Ask any Class 12 family what the hardest part of the year is, and the answer is rarely the syllabus. It is keeping track of everything else: which entrance exams to sit, when each form opens, when it closes, and which of a dozen official websites holds the real date. At Udaya Public School in Ayodhya, we have watched capable students lose an option simply because a form closed while they were busy preparing for the exam itself.
This is the third post in a short series on the road from Class 10 to university. We began with choosing a stream after Class 10, then looked at which Class 11 subject combinations keep which doors open. This last step is about what happens once those choices are made, and we have built one page to help with it. Our new UG Opportunities page gathers the entrance exams and university applications that matter for our Class 12 students, with the dates, eligibility and official link for each, in one place.
Why One Page Matters
The information already exists. The trouble is that it is spread across dozens of portals, each announced on its own timetable and often with little notice. National exams, private universities, and design and law schools all run separate calendars, and a family tracking five or six of them is effectively running a small project alongside board preparation.
A missed deadline is one of the few mistakes in Class 12 that cannot be fixed by working harder. We would rather our students spend their attention on preparation, not on refreshing websites.
What You Will Find There
The page currently lists 32 opportunities for the 2027 intake. Some are common entrance exams accepted by many institutions, such as JEE Main and Advanced, NEET-UG, CUET-UG, CLAT, NATA and UCEED. Others are direct applications to individual universities, which usually run their own test, essay or interview.
You can filter by field: engineering, medicine, law, design, architecture, business and management, commerce and economics, liberal arts and humanities, and the sciences. Each listing shows when applications open and close, the exam date, who is eligible, the conducting body, a link to the official site, and the date we last checked it.
Listings are grouped by where they stand. Some are open now, some have an exam date announced, and many, at this point in the year, are marked as not yet announced. That last group is just as useful: it tells you which portals to keep an eye on over the coming weeks.
At the time of writing, three are already open: CLAT and AILET for law, and UCEED for design. Some of these close before the end of October, so if any is on your child's list, please look now rather than next month.
Please Read This Before You Rely on It
We are doing this on a best-effort basis, and we want to be clear about what that means.
The dates and details on the page come from each institution's own portal and are checked by the school. But institutions change dates, extend deadlines and revise eligibility, sometimes overnight, and we cannot promise to catch every change the moment it happens.
The official website and information bulletin of each exam or university is always the final word. Before you register, pay a fee or make a decision, confirm the details there. Responsibility for an application, including meeting its deadline, rests with the student and family, and the school cannot accept responsibility for an opportunity missed because of an error or delay on our page.
The list is also not exhaustive. If a listing says "not announced", it means we have not yet seen an announcement, not that the exam has been cancelled. And if your child is aiming for something that is not there, it may simply mean we have not added it yet.
If you spot an error or a missing exam, please tell us through the school office. Every correction makes the page better for the next family.
How to Get the Most From It
Pick the four to six listings that genuinely fit your child, and check them every couple of weeks from now until March. Note each opening and closing date in a family calendar the day it is announced, and download the official information bulletin as soon as it appears, because that document, not any summary, sets the rules.
Read the eligibility line of each listing carefully against your child's subjects and expected marks; our guide to Class 11 subject combinations explains why those subjects matter so much. If anything is unclear, our academic coordinators are happy to go through it with you, and you can see how our senior classes are organised on our academics page.
We will keep adding exams and updating dates through the year. Our hope is simple: that no Udaya student misses an opportunity for want of knowing it was there.