JOINT ADMISSION TEST FOR M.Sc. 2013
Admission to M.Sc. (Two Year), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D.
Dual Degree, Integrated Ph.D. and other Post-Bachelor’s Degree Programmes
Commencement of Online Application Process & Sale of Applications from 20th September 2012
Admission to M.Sc. (Two Year), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D.
Dual Degree, Integrated Ph.D. and other Post-Bachelor’s Degree Programmes
at
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE BANGALORE
and
INDIAN INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY
● BOMBAY ● DELHI ● DELHI ● GANDHINAGAR ●GUWAHATI ● HYDERABAD
● KANPUR ● KHARAGPUR ● MADRAS ● ROORKEE
● INDORE ● KANPUR ● HYDERABAD
From the Academic Session 2004 - 05, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have started conducting a Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM). Since 2012-13, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore has also joined the IITs in the conduct of this test. The objective of JAM is to provide admissions to various M.Sc., Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree and other post-bachelor degree programmes at the IITs based on the performance in a single test and to consolidate Science as a career option for bright students from across the country. In due course, JAM is also expected to become a benchmark for normalizing undergraduate level science education in the country.
The M.Sc., Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D, M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree and other post-bachelor degree programmes at the IITs offer high quality education in their respective disciplines, comparable to the best in the world. The curricula for these programmes are designed to provide the students with opportunities to develop academic talent leading to challenging and rewarding professional life. The curricula are regularly updated at each IIT. The interdisciplinary content of the curricula equips the students with the ability to utilize scientific knowledge for practical applications. The medium of instruction in all the programmes is English.
MPORTANT DATES FOR JAM 2013
Issue of OMR Application Forms and Information Brochures at Canara Bank counters
20 September, 2012 (Thursday)
Commencement of Online Registration
20 September, 2012 (Thursday)
Last date for issue of OMR Application Forms and Information Brochures at Canara Bank counters
20 October, 2012 (Saturday)
Last date for Online Registration on the website / website closure.
23 October 2012, (Tuesday) at 18:00 hrs
Last date for receipt of completed OMR Application Form along with Pay-in-slip and Demand Draft (if any) at IIT Delhi
30 October, 2012 (Tuesday)
Last date for receipt of completed Online Registration Form along with Demand Draft at IIT Delhi
30 October, 2012 (Tuesday)
Date of JAM 2013 Test
10 February, 2013 (Sunday)
Announcement of the Results of JAM 2013
10 April, 2013 (Wednesday) at 17:00 hrs
Issue of Application Form(s) for admission by JAM Office of IIT Delhi / downloading from the website of IIT Delhi starts
12 - 19 April, 2013
Last date for receipt of completed application forms for admission along with Demand Draft of Rs. 300/- at IIT Delhi
30 April, 2013 (Tuesday)
Declaration of First Admission List
31 May, 2013 (Friday)
Declaration of Second Admission List
24 June, 2013 (Monday)
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
The candidates who qualify in JAM 2013 shall have to fulfill the following eligibility criteria for admissions in IITs.
(i) At least 55% aggregate marks (taking into account all subjects, including languages and subsidiaries, all years combined) for General/OBC category candidates and at least 50% aggregatemarks (taking into account all subjects, including languages and subsidiaries, all years combined) for SC, ST and PD category candidates in the qualifying degree.
For candidates with letter grades/CGPA (instead of percentage of marks), the equivalence in percentage of marks will be decided by the Admitting Institute(s).
(ii) Proof of having passed the qualifying degree with the minimum educational qualification as specified by the admitting institute should be submitted by 30 September 2013.
At the time of admission, all admitted candidates will have to submit a physical fitness certificate from a registered medical practitioner in the prescribed form. At the time of registration, the admitted candidates may also have to undergo a physical fitness test by a medical board constituted by the Admitting Institute. In case a candidate is not found physically fit to pursue his/her chosen course of study, his/her admission is liable to be cancelled.
Note:
(a) It will entirely be the responsibility of the candidate to prove that he/she satisfies the minimum educational qualifications and eligibility requirements for admissions.
(b) The admitting institute has the right to cancel, at any stage, the admission of a candidate who is found to have been admitted to a course to which he/she is not entitled, being unqualified or ineligible in accordance with the rules and regulations in force.
HOW TO APPLY:
Candidates can submit Application Form in two different modes : OnlineandOffline. The preferred mode of application process is Online
Application Fee
Category
General/OBC
Male:
1200/- Fee for application form from banks / IITD JAM office (Rs.)
1100/- Fee for online registration (Rs.)
300/- Application fee for 2nd test paper (Rs.)
Female
No fees (Fee for application form from banks / IITD JAM office (Rs.))
