How to be a chef what course should I choose and best college to pursue it . How to start prepare NCHMCT exams

Dear student,

It is a good and very different question if we talk as an Indian students' point of views. :)

Well, let us get straight back to the question that how to become a chef .

See, after you pass 10 + 2, there are many courses that is offered across many hotel management institutes across the country, these courses are of mostly 3 years in form of diploma or bachelor's degree. All these comes under the major stream known as catering technology & culinary arts.

Below are the Bachelor's and diploma degree in catering technology & culinary arts:

• Diploma in food & beverage service
• Diploma in bakery & confectionery
• Diploma in kitchen management
• Diploma in bakery & patisserie
• Diploma in culinary arts
• BA (honours) culinary arts
• Post Graduate Diploma in culinary arts
• Craft certification course in food production
• Craftsmanship course in food & beverage service
• Craftsmanship course in food production & patisserie

For these courses there are no separate colleges as these courses are very much related to hotel management, so colleges are hotel management based too.

Below I am mentioning few best colleges of this field.

• Culinary Academy of India,  Hyderabad
• Institute of Hotel Management, Catering & Nutrition, Delhi
• Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai
• Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Culinary Arts, Hyderabad
• JB Institute of Hospitality Management, Kolkata
• IHM Bhubaneswar

To know more of such colleges and about hotel management, you can visit the page by clicking on the link below.

https://hospitality.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-hotel-management-colleges-in-india

or

https://hospitality.careers360.com/articles/top-hotel-management-colleges-in-india

Now as you know that National Council of Hotel Management and Catering Technology Joint Entrance Examination or NCHMCT JEE (also known as NCHM JEE )  which is conducted by NTA is the way to get admission to the the Hotel management colleges. This exam is considered to be one of the toughest exam of country but with proper strategy cracking this exam is not a big deal.

To take a start first go through the syllabus of this exam throughly. There are many sections of question in this exam like Genera Knowledge and current affairs, English language, Aptitude test etc,. You know your weaknesses and strength and put the required efforts on each section.

To know more about this exam and every details related to it, go through the link below.

https://hospitality.careers360.com/exams/nchm-jee

I hope this answer helps you.

Feel free to connect me in comment section for further discussion related to it.

All the best!