IISER 2024 Exam Dates 2025: Application Form, Fee, Admit Card & Check Complete Exam Schedule Here

Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research Entrance Exam 2025 ( IISER Entrance Exam )

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Updated on Nov 26, 2024 16:18 IST

IISER Entrance Exam Dates 2025 will be announced by the examination conducting body in the first week of March 2025, tentatively on the official website. Candidates who wish to enrol in the BS-MS dual degree and BS degree programmes offered, need to fill out the IISER 2025 application form in the mentioned timeline by the exam conducting body. 

Before applying for the IISER Registration Form 2025, candidates are advised to check the IISER 2024 eligibility criteria. If a candidate is found ineligible during any part of the admissions process, he or she will not be allowed to proceed in the process. 

The last date for filling out the IISER Entrance Exam 2025 registration form will be notified in due course time. Candidates will also get the opportunity to edit the incorrect details filled in the IISER Entrance Exam 2025 registration form. In order to appear in the IISER Entrance Exam 2025 exam, the exam officials will be releasing the IISER Entrance Exam admit card 2025 which will mention the exam centre details of the test takers. IISER Entrance Exam hall ticket 2025 will be released three to four days prior to the conduct of the examination.

The page will provide all the necessary details regarding the IISER entrance exam application process like how to fill out the application form, fees, important dates, eligibility criteria, and many more.

KVPY Channel, JEE Advanced Admission Channel/ scorecard will no longer be valid for the enrolment in the five-year BS-MS and BS dual degree programme offered by various IISERs across the nation. 

Latest Updates: 

Q:   When is IISER Entrance Exam 2025 application process starting?

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IISER will conduct the IISER Entrance Exam 2025 for the academic session 2025-2026. Candidates who wish to get enrol in the 5 year BS-MS dual degree and 4 year BS degree programmes offered by IISERs, IIT Madras and IISc Banglore institutes need to fill out the IAT 2025 registration form.

Candidates will be able to fill out the IISER Entarnce Exam 2025 appliaction form from the first week fo April 2025, tentaively. The application process will be completely online and candidates need to register themselves first on the IAT 2025 officail website.

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Q:   When will the IISER 2025 entrance exam notification releasing?

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The official notification for the IISER Aptitude Test (IAT) 2025 has not yet been released by the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs). However, based on the previous year's schedule, it is expected to be released in the third week of March 2025. The IAT 2025 is the entrance exam for admission to the IISERs, which are premier institutions in India for Science education and research.

The IAT 2025 notification will contain important information for candidates, such as the eligibility criteria, application procedure, exam dates, syllabus, and selection process.

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Q:   When will IISER 2025 entrance exam admit card be releasing?

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IISER 2024 Admit Card is excpected to be released on June 2025, tentatively on its official website. Registered candidates can download it by entering their registration credentials.

The IISER 2025 admit card carries information such as personal details, exam date and time, exam center address and exam day guidelines and instructions. IISER 2025 Entrance Exam admit card is a mandatory document to be carried to the exam center. The IISER admit card 2025 will be available only online, and candidates must preserve it until the exam's counselling or admission process is complete.

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IISER 2025 Important Dates Table

Take a look at the table below for the complete schedule of IISER Entrance Exam 2025 exam

DatesUpcoming Exam Dates

Apr '25 - May '25

IISER Aptitude Test 2025 Registration Start Date

TENTATIVE

May '25

IISER Aptitude Test 2025 Correction Window

TENTATIVE

Jun '25

IISER Aptitude Test 2025 Hall Ticket

TENTATIVE

Jun '25

IISER Aptitude Test 2025 Display of Answer Keys

TENTATIVE

Jun '25

IISER Aptitude Test 2025

TENTATIVE

Jun '25

IISER 2025 Aptitude Test Portal opens to file objections

TENTATIVE

Jun '25

IISER Aptitude Test 2025 Upload of student's response form

TENTATIVE
DatesPast Exam Dates

Jun '24

IISER Aptitude Test 2025 Result

IISER 2025 Exam Dates and Events

Here we bring the important events related to IISER 2025.

