What is CUCET?

CUCET is a University-level entrance test conducted online by Chandigarh University(CU). The exam is mandatory for admission to different undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the university in streams like engineering and management. CU’s Common Entrance Test also offers scholarships for all its Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs. 

CUCET 2024 application form process for Phase 2 has started. Interested candidates can now register for the CUCET 2024 Phase 2 online at cucet.cuchd.in until the extended date i.e., August 30, 2024. Chandigarh University is conducting the CUCET 2024 Phase 2 exam from July 30 to August 31, 2024.

Candidates can fill out the CUCET 2024 application form online and offline. CUCET 2024 is being held as an online remote-proctored test. Candidates must follow the CUCET 2024 rules and regulations and should have a laptop, web camera and a stable internet connection. An exam invigilator will also be available for the candidates on 'Live Chat' to guide and answer their doubts.

After the exam is conducted, Chandigarh University will release the CUCET 2024 result in real-time/on the same date. All candidates who qualify the examination with a minimum of 30% marks will then be eligible for admission into the BTech courses offered by the University.  

How to apply

Through Online Mode

Steps for Online Application Process for CUCET

• Visit CUCET website- https://cucet.cuchd.in for registration.

• Register on CUCET registration page and create your profile.

• After successful registration, confirmation message is sent through SMS/E-mail.

• Once registered, pay registration fee of Rs.1000/- which includes the digital copy of the prospectus.

• Fill your current qualification with school name & subjects and choose CUCET exam date available in drop down.

• Appear in CUCET examination on the scheduled date and time through https://cucet.cuchd.in with your registered login details.

• Result will be intimated through E-mail and will also be displayed on https://cucet.cuchd.in in your login account.

Through Offline Mode

Applicant may purchase CUCET Brochure cum form from University admission offices/ Authorized centres by paying Rs.1000/-.

Steps for Offline Application Process for CUCET

• Visit CUCET website- https://cucet.cuchd.in for registration.

• Register on CUCET registration page and create your profile.

• After successful registration, confirmation message is sent through SMS/E-mail.

• Scratch the CUCET form and fill the unique number given on the form in the option available on website.

• Fill your current qualification with school name & subjects and choose CUCET exam date available in drop down.

• Appear in CUCET examination on the scheduled date and time through https://cucet.cuchd.in with your registered login details.

• Result will be intimated through E-mail and will also be displayed on https://cucet.cuchd.in in your login account.

Objective

The objective of CUCET is to demonstrate the university's commitment to enrolling deserving students based on merit and rewarding them with scholarships. This approach ensures transparency and objectivity in the administration and distribution of Chandigarh University's undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships.

Chandigarh University, India’s No. 1 Private University strives to provide inclusive and equitable quality education and build distinguished careers. CUCET is a pioneering initiative to reward students with the opportunity to excel academically and become distinguished, skilled, and socially conscious graduates.

This mandatory national-level exam determines the eligibility of the students and also qualifies them for up to 100 percent scholarship for different academic programs offered at Chandigarh University. It equips students with an incredible opportunity to explore their intrinsic potential and pave their way to success. The scholarship can be availed by students seeking admission to undergraduate or postgraduate programs.

CUCET Chandigarh University 2024

EligibilityCriteria:

Candidates aspiring for admission to Chandigarh University are required to fulfil all the eligibility conditions before filling CUCET application form. The prescribed eligibility for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses are as follows:

Eligibility for UG courses:

• Candidates must have secured 50 per cent or more marks in their secondary Education (10+2) from a recognized Board (CBSE/PSEB/ICSE or any other recognized State/National Board).

• Students appearing for secondary education (10+2) in 2024 are also eligible to apply for the CUCET.

Eligibility for PG courses:

• Students looking for admission to postgraduate (PG) courses are required to have scored 50 per cent or more marks in their graduation.

• Candidates must have passed their graduation from the UGC recognised University.                         

The CUCET is mandatory for the courses mentioned below:

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

• Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharmacy)

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Specialized MBA Programs

• Integrated Law programs (B.A+LLB, BBA+LLB, BCom+LLB)

• Pharm D.

• Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)

• Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics)

• Master of Pharmacy (Pharmacology)

• Master of Pharmacy (Industrial Pharmacy)

• Master of Law (LLM)

• Admissions are based solely on the Entrance Test, with an exception for those who secure more than 90% marks in the qualifying examination or up to 50,000 rank in JEE.

Scope

This policy applies to all the applicants aspiring to pursue Under-Graduate (UG) and Post-Graduate (PG) programmes at Chandigarh University for Scholarships.

For B.E., Pharmacy, Pharm D, Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics), Master of Pharmacy (Pharmacology), Master of Pharmacy (Industrial Pharmacy, Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) , MBA, and Specialized MBA Programs, Integrated Law programs (BA+LLB, BBA+LLB, B. Com+ LLB), Master of Law (LLM).

Syllabus

Accountancy

Accounting for Partnership Firms and Companies

• Unit 1: Accounting for Partnership Firms

Partnership: features, Partnership Deed.

Provisions of the Indian Partnership Act 1932 in the absence of partnership deed.

Fixed v/s fluctuating capital accounts. Preparation of Profit and Loss Appropriation account- division of profit among partners, guarantee of profits.

Past adjustments (relating to interest on capital, interest on drawing, salary and profit sharing ratio).

Goodwill: nature, factors affecting and methods of valuation – average profit, super profit and capitalization.

Accounting for Partnership firms – Reconstitution and Dissolution.

Change in the Profit Sharing Ratio among the existing partners – sacrificing ratio, gaining ratio, accounting for revaluation of assets and reassessment of liabilities and treatment of reserves and accumulated profits. Preparation of revaluation account and balance sheet.

Admission of a partner – effect of admission of a partner on change in the profit sharing ratio, treatment of goodwill (as per AS 26), treatment for revaluation of assets and reassessment of liabilities, treatment of reserves and accumulated profits, adjustment of capital accounts and preparation of balance sheet.

Retirement and death of a partner: effect of retirement / death of a partner on change in profit sharing ratio, treatment of goodwill (as per AS 26), treatment for revaluation of assets and reassessment of liabilities, adjustment of accumulated profits and reserves, adjustment of capital accounts and preparation of balance sheet. Preparation of loan account of the retiring partner. Calculation of deceased partner’s share of profit till the date of death. Preparation of deceased partner’s capital account, executor’s account and preparation of balance sheet.

Dissolution of a partnership firm: types of dissolution of a firm. Settlement of accounts -preparation of realization account, and other related accounts: capital accounts of partners and cash/bank a/c (excluding piecemeal distribution, sale to a company and insolvency of partner(s)).

• Unit 2: Accounting for Companies

Accounting for Share Capital Share and share capital: nature and types. Accounting for share capital: issue and allotment of equity shares, private placement of shares, Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP). Public subscription of shares – over subscription and under subscription of shares; issue at par and at premium, calls in advance and arrears (excluding interest), issue of shares for consideration other than cash. Accounting treatment of forfeiture and re-issue of shares. Disclosure of share capital in company’s Balance Sheet.

Accounting for Debentures Debentures: Issue of debentures at par, at a premium and at a discount. Issue of debentures for consideration other than cash; Issue of debentures with terms of redemption; debentures as collateral security- concept, interest on debentures. Redemption of debentures: Lump sum, draw of lots and purchase in the open market (excluding ex-interest and cum-interest). Creation of Debenture Redemption Reserve.

Financial Statement Analysis

• Unit 3: Analysis of Financial Statements

Financial statements of a company: Statement of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet in the prescribed form with major headings and sub headings (as per Schedule III to the Companies Act, 2013).

Financial Statement Analysis: Objectives, importance and limitations.

Tools for Financial Statement Analysis: Comparative statements, common size statements, cash flow analysis, ratio analysis.

