PUNE UNIVERSITY MCA

                          

Important Note:

This Entrance Examination is specifically conducted for the admission to the full time courses conducted at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pune.

50% Seats of the total intake capacity are reserved for the students belonging to reserved categories from Maharashtra State only.

Test Date: 1ST week of  March 2014.

Eligibility:

For M.C.A: Any Science Graduate (including B.C.A. under Science Faculty) with Mathematics at 10+2 Level.

For M.Sc.(Computer Science): Bachelors Degree in Computer Science.

The admissions are and will be done in accordance with the Ordinance No. 181 (Ordinance for admissions of students to the Post-Graduate courses in the University Departments/ Institutions)

Examination Centers:

In Maharashtra State: Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Pune, Jalgaon, Nasik, Kolhapur, Nagpur

Outside Maharashtra State: Delhi, Varanasi, Hyderabad

Application Fees (Non Refundable):

For Unreserved : Rs. 800/-

For Reserved (For Maharashtra) : Rs. 500/-

Application Fee has to be paid through Demand Draft (Nationalised Bank only) drawn in favour of ‘The Registrar, University of Pune’, payable at Pune.

Please mention your name and application form number (which you will receive after submitting the online application form with details) on the back of the Demand Draft.

Last date of online Application:    10th Feb 2013

Last date of submission of printout of Application Form alongwith DD and necessary documents:                                  18th Feb 2013

Online Application Form and Official Site   Click here

Since its inception in 1948, Pune University has been one of the leading centres for research and learning in the country. The university is well known for its research institutes which include the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), MACS, CWPRS, NIV, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and Deccan College. No doubts then as to why it is one of most preferred universities and certainly a dream of any MCA aspirant. 

Why Pune University?
Because you ultimately end up working with the best of IT companies in India and abroad. However, unlike other campuses, Pune University has a placement cell that comprises various student volunteers who are responsible for the placements as well as industrial training of MCA students.

The cell organises interviews for the final year students and has their alumni placed in reputed companies like Adobe, Amazon IDC, Fair Isaac, Microsoft, Versata (Trilogy), Yahoo among others.

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Last year, around 25 companies participated in the placements. The average salary offered was Rs 6.1 lakh per annum, the highest being Rs 10 lakh pa.

A list of the companies that visited the campus during the placement week is given below:

Who can do an MCA and at what cost?If you have a Bachelor's degree in any discipline, with a minimum of 50 per cent marks, you are eligible to sit for the entrance test. Students belonging to reserved categories need to have mere passing marks in the graduation. However, 50 per cent of seats are reserved for the candidates from Maharashtra. 

Selected candidates from Maharashtra will have to pay an annual fee of around Rs 35,000 for the course. This fee includes the tuition fee, exam fee, lab fee and other miscellaneous fees. Fees for candidates from other states is over Rs 50,000 annually.

How to go about applyingThe admission is solely through a written test that comprises the assessment of mathematical, reasoning and language fundamentals of aspirants. The test structure is as follows:

Mathematics: 40 questionsReasoning: 40 questionsEnglish language: 20 questionsTotal questions: 100

~ The time allocated for the written test is two hours.
~ Questions are with multiple choices of 4 marks each. ~ There is a penalty of 1 mark for each wrong answer.
~ The test for the admissions to 2008 batch is scheduled for February 24, 2008\

How do you prepare?
Here a brief look at the syllabus for Maths for the entrance exam:

1. Set theory: Set operations, relations, functions.2. Propositional logic: Formulation, deduction, evaluation, puzzles.3. Linear algebra: Solution of a system of linear equations. Determinant and inverse of a matrix, basic properties of matrices.4.  Co-ordinate geometry and conic sections: Equations of lines and planes, vector products; definitions and properties of conic sections.5. Trigonometry: Identities, computation of heights and lengths.6. Differential Calculus: Total and partial differentiation, limit of a function.7. Integral Calculus: Definite and indefinite integrals, solution of differential equations, computation of areas and volumes.8. Series and sequences: Sum, mean, convergence, limit.9. Real and complex numbers: surds, solution of equations on complex domain.10. Polynomials: Solution of quadratic equations, properties of roots of polynomials with real coefficients, binomial expansion, Taylor series.11. Permutation and combination.12. Elementary probability theory: Computing probability from combinatorial reasoning, conditional probability.

From the above table, one can be sure about the chapters involved and their most frequent share in total number of questions. Knowing your areas of strength you can draw out a preparation plan for the test.

Moreover, it has been observed that that verbal part is easier that the other two parts. So it is always advisable to attempt English first.