JMI RCA Invites Applications For Free Civil Services Coaching Programme 2026

Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has invited applications for the Civil Services Coaching Programme 2026. Candidates can go through the official website – admission.jmi.ac.in to fill the application form. The application process will begin on April 25, 2025, and end on May 28, 2025.

The portal will be reopened for editing the application form from May 29 to May 30, 2025.

The Residential Coaching Academy (RCA), a centre for coaching and career planning, provides free coaching with hostel facilities to students from categories including Minorites, SCs, STs, and women candidates.

Once enrolled, students will received targeted guidance to prepare for the Civil Services Examination (Preliminary – cum – Main) – 2026.

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Jamia RCA Exam Pattern

The test is to access the candidate’s knowledge of general awareness, logical and critical thinking, reasoning, comprehesion, and the ability to express themselves.

The exam will be held in two sessions, with Paper I from 10 am to 11 am and Paper II will be held from 11 am to 1 pm. Paper I or the General Studies exam will be objective type only, while Paper II or the Essay exam will be subjective.

Both the papers would be in English/Hindi/Urdu.

There would be negative marking for objective type questions in the test. One third marks will be deducted for a wrong answer.

Jamia RCA Exam: Important dates

• The RCA entrance exam will be held on June 15, 2025 (Sunday).
• The Result of the Written is likely to be announced on July 14, 2025, and the interview (personality test) will be held from July 21, 2025, to August 2, 2025, in offline mode only.
• The final result will be declared tentatively by August 8, 2025, and the last date of completion of admission is August 18, 2025.
• The registration for waiting list candidatees will be done by August 21, 2025 and admission till August 25, 2025.
• The classes will commence from September 1, 2025.

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Jamia RCA Exam: Other details

The entrance test will be held in tweleve cities including – Delhi, Jaipur, Srinagar, Jammu, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Mumbai, Patna, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bengaluru, Calicut (Kerala).