IISER 2025 Entrance Exam Application Process: IISER 2025 Application process will start in the first week of April 2025, tentatively. The IISER Entrance Exam 2025 application form will be available in an online mode on the official website of the exam. Candidates needed to first register by providing their personal and educational details. After receiving the IISER 2025 registration credentials via email and SMS, they had to login again and fill up the IISER application form with the rest of the personal, and academic details, exam city preference, course preference and document upload. After all details on the IISER application form were filled in, candidates needed to pay the application fee. Candidates could make the payment of the IISER 2025 application fee online (through credit/ debit card/net banking) mode.

IISER Entrance Exam 2025 Admit Card:  IISER 2025 Admit Card will be released in the first week of June 2025, tentatively. Registered candidates were able to download it by entering their registration credentials. The IISER 2025 admit card contains personal details, exam date and time, exam centre address and exam day guidelines and instructions. The IISER 2025 Entrance Exam admit card is a mandatory document to be carried to the exam centre. The IISER admit cards 2025 were available only online, and candidates must preserve it until the exam's counselling or admission process is complete. 

IISER Entrance Exam 2025: The IISER aptitude test 2025 will be conducted in the month of June 2025 at exam centres across the nation. 

IISER Entrance Exam Answer Key: The answer keys will be released on the same day after the successful conduct of the examination. The answer keys of IISER 2025 will not be sent to candidates' registered email addresses along with their answer scripts. Candidates could check the correct answer and calculate their estimated score, hence gauging their admission chances to the IISER participating institutes through email

IISER Entrance Exam 2025 Result: IISER Entrance Exam 2025 Result will be released in the fourth week of June 2025, tentatively. IISER merit list/ result carried the roll numbers and/or names of candidates qualifying for the integrated MSc entrance exam. Candidates had to download their scorecards by entering their login credentials. The scorecard carried the information on sectional and overall scores, percentile and All India Rank (AIR). The scorecards should also be preserved till the IISER 2025 admission process is over.

IISER Entrance Exam 2025 Counselling: Candidates who will qualify for the exam will be considered eligible to participate in the IISER 2025 counselling process. The counselling process for IISER 2025 will be conducted in three rounds. Qualifying candidates will have to upload documents that are verified by the officials and seats will be allotted to them. They have to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) and pay the requisite fee to complete the admission process. 

Q:   In what mode will IISER 2025 aptitude test be conducted?

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IISER 2025 entrance examination for the academic session 2025-2026 will be conducted online/ computer-based test. Candidates will get a the nearest ION digital zone as their examination centre and will give the IISER 2025 entrance examination on the computer.

The IISER Entrance Exam 2025 pattern has been specified for this year's examination. It has been observed that the IISER Entrance Exam 2025 pattern remains to be same as of the previous year of IISER Entrance Exam which was also conducted in online mode I. e. computer-based. The only change which is made by the exam conducting body is the marks awarded for each correct answer. Earlier the examination was 180 marks, but now the maximum mark of the examination will be 240 marks. The IISER Entrance Exam will be conducted in various exam centres across India. The duration of the entrance exam was 3 Hours and the medium of the IISER Entrance Exam be in English . The format of the IISER Entrance Exam is in Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ).. .

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Q:   Can I fill the IISER 2025 application form offline?

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No, IISER application forms had to be filled in online mode on the official website of the exam only. Candidates had to visit the official website of IISER 2025 and register first, which generated the credentials, or the username and password. After that, they had to log in and complete the application process by filling out the mandatory fields and paying the requisite application fee online.

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Q:   What are the documents required for filling up the IISER 2025 entrance exam application form?

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Given below is a list of documents/certificates whose scanned copies are to be uploaded at the time of online application for IAT 2025. The formats of the certificates are given in the Annexure.

