Apply by using the JAM Online Application Processing System (JOAPS) link provided in JAM website.

No. One E-mail address can be used to submit only one application form.

A candidate can apply for either one or two out of the seven JAM test papers subject to the restriction imposed by the Test Schedule given in the Information Brochure or JAM website. The choice of the appropriate test paper(s) is the responsibility of the candidate. Some guidelines in this respect are suggested below.

a) The candidate is expected to appear in paper(s) appropriate to the discipline of his/her qualifying degree and/or based on the requirements of the academic programme to which he/she desires to seek admission.

b) The candidate is, however, free to choose any paper according to his/her admission plan, keeping in mind the eligibility criteria of the institutions in which he/she wishes to seek admission.

In all cases, the candidate must go through carefully the Information Brochure and/or the link Eligibility Requirements(ER) & Minimum Educational Qualifications (MEQ) in the website and check the ER and MEQ of the programme(s) in which the candidate wishes to seek admission before deciding on the test paper(s).

Candidate is most likely allotted a centre in the examination city of his/her first choice. Only in cases, where there are too many candidates opting for a certain city as their first choice, the other two choices shall be relevant. A candidate is required to fill his/her primary as well as secondary choices, but should remember that because of operational constraints, the JAM committee reserves the right to add a new city or remove an existing one, and allot a city that may not be any of the choices of a candidate.

If you have clicked on the ‘Save’ button during the application process, the data you entered up to that point of time has been stored online. Simply login back to the JOAPS website and continue the application process. If the data is not saved, you have to start the process afresh.

For PwD candidates with any category of disability (viz., blindness or low vision, hearing impairment, locomotor disability, and/or cerebral palsy), benefit will be given to only those who have at least 40% permanent physical impairment with respect to a body part/system/extremity/whole body, etc. In order to avail concession under the PwD category, the candidates should upload a recently obtained valid PwD certificate issued by competent authority.
A PwD candidate, if needed, can take the assistance of a Scribe during the JAM examination. Scribe is a person who can assist the PwD candidate by ONLY reading the instructions and the test paper displayed on the computer screen verbatim, and also in mouse-clicks, if the candidate is not able to do so. If the scribe is needed, then a PwD candidate should confirm the requirement of a scribe while filling up the application and must upload the PwD certificate.

No. You don’t need to upload your OBC-NCL certificate at the time of applying for JAM examination. Category certificate is required at this stage only to claim the concessional rate for the application fee. The rank list will be prepared based on the category declared by the candidates in the application form.

However, you have to submit the OBC-NCL category certificate in the prescribed format along with other required documents when you submit your application form for admission after the declaration of JAM results. The final seat allotment will be done based on the OBC-NCL certificate submitted along with the application form for admission. Please refer to the Information Brochure for more information.

Requests for change of JAM Examination paper(s) after the submission of Application Form will not be considered under any circumstances. Therefore, you must make clear choice(s) of the test paper(s) that you wish to appear in JAM.
However, requests for change of examination city will be accepted until a deadline against a fee. Please refer to the Information Brochure and JAM web site for more information on this.

There is a link to a payment gateway from the application portal. The candidate can choose from any of the payment options available. The additional charges such as service charges, processing fees or bank charges, have to be borne by the candidate. For details of the fees to be paid, refer to the Information brochure.

After the payment is successful, you will be redirected back to the JOAPS website. You will now be able to download the complete filled in application form with fee payment details in .pdf format. Take a printout of the entire PDF file for your future reference/use.

When you can get back online, first check the status of your payment on the JOAPS website. If the payment was received by JAM, a message to this effect will be displayed and now you can continue the usual process. If the payment was not received by JAM, you have to start with the payment step again, to complete payment.

This can happen if your bank account/debit card/credit card was used more than once or you pressed refresh or back/forward button of your internet browser. Any unaccounted or excess money that was received on behalf of JAM will automatically be returned (credited) to the bank account. Similarly, any unaccounted or excess money received from debit card/credit card account will be credited back to the same account.

This happens because of some failure in internet transactions (including failure of internet connection at your end). Please login back to JOAPS after one hour and check the status of the payment. Even then, if JOAPS does not acknowledge any fee payment, you MUST initiate a fresh payment process on the JOAPS website, and make the payment again, even without waiting or the money to be credited back to your account, so that your application submission is on time. The money that was debited (taken out) from your account in the first attempt, will be credited (put back) to the bank account. You will be charged only once. Any excess/unaccounted debits will be returned to you.