Accounting Ratios: Objectives, classification and computation.

Liquidity Ratios: Current ratio and Quick ratio.

Solvency Ratios: Debt to Equity Ratio, Total Asset to Debt Ratio, Proprietary Ratio and Interest Coverage Ratio.

Activity Ratios: Inventory Turnover Ratio, Trade Receivables Turnover Ratio, Trade Payables Turnover Ratio and Working Capital Turnover Ratio.

Profitability Ratios: Gross Profit Ratio, Operating Ratio, Operating Profit Ratio, Net Profit Ratio and Return on Investment.

• Unit 4: Cash Flow Statement

Meaning, objectives and preparation (as per AS 3 (Revised) (Indirect Method only)

Computerised Accounting

• Unit 5: Computerised Accounting

Overview of Computerised Accounting System.

Introduction: Application in Accounting.

Features of Computerised Accounting System.

Structure of CAS.

Software Packages: Generic; Specific; Tailored.

Accounting Application of Electronic Spreadsheet.

Concept of electronic spreadsheet.

Features offered by electronic spreadsheet.

Application in generating accounting information – bank reconciliation statement; asset accounting; loan

repayment of loan schedule, ratio analysis

Data representation – graphs, charts and diagrams.

Using Computerized Accounting System.

Steps in installation of CAS, codification and Hierarchy of account heads, creation of accounts.

Data: Entry, validation and verification.

Adjusting entries, preparation of balance sheet, profit and loss account with closing entries and opening entries. Need and security features of the system.

Database Management System (DBMS)

Concept and Features of DBMS.

DBMS in Business Application.

Generating Accounting Information – Payroll.

Commerce

Accounting

Accounting for PartnershipFirms and Companies

• Unit 1: Accounting for Partnership Firms

Partnership: features, Partnership Deed, Provisions of the Indian Partnership Act 1932 in the absence of partnership deed, Fixed v/s fluctuating capital accounts, Preparation of Profit and Loss Appropriation account- division of profit among partners, guarantee of profits, Past adjustments (relating to interest on capital, interest on drawing, salary and profit sharing ratio), Goodwill: nature, factors affecting and methods of valuation - average profit, super profit and capitalization.

Accounting for Partnership firms - Reconstitution and Dissolution, Change in the Profit Sharing Ratio, Admission of a partner, Retirement and death of a partner, Dissolution of a partnership firm.

• Unit-2 Accounting for Companies

Accounting for Share Capital

Share and share capital: nature and types.

Accounting for share capital: issue and allotment of equity shares, issue of shares for consideration other than cash. Concept of Private Placement and Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), Accounting treatment of forfeiture and re-issue of shares. Disclosure of share capital in company’s Balance Sheet.

Accounting for Debentures

Debentures: Issue of debentures at par, at a premium and at a discount. Issue of debentures for consideration other than cash; Issue of debentures with terms of redemption; debentures as collateral security-concept, interest on debentures,

Redemption of debentures: Lump sum, draw of lots and purchase in the open market (excluding ex-interest and cum-interest). Creation of Debenture Redemption Reserve. Conversion method.

Note: Related sections of the Indian Companies Act, 2013 will apply.

Financial Statement Analysis

• Unit 3: Analysis of Financial Statements

Financial statements of a company: Statement of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet in the prescribed form with major headings and sub headings (as per Schedule III to the Companies Act, 2013).

Financial Statement Analysis: Objectives, importance and limitations.

Tools for Financial Statement Analysis: Comparative statements, common size statements, cash flow analysis, ratio analysis.

Accounting Ratios: Objectives, classification and computation of Liquidity Ratios, Solvency Ratios, Activity Ratios, and Profitability Ratios.

• Unit 4: Cash Flow Statement

Meaning, objectives and preparation.

Computerized Accounting

• Unit 5: Computerized Accounting

Overview of Computerized Accounting System.

• Introduction: Application in Accounting.

• Features of Computerised Accounting System.

• Structure of CAS.

• Software Packages: Generic; Specific; Tailored.

Accounting Application of Electronic Spreadsheet.
Using Computerized Accounting System.
Database Management System (DBMS)

Economics

Introductory Microeconomics

• Unit 6: Introduction

Meaning of microeconomics and macroeconomics

What is an economy? Central problems of an economy: what, how and for whom to produce; concepts of production possibility frontier and opportunity cost.

• Unit 7: Consumer Equilibrium and Demand

Consumer's equilibrium – meaning of utility, marginal utility, law of diminishing marginal utility, conditions of consumer's equilibrium using marginal utility analysis. Indifference curve analysis of consumer's equilibrium-the consumer's budget
Demand, market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve and its slope, movement along and shifts in the demand curve; price elasticity of demand - factors affecting price elasticity of demand; measurement of price elasticity of demand.

• Unit 8: Producer Behaviour and Supply

• Production function - Short-Run and Long-Run

• Total Product, Average Product and Marginal Product.

• Returns to a Factor.

Cost and Revenue: Short run costs - total cost, total fixed cost, total variable cost; Average cost; Average fixed cost, average variable cost and marginal cost-meaning and their relationship.

Revenue - total, average and marginal revenue - meaning and their relationship.

• Unit 9: Forms of Market and Price Determination

Perfect competition - Features; Determination of market equilibrium and effects of shifts in demand and supply.
Other Market Forms - monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly - their meaning and features.
Simple Applications of Demand and Supply: Price ceiling, price floor.

Introductory Macroeconomicss

• Unit 10: National Income and related aggregates

Some basic concepts: consumption goods, capital goods, final goods, intermediate goods; stocks and flows; gross investment and depreciation.
Circular flow of income; Methods of calculating National Income – Value Added or Product method, Expenditure method, Income method. Aggregates related to National Income: Gross National Product (GNP), Net National Product (NNP), Gross and Net Domestic Product (GDP and NDP, GDP and Welfare.

• Unit 11: Money and Banking

Money - its meaning and functions.

Supply of money - Currency held by the public and net demand deposits held by commercial banks.

Money creation by the commercial banking system.

Central bank and its functions, CRR, SLR, Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate, Open Market Operations, Margin requirement.

• Unit 12: Determination of Income and Employment

Aggregate demand and its components. Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal). Short–run equilibrium output; investment multiplier and its mechanism. Meaning of full employment and involuntary unemployment.

• Unit 13: Government Budget and the Economy

Government budget - meaning, objectives and components.

Classification of receipts - revenue receipts and capital receipts; classification of expenditure - revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

Measures of government deficit - revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, primary deficit their meaning.

• Unit 14: Balance of Payments

Balance of payments account - meaning and components; balance of payments deficit-meaning. Foreign exchange rate - meaning of fixed and flexible rates and managed floating. Determination of exchange rate in a free market.

BUSINESS STUDIES

Principles and Functions of Management

• Unit 15: Nature and Significance of Management

Management - concept, objectives and importance, Management as Science, Art and Profession, Levels of management, Management functions - planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling, Coordination - concept, characteristics and importance

• Unit 16: Principles of Management

Principles of Management - concept, nature and significance, Fayol’s principles of management, Taylor’s Scientific Management - principles and techniques

• Unit 17: Management and Business Environment

Business Environment - concept and importance, Dimensions of Business Environment - Economic, Social, Technological, Political and Legal, Impact of Government policy changes on business with special reference to liberalization, privatization and globalization in India.

• Unit 18: Planning

Concept, importance and limitations, Planning process, Single use and Standing Plans - Objectives, Strategy, Policy, Procedure, Method, Rule, Budget and Programme.

• Unit 19: Organizing

Concept and importance, Organizing Process, Structure of organization - functional and divisional, Formal and informal organization, Delegation: concept, elements and importance, Decentralization: concept and importance.

