JEST 2025 Cut Off will be released in fourth week of March 2025. JEST is a national level entrance exam conducted once a year by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) recognized JEST as National Eligibility Test (NET).
Want to know the cut off for JEST exam in 2025?… Check the previous year’s cut off below.
JEST exam is conducted to offer admission in integrated Ph.D. and Ph.D. courses in Theoretical Computer Science, Physics, Computational Biology or Neuroscience etc. Through JEST scores, candidates will get admission in various JEST participating institutions.
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Here in this article we have provided details related to JEST Cut Off 2025 including dates, result, interview, admission procedure, participating institutes etc.
JEST 2025 Cut Off
After the declaration of JEST 2025 Results, the cut off marks will be released. The cut off marks is the minimum qualifying marks to be scored in the entrance exam to be eligible for admission process.
Candidates who successfully secures the cut off marks will next move to the interview round. It will be mandatory for applicants to secure equal to or more than the prescribed cut off marks to participate in further admission rounds.
JEST 2025 Cut Off Dates
Candidates can check the important dates related to JEST 2025 Cut Off below:
| Events | Dates 2025 (Tentative) |
| JEST 2025 exam date | 1st week of March 2025 |
| Answer key | 2nd week of March 2025 |
| Announcement of result | 3rd week of March 2025 |
| Cut Off | 4th week of March 2025 |
| Interview | April 2025 |
JEST Previous Year’s Cut Off
Here candidates must check the previous year cut-off of JEST examination:
2024:
| Paper Opted | Courses Applied For | Cut Off Marks | Cut Off Percentile |
| JEST Physics | Integrated PhD | 30.33 | 88.17 |
| JEST Physics | PhD | 36 | 90.08 |
2022:
| Subject | Number of candidates clearing cut off | Cut Off |
| Ph.D | 703 out of 5103 | 21.67 |
| M.Sc/ Integrated Ph.D | 403 out of 4005 | 26.67 |
2021:
| Subject | Number of candidates clearing cut off | Cut Off |
| Ph.D | 692 out of 5154 | 19.36 |
| M.Sc/ Integrated Ph.D | 400 out of 8379 | 23.03 |
2020:
| Subject | Number of candidates clearing cut off | Cut Off |
| Ph.D | 705 out of 7263 | 32 |
| M.Sc/ Integrated Ph.D | 390 out of 6226 | 26 |
Factors Determining Cut Off
Cut off marks of JEST 2025 will be determined based on certain factors like:
- Number of candidates applied for the exam
- Number of candidates appeared in the exam
- Difficulty level of the paper
- Number of candidates passed the exam
- Availability of seats
- Reservation criteria
- Previous year trends
JEST 2025 Result
JEST 2025 Result will be declared in fourth week of March 2025. Candidates must check their result or score card through online mode. Result & score card will be same.
Score card of JEST 2025 will be valid for 1 year only. Candidates must check their result by entering their username and password. Result will be checked by the students via online mode.
JEST 2025 Interview
Applicants who will qualify their written test successfully will be next called for the interview round. The interview rounds will be started from May 2025.
Personal interviews will be individually conducted in every participating institution. Interview process will be organized through offline mode. It will be conducted on different dates as per the courses.
JEST Admission Procedure
Candidates will become eligible for the further admission process, after successfully qualifying the written test and interview rounds. Qualified candidates will be required to report to the respective participating institutes where they want to take admission.
No centralized admission process will be conducted by the examination authority. It is necessary for the candidates to report to the institute with their original as well as attested photocopies of the required documents for document verification process.
JEST Participating Institutions
Some of the JEST participating institutions are listed below:
- Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
- National Brain Research Center (NBRC), Gurgaon
- Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital
- Raja Ramanna Centre for Advances Technology
- Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam
- Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
- Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
JEST 2025 Cut off marks must be scored by the candidates in order to take part in the admission process in various JEST participating institutes. After qualifying the entrance test, candidates will be called for the interview & other admission process.
If you have any query related to JEST 2025 Cut Off, then you can ask your queries in the comments section below.
What rank can I expect with 32 rank , what is the difficulty level of the exam ?
Details about the rank will be provided to you by the authority.
How many student are selected in interview
Examination is not yet conducted for JEST 2024.You must check detailed information related to the JEST in the article.
Do we have to apply in individual institutes after getting our JEST rank or the institutes will themselves call us?