JEST 2009 - Joint Entrance Screening Test Notification

A number of reputed institutes in the country have come together to conduct a Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) for enrolment of students in Ph.D. / Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programs in physics (including various inter-disciplinary research areas in physics) and Theoretical Computer Science.

JEST is conducted for selecting candidates to be interviewed for admission to Ph. D. Programmes in Physics/ Theoretical Computer Science in these institutions in the country.

Applications are invited from motivated students, with consistently good academic record, for appearing in JEST leading to enrolment in a Ph. D. Programme in Physics (including various inter-disciplinary research areas in Physics)/ Theoretical Computer Science, at any of the 20 premier participating institutions.

JEST score forms an important component in the selection of candidates for the Ph.D. programmes in these institutions.

IMPORTANT !

JestOnline registration process has been started since 15th November 2008 (12:00 am) as notified. If anyone had filled up the form earlier, he is requested to do it again as before 15th November we were testing the process.

Register before Logging in Oops, I forgot my password ! Online form fill-up FAQs	• Participating Institutes • ARIES, Nainital IIA, Bangalore IISc, Bangalore IISER MOHALI, Mohali IISER PUNE, Pune IUCAA, Pune JNCASR, Bangalore NCRA, Pune PRL, Ahmedabad RRI, Bangalore SNBNCBS, Kolkata BARC, Mumbai UGC-DAE CSR, Indore HRI, Allahabad IGCAR, Kalpakkam IMSc, Chennai IOP, Bhubaneswar IPR, Gandhinagar RRCAT, Indore SINP, Kolkata VECC, Kolkata
PREAMBLE (Homepage) ELIGIBILITY HOW TO APPLY EXAMINATION CENTERS IMPORTANT DATES SAMPLE QUESTIONS CONTACTS F A Q's RESULTS JEST BROCHURE (PDF)

I M P O R T A N T D A T E S
DATE	EVENT
15 November, 2008	On-line submission of applications starts on this site.
10 December, 2008	Last date for request of printed application forms from "Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre & Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata".
31 December, 2008	Last date for receipt of the filled applications, and for ON-LINE submission of applications.
15 January, 2009	# Hall tickets/ Admit cards will be available to be downloaded for on-line candidates.
15 February, 2009	Joint Entrance Screening Test-JEST 2009, 10.00 am to 1.00 pm.
March, 2009	JEST 2009 results will be out.

# Admit cards will have to be downloaded after login (for online applicants) and will be sent by post (for offline applicants) from 15 January, 2009.