FOR ADMISSION TO M.Sc., M.Sc.-Ph.D. DUAL DEGREE
AND OTHER POST-B.Sc. PROGRAMS
AT
INDIAN INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY
BOMBAY , DELHI , GUWAHATI, KANPUR , KHARAGPUR, MADRAS , ROORKEE
JOINT ADMISSION TEST FOR M.Sc., JAM-2009
Only the candidates who qualify in JAM-2009 (whose names appear in the Merit List) shall be eligible to apply for admission to any of the corresponding academic programs available at different IITs (refer Tables 1 and 2 of this Information Brochure). Candidates are advised, in their own interest, to refer to the brief profiles of the admitting institutes and departments included in this Information Brochure. Applicants should note that they have to apply for admission by sending an Application Form for Admission (henceforth called Admission Form) only to the Organizing Institute (IIT Kharagpur).
An applicant can apply to one or more academic programs corresponding to the Test Paper(s) in which he/she has qualified, subject to fulfillment of the minimum educational qualifications and the eligibility requirements of the Admitting Institute(s). For the academic session 2009-2010, the Admission Procedure enumerated below shall be followed for admissions to all the M.Sc./ M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual degree and other post-B.Sc. programs covered under JAM-2009.
(i) After JAM-2009 results are announced, a qualified candidate will have to apply on the prescribed Admission Form to the Organizing Institute (IIT Kharagpur) only, irrespective of the IIT(s) where he/she desires to seek admission. The Admission Form(s) will be sent along with the Rank Card to the qualified candidates and can also be downloaded from the website of the Organizing Institute.
(ii) Irrespective of whether a candidate has qualified in one or two Test Papers, he/she needs to send only one duly completed Admission Form listing all the M.Sc./ M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual degree/ post-B.Sc. programs (along with the order of preferences) to which the admission is sought by him/her.
(iii) The duly completed Admission Form along with required enclosures must be sent by the applicant to the Organizing Chairman, JAM-2009, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur - 721 302, along with an Account Payee Demand Draft of Rs. 300/- (Rupees Three Hundred only), drawn in favour of "Organizing JAM-2009", payable at Canara Bank, Kharagpur (Branch Code: 0190), as a non-refundable processing fee. It must be noted that the Admission Form either found incomplete in any respect or if not accompanied by a Demand Draft of Rs. 300/- shall be rejected and the candidate shall not be considered for admission irrespective of his/her eligibility for any program(s) for which Admission Form has been submitted by him/ her to the Organizing Institute. Also, a candidate will be considered for admission only to the program(s), given in his/her Admission Form. The last date for receiving the completed Admission Form at the Organizing Institute (IIT Kharagpur) is June 9, 2009.
(iv) Taking into consideration the order of preferences as given in the Admission Form and corresponding rank(s) in the merit list, in respect of only such candidates who are found eligible for admission by respective IITs, the First Admission List for each M.Sc./M.Sc.-Ph.D.Dual degree/ post-B.Sc. program under JAM-2009 will be prepared by the Organizing Institute and will be declared at 17:00 hours on June 20, 2009.
(v) After the declaration of the First Admission List, admission offers will be sent by the respective Admitting Institute(s) to the candidates concerned on June 22, 2009. Last date for conveying the acceptance of the offer by the candidates to the Organizing Chairman, JAM-2009, IIT Kharagpur, is July 6, 2009. Along with the acceptance of offer, these candidates will also have to send an advance fee of Rs. 5000/- to the Organizing Chairman through a demand draft in favour of the "Organizing JAM-2009", payable at Canara Bank, Kharagpur (Branch Code: 0190). This amount will be transferred to the Admitting Institute and the same will be adjusted at the time of registration.
(vi) In case some seats remain vacant (after the First Admission List), the Organizing Institute will prepare a Second Admission List. This list will be declared by the Organizing Institute at 09:00 hours on July 8, 2009. The admission offers based on the second admission list, if any, will be sent by the Admitting Institute(s) to the candidates concerned on July 9, 2009. The candidates being offered admission through the second list must report directly to the admitting institute on the date of semester registration. With that the admission process based on JAM-2009 will come to an end.
(vii) If a candidate has been allotted a seat through first admission list and if he/she accepts the offer of admission, his/her lower preferences, if any, will be automatically cancelled but he/she shall remain on the waiting list for all of his/her higher preferences, if any, in the next round of admissions. Those eligible candidates, who are not allotted any seat in the First Admission List, shall remain on the waiting list in the next round of admissions. Candidates who do not want to be considered for higher preference program(s) in the next round of admissions, will have to inform about the same in the prescribed form at the time of acceptance of the admission offer. However, once a candidate fails to accept an admission offer, he/she will not be considered for any of his/her choices thereafter and hence, in the next round of admissions, he/she will not be in the waiting list of any program.