• Unit 20: Staffing

Concept and importance of staffing, Staffing as a part of Human Resource Management, Staffing process: Recruitment - sources; Selection – process, Training and Development - Concept and importance. Methods of training- on the job and off the job- Induction training, vestibule training, apprenticeship training and internship training.

• Unit 21: Directing

Concept and importance, Elements of Directing: - Supervision - concept, functions of a supervisor. - Motivation - Concept, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; Financial and non-financial incentives. - Leadership - concept, styles - authoritative, democratic and laissen faire. - Communication - concept, formal and informal communication; barriers to effective; communication, how to overcome the barriers.

• Unit 22: Controlling

Concept, nature and importance, Relationship between planning and controlling, Steps in the process of control

Business Finance and Marketing

• Unit 23: Financial Management

Concept and objectives of financial management, financial decisions: investment, financing and dividend and factors affecting, Financial planning - concept and importance, Capital Structure - concept and factors affecting, Fixed and Working Capital - concept and factors affecting their requirements.

• Unit 24: Financial Markets

Financial Markets: concept and types, Money market and its instruments, Capital market and its types (primary and secondary), Stock Exchange - functions and training procedure. Depository Services and D'mat Account, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) - objectives and functions.

• Unit 25: Marketing Management

Marketing - concept and functions, Marketing management philosophies, Marketing Mix – concept, Product - concept, branding, labeling and packaging. Price - factors determining price, Physical distribution- concept, channels of distribution: types, choice of channels, Promotion -concept and elements; advertising- concept, role, objections against advertising, personal selling - concept and qualities of a good salesman, sales promotion - concept and techniques, public relations - concept and role.

Unit 26: Consumer Protection

Concept and importance of consumer protection, Consumer Protection Act 1986, Meaning of consumer and consumer protection, Rights and responsibilities of consumers, who can file a complaint and against whom? Redressed machinery, Remedies available, Consumer awareness - Role of consumer organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

Computer

• Unit 1: Computer Fundamentals

Evolution of computers; Basics of computer and its operation: Functional Components and their inter-connections, concept of Booting, Use of Operating System for directory listing, hierarchical directory structure, renaming, deleting files/folders, formatting floppy, copying files, concepts of path and pathname, switching between tasks, installation/removal of applications; Internal Storage encoding of Characters: ASCII, ISCII (Indian scripts Standard Code for Information Interchange), UNICODE; Types of Memory: Cache (L1, L2), Buffer, RAM (DRAM, SDRAM, RDRAM, DDRAM), ROM (PROM, EPROM), Access Time; Concepts of Accumulator, Instruction Register, and Program Counter

• Unit 2: Ms- Office

Word Processing

Word processing concepts: saving, closing, Opening an existing document, Selecting text, Editing text, Finding and replacing text, printing documents, Creating and Printing Merged Documents, Character and Paragraph Formatting, Page Design and Layout. Editing and Profiling Tools: Checking and correcting spellings. Handling Graphics, Creating Tables and Charts, Document Templates and Wizards.

Spreadsheet Package

Spreadsheet Concepts, Creating, Saving and Editing a Workbook, Inserting, Deleting Work Sheets, entering data in a cell / formula Copying and Moving from selected cells, handling operators in Formulae, Functions: Mathematical, Logical, statistical, text, financial, Date and Time functions, Using Function Wizard. Formatting a Worksheet: Formatting Cells – changing data alignment, changing date, number, character or currency format, changing font, adding borders and colors, Printing worksheets, Charts and Graphs – Creating, Previewing, Modifying Charts. Integrating word processor, spread sheets, web pages.

• Unit 3: Network Computing

WWW and Web Browsers: Web Browsing software, Surfing the Internet, Chatting on Internet, Basic of electronic mail, Using Emails, Document handling, Network definition, Common terminologies: LAN, WAN, Node, Host, Workstation, And bandwidth, Network Components: Severs, Clients, Communication Media.

• Unit 4: Introduction to Programming in C++

C++ character set, C++ Tokens (Identifiers, Keywords, Constants, Operators), Structure of a C++ Program (include files, main function); Header files – iostream.h, iomanip.h; cout, cin; Use of I/O operators (<< and >>), Use of endl and setw(), Cascading of I/O operators, Error Messages; Use of editor, basic commands of editor, compilation, linking and execution; standard input/output operations from C language: gets(), puts() of stdio.h header file.

• Unit 5: Java Fundamentals

Types of Programming language and Paradigms; Java – what, where and why? Platform independency; Comparison in Java with C and C++; Role of Java Programmer in Industry; Java Evolution and History ; Features of Java Language.; The Java Virtual Machine (JVM); Java’s Magic Byte code; JDK , JRE and JIT; Data types; Operators; Control Statements; Arrays; Enhanced for-loop; Enumerated types; C-style formatted I/O ; Variable arguments

Economics

• UNIT-1: Introduction

Meaning of microeconomics and macroeconomics

What is an economy? Central problems of an economy: what, how and for whom to produce; concepts of production possibility frontier and opportunity cost.

• UNIT-2: Consumer Equilibrium and Demand

Consumer's equilibrium – meaning of utility, marginal utility, law of diminishing marginal utility, conditions of consumer's equilibrium using marginal utility analysis.

Indifference curve analysis of consumer's equilibrium-the consumer's budget (budget set and budget line), preferences of the consumer (indifference curve, indifference map) and conditions of consumer's equilibrium.

Demand, market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve and its slope, movement along and shifts in the demand curve; price elasticity of demand - factors affecting price elasticity of demand; measurement of price elasticity of demand – (a) percentage-change method and (b) geometric method (linear demand curve); relationship between price elasticity of demand and total expenditure.

• UNIT-3: Producer Behaviour and Supply

Production function - Short-Run and Long-Run

Total Product, Average Product and Marginal Product.

Returns to a Factor.

Cost and Revenue: Short run costs - total cost, total fixed cost, total variable cost; Average cost; Average fixed cost, average variable cost and marginal cost-meaning and their relationship.

Revenue - total, average and marginal revenue - meaning and their relationship.

Producer's equilibrium-meaning and its conditions in terms of marginal revenue-marginal cost.

Supply, market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply curve and its slope, movements along and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of supply; measurement of price elasticity of supply – (a) percentage change method and (b) geometric method.

• UNIT-4: Forms of Market and Price Determination

Perfect competition - Features; Determination of market equilibrium and effects of shifts in demand and supply.

Other Market Forms - monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly - their meaning and features.

Simple Applications of Demand and Supply: Price ceiling, price floor.

• UNIT-5: National Income and related aggregates

Some basic concepts: consumption goods, capital goods, final goods, intermediate goods; stocks and flows; gross investment and depreciation.

Circular flow of income; Methods of calculating National Income – Value Added or Product method, Expenditure method, Income method.

Aggregates related to National Income: Gross National Product (GNP), Net National Product (NNP), Gross and Net Domestic Product (GDP and NDP) - at market price, at factor cost; National Disposable Income (gross and net), Private Income, Personal Income and Personal Disposable Income; Real and Nominal GDP. GDP and Welfare.

• UNIT-6: Money and Banking

Money - its meaning and functions.

Supply of money - Currency held by the public and net demand deposits held by commercial banks.

Money creation by the commercial banking system.

Central bank and its functions (example of the Reserve Bank of India): Bank of issue, Govt. Bank, Banker's Bank, Controller of Credit through Bank Rate, CRR, SLR, Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate, Open Market Operations, Margin requirement.

• UNIT-7: Determination of Income and Employment

Aggregate demand and its components. Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal).

Short–run equilibrium output; investment multiplier and its mechanism.

Meaning of full employment and involuntary unemployment.

Problems of excess demand and deficient demand; measures to correct them - change in government spending, taxes and money supply.

