Hello Aspirant,

No you must not appear for JEST exam as aspirants who are seeking admission to Ph.D. or Integrated Ph.D. Programme in Physics/Theoretical Computer Science/Neuroscience or Computational Biology can appear in the exam.

As for you, you need to appear for M.Sc Entrance Examinations such as IIT JAM, DU Entrance Exam etc.

Many colleges conduct an entrance examination for admission in MSc Economics. However, majority of the colleges grant merit-based admission to the course. Once the application forms are released, candidates will need to apply for admission to the respective institutions.

The general admission procedure is discussed below:

• The application forms of most of the Universities are released every year in the months of May and June.
• The colleges then declare a cut off list for different courses after going through all the forms and analysing them completely.
• The students who fulfil the cut off are eligible to take admission to the course in that particular college or university.
• Also, there are some universities that conduct their own national level entrance examination for admission in their master courses.
• In some universities, selection of eligible candidates is done after evaluating their performance in qualifying examination, group discussion and personal interview.
• Around 60% weightage is given to the performance in the entrance exam and 40% is given to the percentage scored in Bachelors degree.

Some of the important Entrance examinations for this course are:

IIT JAM : This entrance exam is conducted by the IIT Council to grant admission to various MSc courses offered in all the IITs of India.

ISI Admission Test : Admission to ISI is made through the entrance examination along with an interview session conducted by the Institute.

Symbiosis School of Economics Entrance Exam  : The College conducts its own entrance test for the admission. Selection of eligible candidates is done on the basis of entrance exam, qualifying exam, group discussion and personal interview.

Hope this answer helps you. Feel free to ask more questions.

Have a good day!!

Hey!

JEST is joint entrance screening test and by this candidates can take admission into PhD and Int PhD programmes in physics or theoretical computer science or neuroscience or computational biology. You can get Msc degree here by not for MSc economics, it would be for theoretical computer science.

overall , no , you cannot appear in JEST for MSC ECONOMICS.

Thankyou