GNDU MCA Entrance Test

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Here is the syllabus
Paper 1: 50 Objective Type Questions of 1 mark each (75 minutes)
General Mathematics (10marks): Mathematical Analysis- sets, rational numbers, real numbers, number line, intervals, division algorithm, basic properties of real numbers, complex numbers, relations and functions, basic elementary properties of functions.

Calculus: Limit, basic limit theorems, algebra of limits, sandwich theorem, L Hospitals rule, continuity of a function at a point and in a closed interval, derivative and their properties, mathematical & geometric interpretation of differential, the differentials of some elementary functions, mean value theorems, some elementary integrals, integration by substitution and by parts, definite integrals.

Trigonometry: Measures of angles, trigonometric function of an acute angle, reduction formulae, addition & subtraction formulae, inverse trigonometric functions, trigonometric equations and their solutions.

Vectors: Scalar & vector quantities cross product and scalar product, vector triple product.

Statistics & Probability: Permutations & combinations, nature & purpose of statistics, tabular & graphical representation of samples, variance, correlation, mathematical expectation, curve fitting, random experiments, probability, random variables.

General Awareness (10marks): Current Affairs Imp. Events in Indian History Imp. Scientific discoveries.

Mental Ability (10marks): Logical & Analytical Ability

General English (10marks): English Vocabulary, English Comprehension

Computer Aptitude (10marks): Qs. related to basics of computer science & applications

Paper II

Higher mathematics


Matrices & Determinants: Basics concepts, addition, scalar multiplication,
multiplication, transpose and adjoint of a matrix, rank of a matrix, system of
linear equations, inverse of a matrix, eigen values & eigen vectors, cayley
Hamilton theorem.

Calculus: Successive differentiation, partial differentiation, convexsity,
concavity, asymptotes and curve tracing of curves of the form F(x,y)=0 and
of curves given in terms of parametric equations, theorems on derivatives of
inverse functions, hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions and their
derivatives, curvature of a curve (Cartesian and parametric forms), definite
integrals (Cartesian, parametric), computation of lengths of arcs and areas
under given curves, methods of approximation (Simpsons rule and
trapezoidal rule).

Co-ordinate Geometry: Coordinate systems, lines in a plane, circle, points of
intersection of a line and a curve, pole and polar, pair of tangents from a
point, chord of contact, equation of chord in terms of midpoints and diameter
of conic, conjugate diameters, geometric transformations, special properties
of parabola, ellipse and hyperbola, transformation of axes, shifting of origin,
rotation of axes, reduction of the second degree equation S =
ax2+2hxy+by2+2gx+2fy+c=0 to standard form by transformation of
coordinates.

Linear Algebra: Definitions of group, ring and field with illustrations, vector
spaces, linear dependence and independence, basis, row and column spaces
of matrices, connection with rank, the spaces of solutions of a system of
linear homogeneous equations, linear transformations and their algebra,
connections between matrices and linear transformations, determinant and
trace of a linear transformation.

Theory of Equations: Polynomials and their characteristics, roots of an
equation, relation between roots & coefficients, transformation of equations,
solution of cubic & biquadratic equations.

Differential Equations: First order differential equations and their solutions,
singular solutions, geometrical interpretations, linear differential equation
with constant coefficient.

Analysis: Convergence and divergence of sequence and series of positive
terms (standard tests only).

Introduction to Computers: Computer as a system : functional units and their
interrelationship, types of computers, milestones in hardware and software,
data storage devices and media, primary storage, types of memory, magnetic
tape, magnetic disk and floppy diskette, input-output devices, problem
analysis, flowcharts, algorithms, decision tables.

DOS Fundamentals and PC Software: Concepts of files and directories, basic
DOS commands, creation of batch files, configuring DOS, formatting of hard
disk, MS Windows, features of word processing package, creation, editing,
formatting of document, global search and replacement of text, printing,
spelling checking and mail merge, spread sheets: graphs, statistical, financial,
and mathematical functions, databases : creating a database file, indexing
and sorting database file, managing multiple database files
(Word/EXCEL/FoxPro/dbase).

Numerical Methods: Finding root of an non-linear equation using bisection
method, Newton-Raphson method, solutions of simultaneous linear
equations, Gauss elimination method, Gauss-Siedel method, interpolation
using Lagrange-s method, integration using trapezoidal rule, Simpson-s rule,
(numericals/algorithms will be asked).

Statistical Techniques: Arithmetic mean, standard deviation, rank correlation
and linear regression.

Data Structures: Sorting and searching, stacks, queues, linked list, trees and
graphs.

Data Base Management System: Fundamentals concepts of database, DBMS,
data base models (relational, hierarchical, network)

Programming Language: Basic programming concepts of FORTRAN & C.



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0183 225 8809