hi,

Candidates those wish to take admission need to fulfill IISER 2020 eligibility criteria. IISER exam is conducted for admission to BS-MS degree program at one of the seven IISERs. Candidates can get admission in IISER through JEE Main, KVPY and SCB channel. Candidates can apply for admission through any of the three options, but they need to fulfill the eligibility criteria for each channel individually.

KVPY Channel

The candidates those having a valid KVPY fellowship score card commencing from 2020-20 academic session are eligible to apply for admission. The additional cut-off criteria may also be applicable.

JEE Channel

Candidates those belong to general category will have to secure a rank within 10000 in the Common Rank List (CRL) of JEE Advanced 2020. The candidates those belong to reserved category (OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PWD) their category rank should be within 10000 to be eligible for the IISER admission.

SCB Channel

Candidates are eligible those have passed 10+2 with science stream in 2019 or 2020 with marks equal or above the cut off percentage in their respective boards. Candidates those wish to apply through SCB channel have to appear for IISER Aptitude Test which will be conducted at various centers across the country.

for more information, https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/iiser-aptitude-test

Hi! For CBSE, the eligibility rules are:

1. The candidate must have marks within the category-wise cut-off as shown in the table above for their respective Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination for being eligible to get admission to IISERs.

2. Additionally, for admission to engineering programmes through JEE advanced channel, candidates who have secured 75% marks (GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL) or 65% marks (SC/ST/PwD) in their Class XII (or equivalent) exams are also eligible.

3, For candidates who appeared in the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination for the first time in 2019 and reappeared in any subject (for whatsoever reason) in 2020, the better of two performances will be considered.

So yes, you are elligible for taking the aptitude test. Hope this helped!

Hi There,

IISERs started taking apptitude test for Board students. Candidate to be in top 1% of their respective boards. Since every board is different, the marking strategies are also different in different boards.

Let us assume you write both exams and you happen to top both the exams. Even though you are the 1st rank holder in both boards, the % marks that you scored may be very different due to different marking strategy. Hence a state board cut-off  may be low or high compared to the central board.

For example Kerala’s board has similar figures compared to CBSE while that of Bihar usually much lower.

So, there is noting mysterious. You are compared with your fellow board students. If you score well enough to be in top 1% or less in your board, you become eligible to take the aptitude test.