All about Joint Admission Test (JAM) 2021

Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM) is a national level online entrance exam conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) every year. The exam is conducted to provide admission to candidates in MSc and other postgraduate courses offered in IITs and integrated PhD courses offered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Other institutes like the National Institutes of Technolgy (NITs), and other centrally funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) also accept JAM scores for MSc admissions.

Eligibility

JAM 2021 eligibility criteria include:

• Candidates should hold a bachelor’s degree with at least 55% aggregate score (50% for SSC/ST/PwD). It is said that the aggregate score should be considered excluding languages and subsidiaries.
• Candidates who have appeared, or going to appear for their graduation exam in 2021 are also eligible to apply.

Candidates who have passed the JAM 2021 exam will be eligible to apply for the admission process in various IITs in India. 

JAM 2021 is conducted for seven subjects, Geology (GG), Mathematics (MA), Mathematical Statistics (MS), Biotechnology (BT), Chemistry (CY), Economics (EN), and Physics (PH). The IIT JAM exam pattern is a mixture of multiple-choice questions (MCQs), multiple section question (MSQs) and numerical answer type (NAT) questions.

IIT JAM Syllabus

The syllabus is based on  10+2+3 level and includes the following topics and chapters in respective subjects.

• Biotechnology (BT)

Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics

• Chemistry (CY)

Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

• Geology (GG)

Planet Earth, Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Palaeontology, Stratigraphy, Mineralogy, Petrology, Economic Geology, Applied Geology

• Mathematics (MA)

Sequences and Series of Real Numbers, Functions of Two Real Variables, Differential Equations, Vector Calculus, Group Theory, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis

• Mathematical Statistics (MS)

Sequences and Series, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Matrices, Differential Equations, Statistics, Probability, Random Variables, Standard Distributions, Joint Distributions, Sampling distributions, Estimation, Testing of Hypotheses

• Physics (PH)

Mathematical Methods, Mechanics and General Properties of Matter, Oscillations, Waves and Optics, Electricity and Magnetism, kinetic theory, Thermodynamics, Modern Physics, Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics, Simple Oscillators

• Economics

The Planet Earth, Geomorphology, Structural Geology, Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Mineralogy, Petrology, Economic Geology, Applied Geology.

List of course and accepting IITs

List of Courses and Colleges Accepting Scores

Chemistry (CY)

Geology (GG)

Mathematics (MA)

Mathematical Statistics (MS)

Physics (PH)

Economics (EN)