IISER Admissions 2023 Eligibility, Admission Channels & IAT Schedule, Registration, Admit Card, Answer Key & Counselling
Eligibility criteria
Applicants must be Indian nationals or PIO or OCI in order to apply through KVPY or IAT channel. Candidates who are NOT Indian nationals or PIO or OCI can apply for admission only through the JEE (Advanced) channel.
Candidates must have passed Class XII (or equivalent) exam with science stream in 2022 or 2023 from any board recognized by Council of Boards of School Education in India COBSE.
Candidates must have taken at least three subjects among Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics during their Class XII (or equivalent) exam.
Candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwD should have scored a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate or equivalent grade in their Class XII (or equivalent) exam. Candidates belonging to other categories should have scored a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate or equivalent grade in their Class XII (or equivalent) exam.
Admission Channels
There are three channels for admission.
(i) Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Channel
(ii) Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) of the Indian Institutes of Technology Channel
(iii) IISER Aptitude Test (IAT) Channel
The three channels will be referred to as KVPY, JEE and IAT respectively.
A candidate can apply through any one or two or all the three channels, provided they satisfy the overall eligibility conditions and specific eligibility conditions for those channels.
IAT Channel
Candidates seeking admission through this channel must appear for a computer-based IISER Aptitude Test(IAT-2023).
IAT-2023 will be conducted on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 9:00 AM, at various centres across the country.
KVPY Channel
The KVPY-SA-2021 students who have received the provisional KVPY fellowship award are eligible to apply for admissions.
Candidates in the extended KVPY merit list are not eligible.
Candidates seeking admission under this channel do not have to appear for IAT-2023.
JEE Channel
Candidates seeking admission under JEE channel should have qualified in the JEE (Advanced) in the year 2023, AND should have a rank within 15000 in the common rank list or in the respective category rank lists (GEN-EWS/OBC-NCL/SC/ST/PwD).
Those who qualified JEE (Advanced) in any year other than 2023 are not eligible.
Candidates with JEE (Advanced) preparatory ranks are not eligible.
Candidates seeking admission under this channel do not have to appear for IAT-2023.
Performance Criteria in Qualifying Examination
Candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) exam results are not yet declared, can apply for admission to IISERs. However, their admission will be subject to fulfilling the minimum eligibility criteria given above.
For candidates who had appeared in the Class XII (or equivalent) exam for the first time in 2022 and reappeared in any subject (for whatsoever reason) in 2023, the better of two performances will be considered.
If a board gives aggregate marks considering both Class XI and Class XII, then only Class XII (or equivalent) exam marks will be considered. If a board gives aggregate marks considering the results of all three years of a 3-year diploma or courses of equivalent duration, then only the marks scored in the final year will be considered. Similarly, for boards which follow a semester system, the marks scored in the final two semesters will be considered.
If a board awards only letter grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade-sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the board specifying the equivalent marks and submit it before the deadline of the mark-sheet submission. In case such a certificate is not provided by the board, the percentage marks will be assessed as follows:
percentage marks = (CGPA or CPI obtained × 100) / PS,
where PS stands for the maximum value of the point scale used by the respective board.
Important Dates IAT
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June 17, 2023 |
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Seat Matrix
The tentative total number of seats available for BS-MS/BS program is 1838, with each IISER having the following number of seats.
BS-MS Program Number of Seats
IISER Berhampur- 200
IISER Bhopal- 240
IISER Kolkata- 250
IISER Mohali- 250
IISER Pune- 288
IISER Tirupati- 200
IISER Thiruvananthapuram- 320
Total- 1748
IISER Bhopal- 240
IISER Kolkata- 250
IISER Mohali- 250
IISER Pune- 288
IISER Tirupati- 200
IISER Thiruvananthapuram- 320
Total- 1748
BS Program Number of Seats
IISER Bhopal (Engineering Sciences)- 60
IISER Bhopal (Economic Sciences)- 30
Total 90
IISER Bhopal (Economic Sciences)- 30
Total 90
Syllabus for IAT
The syllabus generally follows the NCERT syllabus for classes XI and XII. To download syllabus- Click herePrevious Question Papers of IAT
You can find some previous years question papers in download section click here
IISER admission website (Official)- https://iiseradmission.in
