy from his/her answer or giving help in any form.
Willfully changing or interchanging Roll numbers on Test Booklets and/or answer-sheets.
Inserting previously written answer-sheets brought from outside (Substitution).
Impersonation.
Removing whole or part of answer-sheet/question paper from examination hall.
Candidate getting assistance from persons from within the Examination Hall or outside the Examination
Hall through any means for writing the examination.
Attempting to destroy or actual destruction of evidence of malpractice.
Exchanging/attempting to snatch answer-sheets of other candidates.
Parting with the question paper or leaving thehall with it unauthorisedly.
Refusal to offer on the spot explanation when suspected of resorting to any malpractice.
Submitting fabricated documents, or documents which have been tampered with.
Candidates resorting to or instigating any other irregular or improper conduct in connection with the test,
like Dharna, Gherao and pen-down strikes etc.
Making incorrect or false statements or suppressing material information.
Writing obscene or undesirable matter in answer-sheets.
Bringing into the examination hall any weapon or any other intimidating material.
Penalty for any of these malpractices may range from cancellation of candidature for the examination to permanent
disqualification or legal punishment using court of law.
6. Jurisdiction
The admission process at the Institute shall be subject to the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Anand.
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