IIT JAM 2025 Application Form, Exam Date, Syllabus, Eligibility, Pattern

The exam authority has announced the IIT JAM 2025 exam dates. Below are the important dates for the entrance exam.

There are some set eligibility criteria to appear for IIT JAM 2025. The candidates need to satisfy the eligibility criteria before proceeding for the registration and admissions in IISc and IITs. The following are the few criteria’s mentioned to appear for the entrance test which the candidates need to satisfy.

• The candidates should have a bachelor’s degree from any recognized university.
• The minimum marks should be 55% in aggregate for the general/OBC category, and for the reserved category of SC/ST candidates, the marks should be at least 50% in aggregate.
• For applicants who have letter grades/CGPA instead of a percentile, the ratio of their percentage marks will be calculated by the admitting college.

The IIT JAM 2025 application form will be available in August 2025. The application form will be available online on the official website of JAM 2025. The payment of the application fee can be done via online or by e challan. The candidates can make the corrections in the application form for JAM 2025 after payment of the form fee. But the corrections can be done only for gender or category, not in the test paper or test city.

Application form fee details:

The application fees for 1 test paper are:

• Female candidates (all categories): Rs. 750/-
• Male candidates (General/OBC): Rs. 1500
• Male candidates (SC/ST): Rs. 750

• The IIT JAM 2025 question paper will consist of all objective MCA pattern questions.
• The multiple choice question will have four options, of which one is the correct answer.
• The question paper will have one more type of question pattern, i.e., MSQ (Multiple Select Questions). MSQ is similar to the MCQ pattern; the only difference is that there will be one or more than one choice of the correct option among the four options.
• The third type of question pattern is Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions. Here, there will be a real sign number that needs to be entered by using the virtual keypad on the monitor.
• No choices will be provided and a virtual calculator will also be given for the calculation. The total duration will be 3 hours. There will be a total 60 questions, each carrying 100 marks.

IIT JAM 2025 admit card will be available online on the official website from the month of January after the closure of the registration of the application form. The candidates need to download the admit card from the official link. The candidates must carry the admit card to the examination center along with a valid ID proof. The applicants need to login to the JAM official portal with their login ID.
The admit card will have some important information about the applicant, such as: candidate name, registration number, photograph, signature, code and name of the test paper, and details of the examination center.
The following are the steps to download the admit card:.

• Login to the JAM official portal
• Account login with the username and password
• The arithmetic password expression given need to be entered.
• Followed by the download of the admit card of JAM 2025.

After the successful completion of the entrance exam, the result of IIT JMAM 2025 will be declared online on the official website. The result will be announced in the month of March 2025. After the declaration of the result, the counselling procedure will start.

IIT JAM 2025 admission will be done on the merit basis of all India ranking on the IISc Bangalore campus and IITs. After the declaration of the result,, the shortlisted candidates shall apply to the organizing institute (IIT Delhi) and specify their preferred programmes in which they are interested to taking admission.

The candidates will be selected on the basis of their educational qualifications, their entrance test performances and the required eligibility of the admitting institute.

After the declaration of the result, the applicants need to apply online using the admission form available at JAM 2025 official website.

The exam center for JAM 2025 will be located to the eight zones. In these eight zones, the locations of the examination centers are listed. The applicant’s first step is to choose three city options; accordingly the zone will be chosen. With first choice of the city, the zone will get fixed and the second city option can be within that zone and for the third city option, the candidate anywhere in India from the same zone option itself.

Institute
IISc Bangalore
E-mail : jam@gate.iisc.ernet.in
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