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Every IIT JAM guide here: all seven papers, five years of qualifying cutoffs, the 2025 seat matrix, syllabus breakdowns and the marking rules.

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IIT JAM Economics (EN): 58 Seats and the Highest Cutoff in the Exam

Economics holds both extremes of IIT JAM at once — the fewest seats of the seven papers and the highest qualifying cutoff. And two of its five syllabus units are mathematics and statistics rather than economics.

9 Sep 20266 min read
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IIT JAM Geology (GG): The Broadest Paper in the Exam

Geology sits mid-table on seats and on cutoffs, but its syllabus is the widest in IIT JAM — eight units running from the Earth’s core to a satellite image. Here is the paper, the syllabus, and what three years of cutoffs actually say.

9 Sep 20266 min read
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IIT JAM Biotechnology (BT): Only 44% of It Is Biology

Biotechnology is the tightest paper in IIT JAM — 114 seats — and the one candidates most often misjudge. Fifty-six of its hundred marks are chemistry, mathematics and physics, and its cutoff has swung from 44.46 to 24.46 in a single year.

9 Sep 20266 min read
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IIT JAM Chemistry (CY): The Paper, the Syllabus and the Steadiest Cutoffs in the Exam

Chemistry is the second-largest JAM paper — 865 seats — and the steadiest: its cutoff moved through a range of about eight marks across JAM 2021 to 2025, in an exam where two papers swung by more than twenty. Here is the paper, the syllabus and what the numbers mean.

9 Sep 20266 min read
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IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics (MS): 40% Maths, 60% Statistics

The name says statistics; the syllabus says 40% mathematics. That split decides who clears this paper more often than any single topic does — and with 128 seats and the lowest cutoff of the seven in 2025, the numbers deserve reading carefully.

9 Sep 20266 min read
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IIT JAM Physics (PH): The Paper, the Seats and the Cutoffs

Physics is the biggest paper in IIT JAM — 952 of the 3,037 M.Sc. seats at the IITs — and in 2025 it had one of the lower cutoffs of the seven. Here is the paper, the syllabus, and what five years of data actually say.

9 Sep 20266 min read
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IIT JAM Mathematics (MA): The Paper, the Cutoffs and What They Mean

Nine years of cutoffs say two things about the MA paper: the bar to qualify has never needed half marks, and it has moved by a factor of three. Here is the paper, the syllabus, what the data actually shows, and the gap between qualifying and getting a seat.

9 Sep 20269 min read
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IIT JAM: The Complete Guide (Papers, Exam Pattern, Marking & Eligibility)

IIT JAM is how you get from a BSc to an MSc at an IIT, at IISc, or at an NIT. Seven papers, one structure — this is the plain guide to all of it: how the paper is built, how it is marked, who may sit it, and what a rank actually gets you.

11 Aug 20268 min read

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