The Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Examination is an annual engineering entrance examination conducted by VIT University all over India and abroad to get admission to various courses offered by VIT.

Here is the complete information as per your request:-


Eligibility:-
Nationality:
The applicant for admission should be a Resident / Non Resident Indian National.

Age Limit:
Candidates whose date of birth falls on or after 1st July 1993 are eligible to apply for VITEEE-2015. The date of birth as recorded in the High School / SSC / X Certificate will be considered authentic. Candidates should produce this certificate in original as a proof of their age at the time of counselling, failing which they will be disqualified.

Qualifying Examination:

Candidates appearing for the VITEEE-2015 should have either completed or shall be appearing in 2015, in any one of the following qualifying examinations:

The final examination of the 10+2 system of Higher Secondary Examination conducted by the State Board, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE, New Delhi), The Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (ISCE, New Delhi).

Intermediate or Two-year Pre-University Examination conducted by a recognized Board/ University.

High School Certificate Examination of the Cambridge University or International Baccalaureate Diploma of the International Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.

General Certificate Education (GCE) examination (London / Cambridge / Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) Level.

VITEEE 2015 Exam Pattern

The VITEEE 2015 exam is a computer based one and therefore candidates must be familiar with computers to be able to attempt it.
The Online VITEEE 2015 Test will be for 2 hours 30 minutes
Number of questions-
PCM (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics)– 120 questions (Each 40 questions)
PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)– 120 questions (Each 40 questions)

The subject selection must be done at the time of the VITEEE 2015 Online Test Slot Booking, which will be available tentatively in March, 2015.
Candidates who attempt Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics are eligible for all the B.Tech Programmes at the university.
Candidates who attempt Biology instead of Matahematics will be eligible for B.Tech. Bioinformatics, Bio-Medical Engineering and Biotechnology programmes only
The selection of the exam pattern for VITEEE 2015 has to be decided during the time of Slot booking of VITEEE 2015.
Candidates may note that the syllabus will be from the State Board of Higher Secondary Education and CBSE Board.

Courses offered at VIT:-
B. Tech. Programmes offered at Vellore Campus
Bio-Medical Engineering
Biotechnology
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering with specialisation in Bioinformatics
Chemical Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
Information Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical (Spec. in Automotive Engineering)
Mechanical (Spec. in Chemical Process Engg.)
Mechanical (Spec. in Energy Engineering)
Production & Industrial Engineering

B. Tech. Programmes offered at Chennai Campus
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Mechanical Engineering



You can fill the admission form either offline or online but since the dates have gone you will have to wait till next year. But you can prepare for 2016 VITEEE by downloading the syllabus which you can have by clicking on following links.

VITEE Syllabus - Physics

1. Electrostatics
Charges and their conservation; Coulomb’s law-forces between two point electric charges - Forces between
multiple electric charges-superposition principle.
Electric field – electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field intensity due to
a dipole - behaviour of a dipole in a uniform electric field.
Electric potential - potential difference-electric potential due to a point charge and dipole-equipotential surfaces
– electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges.
Electric flux-Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to (i) infinitely long straight wire (ii) uniformly
charged infinite plane sheet (iii) two parallel sheets and (iv) uniformly charged thin spherical shell (inside and
outside)
Electrostatic induction-capacitor and capacitance – dielectric and electric polarisation – parallel plate capacitor
with and without dielectric medium – applications of capacitor – energy stored in a capacitor - Capacitors in
series and in parallel – action of points – Lightning arrester – Van de Graaff generator.

2. Current Electricity
Electric Current – flow of charges in a metallic conductor – drift velocity and mobility and their relation with
electric current.
Ohm’s law, electrical resistance - V-I characteristics – electrical resistivity and conductivity-classification of
materials in terms of conductivity – Carbon resistors – colour code for carbon resistors - combination of
resistors – series and parallel – temperature dependence of resistance – internal resistance of a cell – potential
difference and emf of a cell - combinations of cells in series and in parallel.
Kirchoff’s law – illustration by simple circuits – Wheatstone’s Bridge and its application for temperature
coefficient of resistance measurement - Metrebridge - special case of Wheatstone bridge - Potentiometer
principle - comparing the emf of two cells.

