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 NCERT  has made all the  Text books from class I to Class XII freely available in Internet.These are available for free Downloading.

NCERT text books are the basis for various entrance exams conducted by different states for Medical  and Engineering  courses. Also NCERT  text books are basis for all UPSC based exams,

Here are the links for the Text books for class XII

Mathematics

Mathematics Text Book -Part 1

Mathematics Text Book -Part 11

Physics

Physics -Part 1

Physics -Part 11

Chemistry

Chemistry Part 1

Chemistry Part 11

Biology

Biology

Economics

Introductory Macro Economics

Macro Economics

Sociology

Indian Society

Social Change and Development in India

Political Science

Contemporary World Politics

Politics 11

General Knowledge for Civil Service Examination 

Which is the Largest Peninsula

Ans : Arabia

Which is the Largest Freshwater Lake

Ans : Lake Superior

Which is the Largest Archipelago

Ans : Indonesia

Which is the Largest Saltwater Lake

Ans : Caspian Sea

Which is the Largest Desert

Ans : Sahara (Africa)

Which is the Largest Delta

Ans : Sunderbans (Bengal)

Which is the Largest River

Ans : Nile

Which is the Smallest Continent

Ans : Australia

Which is the Highest Plateau

Ans : Pamir (Tibet)

Which is the Highest Mountain Peak

Ans : Everest (Nepal)

Which is the first state in India has been formed on purely linguistic basis?

Ans : Andra Pradesh

The famous Thirumala Thirupathi Venkateswara Temple is in which district?

Ans : Chittoor

Which is known as twin cities?

Ans : Hyderabad and Secunderabad

Which state is known as the 'Orchid Paradise of India?

Ans : Arunachal Pradesh

Jammu & Kashmir was acceded to India on

Ans : 26th October 1947

Sea of Tranquility' and 'Ocean of Storms' are in

Ans : Moon

The alliance of non-communist parties against congress in the 1972 elections were known as

Ans : Grand Alliance

In a vacuum flask, silvering reduces the loss of heat by

Ans : radiation

The period of oscillation of a pendulum depends on

Ans : length of the spring

The boiling point of a liquid ......... if pressure is decreased

Ans : decreases

No sound is heard on the moon because there is ..... on the moon

Ans : no atmosphere

Why do water pipes, in hilly areas, often burst on a cold, frosty night?

Ans : When water in the pipe freezes, it expands. So pipes break

Why do we sweat on a hot day?

Ans : In order to maintain a constant temperature, sweating is necessary

Why do the clothes keep us warm during winter?

Ans : Clothes prevent the heat of the body to escape.

Why do we hear better on water than land?

Ans : Sound travels faster in water than air

Why are the mountains cooler than plains?

Ans : Air on the mountains is less dense so it absorbs less heat.

Why is it easier to swim in sea water than in river?

Ans : Density of sea water is higher

The first human-made objects to reach altitudes above 80 km is

Ans : V-2s, a rocket

The slogan associated with French Revolution

Ans : Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

In 1815 Napoleon was defeated in the battle of

Ans : Waterloo

Whose period was known as the Golden Age of Rome?

Ans : Augustus Caesar

The king ruled in the period of French revolution

Ans : Louis 16th

The political party of Hitler

Ans : National Socialist Party (Nazi)

Brown shirts were associated with

Ans : Hitler

The political party of Mussolini

Ans : Fascist Party

Black shirts were associated with

Ans : Mussolini

Who organized 'Red Army'

Ans : Trotsky

AIDS disease was first identified in which country

Ans : America in 1981

The first woman I.P.S Officer of India

Ans : Kiran Bedi

Mandi House' is

Ans : The office of the Director General of Doordarshan

Speed' the improved quality of petrol was introduced by

Ans : B.P. (Bharat Petroleum)

Gobi desert is situated in

Ans : Mangolia/Northeastern China

Kalahari desert is situated in

Ans : Botswana

Java island is in which ocean

Ans : Indian Ocean

Four divided stages of prehistoric periods are

Ans : Paleolithic period, Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Chalcolithic period

Who proposed the germ theory of disease

Ans : Louis Pasture

First woman Governor

Ans : Sarojini Naidu

First woman Minister

Ans : Vijayalakshmy Pandit

First woman Chief Minister

Ans : Sucheta Kripalani

First woman Ruler in Delhi

Ans : Raziya Begum

First woman Speaker

Ans : Suseela Nayar

Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

Ans : Annie Besant

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Lecturer in CUSAT kochi

Cochin University of Science and Technology offers vacancies for Lecturers in Engineering College.

