Students must hav echosen science stream with PCM as mandatory subjects from recognised University and must have atleast 50%aggregate marks in 12th and must be unmarried candidate both male and female acceptes.

Students need to pursue graduation degree in following courses only for eligibility as shared in link below. 

http://www.indiaeducation.net/careercenter/professional-courses/merchant-navy/

Students then who are qualified have to appear for entrance test, screening test and main written exam for Merchant Navy.

After clearing above test, Medical test and interview is conducted and ship training course is given to finally join as Merchant Navy. 

• B.Sc. Nautical Science
• B.E. Marine Engineering
• B.E. Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering
• B.E. Petroleum Engineering
• B.E. Mechanical Engineering
• B.E. Harbour & Ocean Engineering
• B.E. Civil Engineering
• B.E. Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• B.Sc. Marine Catering
• Electro Technical Officer Course

Hello,

Yes, there is a physical test.

Admission is through an entrance followed by a screening test and a main written examination.

After clearing the test, there is an interview and a medical test.

The eligibility for joining merchant navy is finishing class 12 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. 

Other eligibility criteria are as follows:

Candidates have to be unmarried Indian citizens.

Normal vision is required but glasses up to plus or minus 2.5 may be allowed.

Hope this helps. You can contact for any further guidelines.

Merchant navy officers are employed by commercial shipping companies to work on all kinds of seagoing vessels, such as cruise liners, cargo ships, tankers and hovercraft. In order to get admission in Merchant Navy you can apply the entrance exams like IMU CET conducted by Indian Maritime University, CUSAT CAT etc. for Merchant Navy. You can check the eligibility of the exams with given below links.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/imu-cet

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/cusat-cat-eligibility-criteria

Top institute for Merchant Navy are:
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!

Dear,

The eligibility of joining the Merchant Navy you have to be 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. and the candidated must be unmerried Indian citizens. normal vision are required but minimum 2,5 are allow and the admission are through my writen test, screening test, and main writen examination and you have to clear the interview test, medical test, 

And you also need to complete a shipe training course and that couse will be short term course and thought basically concept of vayaging.

For  more information use below link.

http://www.maritimetraining.in/join-merchant-navy.htm

ALL THE BEST.