JIPMER MBBS 2019- Exam dates, seats, cutoff, syllabus, pattern and books- Everything you need to know before applying for JIPMER 2019

About JIPMER:
JIPMER ( Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research), Puducherry conducts its own entrance examination for admission to various medical education programmes in JIPMER Puducherry and Karaikal.
One of those conducted exams is JIPMER MBBS exam for admission to its MBBS program.

Number of seats in JIPMER:
Puducherry Campus= 150
Karaikal Campus= 50
Total= 200 seats.

Reservation and seat distribution:
1. Vertical reservation: 49% UR, 27% OBC, 13% SC, 11% ST
2. Horizontal reservation: 40% Puducherry resident, 5% physically challenged.

Pattern of Exam:
Exam is conducted in online mode. Paper is MCQ type and contains 200 questions- 60 questions each from physics, chemistry and biology and 10 questions each from English and Reasoning.
For each correct response, you are awarded with four marks and for wrong answer a negative marking of -1 marks.
Exam is conducted in two shifts. Score obtained in test is considered as raw score.
After that percentile score is calculated in each shift and then ranking is done.

Tie breaking method:
To break tie between students having same percentile, following strategy is adopted in given priority:
1. Lower negative marking
2. Higher percentile in biology
3. Higher percentile in chemistry
4. Higher percentile in physics
5. Higher percentile in English
6. Higher percentile in Reasoning
7. Seniority by age.

JIPMER MBBS Cut-off:
Approximate cutoff for General category is 630/800 for JIPMER Puducherry and 590/800 for Karaikal.

JIPMER Syllabus:
Jipmer asks questions of physics, chemistry and biology from 10+2 syllabus of all boards of this country.
Approximately it is 80% NCERT based and 20% other state syllabus.
In English mostly (90%) vocabulary questions are asked. Apart from vocabulary, comprehension, fill in the blanks may be asked.

JIPMER 2019 EXAM DATES:

Starting of registration- 6th March 2019.
Closing of registration- 12th April 2019.
Release of Admit Card- 3rd week of May 2019.
Date of Examination- 2nd June 2019.
Declaration of results- 2nd week of June 2019.

Download official notification: JIPMER official dates for 2019-20

Books for previous year questions:
1. MTG's 15 year's JIPMER solved paper

2. JIPMER Chapterwise solution 8 years (2010-2017)