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    Sanskrit Sample Paper For PHD at IIT B

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    This document contains the entrance test paper for admission to the Ph.D. program in CISTS at IIT Bombay on December 2, 2015. The 3 hour test contains 70 total marks across 3 sections. Section A contains comprehension questions about a Sanskrit verse and is worth 20 marks. Section B contains 4 out of 5 short answer questions worth 10 marks each, for a total of 20 marks. Section C contains 2 long answer essay questions worth 15 marks each, for a total of 30 marks. Topics covered include Sanskrit linguistics, Indian philosophy, electromagnetism, astronomy, and potential Ph.D. research topics.

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    This document contains the entrance test paper for admission to the Ph.D. program in CISTS at IIT Bombay on December 2, 2015. The 3 hour test contains 70 total marks across 3 sections. Section A contains comprehension questions about a Sanskrit verse and is worth 20 marks. Section B contains 4 out of 5 short answer questions worth 10 marks each, for a total of 20 marks. Section C contains 2 long answer essay questions worth 15 marks each, for a total of 30 marks. Topics covered include Sanskrit linguistics, Indian philosophy, electromagnetism, astronomy, and potential Ph.D. research topics.

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    This document contains the entrance test paper for admission to the Ph.D. program in CISTS at IIT Bombay on December 2, 2015. The 3 hour test contains 70 total marks across 3 sections. Section A contains comprehension questions about a Sanskrit verse and is worth 20 marks. Section B contains 4 out of 5 short answer questions worth 10 marks each, for a total of 20 marks. Section C contains 2 long answer essay questions worth 15 marks each, for a total of 30 marks. Topics covered include Sanskrit linguistics, Indian philosophy, electromagnetism, astronomy, and potential Ph.D. research topics.

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    This document contains the entrance test paper for admission to the Ph.D. program in CISTS at IIT Bombay on December 2, 2015. The 3 hour test contains 70 total marks across 3 sections. Section A contains comprehension questions about a Sanskrit verse and is worth 20 marks. Section B contains 4 out of 5 short answer questions worth 10 marks each, for a total of 20 marks. Section C contains 2 long answer essay questions worth 15 marks each, for a total of 30 marks. Topics covered include Sanskrit linguistics, Indian philosophy, electromagnetism, astronomy, and potential Ph.D. research topics.

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    Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

    IIT B
    Entrance test paper for Ph.D. admission in CISTS
    December 2, 2015

    Time : 3 hrs Marks : 70

    Note: e question paper consists of 3 parts. While the questions in Part-A and Part-C
    are compulsory, you may choose to answer any two questions from Part-B.

    Part - A (20 marks)

    Read the following verse and answer the following questions:





    1. Write individual sentences separately.


    2. Mentioning how many words are there in each sentence, tag them as either--noun,
    adjective, adverb and verb.
    3. Explain in detail, with justication, the case-endings in the word .
    4. Identify the voice in each sentence.
    5. Rewrite all the sentences by changing their voice.

    Part - B (2 10 = 20 marks)

    1. Write a detailed note on Indo-European language family. State what are the stages
    of historical development in Indo-Aryan language family.
    2. Some scholars opine: e aesthetic experience of is dominated by
    the sentiment of love. What is your take on this? Justify your answer by quoting
    and analysing what Bharata has to say on this issue.
    3. Take the second sentence from the above quoted verse and demonstrate how ,
    and schools of thought will advocate the verbal cognition of it.
    4. Write down Maxwell's equations in both the integral and dierential forms (in
    free space), associating each of them to a fundamental law in electromagnetics.
    By doing some mathematical manipulations on them, one could obtain equations
    for the electric and magnetic elds that resemble the wave equation. Derive these
    equations, and explain why in this particular form they turned out to be a big
    revelation in physics in the laer half of the 19th century.
    5. Starting from the expression for the energy stored in electric and magnetic elds,
    arrive at the Poynting's theorem. Explain its signicance.

    6. In order to obtain the true position (called the ) of the planets, the Indian
    astronomers apply two corrections namely manda and siighra. With appropriate
    diagrams, explain these two corrections, and point out their signicance using
    modern astronomical parlance.

    Part - C (2 15 = 30 marks)

    1. Write an essay (in about 20 sentences) in Sanskrit on any of the following topics:

    (a) India and its cultural diversity


    (b) e problem of corruption in India measures to eradicate it

    2. Write a detailed note on the topic of research that you would like to pursue for
    presenting your doctoral dissertation at IIT Bombay.

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