MPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR ONLINE APPLICATION FORM 2012 AFMC

METHOD I & METHOD II

I (Will be available till from 06 February 2012 till 05 March 2012)

http://www.afmc.nic.in link. You will be redirected to register by clicking on the “NEW APPLICANT – shall be redirected to a new page 

(First Name, Middle Name, Last Name (as mentioned in your Class X/SSLC/Higher Secondary/CBSE certificate). This is important step. Please check the name that you have entered thoroughly before proceeding further. This is the name that you shall be registered for the mail id that you may create on any portal like mail id is mandatory and will be mail id handy along with the password till the completion of the admission procedure. You can register is mandatory. 

The qualifying exam will be either 10+2, or BSc as mentioned in para 10 of the prospectus. Choose carefully since once you have Date of Birth (as mentioned in your Class X/SSLC/Higher Secondary/CBSE certificate). Enter only the correct date of birth. Any change in the date of birth at a later stage will not be accepted and the candidature of the applicant will be They are Case sensitive. mail id ONLY once to register. If you have wrongly submitted the form, you will not be able to register again with the same e-mail id.

A password shall be generated when you click submit which will be (j) You will have to open your registered email and use this password to login. This should be done within 24 hours of first registration or else this registration will be null and void. On login however you will have to create a new password for yourself. This password will be of minimum 8 characters with minimum of two characters in Capital, with two special characters and two numericals. 

(k) Applicants can login to their account by entering the login name i.e. e- mail id and new login password. 

Step B - FILLING OF FORM ONLINE AND GENERATION OF CHALLAN 

(a) Once logged into your account, fill up all relevant details. You may save your data regularly. Fill up your application form deliberately and with caution. All fields marked with a red star (*) are mandatory. Please keep the following ready before you attempt to fill up your application form. 

(i) Recent colour digital passport size photograph (in .jpeg format with max size of 500KB Only). The photograph must indicate clearly the name of the candidate along with the date of taking the photograph. It should be without cap or goggles. Spectacles are allowed. Photograph of the candidate should NOT BE ATTESTED. Candidates must keep 8-10 identical photographs ready in reserve for use on the Admit Card of entrance examination/ Interview / Admission. 

Candidates not complying with these instructions or with unclear/ illegible photographs are liable to be rejected. 

(ii) Scanned copy of your signature (in .jpeg format with max size of 500KB Only). Please be careful when you upload the scanned signature. 

This signature will be checked at the examination centre. In case any candidate signature does not match, he/she will not be allowed to appear in the examination. Any request for a change of the signature that has been submitted once will not be accepted. 

(b) Fill your father / mother name correctly and with caution. 

(c) Fill up your correct and complete postal address along with the Pin no: as 

applicable. The correct address will ensure that all communication sent from AFMC by post shall be received by the candidate on time. 

(d) Centre choices have to be filled diligently. The choices shall be on a dropdown list along with the centre codes. Please check the centres as mentioned in Appendix “B” of the prospectus. You have to fill three different choices or else you shall not be able to submit the form. Please note that the centres will be allotted on a first come first serve basis only. (i.e. if a candidate chooses Cochin, Bangalore and Chennai as Centre no: I,II and III respectively, he shall be given Cochin. However if Cochin centre is filled up then he will be given Bangalore and if even that is filled up then he shall be given 

Chennai. However if all the three are filled up then he shall be allotted the nearest centre based on availability of seats. The first come first serve basis will be dependent upon the time of final submission/ payment of challan fees by the candidate. 

(e) Challan for payment of the application form will be available only once the postal address is filled completely. This challan form containing the “bank copy”, the “student copy” and bearing the name, registration number of the candidate, date of birth and mobile number will have to be printed on A4 size paper. Sample challan form is placed at “Appendix D” in the prospectus. 

(f) Continue to fill up your application form and upload your photograph and scanned signature as mentioned earlier . 