Sl.No	Division/Branch	Qualification
1	Mechanical Engineering	1st Class B.Tech / M.Tech in the concerned branch
2	Safety & Fire Engineering	1st Class B.Tech / M.Tech in the concerned branch
3	Mathematics	Post Graduation in the concerned subject with 55% marks with NET. Candidates with M.Phil/Ph.D are exempted from NET

Duration:- Contract will be initially for one year or till regular appointment.

Salary:- A consolidated pay of Rs.18,000/- for candidates having B.Tech Degree, Rs.19,000/- for candidates having M.Tech and Rs.20,000/- for candidates having ph.D (with an annual increase of Rs.400/-).

Eligible candidatesare requested to send their application to :-
The Principal,
School of Engineering
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Kochi-22

IAS Prelims 2009 Results Published

The results for IAS prelims 2009 has been published by UPSC
Go to the 'Whats new' tab
Given are the Roll number ranges.
You have to click on your range of roll number link.

MBA Exams-2009-10 Notifications

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade(IIFT)
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Pattern of Admission Test
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The admission test is a multiple choice objective type written test (in English).
Duration of the test is two hours and will cover English Comprehension, General Knowledge & Awareness, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Analysis.

Important Dates
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• Last date for Sale of Prospectus across the counter at IIFT : 3rd September 2009
• Last Date for Receipt of completed Applications : 3rd September 2009
• Written Test : 22nd November 2009 (10 a.m - 12 noon)

JMET for IITs
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Commencement of :
online application form submission-7 Sept 2009

Last date for :
1) Online application form submission (website closure)--9 Oct 2009 (6.00pm)
2) Receipt of completed online application form at IISc Bangalore--16 Oct 2009

EXAMINATION DATE
between 1000 and 1300 hours 13 Dec 2009

Announcement of RESULTS
4 Jan 2010

Probationary Officers in Corporation Bank

Corporation Bank offers vacancies for 50 Probationary officers
(SC-7, ST-3, OBC-15, GEN-25, VH-3, HI-6, OH-1)

Educational Qualification : (Candidates whose result is waited are not eligible.
Second Class with 55% or more (45% for SC/ST/VH/HI/OH candidates) marks graduate from a recognised University or any equivalent examination recognised as such by the Government of India.

Age Limit : 21 years - 30 years as on 01.08.2009

Pay Scale : Rs. 10000-470/6-12820-500/3-14320-560/7-18240.

Application Fee :
Rs.300/- (Rs.50/- for SC/ST/PH candidates) to be deposited in the in A/c no. 0377/CA/01/696 for Probationary Officers

Important Dates : -

Opening date for On-line registration 18/08/2009
Last date for online registration 18/09/2009
Last date for receipt of Print out of the online application 25/09/2009
Last date for receipt of Print out of the online application from far-flung areas 01/10/2009
Date of Exam Sunday, 22 Nov 2009

Detailed advertisement given below
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Apply online here

Opportunities for Diploma holders in BARC,Mysore as Trainees.
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Applications are invited for Stipendiary Trainees (Category I & II)
for training in BARC,Mysore.

Read for more details....

Financial Service Executives in LIC
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Nearly 100 Financial Services Executives are proposed to be engaged by various Offices of the LIC on Contract basis for 3 years .this appointments comes under the jurisdiction of the corresponding zonal offices.
More details given below

Kerala PSC have vacancies for Engineers in KSRTC
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Automobile and Mechanical Engineers have vacancies in KSRTC depots.
The total number of vacancies is 30.
More details are given here.

DRDO -Technical Paper
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DRDO SET is going to happen on september 6,2009.
Its time to get some exposition to the previous years question Paper.
The technical paper consists of 100 objective type questions covering the entire B-tech Syllabus.

