JAM 2024 counselling is being undertaken for admissions to nearly 3000 seats across 89 postgraduate degrees across 21 IITs, and it will be administered by IIT Madras for the 2024-25 academic year. The JAM 2024 counselling procedure will be conducted entirely online and divided into four parts. Candidates seeking admission must pay a non-refundable application fee of INR 750. After accepting a seat, candidates must pay an online Seat Booking Fee of INR15,000/- for General/OBC-NCL/EWS and INR 7,500/- for SC/ST/PwD within the specified time frame.

The IIT JAM 2024 results were announced by IIT Madras on March 20, 2024. Along with the JAM 2024 result announcement, exam officials issued the IIT JAM 2024 final answer key, which included the master question paper for seven courses. Candidates could see their results and get IIT JAM 2024 scorecards by checking in with their enrollment ID or email address. The IIT JAM 2024 cut-off for all seven MSc courses was announced on March 22, 2024, along with the JAM 2024 results. 

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What is IIT JAM?

The Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM) is an all-India level online admission exam administered annually on a rotational basis by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. IIT JAM is held to choose applicants for MSc and other postgraduate courses given at IITs, as well as integrated PhD courses offered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. Several National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) accept JAM scores for MSc admission.  

IIT JAM 2024 Important Exam Dates & Events

Take a look at the table below for the complete schedule of IIT JAM 2024 exam

IIT JAM 2024 Admission Process

Before submitting the IIT JAM 2024 application form, candidates must check that they meet the eligibility criteria.

• To be eligible for the IIT JAM 2024, aspirants must have a bachelor’s degree.
• Candidates who had or will take their graduation examinations in 2024 were also able to apply, as long as they submitted documentation by September 2023.
• Candidates who passed the IIT JAM 2024 exam were eligible to apply for the admission and counselling process. 

IIT JAM 2024 Result

The results of IIT JAM 2024 were announced on March 20, 2024. Candidates will be able to download their scorecards by checking in with their enrolment ID or email ID and password. The scorecard will be made available within a few days of the results being declared. The latest deadline to download the IIT JAM scorecard is scheduled to be July 2024. The IIT JAM result 2024 will include candidates’ scores as well as their All India Rank (AIR). Qualified candidates were contacted for the final admissions process or counselling sessions.

IIT JAM 2024 Answer Key

IIT Madras released the IIT JAM 2024 solution key on February 19, 2024. Candidates can get the IIT JAM 2024 answer key by entering their login information. In the event of a discrepancy, candidates will be able to submit challenges within the time frame specified by the authority by logging into the IIT JAM 2024 candidate portal.

Candidates were also offered the option of filing objections to the preliminary IIT JAM 2024 answer keys for a charge of INR 500 per question. The answer keys, as well as the candidates’ OMR sheets, were released. With the use of the answer keys of IIT JAM 2024, candidates will be able to compute their predicted scores in the exam and predict which college and branch they are likely to get admission to. The final answer keys were released along with the result. 

IIT JAM Exam Analysis and Student Reactions

For their Chemistry and Mathematics exams, most students showed up during the morning shift. The Geology paper was written by a few people. Comparing the Mathematics part to the previous year, it was more challenging. The difficulty level for the Chemistry part is simple to moderate. The greatest number of candidates who showed up for the areas of mathematics, chemistry, and geology indicated that the first shift of the IIT JAM 2024 exam was rather simple. The way the questions were written was to assess their practical and analytical thinking on the topic.

The students claimed that the IIT JAM 2024 Chemistry Question Paper was rather long. You might classify the exam as Moderate to Difficult.  

Students who took the exam reported that 25–30 questions with 90% correctness on the IIT JAM 2024 Chemistry Question Paper constitute good tries. Several coaching centres predict that this year’s IIT JAM Chemistry predicted cutoff will be in the range of 25 to 30 marks. 

IIT JAM 2024 Application Form

The application period for IIT JAM 2024 is now closed. Everything about the process, including registering and paying the exam cost online, was done online. To finish the application procedure and pay the application fee online, candidates must first go to the exam’s official website. There was an application correction window offered by the exam authorities. See the video for instructions on completing the IIT JAM 2024 application.  

IIT JAM 2024 Eligibility Criteria

The following are the IIT JAM 2024 eligibility requirements as announced by IIT Guwahati:

• To meet the eligibility requirements for IIT JAM 2024, applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree. Formerly, candidates had to meet a CGPA cutoff; however, as of this year, they only need to pass the qualifying degree.
• Applicants who have taken or plan to take their graduation examinations in 2024 are also welcome to apply, as long as they turn in the documentation by September of that same year.
• Candidates who successfully complete the IIT JAM 2024 exam will be eligible to apply for admission.

Age Requirement: The IIT JAM 2024 test is open to candidates of any age.

IIT JAM 2024 Pattern

The format of the IIT JAM 2024 exam was unchanged from the previous year. This three-hour computer-based test is administered in two sessions. There are sixty questions in all, and there are 100 total points. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), Multiple Select Questions (MSQs), and Numerical Answer Type (NAT) are the three categories of questions. The exam has a differential marking system, and every incorrect response has a negative grading scheme. Find out more about the format of the IIT JAM 2024 exam here. 

IIT JAM 2024 Syllabus

The syllabus for IIT JAM 2024 has been made available by IIT Madras and can be found in the Information Brochure on the program’s official website. On the exam’s official website, candidates can get PDF versions of the IIT JAM syllabus for every topic. The IIT JAM 2024 syllabus hasn’t changed from the previous year. The topics covered under each subject that are tested in the exam are referred to as the syllabus. The disciplines covered in the IIT JAM programme are at the BSc level. Exam officials have issued the complete syllabus for IIT JAM 2024. Please review it.  

Conclusion

IIT Madras is conducting the IIT JAM 2024 counselling process for admissions to various postgraduate degrees. The first admission list will be released on May 31, 2024, and the counselling process will be conducted entirely online. Candidates seeking admission must pay an application fee and online seat booking fee as per the specified deadlines. 

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