(g) Check thoroughly whether you have filled all your relevant details correctly. Click on preview button. You will be able to see the completed form. Please double check whether you have filled up all details correctly. ONLY when completely sure that you have filled all fields correctly, THEN you may hit the submit button. You may go back if you feel that the details that you have entered are not correct. 

“Once you have submitted the form it cannot be edited any further” 

(h) A pdf copy of the completed form shall be generated which shall always be available for downloading and printing in your login account. 

Step C - PAYMENT 

Visit your nearest SBI Bank branch on the next day i.e. on the day after registration.

For example: If you have registered on the website on 15 Feb 2012, you should visit your nearest SBI bank branch on 16 Feb 2012, to make the payment of `.280/- (Application + Bank charges) 

(a) AT THE BANK: Carry the printout of the challan to your nearest branch of State Bank of India. The window clerk shall verify your details from the challan and then enter your payment. A journal number will be generated by the bank and this will be written/ stamped on both copies of the bank challan. The bank shall retain the bank copy while candidate shall be given the student copy. 

(b) Ensure that the journal number is written on the student copy along with 

the seal of the bank. (Please keep a copy of this safely as this will be your proof 

for having paid the application charges and bank fees) 

Step D - STATUS CHECK: 

(a) Your application may be accepted or rejected. You will be able to do your status check any time by logging in to your login account at any time. 

(b) The status of your application i.e. dates of submission of form and the date of clearance from the bank will be available immediately as and when these events happen. Your status will be communicated to you within 15 days of the last date for submission of the application forms. METHOD – II (Will be available till from 28 February 2012 till 05 March 2012)

(DOWNLOADED APPLICATION FORM WITH PHOTOGRAPH AND SIGNATURE 

AFFIXED HAS TO BE SENT BY POST TO AFMC PUNE) 

(Meant only for those candidates who find it difficult to submit the online application form by uploading photograph and signature, METHOD -II will be available) 

(a) In this method, all procedures in METHOD – I has to be followed EXCEPT uploading of photo and signature in the digital format. 

(b) The candidate using this method will have to submit the form online without the digital photo and signature but will have to generate the completed form which has to be downloaded and printed. 

(c) Photograph of size 4.5 x 3.5 cms with name and date of taking the photograph has to be pasted at the relevant place. Candidate is advised to keep at least 8-10 photographs of similar nature for use in admit card/ during the admission procedure. 

(d) The form will have to be signed at the relevant place and then sent by post to AFMC Pune. Note: Any application received at AFMC by this method without the mandatory photograph and signature will be rejected. 

(d) The last date of acceptance of such applications by post only at AFMC Pune, Admission cell will be 07 Mar 2012 (1700 h). The candidate should send it at the address given below. AFMC MBBS Entrance Examination – 2012 (METHOD – II)OIC Admission Cell 

Armed Forces Medical College 

Wanowarie – Post office 

Sholapur Road, Pune - 411040 

“Application form through couriers will not be accepted”

“YOU MAY CONTACT OFFICER IN CHARGE - ADMISSION CELL AT AFMC PUNE 

REGARDING ANY ASSISTANCE FOR FILLING UP OF THE ONLINE APPLICATION 

FORM” 

Time for contact – 

0900h to 1200h (On all working days) 

1430h to 1700h (On all working days)

AFMC ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE (AFMC)

PUNE-411040

ADMISSION TO MBBS COURSE -2012

Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Pune, MBBS

Entrance examination will be conducted on 06 May

2012 for entry into MBBS course commencing from

01 Aug 2012. 130 candidates (including maximum of

25 girls) will be selected for admission.

THIS YEAR THE APPLICATION PROCESS WILL BE

COMPLETELY ONLINE.

Prospectus including application form will ONLY be

available online and the prospective candidates must

have a valid e-mail id. Detailed modalities for the

application process will be available on this website

www.afmc.nic.in soon.

