ISI Admission Test MMath, MStat, MS, PG Diploma Exam Dates 2025: Get Complete Exam Schedule Here

The Institute offers Junior Research Fellowships in several areas of Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, as mentioned in the table below. However, candidates applying for PhD in any area other than the subjects mentioned above need to register with other Universities/Institutes for their PhD degree:

The Institute awards PhD degrees for research in the elds (i) Statistics, (ii) Mathematics, (iii) Quantitative Economics, (iv) Computer Science, (v) Quality, Reliability & Operations Research (QROR).

ISI admission test 2026 admit card will be available online in third week of April 2026 tentatively. Yes! There will be details about the shift timings in ISI 2026 admit card. 

The ISI Admission Test 2026 will be conducted on May 10 at many exam centres across the nation. 

Below is the paper wise ISI 2026 exam shifts:

 Paper 1 (Objective) in morning  (10.30 AM to 12.30 PM),  Paper 2 (Descriptive) in afternoon (2.00 PM to 4:00 PM).

The exam conducting body will announce the ISI Admission Test 2026 application form dates on its website. The ISI Admission Test application will start by last week of February and will end in mid march 2026.

ISI Admission Test 2026 exam will be conducted on May 10, 2026. Students are advised to check the website everyday for the updates for the application process dates, result date, admit card date etc.

ISI Admission test 2026 result will be declared by the examination conducting body on the official website in the fourth week of June, tentatively.

At first the exam officials will be releasing the provisional answer key. It is anticipated that the ISI Admission Test 2026 provisional answer key will be released in June, 2026 tentatively.

Eligibility and selection criteria for the Supernumerary seats

These are some of the key things which might be asked in ISI Admission Test 2026 interview process:

• The basic questions will be asked in the IIT JAM 2026 interview process like Tell me about your 10th and 12th board etc.
• Questions from strong subjects like math, stats, CS, Physics).
• Problem-solving requires step-by-step reasoning.

The ISI Admission Test 2026 interview process has a written test (MCQs & Descriptive) with a focus on strong Math/Stat fundamentals, leading to an interview round for shortlisted candidates. It is advised to practice the ISI previous year questions.

Some of the Academic Programmes have more than one channel of admission. The default Channel is referred to as the ISI Test Channel. Admission through ISI Test Channel is conducted through a Written Admission Test, followed by an Interview wherever applicable. Candidates can check out the complete admsision channel list for all the programmes from here:

To check ISI Admission Test 2026 exam you can follow this process:

• Go to ISI website.
• Click on Admission tab on the homepage. 
• Go to ISI Admission Test Results link. 
• Log in credentials to check results.
• Check the scorecard.

ISI Admission Test 2026 exam pattern will have two sections in the examination where section A will have multiple choice questions (MCQ) and section B will have descriptive type questions.

Only the section A will have negative marking scheme. For every correct answer +4 marks will be awarded to the candidates and to every wrong answer marked by the candidates, -1 mark will be deducted.