National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) 2014

National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) 2014

The National Entrance Screening Test (NEST), a compulsory test for students seeking admission to National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar and University of Mumbai - Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CBS), Mumbai for the 5 year integrated M.Sc. programme in Biological, Chemical, Mathematical and Physical sciences will be held from 10 am to 1 pm on May 31, 2014 (Saturday), at 45 centers across India.  The website http://nestexam.in/  will open for information and Online submission of application on January 07, 2014.

Students securing at least 60% marks in aggregate (or equivalent grade) in Class XII (or equivalent) examination from any recognized Board in India are eligible to apply. For Scheduled Cast (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) candidates and for Persons with Disability (PD), the minimum requirement is 55%. If a Board gives results through Letter Grade only, a certificate from the Board specifying equivalent percentage of marks will be required. In the absence of such a certificate the decision of the respective Admission Committees will be final.

Applicant should have passed the Class XII qualifying examination in 2012 or 2013 or should be appearing for the qualifying examination in 2014. Applications can be submitted in the online mode or offline mode, but the online mode of application is desirable and preferred.

Applicant should have an e-mail ID and will have to first register before logging in for applying. On registering, applicant will receive a conformation mail. Applicant has to confirm the registration from this mail sent to the applicant after registration. Applicant has to then login in the NEST homepage with the mail-id and password.  The form has to be filled and saved. A saved form can be modified also. Passport photo and scanned signature has to be uploaded. Fees as applicable will have to be  transferred as instructed. Fee may also be paid by way of a DD taken in favour of ‘NISER NEST’, payable at Bhubaneswar.

Applicant should quote the 5-digit Application number in both cases. To apply offline, applicant may send a letter of request to get the printed form by post in the address that will be specified. This form will have to be sent back along with DD after filling it properly. DD should not be sent with request letter but has to be sent only with filled-in form.

The last date for receiving request of application form by post is February 20, 2014. The completed offline application form will be accepted up to 5.30 pm on March 08, 2014. Online application submission facility will freeze at midnight on March 08, 2014. Dispatches of offline admit cards will start on April 08, 2014. Facilities for downloading of online admit cards will also be activated on April 08, 2014.

Results of NEST will be published at the NEST website on June 20, 2014. NEST question papers of previous years are available at http://nestexam.in/   Both NISER and UM-DAE-CBS have been started by Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in 2007 with the objective of training scientific manpower for carrying out cutting edge scientific research and for providing input to scientific programmes of Department of Atomic Energy and other applied science institutions in the country.

NISER offers 5 year integrated M.Sc. programme in Biological, Chemical, Mathematical and Physical sciences and functions at the campus of Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. Degrees at NISER will be awarded by the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), a deemed-to-be University within the Department of Atomic Energy. There are 100 seats in 2014-19 session, including reserved seats for SC/ST/OBC candidates and persons with disability (PD) as per Government norms. Further details are available on the NISER website http://www.niser.ac.in

Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences is an autonomous institution of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India at Mumbai. The Centre is located in the Vidyanagari campus of the University of Mumbai and offers a 5 year integrated M.Sc. programme in Biological, Chemical, Mathematical and Physical sciences. The degrees at CBS are awarded by University of Mumbai. Tentatively, there are 35 seats this year with reservations as per government norms, including reservation for persons with disability (PD). Further details including maximum number of seats in any stream and allotment procedure are on the CBS website http://www.cbs.ac.in.

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