(viii) It is important to note that there will not be any waiting list for admission after the second and final admission list.
NOTE: (a) Verification of minimum educational qualifications and the eligibility criteria for admission is the prerogative and sole responsibility of the Admitting Institute(s) only and the Organizing Institute will not respond to any queries in this regard.
(b) The offer of admission to a candidate will be provisional, subject to the fulfillment of all the requirements by the dates specified.
(c) Candidates should note that being in the merit list of any Test Paper neither guarantees nor provides any automatic entitlement for admission. Admissions shall be made in order of merit and depending on the number of seats available at the Admitting Institute(s).
Candidates may apply for JAM-2009 through one of the two different procedures, namely "offline" and "online".
The "OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) Application Form" along with the "Information Brochure" and "Acknowledgement Card" will be available from November 24, 2008 to January 16, 2009 on cash payment of application fee of Rs. 1000/- for General/OBC Category Male candidates, Rs. 900/- for General/OBC Category Female candidates and Rs. 500/- for SC/ST and PD candidates from the following Designated Branches of Canara Bank:
Bombay Zone: Ahmedabad (Revdi Bazar), Bhopal (Maharana Pratap Nagar), Indore (MG Road), Jabalpur (M.K. Chowk), Mumbai (IIT Powai & Fort Market), Nagpur (Pandit Malviya Road Sitabuldi), Nanded (Tara Singh Market), Pune (Camp), Raipur (Malviya Road), Vadodara Main (Manick Rao Road).
Delhi Zone: Chandigarh (Sector 17 C), Delhi (IIT Delhi Campus, Janpath, Maharani Bagh, Vivek Vihar), Shimla (The Mall).
Guwahati Zone: Bhubaneswar (Bapuji Nagar), Guwahati (Fancy Bazar), Jorhat (Garali), Patna (Exhibition Road), Muzzafarpur (Dhawan Building), Ranchi Main (SN Ganguli Road), Shillong (Gulasta Fancy Market).
Kanpur Zone: Aligarh Main (Apsara Complex), Allahabad (Civil Lines), Gorakhpur (Bank Road), Kanpur (Mall Road)), Lucknow Main (Hazratganj), Varanasi Main (Bansphatak).
Kharagpur Zone: Kharagpur (Fatak Bazar, Kharida), Kolkata (College Street & Gariahat), Siliguri (Sevoke Road Pani tanki more), Vijayawada (Shivalayam Street), Vishakapatnam (Daba Garden).
Madras Zone: Bangalore (Town Hall), Chennai (IIT Madras Campus & T. Nagar), Coimbatore (Oppannakara Street), Hyderabad (Abid Road), Secunderabad (MG Road), Kochi Main (Mattancherry), Tiruchirapalli (Teppakulam), Thiruvananthapuram (Cantonment), Mangalore (Balmatte Road).
Roorkee Zone: Agra (Cantonment), Amritsar (Dharam Singh Market), Bareilly (Civil Lines), Jaipur (Mirza Ismail Road), Kurukshetra (Railway Road), Meerut (Abu Lane), Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar), Roorkee (Anaj Mandi).
The "OMR Application Form" and the "Information Brochure" can also be obtained by Post from the JAM Office of IIT Kharagpur by making a written request along with the Demand Draft of Rs. 1050/- for General category Male candidates, Rs. 950/- for General category Female candidates and Rs. 550/- for SC/ST and PD candidates, drawn in favour of "Organizing JAM-2009", IIT Kharagpur, payable at Canara Bank, Kharagpur (Branch Code: 0190), and a self-addressed slip (11.0 cm x 6.0 cm). This fee includes Rs. 50/- as postal charges. Such requests must reach the JAM office, IIT Kharagpur, latest by January 7, 2009. The application material shall be dispatched by Registered Post. IIT Kharagpur, however, does not take any responsibility for the late delivery of application material, due to postal delay or loss of documents in transit. Once an Application Form has been purchased either from the Bank or by post from the JAM Office, IIT Kharagpur, any claim for refund of the fee, for any reason whatsoever, will not be entertained nor can this fee be held in reserve for future.
The OMR Application Form enclosed in the envelope provided with the Information Brochure is to be completed by the candidate in all respects. After reading the instructions given in Section-13, carefully fill in all the items of the form. Fold the form only where it was originally folded. Also write the code(s) of the Test Paper(s) applied, and the first choice of city/town of test on the left-top portion of the envelope.
