IISER Mohali Review through the lens of a student who finished his first year

I liked research area and as we know IISER are the best college to go for reasearch perspective so i choose IISER and admission process is simple we have to give a IAT exam then and qualifying we get iisers in counselling...Read More

I did not apply for any other instutte as i wanted to come ti IISER,mohali only given i wanted to do research in my future. I did not wanted to go into any engineering college despite cleering my JEE-Mains. This was my top priority. For IISER,Mohali i cleared iiser aptitude test and got a seat here. There are cutoffs for 7 IISER's over the country with IISER,mohali with third highest cutoff. Out of total securing about 50-70% overall is good enough to secure a seat here....Read More

I did not want to apply to other colleges to be fair. I wanted to join an IISER for my higher studies (or maybe IISc/NISER). I couldn't get into IISc/NISER since I did not qualify, but I qualified the entrance test for IISERs (IAT: IISER Aptitude Test for all the 7 IISERs in the country) and got in, ultimately ending up at Mohali during the counselling process. I was studying at Jadavpur University for a couple of months before joining IISER Mohali, and because IISER was my dream, I left JU for IISER M. Whatever I am, a lot of it is because of my education at IISER, something which I perhaps would not have got at JU (no hate towards JU though--it is a great place as well) and I am thankful for it in many ways. There are currently 2 ways to get into IISERs: IAT, and JEE Advanced. For Advanced , you need to get a rank below 10000 to sit for counselling, and in IAT it depends--generally a general rank of <=2000 should get you an IISER. One thing--OLDER IISER DOESNT MEAN BETTER IISER. It COMPLETELY depends on your research interests (which depends on the Faculty at each IISER) and is completely a personal choice. I prefer Mohali in many ways over other IISERs like Pune/Kolkata for I feel our Astro dept is very good compared to the rest--we can even claim an astronomy minor if we want to here. So it is completely a personal choice. Counselling can be stressful, but it is a life changing experience....Read More

I have written IAT, a common entrance teat for all IISERs. My preference list was: Pune Mohali Kolkata Thiruvananthapuram Berhampur Tirupati. I got accepted at mohali and got rejected by pune. My marks were slightly lower than cutoff for pune....Read More

I chose this college over the other colleges that I applied to, because it is a national level institute that is excellent in academics, and a boon for people who want to do research. Also, it was nearest to my home than the other colleges. The admission process of IISER Mohali is through 3 channels - JEE-Advanced channel, KVPY channel and IAT channel. Most of the students come through the IAT channel, in which there is a computer based test consisting of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. Then according to the students' marks, the merit list is prepared after which the counseling process takes place jointly for all the IISERs in the country. For the detailed cutoffs, you can visit the website of iiser admission. The overall admission experience was pretty good. Apart from IISER, I had applied for PAU Ludhiana BSc Hons Agriculture and PGI Chandigarh Nursing and Paramedical. I got admission in all of them but as I wanted to do research, I chose IISER Mohali over the others....Read More

I had applied for NITs but i could not get them because of less percentile. I chose thisbcollege because I did not not get my dream colleges. Yes I got rejection from IISc and NITs because my score was very low. Minimum eligibilty is 60% in 12th and Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Mathematics are mandatory...Read More