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JIPMER traces its origin to 1823 when a medical school called the Ecole de Medicine de Pondicherry was established by the French government in the Indian colony governed by it. In 1956 the government of India took over the medical college along with the rest of Puducherry. The college was upgraded and named the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in 1964. It is under the administrative control of the directorate general of health services (DGHS), the Union ministry of health and family welfare.

JIPMER has 28 academic departments imparting graduate and postgraduate education in the different disciplines of medicine as well as a hospital and nursing home that provide free medical care to the poor. Affiliated to Pondicherry University, the institute’s different departments carry out research in various fields of modern medicine and health and medical education.

The JIPMER campus is located on the highway to Puducherry and is spread over 195 acres. The campus is like a small, self-sufficient town and houses its own post office, bank and shopping centre apart from hostels for the students and a residential complex for the staff.

Apart from the MBBS course, JIPMER also offers a BSc in medical laboratory technology, a bachelor of medical record science, an MSc in medical biochemistry as well as MD, MS and PhD programmes. There are also some super-speciality and certificate courses.

The notification for the entrance examination is published in all leading newspapers and on the website in January or February. To get the form by post, send a written request to the registrar (academic), Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantrinagar, Puducherry-605006 along with a demand draft worth Rs 500, drawn in favour of the accounts officer, JIPMER and payable at Puducherry Union Territory. You can also download the form and submit it online (www.jipmer.edu).

Eligibility

An applicant should be an Indian national, have completed 17 years of age at the time of admission (or would complete it on or before December 31 of the year of admission). The candidate should have passed Plus Two with at least 50 per cent in English and a 50 per cent aggregate in physics, chemistry and biology.

Entrance exam

Students are selected on the basis of their performance in an all-India entrance exam that is held at centres in Puducherry, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Calcutta and Thiruvanthapuram on the second Sunday in June. The total number of seats is 46, of which 20 are reserved for locals. Another 11 students are admitted on the basis of their performance in the CBSE medical entrance.

Pattern of exam

The two-and-a-half-hour entrance test has questions from the CBSE syllabus for Class XI and XII. It has 200 multiple choice questions from English, botany, zoology, physics and chemistry. Unlike the CBSE medical entrance exam, there is no negative marking in the JIPMER test.

How to prepare

Various guides for the medical entrance exam such as those published by Parihar, Bhatia, Shivam and Vishal are found at major bookshops. Some well-known coaching institutes also help students prepare for this exam by sending material by post and holding mock tests.

You should have a through knowledge of the circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems, genetics, organic and inorganic chemistry, molecular physics and other basic aspects of physics. For the biology section, you can consult the book on the subject by M.P. Kaushik and Ramesh Gupta. You can also refer to Physics 10+2 by H.C. Verma and Chemistry by O.P. Agarwal. For English you could do some comprehension exercises from the book by Norman Lewis. If you have prepared well for your boards, you should be able to crack the JIPMER exam.

SAMPLE TEST PAPER

Colourless, unicellular, cell-wall bound spherical or rod shaped micro organisms, usually smaller than five microns in size, which lack an organised nucleus are called:
a) virus
b) bacteria
c) cyanobacteria
d) ricketsiol

The joint between the humerus and ulna is called:
a) hinge
b) pivot
c) giding
d) ball and socket

One faraday of electricity will liberate one-gram atom of the metal from the solution of:
a) NaCl
b) BaCl 2
c) CuSO 4
d) AlCl 3

Calculate the velocity of sound when four beats are heard between the wave length 1.00 metre and 1.01 metre.
a) 332m / s
b) 404m / s
c) 200m / s
d) 330m / s

You must not put off this work any longer; let it____
a) be done now. b) should be done now.
c) should have been done now.
d) should do now.

Sources: The Telegraph (Kolkata, India)