No fees- (Fee for online registration (Rs.))
300/- Application fee for 2nd test paper (Rs.)
SC/ST/PD
600/- Fee for application form from banks / IITD JAM office (Rs.)
500/-s (Fee for online registration (Rs.))
150/- Application fee for 2nd test paper (Rs.)
APPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR JAM 2013
Candidates may apply for JAM 2013 through an “offline” procedure or an “online” procedure. Details of the application fees for different categories are given in Table 2. (REFER BROCHURE
http://gate.iitd.ac.in/jam/)
Offline Procedure: The “OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) Application Form” along with the “Information Brochure” will be available from 20
The JAM 2013 exam will be held on 10 February, 2013 (Sunday) in two sessions. The schedule for different test papers of JAM 2013 is given in Table 1. 4 (REFER BROCHURE
http://gate.iitd.ac.in/jam/) September, 2012 to 20 October, 2012 on cash payment of application fee of Rs. 1200/- for General/OBC category male candidates, Rs. 600/- forSC/ST and PD category male candidates from the designated branches of Canara Bank as given below.
Female candidates are exempted from payment of the application fee. They can obtain the Application Form from the designated Canara Bank counters on the submitting an attested photocopy of University/College/Institute Identity card and pre-final year/final year mark-sheet or degree certificate.
Agra (Cantonment), Ahmedabad (Revdi Bazar), Aligarh (Apsara Complex), Allahabad (Civil Lines), Amritsar (Dharam Singh Market), Bareilly (Civil Lines), Bengaluru (Town Hall), Bhopal (Maharana Pratap Nagar), Bhubaneswar (Bapuji Nagar), Chandigarh (Sector 17 C), Chennai (IIT Campus and T. Nagar), Coimbatore (Oppannakara Street), Delhi (IIT Campus, Janpath, Maharani Bagh and Vivek Vihar), Dehradun () Dhanbad (New Market Bank More), Durgapur (RH Benachitty), Ernakulam (Nettipadam Road), Faridabad (New Industrial Town), Goa (F. L. Gomes Road, Vasco),Gorakhpur (Bank Road), Gurgaon (Alwar Road), Guwahati (Fancy Bazar), Haldwani (Bareilly Road), Haridwar( ), Hubli (Billappanavar Nagar), Hyderabad (Abid Road), Indore (MG Road), Jabalpur (M.K. Chowk), Jaipur (Ajmeri Gate), Jammu (Shalimar Road), Jamshedpur (Loyola School, Bistupur), Jhansi (Civil Lines), Jodhpur (12th Chopasani Road), Jorhat (Garali), Kadapa (Chinna Chowk), Kakinada (Jawahar Street), Kanpur (Mall Road), Kharagpur (Fatak Bazar, Kharida),Kochi (Mattanchery), Kolkata (College Street and Gariahat), Kozhikode (Cherooty Road), Kurukshetra (Railway Road), Lucknow (Hazratganj), Madurai (Eastmasi Street), Mangalore (Balmatta Road), Meerut (Abu Lane), Mumbai (IIT Campus and Fort),Muzzafarpur (Motijheel), Nagpur (Sitabuldi), Nainital ()Nanded (Tara Singh Market), Nellore (Jonnagaddavari Street), Noida (Sector VI, Noida Complex), Pantnagar ( )Patna (Exhibition Road), Parui Garhwal ( ), Pune (Camp), Raipur (Malviya Road), Ranchi (SN Ganguli Road), Rishikesh ( ) Roorkee (Anaj Mandi), Rourkela (Uditnagar), Saharanpur ( ) Secunderabad (MG Road),Shillong (Gulasta Fancy Market), Shimla (The Mall),Silchar (Rangerkhiri), Siliguri (Sevoke Road), Srinagar,Garhwal() Thiruvananthapuram (MG Road, Spencer Junction), Tiruchirapalli (Teppakulam),Vadodara (Manick Rao Road), Varanasi (Bansphatak), Vijayawada (Sivalayam Street), Visakhapatnam (Daba Gardens).
The OMR Application Form enclosed in the envelope provided with the Information Brochure is to be completed by the candidate in all respects. After reading the instructions given in Section 12, carefully fill in all the items of the form. Fold the form only where it was originally folded. Also write the code(s) of the test paper(s) applied, and the first choice of city /town of test on the top - left portion of the envelope.
Candidates desiring to appear for a second test paper must clearly mention their option in the OMR Application Form. Such candidates are required to pay an additional fee of Rs. 300/- (Rs. 150/- for SC/ST and PD candidates) through a demand draft in favour of “Chairman, JAM, IIT Delhi”, on any Nationalized Bank, payable at Delhi. This demand draft is to be sent along with the OMR
Application Form. Female candidates are not required to pay any additional fees if they desire to appear for a second test paper. The last date of receipt of completed application form along with application fees (where applicable) is 30 October, 2012 at JAM office IIT Delhi.
