IIT Joint Admission Test eligibility criteria

I want to give the exam of IIT Joint Admission Test and for that I want to get the details of IIT Joint Admission Test eligibility criteria so can you please make it available for me?

[Arun Vats]

As you want to get the details of IIT Joint Admission Test eligibility criteria so here it is for you:

Eligibility Criteria:
For IISc, Bangalore:
Candidates must have passed with First class marks (as declared by the university) for General/OBC category candidates and at least second class or 50% aggregate marks for SC and ST category candidates in the qualifying degree.

For IITs:
Candidates must have passed with minimum of 55% aggregate marks for General/OBC category candidates and at least 50% aggregate marks for SC, ST and PD category

IIT JAM Exam Pattern:



IIT JAM 2014 Important dates
Date of Admission Test - February 9, 2014
Announcement of Results - April 16, 2014
Last date for receiving complete application forms with demand draft – April 30, 2014
Release of first admission list under JAM 2013 – Last week of May, 2014 (Tentative)
Release of admission letters by admitting institute – First week of June, 2014 (Tentative)
Last date for conveying the acceptance of the offer by the candidates to the Organising Chairman, JAM 2014, IIT Delhi – Third week of June, 2014 (Tentative)
Release of second admission list under JAM 2014 – Last week of June, 2014 (Tentative)

I want to appear in IIT Joint Admission Test . Will you please provide the information regarding the eligibility criteria required to appear in exam ?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

IIT Joint Admission Test known as JAM is directed by Indian Institutes of Technology to provide admissions to:

Joint M.Sc.- Ph.D.
M.Sc. (Two Year)
M.Sc.- Ph.D. Dual Degree

other Post-Bachelor’s Degree courses at the IITs and to the Integrated Ph.D. programmes at IISc. The participating IIT's are

IIT Bhubaneswar
IIT Hyderabad
IIT Indore
IIT Kanpur
IIT Kharagpur
IIT Madras
IIT Roorkee
IIT Ropar
IIT Bombay
IIT Delhi
IIT Gandhinagar
IIT Guwahati

Eligibility Criteria:

Education Qualification for IISc Bangalore:

Applicants must have First class for un‐reserved/OBC category Applicants and second class or 50% aggregate marks, without rounding off, for SC/ST and PwD category Applicants in the qualifying degree.

For IIT Guwahati:

Applicants must have at least

(a) 55% marks in major/honors and pass in all other subjects, including Languages and Subsidiaries OR

(b) 60% aggregate marks in all subjects, including Languages and Subsidiaries, all years combined, for un‐reserved/OBC(NCL) category candidates; AND at least

(a) 50% marks in major/honors and pass in all other subjects, including Languages and Subsidiaries, OR

(b) 55% aggregate marks in all subjects, including Languages and Subsidiaries, all years combined, for SC/STand PwD category Applicants, in the qualifying degree.

Educational Qualification for all other IITs:

Applicants must have 55% aggregate marks, for un‐reserved/OBC Category candidates and at least 50% aggregate marks

Exam Pattern

The exam will seven test papers, namely,
Chemistry (CY)
Geology (GG)
Biological Sciences (BL)
Biotechnology (BT)
Mathematics (MA)
Mathematical Statistics (MS) and
Physics (PH), each of three hours duration.

All the seven test papers of JAM will be of fully objective type, with three different patterns of questions as follows:

Multiple Choice Questions : Each MCQ type question has four choices out of which only one choice is the correct answer.

MSQ: there may be one or more than one choice(s) that are correct out of the four given choices.

Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions: No choices will be shown for these types of questions.

For each Numerical Answer Type question, the answer is a signed real number which needs to be entered using the virtual keypad on the monitor.