• UNIT-8: Government Budget and the Economy

Government budget - meaning, objectives and components.

Classification of receipts - revenue receipts and capital receipts; classification of expenditure - revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

Measures of government deficit - revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, primary deficit their meaning.

• UNIT-9: Balance of Payments

Balance of payments account - meaning and components; balance of payments deficit-meaning.

Foreign exchange rate - meaning of fixed and flexible rates and managed floating.

Determination of exchange rate in a free market.

English

This test is designed to assess the test takers’ general proficiency in the use of English language as a means of self-expression in real life situations and specifically to test the test takers’ knowledge of basic grammar, their vocabulary, their ability to read fast and comprehend, and also their ability to apply the elements of effective writing.

• UNIT 1: Grammar

Agreement, Time and Tense, Parallel construction, Relative pronouns, Determiners, Prepositions, Modals, Adjectives, Voice, Transformation, Question tags, Phrasal verbs.

• UNIT 2: Vocabulary

Synonyms, Antonyms, Odd Word, One Word, Jumbled letters, Homophones, Spelling, Contextual meaning, Analogy.

• UNIT 3: Reading Comprehension

Content/ideas, Vocabular, Referents, Idioms/Phrases, Reconstruction (rewording).

• UNIT 4: Composition

Rearrangement, Paragraph Unity, Linkers/Connectives.

Mathematics

• Unit 1 : Sets, Relations And Functions:

Sets and their representation; Union, intersection and complement of sets and their algebraic properties; Power set; Relation, Types of relations, equivalence relations, functions;. one one, into and onto functions, composition of functions.

• Unit 2 : Complex Numbers And Quadratic Equations:

Complex numbers as ordered pairs of reals, Representation of complex numbers in the form a+ib and their representation in a plane, Argand diagram, algebra of complex numbers, modulus and argument (or amplitude) of a complex number, square root of a complex number.

• Unit 3 : Matrices And Determinants:

Matrices, algebra of matrices, types of matrices, determinants and matrices of order two and three. Properties of determinants, evaluation of determinants, area of triangles using determinants. Ad joint and evaluation of inverse of a square matrix using determinants and elementary transformations, Test of consistency and solution of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables using determinants and matrices.

• Unit 4 : Binomial Theorem And Its Simple Applications:

Binomial theorem for a positive integral index, general term and middle term, properties of Binomial coefficients and simple applications.

• Unit 5 : Sequences And Series:

Arithmetic and Geometric progressions, insertion of arithmetic, geometric means between two given numbers. Relation between A.M. and G.M.

• Unit 6 : Limit, Continuity And Differentiability:

Real valued functions, algebra of functions, polynomials, rational, trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions, inverse functions. Limits, continuity and differentiability. Differentiation of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions. Differentiation of trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, composite and implicit functions; derivatives of order upto two. Rolle’s and Lagrange’s Mean Value Theorems.

• Unit 7 : Integral Calculus:

Integral as an anti-derivative. Fundamental integrals involving algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions. Integration by substitution, by parts and by partial fractions. Integration using trigonometric identities. Evaluation of simple integrals of the type. Integral as limit of a sum. Properties of definite integrals. Evaluation of definite integrals, determining areas of the regions bounded by simple curves in standard form.

• Unit 8: Differential Equations:

Ordinary differential equations, their order and degree. Formation of differential equations. Solution of differential equations by the method of separation of variables, solution of homogeneous and linear differential equations of the type:dy+ p (x) y = q (x)dx

• Unit 9: Coordinate Geometry:

Cartesian system of rectangular coordinates 10 in a plane, distance formula, section formula, locus and its equation, slope of a line, parallel and perpendicular lines, intercepts of a line on the coordinate axes.

Straight lines

Various forms of equations of a line, intersection of lines, angles between two lines, conditions for concurrence of three lines, distance of a point from a line, equations of internal and external bisectors of angles between two lines, equation of family of lines passing through the point of intersection of two lines.

Circles, conic sections

Standard form of equation of a circle, general form of the equation of a circle, its radius and centre, equation of a circle when the end points of a diameter are given, points of intersection of a line and a circle with the centre at the origin and condition for a line to be tangent to a circle, equation of the tangent.

• Unit 10: Three Dimensional Geometry:

Coordinates of a point in space, distance between two points, section formula, direction ratios and direction cosines, angle between two intersecting lines. Skew lines, the shortest distance between them and its equation. Equations of a line and a plane in different forms, intersection of a line and a plane, coplanar lines.

• Unit 11: Vector Algebra:

Vectors and scalars, addition of vectors, components of a vector in two dimensions and three dimensional space, scalar and vector products, scalar and vector triple product.

• Unit 12: Statistics and Probability:

Measures of Dispersion: Calculation of mean, median, mode of grouped and ungrouped data calculation of standard deviation, variance and mean deviation for grouped and ungrouped data.

Probability: Probability of an event, addition and multiplication theorems of probability, Baye’s theorem, probability distribution of a random variate, Bernoulli trials and Binomial distribution.

• Unit 13: Trigonometry:

Trigonometrical identities and equations. Trigonometrical functions. Inverse trigonometrical functions and their properties. Heights and Distances.

Quantitative Aptitude

Quantitative Aptitude

• Classification of Numbers

• Divisibility & BODMAS

• L.C.M & H.C.F

• Remainders, Factorials & Unit digit of Higher powers

• Percentage

• Profit & Loss

• Problem on Ages

• Simple & Compound Interest

• Ratio, Proportion & Variation

• Partnership

• Averages

• Mixture & Alligation

• Time & work

• Pipes & Cistens

• Time, Speed & Distance

• Problem on Trains

• Boats & Streams

• Permutation & Combination

• Probability

• True discount and Bankers Discount

• Polynomials, Quadratic Equations

Logical Reasoning

Logical Reasoning

• Coding Decoding

• Direction Sense

• Clocks & Calendars

• Syllogism

• Cubes & Dice

• Alphabetical Series

• Blood Relation

• Input-Output

• Seating Arrangement

• Inequalities

• Mirror Image

• Water Image

• Embedded Images

• Non-Verbal Analogy

• Non-Verbal Series

• Pattern Completion

• Analogy

• Odd one out

• Paper Folding

• Paper Cutting & Folding

• Symboperations

Mass Media

• UNIT-I

General English: Comprehension, Fundamental Grammar, Antonyms, Synonyms, Tense forms, Simple and Complex sentences etc.

• UNIT-II

Current Affairs: Political Developments in India and World, Administrative Reforms, Inter-State issues and disputes, Insurgency, Law and Order situations, Internal Problems, Budget, Federal Structure, Parliament, Legislative Assembly, Panchayatiraj, Urban Local Bodies, Disputes with neighbouring countries, World Health Organisation, United Nations Organisation, International Relations.

• UNIT-III

History: Indian history, Freedom movement, popular figures of Indian history, popular figures of world history.

Political Science: Elections (Parliamentary, Assembly, ULB, Panchayat). Election Commission, Political reforms, multiparty system, bi-party system, President, Prime Minister, Chief Ministers, Ruling party, Opposition party.

Geography: Geographic distribution of India, Geographic distribution of World, Continents, Countries, Rivers, Mountains, Monsoon, Agriculture patterns.

• UNIT-IV

Culture: State cultures, folk songs, folk music, Places of pilgrimage, Places of historic importance.

Language & Literature: Regional languages, popular works of writers, literary awards etc.

• UNIT-V

Sports: Cricket, Olympics, Asian Games, Common Wealth Games, Hockey, Tennis

Media Awareness: Different TV Channels, Newspapers, Magazines, Editors of different media, Media controversies, Films, Film industry, Indian and world cinema.

