Step Self Assessment Test 2024

Coordination and control / Nervous & chemical coordination, Nervous system, Nerve impulse, Steps involved in nervous coordination, Neurons (Structure and Types),
Transmission of action potential between cells–synapse, Electrical synapses,
Chemical synapses, Transmission of nerve impulse across synapse, Hormones,
Endocrine glands, Feedback mechanism, Positive feedback mechanism, Negative feedback mechanism, Reflexes and reflex arc, Levels of the spinal cord and its main functions,
Parts of the brain with their main functions, Reproduction, Male reproductive system,Female reproductive system (including menstrual cycle), Sexually transmitted diseases, Support and movement, Cartilage, Types of muscles, Skeletal muscles, Cardiac muscles, Smooth muscles, Structure of skeletal muscles, Mechanism of skeletal muscle contraction, Types of joints, Arthritis

Electrostatics

Learning Outcomes:
Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field Strength, Electric Potential & Electric field as Potential Gradient, Electric field lines, Electric field intensity due to an infinite sheet of charge and between two oppositely charged parallel plates, Capacitor, Capacitance of a capacitor and its unit, Capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor, Energy Stored in a Capacitor, Charging and Discharging of a Capacitor, Polarization of dielectric of a capacitor.

Currrent Electricity

Learning Outcomes:
OHM’s Law, Electrical resistance, Specific resistance or resistivity, Effect of temperature on resistance, Temperature coefficient of resistance, Variation of resistivity with temperature, Concept of steady current, Internal resistance of a supply, Electric power, Unit of electric power, Kilowatt-hours.

Electromagnetism

Learning Outcomes:
Magnetic field, Magnetic flux, Magnetic flux density, force acting on a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field.

Fundamental Principles of Organic Chemistry:

Course Content

Classification of organic compounds Isomerism

Learning Outcomes:
Define organic chemistry and organic compounds, Classify organic compounds on structural basis, Explain that organic compounds are also synthesized in the laboratory, Define functional group, Explain isomerism and its types.

Chemistry of Hydrocarbons

Open chain and closed chain hydrocarbons, Nomenclature of alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, Benzene: Properties, structure, modern representation, reactions, resonance method, electrophilic substitution, The molecular orbital treatment of benzene,

Learning Outcomes:
Classify hydrocarbons as aliphatic and aromatic, Describe nomenclature of alkanes, Define free radical initiation, propagation and termination, Describe the mechanism of free radical substitution in alkanes exemplified by methane and ethane, Explain the IUPAC nomenclature of alkenes, Explain the shape of ethene molecule in terms of sigma and pi C-C bonds, Describe the structure and reactivity of alkenes as exemplified by ethene, Define and explain with suitable examples the terms isomerism and structural isomerism, Explain dehydration of alcohols and dehydrohalogenation of RX for the preparation of ethene, Describe the chemistry of alkenes by the following reactions of ethene: Hydrogenation, hydrohalogenation, hydration, halogenation, halohydration, polymerization. Explain the shape of the benzene molecule (molecular orbital treatment), Define resonance, resonance energy and relative stability, Compare the reactivity of benzene with alkanes and alkenes, Describe addition reactions of benzene and methylbenzene, Describe the mechanism of electrophilic substitution in benzene, Discuss chemistry of benzene and methyl benzene by nitration sulphonation, halogenation, Friedal Craft’s alkylation and acylation, Apply the knowledge of positions of substituents in the electrophilic substitution of benzene, Use the IUPAC naming system for alkynes, Compare the reactivity of alkynes with alkanes, alkenes and arenes, Describe the preparation of alkynes using elimination reactions, Describe acidity of alkynes, Discuss chemistry of alkynes by hydrogenation, hydrohalogenation, and hydration, Describe and differentiate between substitution and addition reactions.

Alkyl Halides

Classification of alkyl halides
Nomenclature
Reactions
Mechanism of nucleophilic substitution reaction SN1, SN2, E1 and E2 reaction

Learning Outcomes:
Name alkyl halides using IUPAC system, Discuss the structure and reactivity of RX, Describe the mechanism and types of nucleophilic substitution reactions, Describe the mechanism and types of elimination reactions.

Alcohols and Phenols

Alcohols
Classification: Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols
Nomenclature
Reactivity
Phenols:
Physical properties
Nomenclature
Acidity
Reactivity

Learning Outcomes:
Explain nomenclature and structure of alcohols, Explain the reactivity of alcohols, Describe the chemistry of alcohols by preparation of ethers and esters, Explain the nomenclature and structure of phenols, Discuss the reactivity of phenol and their chemistry by electrophilic aromatic substitution, Differentiate between an alcohol and phenol.

Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses, Subject Verb Agreement, Preposition, Adjective, Adverb, Pair of Words (1st year), Idioms (2nd year), Vocabulary (Intermediate level), Synonyms, Antonyms, Sentence completion, Spelling errors, Reading Comprehension, Short Passages

Logical Reasoning

Logical Problems, Logical Deductions, Analogy, Course of action, Cause and affect, Source, Online links recommended by PMC on its website.

Functions, types of functions, real valued and vector valued functions, horizontal and vertical line test, tests of symmetry, graphs of functions, compress, stretch, and shift conditions. Domain and range, implicit, explicite, parametric, logarithmic, exponential and piece wise functions. Even and odd functions, composition of functions, inverse functions, limits and continuity, criteria of finding limits and continuity at a point or on an interval algebraically or graphically, convergence of a sequence by limit on term. Average and instantaneous rate of change, slopes of tangents, derivatives of any order. Differentiability at a point or on an interval. Maclaurin’s and Taylor’s series, increasing and decreasing functions, extrema and concavity. Differentials and approximations by differential applications of rate of change and differentials.

Electrostatics, Current electricity, Electromagnetism

Fundamental Principles of Organic Chemistry, Alphatic Hydrocarbons, Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Alkyl Halides, Alcohols, Phenols and ethers

Introduction to programming, C/C++, Language translators, Variables, Keywords, Constants, Operators, comments, data types in C/C++, Input/Output in C/C++ => printf/scanf, cout/ cin, format specifiers, escape sequences etc, Control structures ( Sequence, Selection, Loops) Functions in C/C++

Grammer

Subject Verb Agreement, Tenses and conditionals, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Active Passive, Narration

Vocabulary

Synonyms, Antonyms, Sentence completion