Those are all top research institutes for astronomy in India – IUCAA, IIA, ARIES, PRL, RRI. For a PhD, you *do* apply through JEST, but everyone I know here, myself included, got in by directly approaching a professor whose work we loved and then aced the interview. The JEST score was just the formality.
Living up here in Nainital at ARIES, chala remote and peaceful, I realised it’s less about the test and more about showing you can handle the solitude with a telescope for company. My own ‘Hampi fund’ patience from that yellow envelope? Perfect training.
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