BVP CET case studies
BVP CET · Put your knowledge to work in context.
BVP CET is the entrance test used by Bharati Vidyapeeth (a deemed university with campuses around Pune, Navi Mumbai, Sangli and elsewhere) for admission to its own undergraduate professional programmes. Candidates typically sit it after Class 12 to compete for seats in engineering, pharmacy, medicine and allied health, and sometimes other programmes, depending on which course the candidate is applying for. The BVP CET case studies are 5 cases and about 3,356 words.
1Simple pendulum: is the experiment wrong, or just uncorrected?
During a Class 12 practical examination, a student is asked to determine g with a simple pendulum. He clamps a fine thread to a rigid retort stand and ties a brass bob of diameter 2.0 cm to the free end.
670 words, about 3 min2Buffer capacity: how much HCl before pH 4.75 collapses?
A school laboratory must supply 250.0 mL of a buffer of pH 4.75 for a project on enzyme activity. The shelf holds only two reagent bottles: 0.100 M acetic acid and 0.100 M sodium acetate solution.
663 words, about 3 min3A 92% accurate test that is wrong 96 times out of 100
A district hospital is deciding how to use a new rapid antigen test. In a validation study the test was run on 2,000 people whose true status had already been confirmed by a laboratory method: of the 1,000 infected people, 920 tested positive; of the 1,000 uninfected people, 960 tested negative.
635 words, about 3 min4Two affected males in one family: counselling an X-linked recessive disease
Meera and Raj, both healthy, bring their 6-year-old son Arjun to a genetic counselling clinic. Arjun has progressive muscle weakness, a waddling gait and enlarged calves; a muscle biopsy and a creatine kinase level confirm Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an X-linked recessive condition.
714 words, about 4 min5Spirit-burner calorimetry: 5% low - bad data book or bad apparatus?
In a school laboratory a spirit burner is filled with methanol (M = 32 g/mol; the accepted standard enthalpy of combustion of liquid methanol is −726 kJ/mol). The burner with its fuel weighs 148.50 g.
674 words, about 3 min