National level online entrance examination at selected centres across the country
Number of seats : 25

Students selected for the programme may be eligible to receive a scholarship of Rs 10,000/- per month from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India**

** As per eligibility conditions prescribed by DBT, Govt. of India

Reservation for SC/ST/Physically Challenged candidates will be based on the norms of
MHRD, Govt. of India

The examination will comprise the following sections:

1. Verbal Aptitude
2. Analytical Aptitude
3. Programming and Computing Ability
4. Life Sciences

The examination will be of two hours duration.

Syllabus for sections on Programming and Computing Ability and Life Sciences
Programming and Computing Ability

Array Technique/Array order reversal - Array Technique/Partitioning an Array - Dynamic data structure/Binary tree search - Dynamic data structure/Linked list search - Fundamental algorithms/Generation of Fibonacci sequence -Fundamental algorithms/Summation of a set of numbers -Merging sorting and /Binary search-Merging sorting and /Sorting by selection -Recursive algorithm/ Quick sort -Recursive algorithm/Towers of Hanoi Problem

Life Sciences
Genetic engineering and applications- tools and techniques in biology – Quantitative biology – Molecular biology – Microbiology- metabolic regulators and cell function – Immunology- Histology and histochemistry – Genetics- General Physiology – Developmental Biology – Cell Biology – Biological Chemistry –Bioinformatics- Genomics- Next Generation Sequencing- Basics of Cancer Biology 

• Bangalore
• Chennai
• Delhi
• Hyderabad
• Kolkata
• Mumbai
• Pune
• Trivandrum
• Guwahati
• Bhopal
• Bhubhaneswar.