JEST Exam Date 2026 (OUT): Registration Date, Exam Date, Result Date & Important Details

You will have to upload your photograph (passport size photo) and your signature (on a white background) during the JEST 2026 registration.

IISER Tirupati will release the JEST 2026 admit card on April 6, 2026. The link to download the admit card for JEST 2026 will be updated on the website, jest.org.in.

JEST is conducted once a year. Joint Entrance Screening Test 2026 will be conducted on April 12, 2026.

JEST 2026 eligibility criteria depends on the specific programme and participating institute, but generally require a master's or bachelor's degree in relevant Science or engineering field.

The JEST cutoff mark will vary for both Ph.D and Integrated Ph.D courses. It will release by the authorities after declaration of the result. 

The JEST 2026 will be announced on April 30, 2026, tentatively. The result will be announced online at official website.

JEST 2026 provisional answer key will likely to be release in online mode on the official website. The authorities released provisional answer key in the first week of May 2026.

Yes, the authority will open JEST 2026 application correction/mofification window on its official website after closing the JEST 2026 application form window. The JEST modification window is a facility where candidates who have filled out the registration form can edit the details that were earlier filled with some incorrect particulars.

Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) is an entrance exam test for admission to PhD and International PhD programme of different participating institutes for two subjects Physics and theoretical Computer Science/Neuroscience.

This exam is conducted in offline mode/ pen-paper mode. This year exam conducting authorities have changed, earlier it used to be Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) but now it has changed to Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST). Hence the final validation will be declared along with releasing of notification but as per previous year JEST exam pattern it will be conducted in offline mode only. 

Applicants who secured the minimum passing marks are considered passing as per JEST Results. The result was released on the official website of JEST.

Along with declaration of the result, IIST also released the score card as well as JEST cut off marks. Applicants who appeared in the exam can check their marks in JEST exam.