Pattern & Syllabus

Syllabus for Karnataka PGCET 2022

Students focused on postgraduation courses have to study graduation related lessons in the subject in which they wish to do postgraduation. For example, students who wish to study MTech in Civil Engineering must read chapters related to BTech Civil Engineering while preparing for the test. Questions related to the lessons at graduate level in the respective subject will feature in the test.

Candidates who are focused on management must read topics from General Knowledge, Service Aptitiude, Logical Reasoning, Business Aptitude, General Awareness, Language Skills (English) while preparing for the exam. Those aiming for computer applications course either at bachelors or masters level can study lessons related to computer science taught at plus-two or graduation level along with other subjects. 

The study materials in connection with the above mentioned subjects can be sourced from well-known book stores located across the country. They can be obtained from online book stores and many websites also provide them on their platforms at free of cost or at low cost. Candidates can consider these sources for procuring the study material. The syllabus is provided below for the sake of the candidates:

For MBA

General Knowledge

English Language Skills

Reasoning and General Intelligence

Quantitative Analysis

For MCA

Mathematics

• • 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.
  • Coordinate Geometry
    • Rectangular Cartesian coordinates
    • Equations of Line Midpoint, Intersections etc
    • Equations of a Circle
    • Distance formulae
    • Pair of straight lines
    • Parabola, Ellipse and Hyperbola
    • Simple Geometric transformations such as Translation, Rotation, Scaling.
  • Vector
    • Position vector
    • addition and subtraction of Vectors
    • Scalar and Vector products.
  • Trigonometry
    • Simple identities
    • Trigonometric equations
    • Properties of Triangles
    • Inverse function.
  • Probability and Statistics
    • Basic concept 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
    • Computer Awareness
      • Computer Basics
        • Organization of a computer
        • Central Processing Unit (CPU)
        • Input / Output devices
        • Computer Memory
        • Back-up devices
        • Computer Languages
        • Operating Systems.
      • Data Representation
        • Representation of Characters
        • Integers and Fractions
        • Binary and Hexadecimal representations
        • Binary Arithmetic: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
        • Two’s complement arithmetic
        • Floating-point representation of numbers
        • Normalized Floating-point representation.
• Analytical Ability and Logical Reasoning
  • Logical Reasoning
  • Quantitative reasoning
  • Visuospatial reasoning.
• General Awareness: This section shall carry questions to test the general awareness about Business, Finance, Industry, Transportation, Scientific inventions, Governance, Healthcare, Cultural dimensions, etc.
• General English: Questions on Grammar and Vocabulary.

ME/MTech/MArch