Eligibility !
Most MCA institutes accept students having a mathematics background either in high school (11th and 12th standards), or during graduation. But they require a 60% marks in graduation. Admissions are given on the basis of a written entrance test, Personal Interview and GD. There was centralised entrance of MCA in India at National level AIMCET (all India entrance of MCA as well as each state has its own centralised entrance.
Now a days admission is through entrance tests, which are conducted separately by different universities offering the course. The MCA entrance exams usually have questions based on higher mathematics (sometimes B.Sc. level) and reasoning. Most of the MCA entrance tests are purely objective in nature. But a few tests also have a mix of objective, short-answer, and long-answer types of questions. The selection to most of the colleges in India, is through the written test only But for some colleges like DU, IMT, Symbiosis (MPIT), there is an interview/GD for the candidates short-listed after the written test. The tests are generally of 2-3 hours duration). Negative marking may or may not be there. The number of seats for the MCA programme is very limited. For MCA Entrance Tests of different colleges, there are different syllabi. Hence, it is difficult to have an integrated approach while preparing for these.