Hello,

Merchant Navy deals with transportation of goods, cruise ships, and is basically for International Trade.

To be eligible for Merchant Navy, you need to qualify your class 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Maths as core subjects. You also need to be unmarried. You have to appear for admission test as well as medical test for vision.

After clearing entrance test like Indian Maritime University Common Entrance Test  or the All India Merchant Navy Entrance Exam and medical you can study courses like B.Sc Nautical Science or B.tech Marine Engineering and many more at different colleges in India.

Some of the top merchant navy colleges are -

• Indian Maritime University, Kolkata
• Indian Maritime College, Chennai
• CMC Maritime Academy, Chennai
• Coimbatore Marine College, Coimbatore
• Anglo Eastern Maritime Training Centre, Mumbai

Click at this link to know more about Merchant Navy - https://university.careers360.com/articles/merchant-navy

Hope this was helpful

Hello Aspirant,

You can appear the entrance exam like IMU CET conducted by Indian Maritime University, CUSAT CAT etc. for Merchant Navy. You can check the eligibility of the exams & Syllabus with given below links.

IMU CET Eligibility

CUSAT CAT Eligibility

Top institute for Merchant Navy you can prefer:

Marine Engineering and Research Institute, MERI Kolkata
Marine Engineering and Research Institute, MERI Mumbai
Lal Bahadur Shastri College of Advanced Maritime Studies and Research, Mumbai
T.S. Chanakya, Mumbai
National Maritime Academy, Chennai
Indian Institute of Port Management, Kolkata

Good Luck!

Hello Aspirant,

Are you asking for IMUCET Entrance exam previous year papers? I would suggest you to go through with the given below link to download the previous year papers.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/imu-cet-sample-papers-question-paper

Good Luck!

Hello Aspirant

You can choose between two post :Officer for deck dept or a Engineer officer

You have  ways to enter here,after class 12 you can apply for any of the course

1.BSc in Nautical Science(deck cadet)

2.Marine Engineering(engine cadet)

3. BE NAVAL ENGINEERING

4.BE CIVIL ENGINEERING

5.BE ELECTRONICA ENGINEERING

Some national level entrance exam for entering into Merchant navy are:TIMSAT,IMUCET,MERI ENTRANCE EXAM,JEE

For aspirant to be a deck cadet you should have 6/6 vision in both eyes.

Hi Ankit,

Bobby career options after 12th are best and good. Both the career options pilot and Merchant Navy are among the most highly paid job. Merchant Navy is one of the best child because it place a good amount of salary to the officer for or the cadet. Pilots work is the work in which one needs to see and manage to fly the plane or the ships to move. Merchant Navy Officer has a work all over the country. He or she needs to make the movement from one country to another in for export and import of the products.

I Hope your question has been answered properly.

All the best for your future!

Hi Vanshika,

Yes it is necessary to have the knowledge of English for merchant navy. Candidate who is applying for Merchant Navy should have good English and he/she should have proficiency in speaking English. Good use of words while speaking to your crew members , to your interviewer will present your good image in front of them and they will hire you for their training programs and as a officer on ships. In Merchant Navy you have to work all over the globe , you have to move from one country to another country . So English will be very useful for you to communicate with other groups of different countries and helpful in exporting and importing the products.

I hope your question has been answered properly.

All the best for your future!

To get into merchant navy first you have to have the done your class 12 with PCM subjects with atleast 55% to 70% depending on different colleges.

There are three ways to get admission in merchant Navy:

1. Through entrance test and merit:

IMU CET

JEE ADVANCED

MERI entrance exam

TMISAT

These are few of the test you can clear to get admission in technical field of merchant navy. Many college also take admission on class 12 exam result.

2. Through Sponsorship:

The sponsorship to go on a ship will be provided to you by the company through which you apply only if you have completed a course at their institute. You can also apply for multiple sponsorships at different companies.

3. Through lateral entry:

If you have done engineering in mechanical or electrical branch in the first year with 60% marks then you can apply for lateral entry.

Or if you have done diploma in mechanical or electrical ,marine or ship building engineering with 60% marks you can apply

hi,

as per your qualification you can be hired as a head cook, however you need to apply for different companies as far as you meet the eligibility criteria. you may also apply to different cruise company, salaries are same as a 5 star hotel, after you gain 2-3 years experience by hard working , you may expect salary more than of five star hotels chief.