PGCET MBA syllabus — official KEA heads

KEA publishes a deliberately broad official syllabus.

Below, the “Official KEA syllabus” blocks reproduce the KEA-published heads; the “What we drill in Practice” blocks show the practical topic breakdown our practice bank covers — a coaching elaboration of KEA's broad heads, NOT part of the official syllabus.

KEA's heads carry no question counts. For how many questions each section has actually held, see the exam pattern — that is our count of the papers, and it is labelled as ours there.

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Computer Awareness

15–25 Q

Official KEA syllabus

Computer Basics: organization of a computer, CPU, I/O devices, memory, programming languages, types of OS, general awareness of Internet, web applications, database applications, information systems
Data Representation: characters, integers and fractions; Binary, ASCII, Hexadecimal
Binary Arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division; two's complement; floating-point representation (incl. normalized)
Operating Systems: evolution, types, functions, modern OS

What we drill in Practice

This section is computational, not trivia: number-system conversions, binary arithmetic and two's complement dominate. Note: MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) is NOT in the official KEA syllabus — some prep portals add it, but we weight practice toward what KEA actually lists.

Analytical Ability and Logical Reasoning

10–29 Q

Official KEA syllabus

KEA's verbatim wording: “Logical Reasoning, Puzzles, Diagrams, Analogy, verbal ability, analytical ability and related aspects.” KEA does not enumerate individual topics for this section.

What we drill in Practice

Logical reasoning: fact-inference-judgment, statement-argument, assumptions, conclusions
Puzzles & patterns: seating arrangement, blood relations, series, binary logic
Decision making: direction sense, clocks, calendars, input-output
Critical thinking: analogies, syllogisms, matrix arrangements
Also frequently tested: Venn diagrams, coding-decoding, classification, data sufficiency

Quantitative Analysis

11–24 Q

Official KEA syllabus

Arithmetic
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Statistics
Related Quantitative Aspects

What we drill in Practice

Arithmetic: percentages, profit & loss, simple/compound interest, speed-time-distance, time & work, averages, ratio & proportion, number system, mixtures & alligation, unitary method, commercial maths
Algebra and higher: permutation & combination, sequence & series, triangles, inequalities, set theory
Data Interpretation: tables, bar/pie/line charts, caselet DI, Venn diagrams, data sufficiency
Statistics: mean, median & mode, dispersion & standard deviation, probability

English Language

15–20 Q

Official KEA syllabus

Grammar (basic)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Sentence Correction
One-word Substitution
Idioms & Phrases
Pairs Expressing Relationships
Famous Books in English Literature

What we drill in Practice

Everything official above, plus fill-in-the-blanks and para-jumbles — patterns the papers print that KEA's list does not name as separate bullets
Finer grammar: parts of speech, conditionals, reported speech, active/passive voice

General Knowledge

20–30 Q

Official KEA syllabus

Indian Business Environment
Global Environment
Social Events
Cultural Events
Economics
Management
Political Events
Historical Events
Current Affairs
Sports
Awards
Personalities & Achievements
Science & Technology
Humanities
Entrepreneur & Entrepreneurship
Business Communication

What we drill in Practice

Most of GK is static (business environment, economics, management, history, entrepreneurship, business communication) — we cover it once, permanently. Current affairs is a small dated slice; what we teach is the durable scaffold behind it. Entrepreneurship and Business Communication are officially inside GK and often overlooked — we don't overlook them.