AFMC ENTRANCE EXAMINATION – 2011 CUT OFF MARKS

Tthe Following is intimated :

POST WRITTEN EXAM

CUTOFF MARKS OF CANDIDATES CALLED FOR INTERVIEW AT AFMC PUNE

BOYS – 133.75/200

GIRLS – 146.75/200

POST INTERVIEW

CUT OFF MARKS OF THE GENERAL CANDIDATES FINAL INTERVIEW MARKS

BOYS – 159.50/250 (PLACED AT BOYS W/L - 93)

GIRLS – 168.75/250 (PLACED AT GIRLS W/L - 24)

The college conducts Under Graduate course sanctioned vide Govt. of India Ministry of Defence letter no. 11984/DGAFMS/DG-3(B)/9718/D (Med) dated 04 July 1962

Admission Procedure:

The course commences in the month of August. Advertisements for recruitment appear in the leading news papers of the country in the month of December every year, for MBBS course. Candidates are required to submit their application forms in the prescribed format, along with other necessary documents mentioned therein.

The AFMC is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Science, Nashik and is recognised by the Medical Council of India.

Admission to MBBS course is based on written examination. The written examination is held on 1st Sunday of May. Successful candidates are called for interview in June for the courses starting in July. Admission is subject to medical fitness.

PROSPECTUS AVAILABILITY:

Prospectus and forms for entrance will be available online this year . Please look for updates regularly.

Course Duration:

The duration of MBBS course is four and a half year followed by internship of one year.

Service Liability:

Students have compulsory liability to serve as Commisioned Officers in the Armed Forces Medical Services. The offer of the type of commission will depend on the vacancies available. The candidates' parents/guardians are required to sign a bond agreement at the time of admission.

ELIGIBILITY AND QUALIFICATIONS TO APPEAR IN THE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION GENERAL:

A candidate seeking admission to the MBBS course is eligible to take the entrance examination if he/she fulfills the following criteria:

• A candidate should be a citizen of India or be a subject of Nepal or Bhutan or a person of Indian origin migrated from Pakistan or any other foreign country with the intention of permanently settling in India.
• Must be unmarried. Marrying during the course is not permitted.
• Should be medically fit as per prescribed standards by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence
• Must have attained the age of 17yrs on 31st Dec of the year of application, but must not have attained the age of 22 years on that date(Not more than 24 years in case of candidates who have passed or are appearing in final B Sc examinations).

Academic Qualifications:

Candidate must have passed all the subjects opted for in the first attempt of the qualifying examinations as a regular candidate with English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken simultaneously and securing not less than 60% of the aggregate marks in these 3 science subjects taken together and not less than 50% marks in English and 50% marks in each of the science subjects. They must have also passed an examination in Mathematics of the 10th standard.

Number of Seats:

A total of 130 students (105 boys & 25 girls) will be admitted.

Syllabus For the Examination:

The general standard of the entrance examination will be that of 11th and 12th class under the 10+2 scheme/pre-medical/intermediate science or an equivalent examination of the State Education Board/Indian University

Method of Selection:

• Candidates who are found provisionally eligible as per the criteria of eligibility, will be called at one of the examination centres to appear in the competitive examination on 1st Sunday of May. Issue of admit cards. however does not necessarily mean acceptance of eligibility which will be further scrutinized at subsequent stages of selection.
• The written examination centre will be allotted to candidates depending upon the administrative arrangements for the examination and availability of adequate seating capacity.
• The Roll Number of the candidates who qualify for interview based on the above written examination will be published in the leading newspapers. The college/DGAFMS take no responsibility for any error or omission in the roll numbers published in the newspapers.

