Entrance Exams For Diploma in English for Madrasa Graduates in Deoband

Mumbai: ( April 27)

Director of Markazul Ma’arif Education and Research Centre Maulana Mohammad Burhanuddin Qasmi through a press release has announced the dates of the entrance exam for those seeking admission to the Diploma in English Language and Literature (DELL) Course for the batch 2016-18. Written and spoken test is scheduled on April 21st and 23rd 2016 corresponding to13 and 15 Rajab, 1437 AH on Thursday and Saturday. The exams will be held at Jamiatu As-Shaikh Hussain Ahmad Madni, Deoband, (UP). The written exam will be held on Thursday and only those passing the written exam will be allowed to appear for the spoken exam on Saturday and out of these only those candidates will be selected that have passed both the written and spoken exams.

This year the entrance exam will be for five institutions having 105 seats; out of these 15 for Markaz Islami Education and Research Centre, Ankleshwar, Gujarat, 20 for Jamia Islamia Jalalia, Hojai, Assam, 20 for Institute For Higher Studies, Okhla, New Delhi, 25 for Al-Mahad Al-Ali Al-Islami, Hyderabad, and 25 seats for Islamic Study and Research Centre, Madrasa Islamia Betiya, West Champaran, Bihar.

Markazul Ma’arif Education and Research Centre (MMERC) is a unique institution in the world, established by Maulana Badruddin Ajmal Al-Qasmi in 1994, where a two-year DELL course was started especially to give quality English language coaching to madrasa graduates. Seeing the success of the DELL course other institutions have also started the same in their environs, eight among them are affiliated to MMERC, Mumbai. These institutions have the same curriculum as that of DELL in MMERC which covers a raft of subjects such as English language and literature, computer and internet, history, geography, journalism, mathematics, general knowledge etc and comparative studies of religions.

In all of these centres of MMERC affiliated institutions in India teaching as well as lodging and food are free for the selected students. The students are also exposed to talks by experts on various modern topics such as science, geography, journalism, economics, politics and other branches of learning and humanities so that these ulama are fully prepared to face present challenges and also serve the needs of the country and community by guiding them properly.

Maulana Burhanuddin Qasmi also went on to explain that MMERCE hold a competitive exam for madrasa graduates every year where students are tested in various fields of Islamic knowledge such as Qur’an, its exegesis, hadith, fiqh, Arabic language and literature, as also their proficiency in writing in Arabic and Urdu and awareness of general knowledge. Only their abilities and real merit is the criterion for getting selecting in their chosen institutions. Only those who have passed graduation from any madrasa in India can apply to sit for this exam.

Application forms with prospectus will be available at all Centres and these can be downloaded freely from www.deoband.net from 8 April, 2016 onwards. The last date for application submission at Deoband is 20th April, 2016.

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