Biology

• Unit-1: Reproduction in Organisms

Reproduction, a characteristic feature of all organisms for continuation of species; modes of reproduction – asexual and sexual reproduction; asexual reproduction – binary fission, sporulation, budding, gemmule formation, fragmentation; vegetative propagation in plants.

• Unit-2: Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Flower structure; development of male and female gametophytes; pollination – types, agencies and examples; outbreeding devices; pollen-pistil interaction; double fertilization; post fertilization events – development of endosperm and embryo, development of seed and formation of fruit; special modes-apomixis, parthenocarpy, polyembryony; Significance of seed dispersal and fruit formation.

• Unit-3: Human Reproduction

Male and female reproductive systems; microscopic anatomy of testis and ovary; gametogenesis – spermatogenesis and oogenesis; menstrual cycle; fertilisation, embryo development upto blastocyst formation, implantation; pregnancy and placenta formation (elementary idea); parturition (elementary idea); lactation (elementary idea).

• Unit-4: Reproductive Health

Need for reproductive health and prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs); birth control – need and methods, contraception and medical termination of pregnancy (MTP); amniocentesis; infertility and assisted reproductive echnologies – IVF, ZIFT, GIFT (elementary idea for general awareness).

• Unit-5: Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Heredity and variation: Mendelian inheritance; deviations from Mendelism – incomplete dominance, co-dominance, multiple alleles and inheritance of blood groups, pleiotropy; elementary idea of polygenic inheritance; chromosome theory of inheritance; chromosomes and genes; Sex determination – in humans, birds and honey bee; linkage and crossing over; sex linked inheritance – haemophilia, colour blindness; Mendelian disorders in humans –thalassemia; chromosomal disorders in humans; Down’s syndrome, Turner’s and Klinefelter’s syndromes.

• Unit-6: Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Search for genetic material and DNA as genetic material; Structure of DNA and RNA; DNA packaging; DNA replication; Central dogma; transcription, genetic code, translation; gene expression and regulation – lac operon; genome and human and rice genome projects; DNA fingerprinting.

• Unit-7: Evolution

Origin of life; biological evolution and evidences for biological evolution (paleontology, comparative anatomy, embryology and molecular evidences); Darwin’s contribution, modern synthetic theory of evolution; mechanism of evolution – variation (mutation and recombination) and natural selection with examples, types of natural selection; Gene flow and genetic drift; Hardy – Weinberg’s principle; adaptive radiation; human evolution.

• Unit-8: Human Health and Diseases

Pathogens; parasites causing human diseases (malaria, dengue, chickengunia, filariasis, ascariasis, typhoid, pneumonia, common cold, amoebiasis, ring worm) and their control; Basic concepts of immunology – vaccines; cancer, HIV and AIDS; Adolescence – drug and alcohol abuse.

• Unit-9: Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

Improvement in food production: Plant breeding, tissue culture, single cell protein, Bio fortification, Apiculture and Animal husbandry.

• Unit-10: Microbes in Human Welfare

In household food processing, industrial production, sewage treatment, energy generation and microbes as biocontrol agents and bio fertilizers. Antibiotics; production and judicious use.

• Unit-11: Biotechnology – Principles and processes

Genetic Engineering (Recombinant DNA Technology).

• Unit-12: Biotechnology and its Application

Application of biotechnology in health and agriculture: Human insulin and vaccine production, stem cell technology, gene therapy; genetically modified organisms – Bt crops; transgenic animals; biosafety issues, bio piracy and patents.

• Unit-13: Organisms and Populations

Organisms and environment: Habitat and niche, population and ecological adaptations; population interactions – mutualism, competition, predation, parasitism; population attributes – growth, birth rate and death rate, age distribution.

• Unit-14: Ecosystem

Ecosystems: Patterns, components; productivity and decomposition; energy flow; pyramids of number, biomass, energy; nutrient cycles (carbon and phosphorous); ecological succession; ecological services – carbon fixation, pollination, seed dispersal, oxygen release (in brief).

• Unit-15: Biodiversity and its Conservation

Concept of biodiversity; patterns of biodiversity; importance of biodiversity; loss of biodiversity; biodiversity conservation; hotspots, endangered organisms, extinction, Red Data Book, biosphere reserves, national parks, sanctuaries and Ramsar sites.

• Unit-16: Environmental Issues

Air pollution and its control; water pollution and its control; agrochemicals and their effects; solid waste management; radioactive waste management; greenhouse effect and climate change; ozone layer depletion; deforestation; any one case study as success story addressing environmental issue(s).

Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

• Unit 1: Some Basic Concepts in Chemistry

Matter and its nature, Dalton’s atomic theory; Concept of atom, molecule, element and compound; Physical quantities and their measurements in Chemistry, precision and accuracy, significant figures, S.I. Units, dimensional analysis; Laws of chemical combination; Atomic and molecular masses, mole concept, molar mass.

• Unit 2: States of Matter

Classification of matter into solid, liquid and gaseous states.

Gaseous State:

Measurable properties of gases; Gas laws - Boyle’s law, Charle’s law, Graham’s law of diffusion, Avogadro’s law, Dalton’s law of partial pressure; Concept of Absolute scale of temperature; Ideal gas equation; Kinetic theory of gases (only postulates); Real gases, deviation from Ideal behaviour, compressibility factor and van der Waals equation.

Solid State:

Classification of solids: molecular, ionic, covalent and metallic solids, amorphous and crystalline solids (elementary idea); Bragg’s Law and its applications; Unit cell and lattices, packing in solids (fcc, bcc and hcp lattices), voids, calculations involving unit cell parameters, imperfection in solids; Electrical, magnetic and dielectric properties.

• Unit 3: Atomic Structure

Thomson and Rutherford atomic models and their limitations; Nature of electromagnetic radiation, photoelectric effect; Spectrum of hydrogen atom, Bohr model of hydrogen atom - its postulates, derivation of the relations for energy of the electron and radii of the different orbits, limitations of Bohr’s model; Dual nature of matter, de-Broglie’s relationship, Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Elementary ideas of quantum mechanics, quantum mechanical model of atom, its important features; various quantum numbers (principal, angular momentum and magnetic quantum numbers) and their significance; shapes of s, p and d - orbitals, electron spin and spin quantum number; Rules for filling electrons in orbitals – aufbau principle, Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule, electronic configuration of elements(only upto Atomic Numbers 30), extra stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals.

• Unit 4: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Kossel - Lewis approach to chemical bond formation, concept of ionic and covalent bonds. Ionic Bonding: Formation of ionic bonds, factors affecting the formation of ionic bonds; calculation of lattice enthalpy. Covalent Bonding: Concept of electronegativity, Fajan’s rule, dipole moment; Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) theory and shapes of simple molecules. Quantum mechanical approach to covalent bonding: Valence bond theory - Its important features, concept of hybridization involving s, p and d orbitals; Resonance. Molecular Orbital Theory - Its important features, LCAOs, types of molecular orbitals (bonding, antibonding), sigma and pi-bonds, molecular orbital electronic configurations of homonuclear diatomic molecules, concept of bond order, bond length and bond energy.

• Unit 5: Chemical Thermodynamics

Fundamentals of thermodynamics: System and surroundings, extensive and intensive properties, state functions, types of processes. First law of thermodynamics - Concept of work, heat internal energy and enthalpy, heat capacity, molar heat capacity; Hess’s law of constant heat summation.

• Unit 6: Solutions

Different methods for expressing concentration of solution - molality, molarity, mole fraction, percentage (by volume and mass both), vapour pressure of solutions and Raoult’s Law – Ideal and non-ideal solutions, vapour pressure - composition, plots for ideal and non-ideal solutions; Colligative properties of dilute solutions - relative lowering of vapour pressure, depression of freezing point, elevation of boiling point and osmotic pressure; Determination of molecular mass using colligative properties; Abnormal value of molar mass, Van’t Hoff factor and its significance.

