Top College for MSC:

Fergusson College is an Autonomous public educational institution offering courses in the streams of Arts and Science in the city of Pune. It was founded in 1885 by the Deccan Education Society. Professor Vaman Shivram Apte was its first principal.

Exam Details:

While most MSc entrance exams are conducted in the offline mode, some important exams such as IIT JAM are conducted as computer-based tests. 

Duration of most of the top MSc entrance exams such as NEST and TIFR Entrance Exam is typically three hours. However, the duration might change depending on the college/ university policy and/ or the MSc subject a candidate is giving the exam for.

Questions that appear in MSc entrance exams are usually objective-type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). However, few MSc entrance exams also include numeric questions. For instance, IIT JAM exam contains a different section for numeric questions, called Numerical Answer Type (NAT). Here, the answer for each question is a number.

Marking scheme for most MSc entrance exams is such that 1 – 3 marks are awarded for each correct answer and 0.5 – 1 mark is deducted for each incorrect answer.

However, an MSc entrance exam can typically have questions ranging from 60 – 150.