SRMHCAT case studies
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The SRM Health Sciences Common Admission Test (SRMHCAT) is the entrance examination associated with SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) for admission to programmes in its health sciences stream. It is aimed at candidates who have completed their higher secondary schooling and wish to enter undergraduate medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy or allied health programmes offered through SRMIST's College of Medical and Health Sciences. The SRMHCAT case studies are 5 cases and about 3,689 words.
1The MCB That Keeps Tripping in the Morning
An eight-branch coaching centre runs a pantry and a washroom geyser from a single 230 V final circuit protected by a 16 A miniature circuit breaker (MCB), wired in 2.5 mm² copper cable. The connected load is one 4 kW, 240 V storage geyser; two 1.5 kW, 240 V room heaters; six 20 W LED lamps; and two 75 W exhaust fans.
588 words, about 3 min2Nickel Plating That Fails Thickness by One Micrometre
A small workshop nickel-plates steel components to a specified minimum coating thickness of 25 µm. The bath is a Watts-type nickel bath with nickel anodes, and the rectifier is set at 0.85 A.
658 words, about 3 min3Microcytic Anaemia That Iron Tablets Will Not Fix
A 26-year-old woman reports six months of fatigue and breathlessness on one flight of stairs. She is a lifelong vegetarian, has heavy menstrual bleeding, and takes no supplements.
771 words, about 4 min4The Over-Constrained Timetable
The academic coordinator of a coaching centre must place five doubt-clearing sessions - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology and Logical Reasoning - on Monday to Friday, exactly one subject per day. The constraints circulated to the faculty are: (i) Chemistry is neither on Monday nor on Friday.
756 words, about 4 min5Reading a Coaching Centre's Improvement Claim
A test-prep centre advertises: 'Our students improve by an average of 24 marks - the best in the city.' It publishes results for its 40-student batch: two students improved by 210 and 185 marks respectively; five students improved by 15 marks each; thirty students improved by between 4 and 9 marks; and three students' scores fell, by 12, 9 and 5 marks. A rival centre with a 120-student batch reports a mean improvement of 9 marks, a median of 8 marks and a standard deviation of 6 marks; its dropout rate is 5 %, against 28 % at the first centre, which counts only students who sat the final mock.
916 words, about 5 min