• Unit 7: Electrochemistry

Electrochemical cells - Electrolytic and Galvanic cells, different types of electrodes, electrode potentials including standard electrode potential, half - cell and cell reactions, emf of a Galvanic cell and its measurement; Nernst equation and its applications; Relationship between cell potential and Gibbs’ energy change; Dry cell and lead accumulator; Fuel cells.

• Unit 8: Chemical Kinetics

Rate of a chemical reaction, factors affecting the rate of reactions: concentration, temperature, pressure and catalyst; elementary and complex reactions, order and molecularity of reactions, rate law, rate constant and its units, differential and integral forms of zero and first order reactions, their characteristics and half - lives, effect of temperature on rate of reactions – Arrhenius theory, activation energy and its calculation, collision theory of bimolecular gaseous reactions (no derivation).

Inorganic Chemistry

• Unit 9: Classificaton of elements & Unit 11: Classificaton of elements and periodicity in properties

Modem periodic law and present form of the periodic table, s, p, d and f block elements, periodic trends in properties of elements atomic and ionic radii, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states and chemical reactivity.

• Unit 10: Hydrogen

Position of hydrogen in periodic table, isotopes, preparation, properties and uses of hydrogen; Physical and chemical properties of water and heavy water; Hydrogen as a fuel.

• Unit 11: S - Block elements (alkali and alkaline earth metals)

Group - 1 and 2 Elements

General introduction, electronic configuration and general trends in physical and chemical properties of elements, anomalous properties of the first element of each group, diagonal relationships. Preparation and properties of some important compounds - sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide; Industrial uses of lime, limestone, Plaster of Paris and cement; Biological significance of Na, K, Mg and Ca.

• Unit 12: P - Block Elements

Group - 13 to Group 18 Elements

General Introduction: Electronic configuration and general trends in physical and chemical properties of elements across the periods and down the groups; unique behaviour of the first element in each group. Group wise study of the p – block elements

Group – 13

Preparation, properties and uses of boron and aluminium; properties of diborane, aluminium chloride and alums.

Group – 14

Allotropes of carbon, tendency for catenation; Structure & properties of silicates, and zeolites.

Group – 15

Properties and uses of nitrogen and phosphorus; Allotropic forms of phosphorus; Preparation, properties, structure and uses of ammonia, nitric acid, Structures of oxides and oxoacids of phosphorus.

Group – 16

Preparation, properties, structures and uses of ozone; Allotropic forms of sulphur; Preparation, properties, structures and uses of sulphuric acid.

Group – 17

Preparation, properties and uses of hydrochloric acid; Trends in the acidic nature of hydrogen halides; Structures of Interhalogen compounds and oxides and oxoacids of halogens.

Group – 18

Occurrence and uses of noble gases.

• Unit 13: D and F – Block Elements

Transition Elements

General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence and characteristics, general trends in properties of the first row transition elements - physical properties, ionization enthalpy, oxidation states, atomic radii, colour, catalytic behaviour, magnetic properties, complex formation, interstitial compounds, alloy formation; Preparation, properties and uses of K2Cr2O7 and KMnO4. Inner Transition Elements Lanthanoids - Electronic configuration, oxidation states and lanthanoid contraction. Actinoids - Electronic configuration and oxidation states.

• Unit 14: Co-ordination Compounds

Transition Elements

Introduction to co-ordination compounds, Werner’s theory; ligands, co-ordination number, denticity, chelation; IUPAC nomenclature of mononuclear co-ordination compounds, isomerism; Bonding-Valence bond approach and basic ideas of Crystal field theory, colour and magnetic properties; Importance of co-ordination compounds (in qualitative analysis, extraction of metals and in biological systems).

Organic Chemistry

• Unit 15: Purification and Unit 19: Purification and Characterisation of Organic Compounds

Qualitative analysis - Detection of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and halogens. Quantitative analysis (basic principles only) - Estimation of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, halogens, sulphur, phosphorus. Calculations of empirical formulae and molecular formulae; Numerical problems in organic quantitative analysis.

Unit 16: Some Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry

Tetravalency of carbon; Shapes of simple molecules - hybridization (s and p); Classification of organic compounds based on functional groups: - C = C - and those containing halogens, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur; Homologous series; Isomerism - structural and stereoisomerism. Nomenclature (Trivial and IUPAC) Covalent bond fission - Homolytic and heterolytic: free radicals, carbocations and carbanions; stability of carbocations and free radicals, electrophiles and nucleophiles. Electronic displacement in a covalent bond - Inductive effect, electromeric effect, resonance and hyperconjugation.

• Unit 17: Hydrocarbons

Classification, isomerism, IUPAC nomenclature, general methods of preparation, properties and reactions. Alkanes - Conformations: Sawhorse and Newman projections (of ethane); Mechanism of halogenation of alkanes. Alkenes - Geometrical isomerism; Mechanism of electrophilic addition: addition of hydrogen, halogens, water, hydrogen halides (Markownikoff’s and peroxide effect); Ozonolysis and polymerization.

Alkynes - Acidic character; Addition of hydrogen, halogens, water and hydrogen halides; Polymerization. Aromatic hydrocarbons - Nomenclature, benzene - structure and aromaticity; Mechanism of electrophilic substitution: halogenation, nitration, Friedel – Craft’s alkylation and acylation.

• Unit 18: Organic Compounds Containing Halogens

Classification, isomerism, IUPAC nomenclature, general methods of preparation, properties and reactions. Alkanes - Conformations: Sawhorse and Newman projections (of ethane); Mechanism of halogenation of alkanes. Alkenes - Geometrical isomerism; Mechanism of electrophilic addition: addition of hydrogen, halogens, water, hydrogen halides (Markownikoff’s and peroxide effect); Ozonolysis and polymerization.

Alkynes - Acidic character; Addition of hydrogen, halogens, water and hydrogen halides; Polymerization. Aromatic hydrocarbons - Nomenclature, benzene - structure and aromaticity; Mechanism of electrophilic substitution: halogenation, nitration, Friedel – Craft’s alkylation and acylation.

• Unit 19: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen

General methods of preparation, properties, reactions and uses. Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers Alcohols: Identification of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols; mechanism of dehydration. Phenols: Acidic nature, electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration and sulphonation, Reimer - Tiemann reaction. Ethers: Structure. Aldehyde and Ketones: Nature of carbonyl group;Nucleophilic addition to >C=O group, relative reactivities of aldehydes and ketones; Important reactions such as – Nucleophilic addition reactions (addition of HCN, NH3 and its derivatives), Grignard reagent; oxidation; reduction (Wolff Kishner and Clemmensen); acidity of - hydrogen, aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction, Haloform reaction; Chemical tests to distinguish between aldehydes and Ketones. Carboxylic acids Acidic strength and factors affecting it.

• Unit 20: Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen

General methods of preparation, properties, reactions and uses. Amines: Nomenclature, classification, structure, basic character and identification of primary, secondary and tertiary amines and their basic character. Diazonium Salts: Importance in synthetic organic chemistry.

• Unit 21: Chemistry in Everyday Life

Chemicals in medicines - Analgesics, tranquilizers, antiseptics, disinfectants, antimicrobials, antifertility drugs, antibiotics, antacids, antihistamins - their meaning and common examples. Chemicals in food - Preservatives, artificial sweetening agents - common examples. Cleansing agents - Soaps and detergents, cleansing action.

Commerce

Accounting

Accounting for PartnershipFirms and Companies

• Unit 1: Accounting for Partnership Firms

Partnership: features, Partnership Deed, Provisions of the Indian Partnership Act 1932 in the absence of partnership deed, Fixed v/s fluctuating capital accounts, Preparation of Profit and Loss Appropriation account- division of profit among partners, guarantee of profits, Past adjustments (relating to interest on capital, interest on drawing, salary and profit sharing ratio), Goodwill: nature, factors affecting and methods of valuation - average profit, super profit and capitalization.