Interview of Candidate:

• On the basis of their performance in the written examination selected candidates in order of roll numbers will be called for an interview to be held in the month of June at AFMC, PUNE.
• The exact date of the above interview will be intimidated to the selected candidates. Request for change of date of interview will NOT be entertained. The candidates will be required to produce originals of all certificates/mark sheets at the time of interview. All candidates will produce result or proof of having appeared in the qualifying examination held, at the time of interview (if the result of such examination has not been declared).
• On the basis of the above test and interview two merit lists, one for boys and one for girls, will be drawn up and admissions will be offered only to candidates in accordance with their merit position. Individual letters of admission will be sent only to selected candidates who would be required to join AFMC. The remaining candidates will be on waiting list. The result will be published by the DGAFMS in the newspapers.

SC/ST Candidates:

• Ten seats are reserved for SC/ST candidates provided :
• The SC/ST candidates must qualify in the written examination and come within the zone to be called up for interview.
• They must come within the first 500 in the final combined merit list of boys and girls.

MEDICAL STANDARDS:

• The candidate must be in good physical and mental health and free from any disability likely to interfere with the efficient performance of duty in the Armed Forces.
• Medical examination will be done by a Board of Officers at AFMC Pune, prior to admission to the College. Medical Board will categorize as Fit and Unfit, in accordance with the prescribed standards. Candidates declared as UNFIT are entitled to appeal on payment of a fee of Rs. 40/-. The procedure will be intimated to the concerned candidates by the President of the Medical Board.
• Important physical requirements are enumerated below for guidance:

There should be:

• No serious deformity and mal-developments, scoliosis, spinal bifida and other skeletal deformities.
• No impediment of speech.
• No sign of functional/organic disease of the heart or blood vessels.
• No evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis or previous history of this disease or any other chronic disease of the lungs.
• No evidence of any disease of the digestive system, including any abnormality of the liver or spleen.
• No inguinal hernia or tendency thereto, hydrocoele or definite varicocoele.
• No fistula, piles, disease of the kidneys, disease of the skin.
• No active, latent or congenital STD, history of epilepsy and any mental and psychiatric disorder.
• No squint or any other morbid condition of the eye.
• No active trachoma or Lymph nodes.
• The height and weight requirements will depend upon the age, body build and racial characteristics as per standards laid down for Armed Forces:
  • Girl Standard: In case of female candidates, minimum height of 144 cms and minimum weight of 36kgs is essential.
  • Boys Standards: The male candidates height below 157.5cms (152.5 for Gorkhas, Nepalese and Garhwali, and Assamese) and weight below 39 kgs will not be accepted irrespective of age and other factors.
• There should be minimum 5cms range of chest expansion.
• There should be no ear discharge and no perforation of the eardrum/nasal septum.

Visual Standards:

Minimum color vision standard should be CP-3 (Defective Safe).

Visual Standards	Better eye	Worse eye
Distant Vision (Corrected)	6/6	6/18
Near Vision (Corrected)	N5	N8
Myopia of not more than	-3.5 D	2
Hypermetropia of not more than +3.5 D	+3.5 D	2

Hearing Standard:

The candidate should be able to hear a forced whisper with each ear separately at a distance of 20 feet.

FACILITIES PROVIDED TO THE STUDENTS:

HOSTEL FACILITY: The college is fully residential and residence in the hostel is compulsory for all students with service liability. Separate boys and girls hostels are located in the college campus. The hostel accommodation is free of charge for service liability candidates. If a student is removed from service liability on account of being found medically unfit for commission or on disciplinary/academic grounds he/she will have to make his/her own arrangements for stay.

MESSING FACILITY: All students residing in the hostel are required to join the mess attached to the hostel. Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian food is served in a common combined mess for both boys and girls cadets.

HEALTH & RECREATIONAL FACILITY: 

Students are required to participate in games, sports and gymnastics. Facilities for sports such as cricket, squash, tennis, hockey, football, volleyball, basketball, handball, table tennis and gymnastics are provided free of cost. Facilities for aquatics also exist on nominal payment.There is an open air cinema, membership for which is compulsory. Hindi and English films are screened. Students with service liability are entitled to free outpatient/ inpatient/ dental treatment at all times in any service hospital/dental centre to the extent of medical facilities available locally. Periodical medical examination/ medical board considered necessary will also be carried out free of cost.

