hi,

nest 2020 application has extended to 31 may, 2020.

the eligibility criteria is

candidates must have pass 12th course from a recognized university in the year of 2019/2018  are eligible to apply.  candidate from general category should have secured minimum aggregate of 60% marks. For ST/SC candidates, minimum aggregate marks are 55%. candidates must have studies mathematics, physics, chemistry , biology or life science as a subject in 10+2 course.

there is no separate qualifying score applicable to each subject. there will be two paper, in section 1 there is general aptitude questions, Section 2 will contain questions from Biology, Section 3 from Chemistry, Section 4 from Mathematics and Section 5 from Physics. Candidates have to attempt any three other sections after attempting Section I.

Hello Shreyash !

National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) is conducted jointly by National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar and Mumbai University - Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS), Mumbai.

By NEST exam you will get admission in M.SC courses , in Biology , Chemistry ,Mathematics and Physics.

You can check more about this exam on our site :

https://university.careers360.com/exams/nest

Hope it helps !

The syllabus of NEST Exam is solely based on your 11 and 12 subjects. NCERT Textbooks and exemplar are considered as best books for basic preparation. You may practice Concepts of Physics By HC Verma, RD Sharma for Mathematics, OP Tandon for Inorganic Chemistry, Truman Vol 1 and 2 for Biology and JEE and NEET Question papers etc.

Solve previous year question papers for better understanding. Practice as much as you can.

https://university.careers360.com/articles/nest-sample-paper

Hello Srijit,

There are various mobile applications available that are meant for preparation of various competitive exams. They provide with online tutorials, video lectures, mock tests and assignments. So you can just look for them in your app store.

Apart from this you can visit to the official website of nest exam, there are certain mock tests available that you can refer for preparing well.

Hope it helps.

Good Luck!

Hi,

Well as per the information given on the official website, the last date to apply is first Friday of April that is I guess 3rd April. So I would request you to visit the website once and get all the details once checked. I am attaching the link below.

https://www.nestexam.in/

I hope my answer helps.

All the best.

The announced exam dates for AAKASH NEST is 5th April, 2020 (Sunday)

Timing :    Morning: 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM or

Evening: 03:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Results will be declared on 8th April, 2020

You can check NEST Syllabus at the oficial information bulletin at: https://nestexam.in/docs/20/NEST2020-Brochure-Syllabus.pdf . You can check about NEST 2020 more at our page: https://university.careers360.com/articles/nest

You can prepare from the following books:

Physics:

Concepts of Physics by HC Verma

Aptitude Test Problems by SS Kotov

Objective Physics by Mahesh Jain

Problems in Physics by AA Pinsky

Chemistry:

A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by RK Gupta

NCERT books

IIT Chemistry by OP Agarwal

Entrance Chemistry by Bhakta

Biology:

Objective Biology by Biswas and Biswas

NCERT

Elementary Biology for Class 12 by KN Bhatia

Mathematics:

Higher Algebra by Hall and Knight

Problems in Calculus of One Variable by I.A. Maron

Plane Trigonometry by SL Loney

Integral Calculus by Amit Agarwal