The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc) and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) conduct the Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM 2016 Integrated Ph.D. Degree Programmes


Examination pattern :

All seven test papers will be of fully objective type, with 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 differencethat 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 questions.

The syllabus of the Physics of the IIT JAM Examination is As follow :

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

Some good books for the IIT JAM Physics Section is as follow :


Mathematical Physics: H.K. Dass
Mathematical Methods for Physics & Engineering: Riley, Hobson & Bence
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences: Mary L Boas

Classical Mechanics & General Properties of matter: A.B. Gupta
An Introduction to Mechanics: Kleppner and Kolenkow
Classical Mechanics: J.C. Upadhyaya

Waves and Oscillations: Brij Lal & N Subrahmanyam
Waves and Oscillations: N.K. Bajaj

Electricity & Magnetism: B.Ghosh
Introduction to Electrodynamics: David J. Griffiths

Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics & Thermal Physics: F. Reif
Heat & Thermodynamics: H.P. Roy & A.B. Gupta

Concepts of Modern Physics: Beiser, Mahajan, Choudhury
Quantum Physics: H.C. Verma

Electronic Devices & Circuit Theory: Boylestad & Nashelsky
Solid State Physics: S.O. Pillai