IIT JAM 2014 Eligibility, Exam Date, Online Registration and Notification

Are you preparing for JAM 2014 ? If yes, then take a look on here. The notification for JAM 2014 has been announced. For this year, the organizing institute of JAM 2014 is the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. This article will cover informations on date of examination, eligibility criteria, online registration, syllabus and other important notifications for JAM 2014.

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What is JAM 2014

Joint Admission Test for M. Sc or JAM is an all India Entrance Examination unitedly conducted by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and eleven Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) for admission to various higher education programme in the stream of Science in these top ranking institutes. The courses includes Integrated Ph.D degree programmes at IISc, Bangalore and Two year M.Sc, Joint M.Sc - Ph.D, M.Sc – Ph.D dual degree programmes at the eleven IITs. Each year one institute takes the responsibility of organizing the Examination and as we have said, for the year 2014 the institute is IIT, Kanpur.

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Eligibility for JAM 2014

The qualification required to be eligible for appearing in the Entrance Examination is a Bachelor Degree in Science. Candidates who are appearing in the final Examination of the qualifying degree can also apply for the Joint Admission Test. For admission in IISc, Bangalore a candidate must obtain first class marks in the qualifying examination. However, in case of SC and ST category, candidates obtaining second class marks or 50% aggregate marks can appear in the same. For admission in IITs, a general or OBC candidate must have obtained 55% aggregate marks and a SC or ST candidate must have obtained 50% marks or equivalent grades to be eligible for the Test.

Online Registration, Exam Date & Syllabus

The online registration process will start from 16^th September, 2013 to 16^th October, 2013. To know the online registration procedure, you may visit the official webpage.

The JAM 2014 will be held on 9^th February, 2014.

To obtain the complete lists of syllabus of each paper, you may visit the official website of JAM 2014 – http://gate.iitk.ac.in/jam.