Overview
- Response sheets and provisional keys are available via candidate login on joaps.iitb.ac.in and jam2026.iitb.ac.in.
- The response sheet lists candidate identifiers, paper and shift details, question IDs, marked answers, response status, and key references to aid score estimation.
- IIT Bombay will accept challenges to the provisional answer key during the final week of February, followed by a final key in March after review.
- Results are slated for March, with reports citing March 20 or March 22, and official confirmation to be posted on the JAM portal.
- Admissions for 2026–27 will be based on JAM scores without interviews, filling roughly 3,000 IIT seats and about 2,300 at IISc, with tie-breaks using positive-to-negative mark ratio, then NAT, MSQ, and date of birth.