Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc) and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) conduct the Joint Admission Test for admission to M.Sc., Integrated Ph.D. Degree Programs, Ph.D., M.Sc.-M.Tech., M.Sc.-M.S.(Research) and other Post-Bachelor Degree Programmes.

IIT JAM Application Fee
Group / Category:
Fee Details :

One Test Paper Two Test Papers
Female ( All Categories )
/ SC / ST / PwD 750/- 1050/-

All Others 1500/- 2100/-


IIT JAM Pattern:-

JAM examination will be conducted for the seven test papers:
Biological Sciences (BL),
Biotechnology (BT),
Chemistry (CY),
Geology (GG),
Mathematics (MA) ,
Mathematical Statistics (MS)
Physics (PH).

All test papers fully objective type.

Three different patterns of questions as follows:

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) :
Each MCQ type question has four choices out of which only one choice is the correct answer.

Multiple Select Questions (MSQ):
Each MSQ type question is similar to MCQ but with a difference that there may be one or more than one choice(s) that are correct out of the four given choices.

Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions:
For each NAT type question, the answer is a signed real number which needs to be entered using the virtual keypad on the monitor.
No choices will be shown for these type of question

IIT JAM 2016 Important Dates :

Last Date for receipt of request for change of category along with valid documents in proper format at IIT Madras –
April 29 2016

Declaration of First Admission List –
June 15 2016

Declaration of Second Admission List –
June 29 2016

Declaration of Third and Final Admission List and the Closure of Admissions through JAM 2016 –
July 11 2016