1. General information on science and its interface with society to test the candidate’s awareness of science, aptitude of scientific and quantitative reasoning.
2 . COMMON ELEMENTRY COMPUTER SCIENCE (Applicable to all candidates offering subject areas).
i) History of development of computers, Mainframe, mini, micro and Super Computer Systems.
ii) General awareness of computer Hardware i.e. CPU and other peripheral devices (input/output and auxiliary storage devices).
iii) Basic knowledge of computer systems software and programming language i.e. Machine language. Assembly language and higher level language.
iv) General awareness of popular commercial software packages like LOTUS, DBASE, WordStar, other scientific application packages.