3. Magnetic Effects of Electric Current and Magnetism
Magnetic effect of electric current – Concept of magnetic field - Oersted’s experiment – Biot-Savart law-Magnetic
field due to an infinitely long current carrying straight wire and circular coil – Tangent galvanometer –
construction and working – Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid – magnetic field lines.
Ampere’s circuital law and its application.
Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic field and electic field – cyclotron – Force on current carrying
conductor in a uniform magnetic field – Forces between two parallel current carrying conductors - definition of
ampere.
Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field - moving coil galvanometer – conversion to
ammeter and voltmeter – current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment - Magnetic dipole
moment of a revolving electron.
Para, dia and ferro-magnetic substances with examples – Electromagnets – Permanent Magnets

4. Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current
Electromagnetic induction - Faraday’s law - induced emf and current - Lenz’s law.
Self induction - Mutual induction - self inductance of a long solenoid - mutual inductance of two long solenoids.
Methods of inducing emf - (i) by changing magnetic induction (ii) by changing area enclosed by the coil and
(iii) by changing the orientation of the coil (quantitative treatment).
AC generator - commercial generator. (Single phase, three phase).
Eddy current - applications - transformer - long distance transmission.
Alternating current - measurement of AC-AC circuit with resistance - AC circuit with inductor - AC circuit with
capacitor - LCR series circuit - Resonance and Q - factor - power in AC circuits.

5. Optics
Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its
applications, optical fibers, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula.
Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact, combination of a lens and a mirror.
Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
Scattering of light-blue colour of sky and reddish appearances of the sun at sunrise and sunset.

6. Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Optics
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics - Electromagnetic spectrum-radio, microwaves, infra-red,
visible, ultra-violet, X rays, gamma rays.
Wavefront and Huygens’s principle - Reflection, total internal reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane
surface using wavefronts.
Interference - Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width - coherent source - interference of
light-Formation of colours in thin films - analytical treatment - Newton’s rings.
Diffraction - differences between interference and diffraction of light- diffraction grating.
Polarisation of light waves - polarisation by reflection - Brewster’s law - double refraction - nicol prism - uses of
plane polarised light and Polaroids - rotatory polarisation - polarimeter.


7. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Atomic structure – discovery of the electron – specific charge (Thomson’s method) and charge of the electron
(Millikan’s oil drop method) – alpha scattering – Rutherford’s atom model.
Bohr’s model – energy quantization – energy and wave number expressions – Hydrogen spectrum – energy level
diagrams – sodium and mercury spectra – excitation and ionization potentials.
Nuclear properties - nuclear radii, masses, binding energy, density, charge - isotopes, isobars and isotones -
nuclear mass defect - binding energy - stability of nuclei - Bainbridge mass spectrometer.
Nature of nuclear forces - Neutron - discovery - properties - artificial transmutation - particle accelerator.
Radioactivity - alpha, beta and gamma radiations and their properties- -decay, β -decay and -decay -
Radioactive decay law - half life - mean life - artificial radioactivity - radio isotopes - effects and uses - Geiger -
Muller counter.
Radio carbon dating - biological radiation hazards.
Nuclear fission - chain reaction - atom bomb - nuclear reactor - nuclear fusion - Hydrogen bomb - cosmic rays -
elementary particles.


8. Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
Photoelectric effect - Light waves and photons - Einstein’s photoelectric equation - laws of photoelectric emission
- particle nature of light - photo cells and their applications.
Matter waves - wave nature of particles – de Broglie relation – de Broglie wavelength of an electron –Davisson
Germer experiment – electron microscope


9. Semiconductor Devices and their Applications
Semiconductor theory - energy band in solids (Qualitative ideas only) - difference between metals, insulators
and semiconductors based on band theory - semiconductor doping - Intrinsic and Extrinsic semiconductors.
Formation of P-N Junction - Barrier potential and depletion layer-P-N Junction diode - Forward and reverse bias
characteristics - diode as a rectifier - Zener diode-Zener diode as a voltage regulator - LED - seven segment
display - LCD.
Junction transistors - characteristics - transistor as a switch - transistor as an amplifier - transistor as an
oscillator .
Logic gates - NOT, OR, AND, EXOR using discrete components - NAND and NOR gates as universal gates -Laws
and theorems of Boolean algebra


VITEE Syllabus –Mathematics

1. Applications of Matrices and Determinants
Adjoint, inverse – properties, computation of inverses, solution of system of linear equations by
matrix inversion method.
Rank of a matrix – elementary transformation on a matrix, consistency of a system of linear
equations, Cramer’s rule, non-homogeneous equations, homogeneous linear system and rank
method.