Accounting for Partnership firms - Reconstitution and Dissolution, Change in the Profit Sharing Ratio, Admission of a partner, Retirement and death of a partner, Dissolution of a partnership firm.

• Unit-2 Accounting for Companies

Accounting for Share Capital

Share and share capital: nature and types.

Accounting for share capital: issue and allotment of equity shares, issue of shares for consideration other than cash. Concept of Private Placement and Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), Accounting treatment of forfeiture and re-issue of shares. Disclosure of share capital in company’s Balance Sheet.

Accounting for Debentures

Debentures: Issue of debentures at par, at a premium and at a discount. Issue of debentures for consideration other than cash; Issue of debentures with terms of redemption; debentures as collateral security-concept, interest on debentures,

Redemption of debentures: Lump sum, draw of lots and purchase in the open market (excluding ex-interest and cum-interest). Creation of Debenture Redemption Reserve. Conversion method.

Note: Related sections of the Indian Companies Act, 2013 will apply.

Financial Statement Analysis

• Unit 3: Analysis of Financial Statements

Financial statements of a company: Statement of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet in the prescribed form with major headings and sub headings (as per Schedule III to the Companies Act, 2013).

Financial Statement Analysis: Objectives, importance and limitations.

Tools for Financial Statement Analysis: Comparative statements, common size statements, cash flow analysis, ratio analysis.

Accounting Ratios: Objectives, classification and computation of Liquidity Ratios, Solvency Ratios, Activity Ratios, and Profitability Ratios.

• Unit 4: Cash Flow Statement

Meaning, objectives and preparation.

Computerized Accounting

• Unit 5: Computerized Accounting

Overview of Computerized Accounting System.

• Introduction: Application in Accounting.

• Features of Computerised Accounting System.

• Structure of CAS.

• Software Packages: Generic; Specific; Tailored.

Accounting Application of Electronic Spreadsheet.
Using Computerized Accounting System.
Database Management System (DBMS)

Economics

Introductory Microeconomics

• Unit 6: Introduction

Meaning of microeconomics and macroeconomics

What is an economy? Central problems of an economy: what, how and for whom to produce; concepts of production possibility frontier and opportunity cost.

Unit 7: Consumer Equilibrium and Demand

Consumer's equilibrium – meaning of utility, marginal utility, law of diminishing marginal utility, conditions of consumer's equilibrium using marginal utility analysis. Indifference curve analysis of consumer's equilibrium-the consumer's budget
Demand, market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve and its slope, movement along and shifts in the demand curve; price elasticity of demand - factors affecting price elasticity of demand; measurement of price elasticity of demand.

• Unit 8: Producer Behaviour and Supply

• Production function - Short-Run and Long-Run

• Total Product, Average Product and Marginal Product.

• Returns to a Factor.

Cost and Revenue: Short run costs - total cost, total fixed cost, total variable cost; Average cost; Average fixed cost, average variable cost and marginal cost-meaning and their relationship.

Revenue - total, average and marginal revenue - meaning and their relationship.

Unit 9: Forms of Market and Price Determination

Perfect competition - Features; Determination of market equilibrium and effects of shifts in demand and supply.
Other Market Forms - monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly - their meaning and features.
Simple Applications of Demand and Supply: Price ceiling, price floor.

Introductory Macroeconomicss

• Unit 10: National Income and related aggregates

Some basic concepts: consumption goods, capital goods, final goods, intermediate goods; stocks and flows; gross investment and depreciation.
Circular flow of income; Methods of calculating National Income – Value Added or Product method, Expenditure method, Income method. Aggregates related to National Income: Gross National Product (GNP), Net National Product (NNP), Gross and Net Domestic Product (GDP and NDP, GDP and Welfare.

• Unit 11: Money and Banking

Money - its meaning and functions.

Supply of money - Currency held by the public and net demand deposits held by commercial banks.

Money creation by the commercial banking system.

Central bank and its functions, CRR, SLR, Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate, Open Market Operations, Margin requirement.

• Unit 12: Determination of Income and Employment

Aggregate demand and its components. Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal). Short–run equilibrium output; investment multiplier and its mechanism. Meaning of full employment and involuntary unemployment.

• Unit 13: Government Budget and the Economy

Government budget - meaning, objectives and components.

Classification of receipts - revenue receipts and capital receipts; classification of expenditure - revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

Measures of government deficit - revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, primary deficit their meaning.

• Unit 14: Balance of Payments

Balance of payments account - meaning and components; balance of payments deficit-meaning. Foreign exchange rate - meaning of fixed and flexible rates and managed floating. Determination of exchange rate in a free market.

BUSINESS STUDIES

Principles and Functions of Management

• Unit 15: Nature and Significance of Management

Management - concept, objectives and importance, Management as Science, Art and Profession, Levels of management, Management functions - planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling, Coordination - concept, characteristics and importance

• Unit 16: Principles of Management

Principles of Management - concept, nature and significance, Fayol’s principles of management, Taylor’s Scientific Management - principles and techniques

• Unit 17: Management and Business Environment

Business Environment - concept and importance, Dimensions of Business Environment - Economic, Social, Technological, Political and Legal, Impact of Government policy changes on business with special reference to liberalization, privatization and globalization in India.

• Unit 18: Planning

Concept, importance and limitations, Planning process, Single use and Standing Plans - Objectives, Strategy, Policy, Procedure, Method, Rule, Budget and Programme.

• Unit 19: Organizing

Concept and importance, Organizing Process, Structure of organization - functional and divisional, Formal and informal organization, Delegation: concept, elements and importance, Decentralization: concept and importance.

• Unit 20: Staffing

Concept and importance of staffing, Staffing as a part of Human Resource Management, Staffing process: Recruitment - sources; Selection – process, Training and Development - Concept and importance. Methods of training- on the job and off the job- Induction training, vestibule training, apprenticeship training and internship training.

• Unit 21: Directing

Concept and importance, Elements of Directing: - Supervision - concept, functions of a supervisor. - Motivation - Concept, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; Financial and non-financial incentives. - Leadership - concept, styles - authoritative, democratic and laissen faire. - Communication - concept, formal and informal communication; barriers to effective; communication, how to overcome the barriers.

• Unit 22: Controlling

Concept, nature and importance, Relationship between planning and controlling, Steps in the process of control

Business Finance and Marketing

• Unit 23: Financial Management

Concept and objectives of financial management, financial decisions: investment, financing and dividend and factors affecting, Financial planning - concept and importance, Capital Structure - concept and factors affecting, Fixed and Working Capital - concept and factors affecting their requirements.

• Unit 24: Financial Markets

Financial Markets: concept and types, Money market and its instruments, Capital market and its types (primary and secondary), Stock Exchange - functions and training procedure. Depository Services and D'mat Account, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) - objectives and functions.

• Unit 25: Marketing Management

Marketing - concept and functions, Marketing management philosophies, Marketing Mix – concept, Product - concept, branding, labeling and packaging. Price - factors determining price, Physical distribution- concept, channels of distribution: types, choice of channels, Promotion -concept and elements; advertising- concept, role, objections against advertising, personal selling - concept and qualities of a good salesman, sales promotion - concept and techniques, public relations - concept and role.

• Unit 26: Consumer Protection

Concept and importance of consumer protection, Consumer Protection Act 1986, Meaning of consumer and consumer protection, Rights and responsibilities of consumers, who can file a complaint and against whom? Redressed machinery, Remedies available, Consumer awareness - Role of consumer organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

Geography

This test is designed to assess the test takers’ general proficiency in the use of Geographical terms as a means of Geographical Phenomena’s in real life situations and specifically to test the test takers’ knowledge of basic geographical terms, their Knowledge, their ability to understand, and also their ability to apply the elements of Geographical Phenomena.