SPECIAL CONCESSIONS:

The government provides the following concessions to service liability students (male and female).

• Entitled rations as authorised and subsidised messing.
• Free hostel accommodation and allied services.
• AC 3 Tier railway warrant for journey during vacation from college to home and back.
• First Class/ AC 2 Tier rail Journey on railway warrant after being commissioned.
• A subsidy of Rs.12,000/- per student for purchase of books and equipment during the entire training period. Amount will be issued proportionately during I, II and III MBBS.
• Uniform allowance Rs.6,000/- per student during first year and Rs.1,250/- per year as maintenance allowance in subsequent years.
• Hair Cutting/Hair Cleaning Allowance of Rs.40/- per month per student.
• Stationery allowance of Rs.1000/- per cadet per year.
• Washing allowance Rs.120/- per student per month during the term and Rs.20/- per month during break.

For any further clarifications contact:

Officer-in-Charge Admissions

Admission Cell

Armed Forces Medical College

Sholapur Road, Pune - 411040

Telephone Number: 020 - 26334209,

Fax Number: 020 - 26334236

Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination 2012

The Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examinaion for admission in various professional courses in different Engineering colleges, Medical colleges, Agriculture collegesunder the Govt.of Bihar is being conducted by Bihar Combined Entrance Cometitve Examination Board as constituded under the Bihar Combined Entrance Cometitve Examination Act, 1995.

SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATION

Commencement of sale of Application Form from: 27/12/2011

Last date of sale of Application Forms: 25/01/2012

Last date of Receipt of Application Forms: 06/02/2012

Date of Examination (first phase): 22/04/2012

Date of Examination (Second phase): 03/06/2012In the event of any emergency, the BCECE Board may shift the scheduled dates.

Sales Center:

Application Form and prospectus can be obtained from any one of the following sale centres.:

Bhagalpur College of Engineering, Bhagalpur

Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology.Muzaffarpur

Patna Medical College, Patna

Nalanda Medical College, Patna

J.L.N.Medical College, Bhagalpur

Sri Krisn Medical College, Muzaffarpur

A.N.M. Medical College, Gaya

Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga

Karyalay, kul sachiv, Rajendra krishi vishvvidyalay, Pusa

Motihari College of Engineering, Motihari

Gaya College of Engineering, Gaya

Darbhanga college of Engineering,Darbhanga

Nalanda College of Engineering, Chandi, Nalanda

Bhihar Bhavan, New Delhi

Karyalay, kul sachiv, Bihar krishi vishvvidyalay, Sabaur

Application Fee:

Subject Group for apperingCategoryTotal Fee

PCB or PCM SC / ST 660/-

For Other Candidates(General/EBC/BC/RCG) 330/-

PCB and PCM SC / ST 660/- and 70/-

For Other Candidates(General/EBC/BC/RCG) 330/- and 35/-

PAyment of Application fee by Bank Draft will be accepted.

Requisite Application fees is to be paid on any nationalised Bank at Patna.

The Bank Draft must be in favour of "Controller of Examination, B.C.E.C.E. Board (BCECE)"

Syllabus : Biology

• DIVERSITY IN LIVING WORLD
• STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS
• CELL:STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
• PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
• HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
  • Sexual Reproduction
• GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
• BIOLOGY AND HUMAN WELFARE
• BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
• ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

Date of AIPMT-2012

As per communication received from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India regarding seeking permission from the Hon’ble Supreme Court to allow introduction of NEET for Under Graduate Medical Courses from the academic year 2013-14 instead of 2012-13, the Central Board of Secondary Education would now conduct the All India Pre-Medical/ Pre-Dental Entrance Examination only for the 15% all India quota seats as per following schedule:

AIPMT Preliminary Examination - 1st April, 2012 (Sunday)

AIPMT Final Examination - 13th May, 2012 (Sunday)

The eligibility conditions, centre cities, syllabus, pattern, etc. will remain the similar to AIPMT 2011 Examination for which the information is already available on website www.aipmt.nic.in.

