Which test is used to detect typhoid bacilli in blood?

The answer is NOT Widal test. The correct answer is blood culture.

Explanation: Widal test detects antibodies to typhoid bacilli, and not the bacilli itself. To detect the bacilli we must grow them on a simple nutritive media having pH 6 to 8, at temperature 37 deg C.

This answer is derived from Biology textbook by the Board(pg 130, below green box).

This is a tricky question. If students want to succeed at MHT-CET exam, they should practice a lot of such tricky questions. Commonly, students practice only simple questions which really have no value in competition. Every Tom, Dick and Harry knows those answers. If you want to beat them you should practice such questions.

Successful students do not read different books. They read the same books, but in a different manner.

Many question asked in actual MHT-CET Biology paper are tricky. As a matter of fact, most of the students score less than expected marks in Biology. Students who expect 90 marks in Biology usually score only 75 to 80 marks. Those who have already appeared for MHT-CET will know this by their own experience. If you are appearing for MHT-CET for the first time, you can ask your senior batch students about their experience.

Physics is difficult, hence students expect less marks and they score less marks. In Biology, they expect great marks, but score much lower then their expectation. This itself tells that special attention must be given to Biology. Also, not many students know that students with higher marks in Biology can get higher rank in MHT-CET.

The study material given by most of the coaching classes, MCQ practice books,etc. consists of simple questions only. They pickup single lines from the textbook and give it as a MCQ. Even a 10 yrs old kid can answer such simple MCQs. There is no competitive value in such questions.

Our test-series has been created with a special focus on such tricky, challenging and complex questions. We see to it that our students get complex questions to solve so that they can develop their skills and differentiate themselves from Tom, Dick and Harry. We know that merely giving simple questions to our students will not make they successful. In order to be successful, they need more than simple questions. The complex and tricky questions are created by Prof. Rohan Shenoy himself, and hence you will not find these questions in any other practice book or coaching classes’ study material.

Sample question paper of our test-series can be download from here.

MHT-CET 2011 is NOT cancelled due to single entrance test for MBBS

Times of India has carried out an article in its prime pages about a single entrance test for MBBS and MD from 2011. I have already started receiving emails from concerned parents and students about this issue. In February this year, the HRD Ministry had announced its plans to hold a single entrance test for medical, engineering, etc. from the year 2013.

This decision is taken by the MCI and not the Supreme Court. Even though the Union Ministry of Health has accepted it, the Supreme Court can thrash it any moment. MHT-CET(and many other State CETs) is being conducted as per the ruling of Supreme Court, and not primarily as per resolutions of MCI or any Ministry. In Feb 2009, few Ministers and Bureaucrats from Maharashtra had made careless and irresponsible statements to the press that MHT-CET had been scrapped. Even though MHT-CET was not scrapped, the people who made those irresponsible statements never followed-up the same. All they did was setup a panel to find ways of doing away with the MHT-CET, but the panel had no outcome.

With specific reference to Maharashtra, a single entrance test is not possible because that there is a lot of difference in the syllabus of the State Board and other boards such as CBSE, ICSE for MBBS entrance. MD/MS entrance may be converted into a single test, but there is no chance of MBBS-entrance being converted.

The proposed single entrance test talks about only MBBS course at UG level. What about BDS, BAMS, BHMS, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, etc?

There is already one national entrance test called as CBSE PMT, or more popularly All India PMT. Not many are aware, but States can opt-out of the existing CBSE PMT scheme. For ex: Andhra Pradesh and J&K are not a part of the CBSE PMT(All India PMT) scheme. The existing CBSE PMT is only for medical(MBBS) and dental(BDS) courses, but not for ayurvedic, homeopathic, etc. courses

So it is likely that the single CET will be introduced in others states where CBSE syllabus is followed, but definitely not here in Maharashtra.

On many occasions, it has been observed that such blabber from Ministers and Govt. departments only serves to cause confusion, uncertainty and mental agony to the concerned parties without any solid outcome or follow-up. Ministers and Govt. departments have a bad habit of announcing mere “proposals” as “final decisions” in a high-sounding language and fancying themselves as the Apex authority. In Feb 2009 when there was a lot of chaos on scrapping MHT-CET, it is not known if they even approached the Supreme Court with the proposal, but some Ministers felt an compulsive urge to open their mouth loud and release misleading definitive statements in the press. So this incident could also be just one more of those.

How NOT to study for MHT-CET

I am often asked “How to study for MHT-CET”. Writing on how to study would be very lengthy, hence I chose to write “How NOT to study for MHT-CET”. Below is a set of things to avoid when studying for CET.

  1. Not using textbooks published by the Board, and instead wasting time collecting notes of “top professors”.
  2. Starting CET study without proper HSC base.
  3. Studying CET with HSC on a topic-to-topic basis (means studying a HSC topic and immediately solving CET questions based on the same)
  4. Practicing only simple, straight forward questions.
  5. Assuming that the study material given by classes is the best and enough.
  6. Not completing entire HSC syllabus before October.
  7. Using general-use quality study material.
  8. For physics, not solving P. S. Bangui’s numerical problem book(Don’t appear for CET if you did not solve P. S. bangui’s book)
  9. For chemistry, not solving numerical and chains of reactions.
  10. For biology, assuming that all questions asked in CET are simple pickup lines from textbook. They ask difficult, tricky, challenging questions which even the otherwise “best” teachers are likely to get wrong! Boy, don’t you ever underestimate those gray-haired unglamorous paper-setters.
  11. Not undertaking any independent assessment of your CET preparation by a 3rd party. CET is a creative subject. When different people come together, they can view the same problem differently and create a variety of different questions. Since a single teacher cannot think in all possible directions, join other teacher/classes test-series so that you can gain exposure to alternative ways of approaching the same thing. Don’t run behind other professor’s/classes’  notes, but run behind their test-series.

Bonus tip for physics: Physics is an extremely logical subject. Therefore, if you are weak at physics, you can take up some small logical skill building exercises such as playing chess in your free time, solving puzzles, etc. And don’t forget to solve numerical problems.

Ofcourse, there are some for thing to avoid, but these are sufficient to start with!

If aerobic breakdown(with ETS) of glucose was 100% efficient, how many ATP would 1 glucose yield?

Ques: If aerobic breakdown(with ETS) of glucose was 100% efficient, how many ATP would 1 glucose yield?

Answer: 94 ATP

Explanation:

Complete aerobic breakdown of glucose with ETS releases 686 Kcal energy.

1 ATP can store 7.3 K cal energy.

Thus, to store 686 Kcal, we would need 686/7.3 = 94 ATP.

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