No. You do not have to send the printout of the application form to the Organizing Institute (IIT Bombay) or any other JAM zonal Offices. This is to kept with you for records..

You can check the status of your application by logging in to the JOAPS website.

No. After completing all the steps up to .pdf application form generation in the ONLINE application process, you can only download the application form and CANNOT modify the data. Hence you need to be very careful while entering the data.

You can login using your JOAPS Enrolment ID and JOAPS password and take a printout from the JOAPS website.

For Indian candidates, only following identification cards shall be accepted: Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhar-UID, College ID, Employee ID and Driving Licence. For International candidates, only valid Passport/ Government Issued ID/College/Employee ID shall be accepted as the recognized identification.

Yes. Enter your latest Percentage of Marks/CGPA in the field.

Admit Card can only be downloaded from the JOAPS website after January first week. Admit Cards will NOT be sent by post or as e-mail attachment.

No. The Admit Card has to be brought to the examination centre along with at least one original (not photocopied/scanned copy) and valid (not expired) Identity Document (ID), whose details have been entered while filling the application. For Indian candidates, only following identification cards shall be accepted: Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-UID, College ID, Employee ID and Driving License. For International candidates, ONLY a valid Passport/Government issued ID/College ID/Employee ID shall be accepted as the recognized identification. Candidates will not be permitted to take the examination if the original and valid ID is not presented.

No. Hard copy (printed in colour) of the Admit Card should be brought to the examination centre along with at least one original (not photocopied/scanned copy) and valid (not expired) Identity Document (ID), whose details have been entered while filling the application.

The JAM examination will be conducted as Computer based ONLINE examination.

JAM Examination is conducted for admission to various academic programmes (as listed in the Information Brochure) in IISc and IITs In all cases, you must go through carefully the Information Brochure and/or the link Eligibility Requirements & Minimum Educational Qualifications at JAM website and check the Eligibility Requirements and Minimum Educational Qualifications (MEQ) of the programme(s) in which you wish to seek admission before deciding on applying for JAM examination. If you have not yet graduated in the qualifying degree, you are still eligible to appear in JAM examination. However, on qualifying in JAM examination, you can apply for provisional admission subject to the condition that: (a) all parts of your final examination shall be completed by the date of registration of the Admitting Institute, and (b) proof of having passed the qualifying degree with required eligibility, as specified by the Admitting Institute, will be submitted by September 30.

A scribble pad will be provided to the candidate that can be used to do the rough work. The candidate has to return the scribble pad after the examination.

No. Candidates will not be allowed to leave the examination hall for any reason during the test. Candidates are allowed to leave the examination hall only after the closure of the test at the scheduled end of examination in a session.

Only admit card, identification card and a pen shall be permitted to be taken inside the examination hall. Mobile phones, physical calculators, wristwatches, or any other electronic items are NOT permitted inside the examination hall. If a candidate brings any of these items, they have to be kept outside the examination hall at the candidate’s own risk. If the candidate is found to be in possession of these items (even if not using them), he/she shall be disqualified and the result shall not be declared for the candidate.

No. During the online JAM examination, all candidates will be provided with a virtual scientific calculator which has to be used to answer the questions. Mobile phones, physical calculators, smart watches, or any other electronic items are NOT permitted inside the examination hall.

Such cases will naturally constitute violation of JAM code of conduct and will lead to disqualification of the candidature.

Please refer to http://www.ccdisabilities.nic.in/content/en/docs/CCDLetters.pdf (in particular to the fifth page of the document) for the clarification issued by CCPD on 18.03.2013. ‘The facility of scribe is meant for only those PwD candidates who have physical limitation to write including that of speed. The additional time would be applicable only to such candidates.’

Yes. Once you reach the examination hall please contact the JAM Institute Representative through the invigilator in your examination hall and he/she will do the needful.

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.

Yes, for admission in Chemistry, candidate should have passed Mathematics at the Higher Secondary (10+2) level.

The IIT administered Joint Admission Test for M.Sc programmes (JAM) attract thousands of applications every year against a limited number of seats, i.e., around 1800 across 16 Institutions offering postgraduate science programmes. Further, many of the JAM applicants are screened out with the entrance examination. Yet, the number of test takers qualifying the M.Sc entrance examination is quite huge in comparison to the number of offered seats. Therefore, JAM cut off is determined to shortlist candidates for admissions into the M.Sc programmes and it becomes easy for the institutes to call the JAM cutoff qualifying candidates for counselling process.