Some questions from previous DRDO papers are given below
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What is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086?
5 Mhz

What is Jitter?

Differentiate between static response and dynamic response?

If 100ns is Memory Access Time & 125 microsec is 1frame period. The no. of line that can be
supported in a Time Divison Switch is
a)125 Lines
b)625 Lines
c)525 Lines
d)465 Lines

Explain noise margin in Amplifiers?

The no. of edjes in disjoint Hamilton circuit in a complex graph with 17 edges is
a) 8
b) 9
c) 136
d) 17^2


Assume a system has 16MB cache mean Disk Access Time & cache Access time is 76.5 ns & 1.5 overall mean Access time us 465ms for each tripling the memory the miss rate is halved. The memory required to bring down the mean Access time to 24ns is
a) 16 MB
b) 24 MB
c) 32 MB
d) 48 MB

What are different types of micro processor architectures?

Average transfer speed of a i/p serial line is minimum 25,000 Bytes & maximum 60000 Bytes.Polling Strategy adopted takes 4microsec(whether there is any i/p byte or not). It is assured that byte that retrived from controller before next byte arrives are lost. Then the maximum safe polling interveal is
a) 12
b) 12.33
c) 12.67
d) 32

Expand CPLD and FPGA.

A harddisk has a rotation speed of 4500RPM. then the latency time is
a) .4
b) .6
c) .7
d) .9

Suppose all elements above the principal diagonal od n x n matix A are zero. If non zero elements of the lower triangular Matrix is stored in an array B with A[1][1] stored at B[1]. The addressing formula to the nonzero element in A[i][j]=?
a) A[i][j]
b) i(j-1)/2 +i
c) j(i-1)/2 +i
d) i(i-1)/2 +j

The minumum number of comparisons required to find the second smallest element in a 1000
element array is
a) 1008
b) 1010
c) 1999
d) 2000

The internal path length of a Bonary Tree with 10nodes is 25. The external path length is
a) 25
b) 35
c) 40
d) 45

Average No. of Comparisons required to sort 3 elements is
a) 2
b) 2.33
c) 2.67
d) 3

In a switch the mean arrival rate of packets is 800 Packets/sec and the the mean service rate is
925 Packets/sec
a) .008 Sec
b) .08 sec
c) .8 sec
d) 1.1 sec

What is Interface Control Information?

Expand HCMOS?
ans.High-density n- type Complimentary Metal Oxide Silicon field effect transistor.

The minumum no. of Multiplications needed to compute x^768 is
a) 9
b) 10
c) 425
d) 767

Give examples for Maskable interrupts?
ans.RST 7.5, RST6.5, RST5.5 are Maskable interrupts

Which of the following require a driver?
Disk
Cache
RAM
CPU

Explain the 4 segments of IP addresses.

IIM Notification FAQ-6-August-2009

Summary:
Important Dates:
Advertisement for CAT 2009: Sunday, 30 August 2009.(in leading newspapers)
Sale of vouchers: 9 September 2009 to Thursday, 1 October 2009
(available at leading banks)
Online Registration: 9 September 2009 to Thursday, 1 October 2009
(Information available in the voucher)
CAT 2009 Test Dates: 28 November 2009 – Monday, 7 December 20009.
* You can choose your test date, session and test center
* Number of sessions: Two daily morning & afternoon
* No. of Test Centers: 30 cities

What does this mean for CIO users?
1. Make up your mind which session day of the week, session and test
center works best for you! We have always stressed that practice Mock
CATs in the exact exam like scenario. If you have been most
comfortable writing Mock CATs in 10 am - 12:30 pm time slots, then you
must reserve that slot for yourself. If you are most comfortable being
at home before CAT 2009, then choose test center closest to your home.
If Sundays work best for you as the test 'day', try to book that day
for your CAT 2009.

2. Once you have made up your mind regarding test date, center and
session, get yourself registered online ASAP. Any delay may rob you
off of your most optimal environment for test taking and may very
adversely impact your performance!!

We are committed to your best performance in CAT 2009! Because in your
spectacular success lies our success!