UNIT 1: Nature and Scope and Branches of Geography

• Nature and Scope of Geography, Various Branches of Geography and their relationship and its application. Basic Terms related with Population and Migration.

UNIT 2: Different Geographical Traits of Geography

• Social, Economical, Cultural and Political aspects of Geography.

UNIT 3: Terms related to Physical Geography

• Biogeography, Oceanography, Urban rural and Economic Geography.

UNIT 4: Different Physical and Geomorphologic Features

• Rocks, Volcanoes, Earthquake, Tides ,Coral reefs and types of Air masses and Jet streams Cyclones and Rainfall and its types.

History

History Syllabus

• The Story of the First Cities: Harappan ‰Archaeology

• Political and Economic History: How Inscriptions tell a story

• Social Histories: Using the Mahabharata

• A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa

• Agrarian Relations: The Ain-i- Akbari

• The Mughal Court: Reconstructing Histories through Chronicles

• New Architecture: Hampi

• Religious Histories: The Bhakti-Sufi tradition

• Medieval Society Through Travellers' Accounts

• Colonialism and-Rural Society: Evidence from Official Reports

• Representations of 1857

• Colonialism and Indian Towns: Town Plans and Municipal Reports

• Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary ‰Eyes

• Partition through Oral Sources

• The Making of the Constitution

Legal Studies

Legal aptitude

• Indian Constitution

• Indian polity

• Legal reasoning

• Legal Maxims

General Studies

• History

• Environment

• Geography

• Economics

• Polity

• General Science

• General Knowledge etc. up to class - 12th level

Current affairs

Current events of national and international importance with special focus on legal aspects

Reasoning

• Puzzle

• Sets

• Number-series

• Logical patterns

• blood relations

Physics

• Unit 1: Kinematics

Frame of reference. Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time, position-time graphs, relations for uniformly accelerated motion. Scalars and Vectors, Vector addition and Subtraction, Zero Vector, Scalar and Vector products, Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector. Relative Velocity, Motion in a plane, Projectile Motion, Uniform Circular Motion.

• Unit 2: Laws of motion

Force and Inertia, Newton’s First Law of motion; Momentum, Newton’s Second Law of motion; Impulse; Newton’s Third Law of motion. Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications, Equilibrium of concurrent forces. Static and Kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction. Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force and its applications.

• Unit 3: Work, energy and power

Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic and potential energies, work energy theorem, power. Potential energy of a spring, conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and non-conservative forces; Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

• Unit 4: Rotational motion

Centre of mass of a two-particle system, Centre of mass of a rigid body; Basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and its applications; moment of inertia, radius of gyration. Values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.

• Unit 5: Gravitation

The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-stationary satellites.

• Unit 6: Thermodynamics

Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, concept of temperature. Heat, work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics. Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. Carnot engine and its efficiency.

• Unit 7: Kinetic Theory Of Gases

Equation of state of a perfect gas, work doneon compressing a gas. Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic energy and temperature: rms speed of gas molecules; Degrees of freedom, Law of equipartition of energy, applications to specific heat capacities of gases; Mean free path, Avogadro’s number.

• Unit 8: Oscillations And Waves

Periodic motion - period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Periodic functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; phase; oscillations of a spring -restoring force and force constant; energy in S.H.M. - kinetic and potential energies; Simple pendulum - derivation of expression for its time period; Free, forced and damped oscillations, resonance. Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of a wave. Displacement relation for a progressive wave. Principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves, Standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonics, Beats, Doppler effect in sound.

• Unit 9: Electrostatics

Electric charges: Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law-forces between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution. Electric field: Electric field due to a point charge, Electric field lines, Electric dipole, Electric field due to a dipole, Torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field. Electric flux, Gauss’s law and its applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell. Electric potential and its calculation for a point charge, electric dipole and system of charges; Equipotential surfaces, Electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges in an electrostatic field. Conductors and insulators, Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitor, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, Energy stored in a capacitor.

• Unit 10: Currrent Electricity

Electric current, Drift velocity, Ohm’s law, Electrical resistance, Resistances of different materials, V-I characteristics of Ohmic and nonohmic conductors, Electrical energy and power, Electrical resistivity, Colour code for resistors; Series and parallel combinations of resistors; Temperature dependence of resistance. Electric Cell and its Internal resistance, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cells in series and in parallel. Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications. Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge. Potentiometer - principle and its applications.

• Unit 11: Magnetic Effects Of Current And Magnetism

Biot - Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop. Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Cyclotron. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in uniform magnetic field; Moving coil galvanometer, its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter. Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-, dia- and ferro- magnetic substances. Magnetic susceptibility and permeability, Hysteresis, Electromagnets and permanent magnets.

• Unit 12: Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics. Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, Xrays, gamma rays). Applications of e.m. waves.

Reflection and refraction of light at plane and spherical surfaces, mirror formula, Total internal reflection and its applications, Deviation and Dispersion of light by a prism, Lens Formula, Magnification, Power of a Lens, Combination of thin lenses in contact, Microscope and Astronomical Telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers. Wave optics: wave front and Huygens’ principle, Laws of reflection and refraction using Huygen’s principle. Interference, Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width. Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum. Resolving power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes, Polarisation, plane polarized light; Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarized light and Polaroids.

• Unit 13: Dual Nature Of Matter Andradiation

Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric equation; particle nature of light. Matter waves-wave nature of particle, de Broglie relation. Davisson Germer experiment.

• Unit 14: Atoms And Nuclei

Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones. Radioactivity-alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties; radioactive decay law. Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission and fusion.

Public Administration

CUCET-Public Administration-2022 Examination Syllabus

• Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration.

• Wilson’s vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its present status;

• New Public Administration; Public Choice approach; Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation;

• Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement; Classical Theory;

• Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and post-Weberian Developments;

• Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett); Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others); Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard);

• Simon’s decision-making theory; Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).

Administrative Law

• Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on Administrative law;

• Delegated legislation; Administrative Tribunals

Public Policy

• Models of policy-making and their critique

• Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations;

• State theories and public policy formulation.

Financial Administration

• Monetary and fiscal policies;

• Public borrowings and public debt Budgets – types and forms; Budgetary process; Financial accountability; Accounts and audit.

Evolution of Indian Administration

• Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal administration;

• Legacy of British rule in politics and administration – Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self- government.

• Historical Background of constitution of India

• Making of Indian Constitution

• Indian Constitution: Bag of Borrowings

• Parts, Schedules and Articles of Indian constitution

• Preamble

• Union and Territory of India

• Fundamental Rights (FR)

• Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP)

• Union Executive President

• Vice President

• Prime Minister & COM

• Attorney general & Comptroller and Auditor General

• Union Parliament

• Sessions of Parliament

• Law making procedure

• Indian Judiciary-Supreme Court & High Court

• State Government- State Executive

• State Legislature

• Administration of Union Territories (UT)

• Administration of Special Areas

• Schedule & Tribal Areas

• Emergency Provisions in Indian constitution

• Panchayati raj and municipalities

Question Paper Pattern

Time: 120 minutes

Multiple choice questions: 100

Each question carries 01 mark

No negative marking

Students having following qualification will appear in the test. The test consists of different modules out of which the students have to choose.

10+2 Non-Medical

10+2 Medical         

10+2 Commerce

10+2 Arts with English (Any one of the following Combinations)

10+2 Arts with Hindi (Any one of the following Combinations)

LEET Programs

Master of Engineering CORE program

Master of Engineering Interdisciplinary program

MBA Program      

For PG-Courses other than Engineering/MBA