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Punjabi university MCA Entrance Examination Syllabus – 2014

Paper–I: Mental And Numerical Ability ( Objective )

Time: 30 minutes Questions: 30 Marks: 30

This paper will have the topic of logical reasoning, graphical analysis, analytical reasoning, quantitative comparisons, series formation, arithmetic calculations such as profit and loss, interest, ratio, proportion, averages, etc.

Paper–II: General Knowledge ( Objective )

Time: 30 minutes Questions: 30 Marks: 30

This paper will cover the general awareness about international, national and regional events, current affairs related to science & technology, ecology, politics, sports, important personalities, books, and historical, political and geographical facts, etc.

Paper–III: General English ( Objectiv e)

Time: 30 minutes Questions: 30 Marks: 30

This paper will have questions from English language and its usage such as choosing correct spellings, completion of sentences with suitable propositions/articles, word meaning, one word substitution, synonym, antonym, meaning of idioms and phrases, choosing correcting grammatical errors in a part of given sentence, filling the blanks with correct form of verb, objectives, adverbs, etc.

Paper–IV: (I) Mathematics (Objective) – Optional

Time: 60 minutes Questions: 60 Marks: 60

Number System:

Natural numbers, integers, rational numbers and real numbers, Complex numbers, real and imaginary parts.

Coordinate Geometry:

Distance and Section formulae, location of line in, a plane, angle between two lines, parallel and perpendicular lines. Location of a circle, conic section, parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.

Functions:

Algebra of real functions and their graphs, polynomial and rational functions. One-one, onto and inverse functions.

Trigonometry:

Trigonometric functions, addition formulae, trigonometrically ratios, Solutions of simple trigonometric equation.

Quadratic Equations and in Equations:

Their solutions, roots of a quadratic equation, relationship between the roots and the co-efficient, nature of roots. Solution of quadratic in equations with their graphic representations.

Sequence and Series:

AP, GP and their sums.

Matrices and Determinants:

Types of matrices rank of a matrix, determinant and its-properties, inverse of matrix, solution of linear equations having a single solution. Cramer's rule.

Mathematical Operations: BODMAS

Algebra:

Set theorem, permutations and combinations, binomial theorem.

Differential and Integral Calculus:

Differentiation and integration of functions, limits and continuity of a function.

Statistics and Probability:

Population and sample, measures of central tendency and dispersion, correlation and regression ( two variable cases ). Probability on a discrete sample space, events, addition and multiplication theorems, conditional probability.

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(ii) Computer Science (Objective) – Optional

Time: 60 minutes Questions: 60 Marks: 60

Computer Fundamentals:

Simple model of a computer, components and their functions, concepts about bit, byte and words, storage device and input / output devices, machine languages, assembly language, high level language, problem solving, flowcharts, pseudo codes and algorithms, system software, application software, compilers, interpreters, assemblers. Types of computers.

Date Representation:

Integer and floating point representation, codes ( ASCII, EBCDIC, BCD ).

Number System:

Decimal, octal, hexadecimal, binary arithmetic: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Computer Architecture:

Boolean algebra, organization of CPU, registers of CPU, interrupts, software and hardware, CPU bus architecture, data transfer schemes, fundamentals of parallel processing, type of memory.

Data Structures:

Basic Data Structures: Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, graphs and trees traversals searching and sorting.

Operating System:

Batch processing, on-line processing, multi-programming, time sharing, real time processing, introduction to operating system services, CPU scheduling algorithms, memory management schemes.

Introduction to Data Processing:

Data types, constants, variables, records and files, data processing cycle.

Basic Concepts of Programming Languages:

Binding, translators, software simulators, binding times, elementary and structured data types, object oriented programming: objects, classes, instances, abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism.

Overview of DBMS:

Basic DBMS terminology, architecture of DBMS, distributed databases, data models, integrity, security, recovery and concurrency.

Computer Networks:

Data communications fundamentals, types of communications, need for communication networks, characteristics of communication channels, computer network hardware and software. Reference models: TCP / IP, OSI and introduction to internet.

Software Engineering:

Phases of SDLC, SRS, design methodologies ( Structured design and object oriented design ) testing.