  1. Class 10 certificate
  2.  Class 12 (or equivalent examination). 
  3.  If the class 12 (or equivalent) marks sheet is not available now, then you can instead upload a signed declaration form mentioning : DECLARATION BY THE CANDIDATE IN LIEU OF ELIGIBILITY EXAM CERTIFICATE/ MARKSHEET SEE Annexure). Fill up the form, sign it, scan it and then upload. The scanned copies of the actual marks sheet must be uploaded on or before July 7, 2025, failing which you will not be allotted a seat in any of the IISERs.
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FAQs Regarding IAT 2025

Here are some most important frequently asked questions regarding IISER 2025 Entrance Examination:

Q:   What is the application fee for IISER Entrance Exam 2025?

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The expected application fee for IISER Entrance Exam 2025 of various categories is as follow:

 1. INR 2,000/- for candidates applying under General, EWS, and OBC-NCL categories.

2. INR 1,000/- for candidates applying under persons with disabilities, persons registered as Kashmir migrants and SC/ST category.

3. INR 8,500/- for foreign nationals. Candidates must note that the application fee is non-refundable.

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Q:   When will IISER 2025 entrance exam result be declared?

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According to the event dates released by IISER for the academic year 2025, the IAT 2025 result is expected to be declared in the first week of July, 2025. Candidates will be able to download their IAT 2025 results by visiting its official website. Students are advised that the results of the IISER Entrance Exam will be available online on the official website of IISER Admissions. Candidates are required to log in and check the results released. Before the IISER Entrance Exam results are released, the IISER Entrance Exam Answer Key will be released so that students can challenge the answers.

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Q:   What are the different channels for getting admission in IISER Colleges?

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Earlier there was three chaneels through which candidates can ge admissions to the courses offered at IISER institions, IISc Banglore and IIT Madras. From the academic session 2025, admisisons were made through IAT exam channel only and other two channels were discontinued.

There were three channels for admission:

  1. IAT Channel a. Candidates seeking admission through this channel must appear for a computer-based IISER Aptitude Test (IAT-2025).
  2. KVPY Channel The KVPY-SA-2021 students who have received the provisional KVPY fellowship award are eligible to apply for admission. A. Candidates in the extended KVPY merit list are not eligible.
  3. JEE Channel a. 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). B. Those who qualified JEE Advanced in any year other than 2023 are not eligible. C. Candidates with JEE Advanced preparatory ranks are not eligible. Candidates seeking admission under this channel do not have to appear for IAT-2023.
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Q:   When will be the last correction date for IISER 2025 entrance exam application?

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IISER is yet to release the IAT 2025 exam notification and dates for online registration. However, as per the previous year trends, it is expected that the IISER 2025 entrance exam application form will start in the second week of April and the last date for doing the online registration will be fourth week of May 2025.

While filling out the online application form for IISER 2025 entrance exam, candidates may fill in incorrect details by mistake or for any other reason. IISER has provided an online application form correction window where all these mistakes can be rectified without losing the candidature.

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Q:   When will IISER 2025 entrance exam answer key be releasing?

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The release date for the IISER Entrance Exam 2025 answer keys will be the same day after the sucessful conduct of the examination. The answer keys of IISER 2025 will be sent to candidates' registered email addresses along with their answer scripts. Candidates can check the correct answer and calculate their estimated score and hence gauge their admission chances to the IISER participating institutes through email.

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Q:   When will the first round of admissions start for the IISER 2025 entrance exam?

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Once IISER result is declared, a seat allotment list is declared containing roll numbers of candidates who are allocated seats in BSMS programme through different channels (SCB, KVPY JEE). Candidates can check the first round allotment list on the official website of the exam on July 15, 2025, Tentatively. All candidates whose roll numbers appear in the first round allotment list need to log in to their application portal to download the offer letters.

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Q:   What are the IISER 2025 seat allotment result dates?