2. Complex Numbers
Complex number system - conjugate, properties, ordered pair representation.
Modulus – properties, geometrical representation, polar form, principal value, conjugate, sum,
difference, product, quotient, vector interpretation, solutions of polynomial equations, De
Moivre’s theorem and its applications.
Roots of a complex number - nth roots, cube roots, fourth roots.


3. Analytical Geometry of two dimensions
Definition of a conic – general equation of a conic, classification with respect to the general
equation of a conic, classification of conics with respect to eccentricity.
Equations of conic sections (parabola, ellipse and hyperbola) in standard forms and general
forms- Directrix, Focus and Latus rectum - parametric form of conics and chords. - Tangents
and normals – cartesian form and parametric form- equation of chord of contact of tangents
from a point (x1 ,y1 ) to all the above said curves.
Asymptotes, Rectangular hyperbola – Standard equation of a rectangular hyperbola.


4. Vector Algebra
Scalar Product – angle between two vectors, properties of scalar product, applications of dot
products. vector product, right handed and left handed systems, properties of vector product,
applications of cross product.
Product of three vectors – Scalar triple product, properties of scalar triple product, vector triple
product, vector product of four vectors, scalar product of four vectors.


5. Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions
Direction cosines – direction ratios - equation of a straight line passing through a given point
and parallel to a given line, passing through two given points, angle between two lines.
Planes – equation of a plane, passing through a given point and perpendicular to a line, given
the distance from the origin and unit normal, passing through a given point and parallel to two
given lines, passing through two given points and parallel to a given line, passing through three
given non-collinear points, passing through the line of intersection of two given planes, the
distance between a point and a plane, the plane which contains two given lines (co-planar
lines), angle between a line and a plane.
Skew lines - shortest distance between two lines, condition for two lines to intersect, point of
intersection, collinearity of three points.
Sphere – equation of the sphere whose centre and radius are given, equation of a sphere when
the extremities of the diameter are given.


6. Differential Calculus
Derivative as a rate measurer - rate of change, velocity, acceleration, related rates, derivative as
a measure of slope, tangent, normal and angle between curves, maxima and minima.
Mean value theorem - Rolle’s Theorem, Lagrange Mean Value Theorem, Taylor’s and
Maclaurin’s series, L’ Hospital’s Rule, stationary points, increasing, decreasing, maxima,
minima, concavity, convexity and points of inflexion.
Errors and approximations – absolute, relative, percentage errors - curve tracing, partial
derivatives, Euler’s theorem.

7. Integral Calculus and its Applications
Simple definite integrals – fundamental theorems of calculus, properties of definite integrals.
Reduction formulae – reduction formulae for  dx x n sin and  dx x n cos , Bernoulli’s formula.
Area of bounded regions, length of the curve.


8. Differential Equations
Differential equations - formation of differential equations, order and degree, solving differential
equations (1st order), variables separable, homogeneous and linear equations.
Second order linear differential equations - second order linear differential equations with
constant co-efficients, finding the particular integral if f (x) = emx, sin mx, cos mx, x, x2.


9. Probability Distributions
Probability – Axioms – Addition law - Conditional probability – Multiplicative law - Baye’s
Theorem - Random variable - probability density function, distribution function, mathematical
expectation, variance
Theoretical distributions - discrete distributions, Binomial, Poisson distributions- Continuous
distributions, Normal distribution.


10. Discrete Mathematics
Mathematical logic – logical statements, connectives, truth tables, logical equivalence,
tautology, contradiction.
Groups-binary operations, semigroups, monoids, groups, order of a group, order of an element,
properties of groups.

VITEE Syllabus – Biology

1. Taxonomy
Linnaean system of classification and Binomial nomenclature; history and types of
classification; status of bacteria and viruses; classification of angiosperms up to sub-class level
(Bentham and Hooker’ systems); salient features of non-chordates up to phyla levels and
chordates up to class levels.


