National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) Entrance Exam is conducted by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, for the admission into five-year Master of Science (M.Sc) integrated course.

Eligibility
-You must not be above 25 years of age at the time of applying for the entrance test.
- SC/ST/PD category candidates have relaxation of 5 years in the upper age limit.
- Must have passed Higher Secondary Certificate Examination or its equivalent under 10+2 examination pattern, from any recognized state/national Board.
-The qualifying examination must have passed by the candidates with a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate, from any recognized Board.
-The candidates, who are from reserved categories such as Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), should have passed qualifying examination with not less than 55% marks in aggregate.
-The candidates, who are appearing in the final year of qualifying examination, are also eligible to apply for the course.

No. of seats:
The total number of seats at
NISER 100;
CBS 35;
ISER 21

Examination Centers:
Agartala, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata (North, South), Lucknow, Madurai, Allahabad, Balasore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Silchar, Belgaum, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Burdwan, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi (East, North, South), Guwahati, Siliguri, Srinagar, Udaipur, Varanasi, Vishakapatnam

Important Dates:
Start of Online / Offline application for NEST 2014: 07th Jan 2014
Last date for receiving request for Offline application form: 20th Feb 2014
Closing of Online / Offline application: 08th Mar 2014
Download / Dispatch of Admit Card begins: 08th Apr 2014
NEST 2014 examination: 31st May 2014 (Saturday) 10.00 a.m. to 01.00 p.m.
Announcement of results in NEST website: 20th June 2014