Which institutes are participating in IIT JAM 2026?
IIT JAM is conducted for admission to postgraduate course offered Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). JAM score is also used for admission to NITs, IISc, IIPE, JNCASR, IISER Pune, IISER Bhopal, IIPE, CFTIs, DIAT and SLIET.
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Candidates ranks in IIT JAM must be under 500 for admission to IIT Delhi. Below is IIT JAM 2025 opening and closing rank for GEN category. Here we have considered round 1 cutoff.
| Paper Name | Openig Rank | Closing Rank |
| Chemistry | 5 | 101 |
| Mathematics | 1 | 166 |
| Physics | 26 | 113 |
| Economics | 2 | 9 |
| Biological Sciences | 15 | 21 |
| Biological Sciences | 395 | 513 |
Around 3000 seats are reserved at IITs for postgraduate programmes. Admission to IITs MSc programmes is based on JAM score.
Joint Admission Test for Masters is conducted for 100 marks. 90+ marks is consider to be the highest marks in JAM. The highest marks scored by JAM topper is mentioned below.
- Biotechnology 88 marks.
- Physics - 90 marks
- Mathematics - 95 marks
- Chemistry - 90 marks
IIT JAM total mark is 100. Candidates need to obtain 70+ marks for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). 70+ marks will help to obtain a rank between 1 and 150.
IIT JAM 2026 cutoff for IIT Kharagpur will released after each round of counselling process. Last year, IIT Kharagpur offered admission to Joint M.Sc PhD courses to JAM rank between 11 to 6700. GEN category students had to obtained JAM rank between 11 to 528 for admission.
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