2. Evolution
Modern concepts of organic evolution, evidences of organic evolution (Fossil records and
biochemical evidences). Darwinism and neo – Darwinism, Lamarckism, Neo-Lamarckism,
sources of variation, mutation, recombination, gene flow - genetic drift, migration, natural
selection. Origin and concepts of species: speciation and isolation (geographical pre-mating and
post-mating or post zygotic), adaptive radiations; human evolution.


3. Cell and Molecular Biology
Discovery of cell, cell as a contained unit, pro and eukaryotic cells and its ultra structure. Cell
division: amitosis, mitosis and meiosis. The cell: cell wall, cell membrane and cell organelles
(Plastids, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi bodies, ribosomes, lysosomes, vacuoles
and centrioles)
DNA and RNA, DNA as genetic material, RNA as genetic material, replication, transcription,
genetic code, translation, splicing, gene expression and regulation, protein synthesis, DNA
repair.


4. Reproduction
Reproduction in Plants: asexual and sexual reproduction, vegetative propagation, sexual
reproduction in flowering plants, structure of flowers, pollination , fertilization, development of
seeds and fruits, apomixes and poly-embryony
Human reproduction and Reproductive health: reproductive system in male and female,
menstrual cycles, production of gametes, fertilization, implantation, embryo development,
pregnancy, parturition and lactation, Assisted reproductive technologies.


5. Genetics
Chromosomes: structure and types, linkage and crossing over, recombination of chromosomes,
mutation, chromosomal aberration, Mendelian inheritance, chromosomal theory of inheritance,
deviation from Mendelian ratio (gene interaction, incomplete dominance, co-dominance,
complimentary gene, multiple allelism), sex determination in humans, chromosomal disorders
in humans.

6. Microbiology and Immunology
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Parasites and pathogens. Structure of microbes and diseases caused by them. Basic concepts
of immunology: Innate and humoral immunity, lymphoid organs, lymph nodes and spleen,
antibodies, vaccines, transplantation immunology, immune system disorders.

7. Biochemistry
Structure and function of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins. Disaccharide, starch, glycogen, fats,
cholesterol, amino acids, peptides. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary structure of proteins.
Enzymes, structured and mechanism of enzyme catalysis, specificity of enzymes, co factors an
co-enzymes.

8. Physiology: Plant and Human
Plant Physiology: Movement of water, food, nutrients, gases and minerals. Respiration,
photosynthesis (light and dark reactions), Factors affecting photosynthesis, electron transport
chain (ETC), glycolysis, Kreb’s cycle, pentose phosphate pathway, hormones and growth
regulators, Photo-periodism and vernalization.
Human Physiology: Digestion and absorption, breathing and respiration, body fluids and
circulation, excretory system, endocrine system, nervous system, skeletal and muscular
systems: locomotion, and movement, growth, aging and death. Hormones; types of hormones
and its functions.


9. Biotechnology and its applications
Recombinant DNA technology, applications in health, agriculture and industries; genetically
modified organisms; bio-safety issues, insulin and Bt cotton, transgenic plants and microbes,
plant tissue culture and its application; plant growth regulators; Microbes in food processing;
industrial production of microbial products, Sewage treatment, waste management and energy
generation.


10. Biodiversity, ecology, and environment
Ecosystems: components, types and energy flow in ecosystem; species, population and
community, ecological adaptations, centers of diversity and conservation of bio-diversity, Red
data book, botanical gardens, national parks, sanctuaries and museums, environmental
issues, human population explosion, green house effects, ozone layer depletion, Environmental
issues and Pollution control.


11. Applied biology and human welfare
Bio-pesticides, genetically modified foods, bio-war, bio-piracy, bio-pattern, sustainable
agriculture and medicinal plants, economic important plants (food crops, oil seeds, fiber
yielding, sugar crops and timber yielding), bio-pharming, pesticides, organic agriculture.
Population and birth control, contraception and MTP, sexually transmitted diseases, infertility,
cancer and AIDS. Adolescence and drug/or alcohol abuse.

Attached Files

VITEE Syllabus – Chemistry.pdf (18.6 KB, 60 views)