The candidates desiring to appear for a second Test Paper must clearly mention their option in the OMR Application Form. Such candidates are required to pay an additional fee of Rs. 300/- (Rs. 150/- for SC/ST and PD candidates) through a demand draft in favour of "Organizing JAM-2009", payable at Canara Bank, Kharagpur (Branch Code: 0190). This demand draft is to be sent along with the OMR Application Form.
The facility for Online Registration will be available through the website http://jam.iitkgp.ac.in from November 24, 2008. The last date for submission of Online Application Forms on website is January 19, 2009. A candidate can fill-in electronically his/her personal data (Name, Date of Birth, Gender, Nationality, Category, PD Status), Number of Test Papers Applied, Test Paper(s), Cities/Towns for the Test (First and Second choices), Qualifying Examination Passed, Year of Qualifying Examination, Name of Qualifying Degree, Percentage of Aggregate Marks/CGPA (calculated out of 10), Name of the Parent/Guardian, Relationship, Telephone Numbers (landline and mobile) and the Bank Draft details (Name and Code of the issuing Branch, Amount of Demand Draft, Date of Issue and Draft No.). After electronically filling his/her personal data in the Online Application Form on the website, the candidate must download this form and take a print out of the same. The information pertaining to the Photograph, Declaration and Signature will have to be provided by the candidate on the printed Online Registration Form. The photograph should be glued at the appropriate place provided in the form. The photograph must not be stapled and not be signed/attested.
Candidates, who register online, will get a concession of Rs. 100/- in application fee. If the candidate is appearing in only one test paper, the application fee is Rs. 900/- for General/OBC category Male candidates, Rs. 800/- for General/OBC category Female candidates and Rs. 400/- for SC/ST and PD candidates. The candidates desiring to appear in two Test Papers must clearly mention their options in the Online Registration Form. For such candidates, the application fee is Rs. 1200/- for General/OBC category Male candidates, Rs. 1100/- for General/OBC category Female candidates and Rs. 550/- for SC/ST and PD candidates. The appropriate application fee must be in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of "Organizing JAM-2009", payable at Canara Bank, Kharagpur (Branch Code: 0190). The candidate may keep an identical photograph in reserve for future need. The candidate is also advised to keep a photocopy of the completed Online Registration Form for his/her record.
Acknowledgement Card:
A printed acknowledgement card is enclosed with the OMR Application Form. The candidate has to write his/her name and mailing address in the space provided and enclose this card with the OMR Application Form after affixing postage stamp of Rs. 6/-. The Organizing Institute will post the card immediately on receipt of the OMR Application Form. The acknowledgement card must not be stapled with the OMR Application Form.
In the case of Online Registration, on receipt of duly completed Online Registration Form along with requisite Demand Draft for application fee (as applicable) and a self-addressed envelope with stamp(s) of Rs. 6/-, an acknowledgement will be sent by the JAM Office, IIT Kharagpur, at the address given by the candidate.
List of Enclosures and the Address for Sending the Completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form:
The following documents should be enclosed along with the Completed OMR Application Form: (i) Bank/JAM Office Pay-in-slip, (ii) Stamped Acknowledgement Card, (iii) Demand Draft for the Second Test Paper, if applicable, (iv) SC/ST/OBC (non creamy layer) Certificate (copy), if applicable, and (v) Disability Certificate (copy), if applicable.
The following documents should be enclosed along with the Completed Online Registration Form: (i) Demand Draft for the appropriate Application fee, (ii) A self-addressed envelope with stamp(s) of Rs. 6/-, (iii) SC/ST/OBC (non creamy layer) Certificate (copy), if applicable, and (iv) Disability Certificate (copy), if applicable.
Irrespective of the choice of the cities/towns of test centers, candidate must send the duly filled in OMR Application Form or completed Online Registration Form, as the case may be, along with all necessary enclosures indicated above, to the following address:
Organizing Chairman, JAM-2009
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur-721302 The candidates are advised to send their completed Application Forms/Online Registration Forms by Speed Post/Registered Post only and retain the receipt of posting. The completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form can also be submitted in person at the JAM office, IIT Kharagpur, during office hours on working days.
Last Date for Receipt of the Completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form:
Last date for receipt of the duly completed OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form at the JAM Office, IIT Kharagpur, is January 22, 2009. Any OMR Application Form/Online Registration Form received after this date will not be accepted. Any delay in receiving the application material by the candidate will not be considered as a valid reason for the late submission of the completed OMR Application Form after the deadline. The institute will not be responsible for any postal delay or irregularity or loss in postal transit.