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Candidates can go through the different rounds of IAT 2025 seat allotment result dates (Expected) from here:

Event NameDate
IISER 2025 Round 1 Seat Allotment Result18-Jul-2025
IISER 2025 Round 2 Seat Allotment Result30-Jul-2025 
IISER 2025 Round 3 Seat Allotment Result7-Aug-2025
IISER 2025 Round 4 Seat Allotment Result14-Aug-2025
IISER 2025 Round 5 Seat Allotment Result20-Aug-2025
IISER 2025 Round 6 Seat Allotment Result26-Aug-2025

If seats in preferred IISERs are filled, then the candidate will not be considered in further rounds of counselling. For example, if a candidate had given only two preferences as IISER-X and IISER-Y, and if the seats in these IISERs are filled, then the candidate will not be considered for seat allocation anymore. This process happens even if the student has not been allocated any seat in previous counselling rounds. 

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Q:   When will be the Portal opens to upload documents and freeze IISER preferences for IISER 2025 Admissions?

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The portal for document upload and freezing of IISER preferences for IISER 2025 Admissions can be done in the window period in the month of July 2025, tentatively. After accepting the offer and paying seat acceptance fee, the candidate can exercise two options:

  1. Candidate can FREEZE the seat (they will not participate in further rounds of counselling),
  2. Candidate can FLOAT (they will participate in further rounds of counselling to get their higher preferences). The FLOAT option is activated by default for those who pay the seat acceptance fee. A student who has chosen to FLOAT will be again considered for seat allocation in the next round. If they are eligible to secure a seat in an IISER that is higher in their preference list than the currently accepted one, they will be offered that seat.
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Q:   What are the dates for IISER 2025 document upload for IISER counselling process?

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Only the meritorious candidates IAT 2025 Test will get the opportunity to sit in the IISER 2025 counselling process. Selected candidates in the IISER 2025 will then have to upload the required documents to confirm their seats between June 26 to July 02, 2025, tentatively

Documents to be uploaded:

  • Class 12 marksheet
  • Caste Certificate
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Q:   When will be IISER 2025 first seat allotment result releasing?

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IISER 2025 Counselling process for admissions to BS-MS dual degree/ BS (IISER Bhopal) degree programmes at various IISERs, IISc Banglore and IIT Madras is underway. The online registration for IISER 2025 counselling is over. The exam officials will very soon announce the IAT 2025 fisrt seat allotment result. 

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Analyzing trends in IISER application statistics can provide valuable insights into the growing popularity and competitiveness of the IISERs. Here are some key factors to consider when interpreting these trends:
1. Overall Increase in Applicants:
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IISER application statistics can be helpful for applicants in the IISER examination in several ways:

1. Understanding the Competition:

  • Number of applicants: Knowing the total number of applicants can give you an idea of the competitive landscape and help you gauge your chances.
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The IISER Paper Analysis 2023 is given below for the reference of the candidates.

 
ParticularsAnalysis 
Overall Difficulty LevelModerate 
Expected Number of Good Attempts45-50
Difficulty Level of BiologyEasy to Moderate
Difficulty Level of PhysicsModerate to Difficult
Difficulty Level of MathematicsDifficult
Difficulty Level of ChemistryModerate 
Topics with Highest Weightage in MathematicsSets, Relations And Functions
Topics with Highest Weightage in ChemistryInorganic and Organic Chemistry,
Topics with Highest Weightage in PhysicsGravitation, Electricity, Electrostatistics
Topics with Highest Weightage in BiologyMolecular Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Biology

 

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IAT 2024 question paper and answer key were released on June 9, 2024 on the official website. For the last day of IAT 2024 preparation, candidates can go through the IISER 2024 question paper weightage from here:

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BiologyEasy12-13 Questions
PhysicsModerate8-10 Questions
ChemistryEasy to Moderate10-12 Questions
MathematicsModerate9-11 Questions

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