Best Books for IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Preparation 2024

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Go through important IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics books that candidates should study for JAM exam preparation 2024. Also, know books to read for the Statistics and Mathematics sections of the exam. Shiksha has listed topic-wise important books for IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Preparation.

Go through important IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics books that aspirants should read for important Mathematics and Statistics topics of JAM 2024.

Best Books for IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Preparation

Best Books for IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Preparation

IIT JAM 2024 exam was conducted on February 2, 2025. On the exam day, IIT Madras conducted the IIT JAM paper for the Mathematical Statistics course in Session-I, that is, from 2:30 am to 5:30 pm this year. Questions in the IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics paper were divided into two parts. The first part comprises questions from Mathematics. The weightage of this section in the exam is 40 percent. The second part has questions from Statistics and the weightage of this section is 60 percent.

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As per the feedback received from students, the section A and B questions were moderate while section C questions were difficult. 

Candidates are advised to know the IIT JAM exam pattern and syllabus thoroughly when they plan to take this popular Science entrance exam. This is necessary because there is negative marking in the exam and candidates should know the marking scheme of the exam to ensure that they score the highest marks in the exam.

Apart from this, for IIT JAM preparation, candidates should have a strategy in place. Thus, after completing the JAM syllabus 2024, candidates should practice as many IIT JAM question papers and mock tests for the exam as they can get their hands on.

Topics to Study in IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics

Aspirants can go through important topics that they should study to secure good marks in the IIT JAM exam for Mathematical Statistics below:

Important Topics in Mathematics

Sequences and Series

Differential Calculus

Integral Calculus

Matrices

Important Topics in Statistics

Probability

Random Variables

Standard Distributions

Joint Distributions

Sampling Distributions

Limit Theorems

Estimation

Testing of Hypotheses

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Best Books to Study for IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Preparation 2024

Aspirants can go through topic-wise books that they can refer to when they are preparing for the IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics paper below.

IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Books to Read for Mathematics

Books that aspirants should consider reading for topics in the Mathematics section of the exam are mentioned below:

Name of the Book

Author

Mathematical Analysis

S.C. Malik

Mathematical Analysis

Apostol

Principle of Mathematical Analysis

Rudi

Schaum’s Outlines Integral Calculus

Frank Ayres, Elliott Mendelson

Integral Calculus

Dr Gorakh Prasad

Vector Analysis: Schaum’s Outlines Series

Murray Spiegel, Seymour Lipschutz, Dennis Spellman

Geometry and Vector Calculus

A.R. Vasishtha

Ordinary Differential Equation

Peter J. Collins, G.F. Simmons, M.D. Raisinghania

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IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Books to Read for Statistics

Books that aspirants should consider reading for topics in the Statistics section of the exam are mentioned below:

Name of the Book

Author

Introduction to the Theory of Statistics

Alexander Mood, Franklin Graybill, Duane Boes

An Introduction to Probability and Statistics

V.K. Rohatgi

Apart from the above-mentioned books, aspirants should also go through the books mentioned below to prepare for IIT JAM exam for Mathematical Statistics 2022.

Name of the Book

Author

IIT JAM: MSc Mathematical Statistics

Anand Kumar

Complete Resource Manual MSc Mathematics

Suraj Singh

Fundamental of Mathematical Statistics

S.C. Gupta & V.K. Kapoor

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

Robert V. Hogg and Craig Mckean Hogg

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