Eligibility Criteria and Dates for AIMCET

Provide me information about required eligibility and dates for All India MCA Common Entrance Test ?

[Kiran Chandar]

All India MCA Common Entrance Test is a well known entrance examination for admission in MCA course in reputed colleges situated in India … here I am giving you information about required eligibility and dates for All India MCA Common Entrance Test


All India MCA Common Entrance Test
Eligibility:
You must be of Indian nationality.
You have to pass Bachelor's degree of minimum 3 years in any discipline with Mathematics at the (10+2) from any well recognized university …


Exam tentative dates :
Issue of application form:: April 2014
Last date for submission:: may 2014
Test is generally held on June of the academic year


Examination pattern:
The entrance test consists of 200 questions to be answered in 3 hours time
Mathematics – 100 Questions
Computer Awareness – 40 Questions
Analytical ability & Logical Reasoning – 40 Questions
General Awareness –20 Questions


Syllabus :
Algebra: Fundamental operations in Algebra, Expansion, factorization, simultaneous linear / quadratic equations, indices, logarithms, arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, binomial theorem, permutations and combinations, surds, determinants, matrices and application to solution of simultaneous linear equations.


Co-ordinate Geometry: Rectangular Cartesian co-ordinates, equations of a line, mid point,intersections etc., equations of a circle, distance formulae, pair of straight lines, parabola,ellipse and hyperbola, simple geometric transformations such as translation, rotation, scaling.


Calculus: Limit of functions, continuous functions, differentiation of functions(s),Tangents and normal, simple examples of maxima and minima, Integration of function by parts, by substitution and by partial fraction, definite integral application to volumes and surfaces of frustums of a sphere, cone, cylinder, Taylor Series.


Differential Equations: Differential equations of first order and their solutions, linear differential equations with constant coefficients, homogenous linear differential equations.


Vector: Position vector, additions and subtraction of vectors, scalar and vector products and their applications to simple geometrical problems and mechanics.


Trigonometry: Simple identities, trigonometric equations, properties of triangles, solution of triangles, height and distance, inverse function


Probability and Statistics: Basic concepts of probability theory, Averages, Dependent and independent events, frequency distributions, and measures of dispersions, skewness and kurtosis, random variable and distribution functions, mathematical expectations, Binomial, Poisson, normal distributions, curve fitting, and principle of least squares, correlation and regression


Linear Programming: Formulation of simple linear programming problems, basic concepts of graphical and simplex methods


Computer Awareness:
Computer Basics: Organization of a computer, Central Processing Unit (CPU), Structure of instructions in CPU, input / output devices, computer memory, memory organization, back-up devices


Data Representation: Representation of characters, integers, and fractions, binary and hexadecimal representations, Binary Arithmetic: Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, single arithmetic and two complement arithmetic, floating point representation of numbers, normalized floating point representation, Boolean algebra, truth tables, Venn diagrams


Computer Architecture: Block structure of computers, communication between processor and I / O devices, interrupts


Computer Language: Assembly language and high level language, Multiprogramming and time sharing operating systems, Computer Programming in C.


Flow chart and Algorithms

Analytical Ability and Logical Reasoning:The questions in this section will cover logical reasoning, quantitative reasoning, visuo-spatial reasoning

General Awareness:This section shall carry questions to test the general awareness about business, finance, industry, transportation, scientific inventions, governance, healthcare and cultural dimensions etc.