10.2 Online Procedure: The facility for Online Registration will be available through the website
http://www.iitd.ac.in/jam from 20 September, 2012. The last date for submission of Online Application Forms on website is 23 October, 2012 at 18:00 hrs. A candidate can fill in electronically his/her personal data and the appropriate application fee can be paid by a Demand Draft drawn in favour of “Chairman, JAM, IIT Delhi”, on any Nationalized Bank, payable at Delhi.
After electronically filling his/her personal data and information pertaining to the Demand Draft in the Online Application Form on the website, the candidate can download this form and take a print out of the same. The photograph, declaration and signature will have to be provided by the candidate on the printed Online Registration Form. The photograph should be glued at the appropriate place provided in the form and must not be stapled and not be signed/attested. The candidate must write his/her name and application form number at the reverse-side of photograph. The candidate is advised to keep a photocopy of the completed Online Registration Form for his/her record.
10.3 List of enclosures and address for sending the completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form: The following documents should be enclosed along with the completed OMR Application Form: (i) Bank Pay-in-slip, (ii) Demand Draft for additional fee for the second test paper, if applicable, (iii) SC/ST Certificate (copy), if applicable, and (iv) PhysicalDisability Certificate (copy), if applicable.
The following documents should be enclosed along with the completed Online Registration Form: (i) Demand
Draft/bank pay-in-slip for the application fee, (ii) SC/ST Certificate (copy), if applicable, and (iii) Physical Disability Certificate (copy), if applicable.
The male candidates are required to write their name and application number on the back of the Demand Draft for the application fee/fee for second test paper.
Irrespective of the choice of the test centres, the candidate must send the duly filled in OMR Application Form or completed Online Registration Form, as the case may be, along with all necessary enclosures indicated above, to the following address:
Organizing Chairman, JAM 2013
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Block-I, Ground Floor)
Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110 016
The candidates are advised to send their completed OMR Application Forms/Online Registration Forms by Speed Post/Registered Post only and retain the receipt of posting.
Last Date for Receipt of the Completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form: The last date for receipt of the duly completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form at the JAM Office, IIT Delhi, is 30 October, 2012. Any OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form received after this date will not be accepted. Any delay in receiving the application material by the candidate will not be considered as a valid reason for the late submission of the completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form after the deadline. The organizing institute is not responsible for any postal delay or irregularity or loss in postal transit.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are institutions of national importance established through an Act of Parliament. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a premier research and teaching institute established in 1909. The IISc Bangalore & IITs are well known, the world over, for quality education in engineering, science, management and research in frontier areas. The aim of the IISc Bangalore & IITs is to build a sound foundation of knowledge, pursue excellence and enhance creativity in an intellectually stimulating environment. The current pace of advancement of technology needs a coherent back-up of basic science education and research. The vibrant academic ambience and research infrastructure of IISc Bangalore & IITs motivate the students to pursue Research and Development careers in frontier areas of basic sciences as well as interdisciplinary areas of science and technology. Further, IISc Bangalore & IITshave well equipped modern laboratories, efficient computer networks and state-of-the-art libraries. The teaching process is structured to promote close andcontinuous contact between the faculty and the students.
A number of financial assistantships are available to SC/ST and other deserving and meritorious students at individual institutes.
From the Academic Session 2004-05, Indian Institutes of Technology have started conducting a Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM). The objective of JAM is to provide admissions to M.Sc. (Two Year), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree and other Post-Bachelor’s Degree programmes at the IITs and to the Integrated Ph.D. programmes at IISc based on the performance in a single test and to consolidate Science as a career option for bright students from across the country. JAM is expected to be a benchmark for undergraduate level science education in the country. IISc is joining the JAM for the first time this year to select candidates to its Integrated Ph.D. Program. The integrated Ph.D. programme at IISc was started in the early 90’s to enable students to directly join for a Ph.D. degree after their B.Sc. Degree.
The M.Sc. (Two Year), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D, M.Sc.-Ph.D.Dual Degree and other post-bachelor’s degree programmes at the IITs and the integrated Ph.D. programme at IISc offer high quality education in their respective disciplines, comparable to the best in the world. The curricula for these programmes are designed to provide the students with opportunities to develop academic talent leading to challenging and rewarding professional life. The curricula are regularly updated at each IISc Bangalore & IITs. The interdisciplinary content of the curricula equips the students with the ability to utilize scientific knowledge for practical applications. The medium of instruction in all the programmes is English.
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