JMET notification published

oint Management Entrance Test (JMET ) is the first step in the process of admission to the TWO YEAR FULL TIME Postgraduate Degree Programmes in Management offered by the IITs. Currently IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee offer Programmes in Management.
The results of JMET provide a basis to each participating Institute to shortlist potential candidates for conducting its own selection process like, Group Discussion/Interview etc.

Important Dates

Commencement of :
online application form submission-7 Sept 2009

Last date for :
1) Online application form submission (website closure)--9 Oct 2009 (6.00pm)
2) Receipt of completed online application form at IISc Bangalore--16 Oct 2009

EXAMINATION DATE

between 1000 and 1300 hours 13 Dec 2009

Announcement of RESULTS
4 Jan 2010

How to apply

Opportunity in Indian Air Force Technical branches
Application form is given here.Click on the icon to download the form

The following candidates have provisionally been qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of East Zone



Download GD/PI Call-letter here

The following candidates have provisionally been qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of North Zone.



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The following candidates have provisionally been qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of North East Zone



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South Zone GD shortlist candidates
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Candidates qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of South Zone to be conducted with effect from 12 June 2009 to 19 June 2009.


Download GD/PI call-letter here

Mathematics-Research Institutes in India
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India has some world-class research institutes in the field of Mathematics.These institutes have nurtured a fair good collection of PhD holders and world class research fellows.But lots of people are oblivious about these research institutes and many are trying for universities abroad.
Here we give an introduction of these famous research institutes in India.

1.Chennai Mathematical Institute,Chennai
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Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI)is a centre of excellence for teaching and research in the mathematical sciences. Founded in 1989 as part of the SPIC Science Foundation, it has been an autonomous institute since 1996.
The research groups in Mathematics and Computer Science at CMI are among the best known in the country. The Institute has nurtured an impressive collection of PhD students.

CMI offers the following programmes.

* B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science (3 year integrated course).
* B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics (3 year course).
* M.Sc. in Mathematics.
* M.Sc. in Applications of Mathematics.
* M.Sc. in Computer Science.
* Ph.D. in Mathematics.
* Ph.D. in Computer Science.
for more details read here

2.Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI),Allahabad
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The Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) is an institution dedicated to research in mathematics, and in theoretical physics. It is located in Allahabad, India, and is funded by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. You can learn more about the institute and ongoing activities by following links from the menu on the left.
The research subjects are Mathematics and Physics

Mathematics Research Topics

Algebra
Analysis
Geometry and topology
Number Theory

Physics Research Topics

Astrophysics
Condensed Matter Physics
High Energy Physics
String Theory

For more details click here


3.The Institute of Mathematical Sciences,Chennai (IMSc)
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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) is a national institute for fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences: Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, and Theoretical Physics.

Mathematics Research Topics
The Mathematicians at IMSc work in the areas of
Algebra
Algebraic geometry
Number theory
Partial Differential Equations
Schroedinger and Jacobi operators
Subfactors
Representation theory
Topology.

Theoretical computer science (TCS)
Research is pursued in foundational areas of
Computer science, including Algorithms and Data Structures,
Automata Theory
Computational Complexity
Distributed Computing
Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Logics of Programs and Semantics.

Theoretical Physics
Condensed Matter Theory
High Energy Physics
Mathematical physics
Nonlinear Dynamics
Optics

Read more

4.Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai
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The Tata Institute is now a Deemed University and runs a Graduate Programme leading to award of a Ph.D. degree. Bright young students aspiring for a career of research in mathematics are invited to apply for Research Scholarships in the School of Mathematics of the Institute. With its distinguished faculty engaged in high quality research in a broad spectrum of areas, the School provides a stimulating environment for pursuing doctoral studies.

Research Topics

Algebra
Real Analysis
Topology and Functional Analysis
Complex Analysis

For more details click here

Non-IIM MBA Schools using CAT scores

There are lot of MBA institutes in India which takes CAT score as their criterion for admissions.So even if one doesn't get in to IIMs,still there is high chance to end up in some of prestigious MBA schools in India.Here is a list of Non-IIM MBA Schools using CAT scores