IIT JAM Expert Analysis & Expected Cutoff

IIT JAM is a no doubt one of the toughest exam as it is conducted to check the eligibility of candidate for the masters’ degree from the IITs and IISc.

Everyone before and after giving the exam thinks about the marks he or she going to score in the exam. Even the students are

Students are nervous after the exams for what will be the cutoff and merit for the exam as everything depends on the marks cutoff of every year.

Most often candidates fix their target to score good in the exam but before getting the idea of the Expected cutoff one should know the paper pattern marking scheme. 

IIT JAM 2018 Paper Pattern:

IIT JAM 2018 paper pattern is given below:

Some Important points with respective to the IIT JAM exam:

The duration of the IIT JAM exam is 3 hours. The medium of the test paper is English.
The exam will be conducted in ONLINE mode.

All the 7-subject paper consist of 3 types of questions which have are divided into section such as A, B & C.

The three-different pattern of question are:

1.       Multiple choice Question(MCQ): The question has choices in which only one option is correct.

2.       Multiple selected Question(MSQ): The question is the same as MCQ but in this more than one answer choices are correct.

3.       Numerical Answer Type Question(NAT): For every question, the real value is the answer and you must give the answer by using virtual keyboard.

Check out How to prepare for IIT JAM exam here: How to prepare for IIT JAM 

Marking Scheme of the IIT JAM Exam:

The paper pattern is divided into 3 parts their number of question and negative marking is given below:

·         Section A-  The section A consist of MCQ which has 30 questions carrying one or two marks each and the negative marking for 1 mark is 1/3 and for 2 it is 2/3 marks.

·         Section B - The Section B consist of MSQ which has 10 questions carrying two marks each and no negative marking is there for this section.

·         Section C – The section C consist of total 20 NAT question of one or two marks each and no negative marking as well.

·         The questions which are not attempted during exam will result in zero mark.

IIT JAM expected Marks:

For Biological sciences, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 32.50

OBC – 28.69

SC/ST – 15.60

For Bio Technology, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 35.40

OBC – 29.10

SC/ST – 17.35

For Chemistry, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 27.46

OBC –  24.30

SC/ST – 14

For Geology, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 41

OBC –  36.80

SC/ST – 21

For Mathematics, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 13

OBC –  12.50

SC/ST – 5

For Mathematical statistics, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 7

OBC –  5.70

SC/ST – 3

For Physics, the expected cutoff marks are:

General category – 14

OBC –  12

SC/ST – 7.50

The above mention is only predication of the expected cutoff, it is not the exact cutoff.

Check IIT JAM admission Procedure for IITs and IISc here: IIT JAM admission Procedure

Hope this will help you in estimating your target marks to score well in the exam and get top ranks in the exam.

Best of Luck!