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Indian Institute of Technology Joint Admission Test ( IIT JAM ) Entrance Examination

The Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Science may have conducted the Joint Admission Test for Masters of Science and Technology (IIT JAM). The IIT JAM exam is available for those candidates, who are appeared from the Bachelor’s degree and want to complete their study after the IIT JAM professional course. This professional course is counted in the top most reputed colleges and institutions like IIT & IISc, which is providing the best offer to get the admission in these courses on the basis of IIT JAM exam.

Those Aspirants have the eligibility to take admission in the IIT JAM, so there are the two options, which is MSC. Or PhD and MSc.-Phd dual degree professional courses offered for them. IITs & IISc conduct this national level examination of JAM in the rotation bases. JAM is held in the month of February every year. IIT JAM 2018 will be organized by IIT Bombay. The interested applicants can check out the important details of JAM 2018 from this article given below.

IIT JAM Entrance Examination 2021 Exam Syllabus

IIT JAM 2018 Syllabus

The syllabus will comprise in various subjects such as Biological Sciences (BL), Biotechnology (BT), Mathematics (MA), Mathematical Statistics (MS) Chemistry (CY), Geology (GC), and Physics (PH). Candidates should have the complete knowledge about the officially prescribed syllabus. The Syllabus for the seven Papers specified as follows: 

Biological Sciences (BL):

  1. General Biology
  2. Basics of Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology
  3. Microbiology, Cell Biology and Immunology
  4. Mathematical Sciences

Biotechnology (BT):

The syllabus will be of the 10+2+3 level. The Biotechnology test paper comprises of

  1. Biology (44% weightage),
  2. Chemistry (20% weightage),
  3. Mathematics (18% weightage)
  4. Physics (18% weightage).

Chemistry (CY):

  1. Physical Chemistry
  2. Organic Chemistry
  3. Inorganic Chemistry

Geology (GG):

  1. The Planet Earth
  2. Geomorphology
  3. Structural Geology
  4. Palaeontology
  5. Stratigraphy
  6. Mineralogy
  7. Petrology
  8. Economic Geology
  9. Applied Geology

Mathematics (MA):

  1. Sequences and Series of Real Numbers
  2. Functions of Two Real Variables
  3. Differential Equations
  4. Vector Calculus
  5. Group Theory
  6. Linear Algebra
  7. Real Analysis

Mathematical Statistics (MS):

The Mathematical Statistics (MS) test paper comprises of Mathematics (40% weightage) and Statistics (60% weightage).

  1. Sequences and Series
  2. Differential Calculus
  3. Integral Calculus
  4. Matrices
  5. Differential Equations
  6. Statistics
  7. Probability
  8. Random Variables
  9. Standard Distributions
  10. Joint Distributions
  11. Sampling distributions
  12. Estimation
  13. Testing of Hypotheses

Physics (PH):

  1. Mathematical Methods
  2. Mechanics and General Properties of Matter
  3. Oscillations, Waves and Optics
  4. Electricity and Magnetism
  5. Kinetic theory, Thermodynamics
  6. Modern Physics
  7. Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics
  8. Simple Oscillators

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