The schedule for the submission of application forms would be shortly communicated.

Theories of Evolution

1. Mention 2 main conditions which formed the basis of Lamarckian evolution.                                               Ans: The use and disuse of parts and the inheritance of acquired characters
2. Name the scientists who disproved Lamarck's theory.                                                                               Ans: Weismann, a German zoologist
3. Mention 2 main conditions on which Darwin's Concept of organic evolution is based.                                 Ans: Struggle for existence and survival of the fittest
4. Who gave the theory of evolution by natural selection?                                                                                                         Ans: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace
5. Who wrote the famous book "Origin of Species"?                                                                                    Ans: Charles Darwin (1859)
6. Mention 1 necessary condition  for evolution by natural selection.                                                                 Ans: Genetic Variability
7. Give 2 examples of operation of natural selection.                                                                                 Ans: Industrial melanism and resistance to DDT in mosquitoes
8. Which principal has been used to obtain present day varieties of cultivated plants and breeds of domesticated animals?                                                                                                                           Ans: Artificial selection
9. What is the basis of artificial selection?                                                                                                  Ans: Isolation and selective breeding of organisms showing characteristics which are useful to humans.
10. Who coined the term mutation?                                                                                                             Ans: Hugo de Vries

Environment & Its Factor

 

(according to http://en.wikipedia.org) 

"The environment is the combined modeling of the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables, parameters as well as conditions and modes inside the Earth's biosphere. Environmental science is the study of the interactions within the biophysical environment. Part of this scientific discipline is the investigation of the effect of human activity on the environment. Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology and a part of environmental sciences, is often mistaken as a study of human induced effects on the environment."

Environmental factors that influence all living thing can be grouped under 3 headings:

1. Climatic factors that include the general features such as seasonal variations, light, temperature, rainfall, humidity and wind.
2. Topographic factors that include the general nature of geological strata such as altitude, slope, exposure to sun etc and process like erosion, deposition etc.
3. Edaphic factors that include soil, its physical and chemical constitution, water-content, aeration etc

Climatic factors 

LIGHT: As the form of energy used during photosynthesis, light is considered as the most important factor determining the growth of the plants and the development of vegetation. Light plays the important roles in the following ways:

• It is necessary for the formation of chlorophyll .
• It regulates the stomatal movements.
• It affects transpirational, photosynthetic and growth rates.
• It influences photoperiodism. 

TEMPERATURE: There is no function in a living organism that is not affected by temperatures. All the chemical process of metabolism and many physical process such as diffusion, precipitation etc are conditioned by temperature. Effects of temperature upon plant distribution can also be noticed as one ascends up a mountain. It is common knowledge that as the altitude increases, temperature falls. It is not therefore uncommon for one to encounter typical temperate climate vegetation in the heart of a tropical area, at higher altitudes.

Blood Clotting

When blood is shed, the platelets disintegrate and liberate thromboplastin. Certain amount of thromboplastin is also derived from the damaged tissues of the injured locality. Thromboplastin converts prothrombin into thrombin with the help of calcium ions and thrombin interacts with fibrinogen forming fibrin. This is the clot. Clotting of blood is also known as the coagulation of blood.

Normally,

Prothrombin+Calcium ions+Fibrinogen----------------->Nil

After shedding of blood:

Thromboplastin + Prothrombin + Calcium ions--------------------------> Thrombin

Thrombin + Fibrinogen-------------------> Fibrin (Clot)

Since 1940, research work has indicated that the clotting mechanisms is a complex process. In 1954 an international committee was established. The committee suggested an international system of nomenclature time to time with the appearance of new factors.There are 13 clotting factors i.e I to XIII.