Sample paper for INAT-09 NCRA

Give me you information about the paper pattern for the INAT entrance examination of National Centre for Radio Astrophysics ?

[Kiran Chandar]

NCRA National Centre for Radio Astrophysics managed by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research… here I am giving you information about the paper pattern for the INAT entrance examination of National Centre for Radio Astrophysics below..

INAT Paper pattern :
INAT exam question paper will have a 3 part as follow :
physics,
advanced physics
Electronics,

Each Part Having 15 MCQ questions.
TOTAL time duration : 2 Hours

3 marks for one correct answer and for a wrong answer will cost them 1 mark.

Nature of the Written Test:
The test is of TWO hours duration.
The question paper has two parts, A and B.

Part A contains twenty objective-type questions on basic Mathematics, Physics and Electronics.

Part B contains another twenty objective-type questions from advanced Physics, Mathematics and Electronics/Engineering.

Books for the preparation of INAT
Principals of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
Statistics by G. Cowan
Classical Mechanics by S. Thornton & J. Marion
A Dictionary of Astronomy by By Mark Mortimer
Applied mathematics by L. Bostock and Suzanne Chandler
Pure mathematics by Linda Bostock and Suzanne Chandler
Electricity and Magnetism by D. Griffiths
Thermo/statmech by C. Kittel & H. Kroemer
Particle Physics by D. Griffiths

Contact details :
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune University Campus, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, Maharashtra
Phone: (020) 25604100, 25691414, Fax: (020) 25604699
E-mail: vch@iucaa.ernet.in