LPU NEST
Lovely Professional University National Entrance and Scholarship Test
Application Date: 1 February 2023 to 31 March 2023
Exam Date: 5 April 2023 to 30 April 2023
Conducting Authority: Lovely Professional University
Exam Overview
By- Akanksha Yadav
What is the LPUNEST 2023 exam?
The Lovely Professional University (LPU) has announced the LPUNEST 2023 exam date for B.Tech. The exam dates for April are available at nest.lpu.in. As per the dates, LPUNEST 2023 online registration has started from 1 February 2023 for the April schedule. The last date for LPUNEST 2023 application form filling is 31 March 2023. LPUNEST 2023 B.Tech exam date is April 5 to 30 April 2023.
LPUNEST is conducted separately for each course in the online mode. After applying, the students are required to book slots following which admit cards will be issued by the conducting body. The link to download the LPUNEST 2023 admit card is sent to the candidates’ registered email ID.
LPUNEST 2023 results for the April session will be declared on the official website. The students who qualify for the entrance exam will be allowed to participate in the counselling and admission portal.
Exam Pattern
What is the LPU NEST B.Tech exam pattern?
The exam pattern of LPUNEST 2023 B.Tech is given below for the aspirants.
| Subjects | No. of questions | Marks ( per question ) | Total mark |
| Physics | 30 |
4 |
120 Marks |
| Chemistry | 30 | 120 Marks | |
| Mathematics / Biology | 30 | 120 Marks | |
| English | 30 | 2 | 60 Marks |
| Total | 420 | ||
What is the LPU NEST Law exam pattern?
The LPUNEST Law 2023 Exam Pattern For LL.B. is provided below.
| Subjects | No. of questions | Marks per question | Maximum Marks per subject |
| English | 20 | 2.5 | 50 |
| Quantitative and Logical Aptitude | 20 | 2.5 | 50 |
| Legal Reasoning | 20 | 2.5 | 50 |
| General Awareness | 20 | 2.5 | 50 |
What is the LPUNEST Law 2023 Exam Pattern for LL.M?
| Subjects | No. of questions | Marks per Question | Maximum Marks per subject |
| English | 40 |
1 mark |
40 |
| Constitutional Law | 40 | 40 | |
| Jurisprudence | 40 | 40 | |
| Other Law subjects | 40 | 40 |
What is the LPU NEST agriculture exam pattern?
| Subjects | No. of questions | Marks per Question | Maximum Marks per subject |
| Physics | 30 (25 MCQ and 5 Fill in the blanks with numerical value) | 4 | 120 |
| Chemistry | 30 (25 MCQ and 5 Fill in the blanks with numerical value) |
4 |
120 |
| Mathematics/ Biology | 30 (25 MCQ and 5 Fill in the blanks with numerical value)/30 (All MCQ) | 4 | 120 |
| English | 30 (All MCQ) | 2 | 60 |
| OR | |||
| Crop Production | 60 | 4 | 240 |
| Horticulture | 30 | 4 | 120 |
| English | 30 | 2 | 60 |
What is the LPU NEST Design exam pattern?
|
Subjects |
No. of Questions | Marks per Question | Maximum Marks per subject |
| Communication Ability | 25 |
2 |
50 |
| General Awareness | 25 | 2 | 50 |
| Design Thinking | 50 | 2 | 100 |
What is the LPU NEST Hotel Management exam pattern?
| Subjects | No. of questions | Marks per Question | Maximum Marks per subject |
| English | 30 |
2 |
60 |
| Service Aptitude | 15 | 30 | |
| General Awareness | 25 | 50 | |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 15 | 30 | |
| Reasoning and Logical Ability | 15 | 30 |
What is the LPU NEST M.B.A Exam Pattern?
|
Subjects |
No. of questions |
Marks per Question |
Marks per subject |
|
English |
40 |
3 |
120 |
|
General Awareness |
20 |
60 |
|
|
General Aptitude |
40 |
120 |
|
|
Total |
100 |
300 |
Eligibilty
What is the eligibility required for the LPU NEST B.Tech exam?
The eligibility required for the B.Tech course is as follows.
- The student should be a citizen of India.
- Candidates must have passed the Class 12 (10+2 scheme) Board examination from any recognised education board with a minimum aggregate of 60 per cent in Physics, Mathematics, and English).
- For Biotechnology, Food Technology, Biomedical Engineering: The mandatory subjects are Physics, Chemistry, English and Maths/ Biology/ Biotechnology
- The subjects required for Chemical Engineering and Petroleum include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English
What is the eligibility required for the LPU NEST Law exam?
- The student must have passed graduation in any stream.
- For LL.M., the student should have passed LL.B with an aggregate of 60 per cent in LL.B, along with a valid score in LPUNEST (LAW).
What is the eligibility required for the LPU NEST Agriculture exam?
- The student must have passed or appeared in Class 12 (10+2 scheme) from any education board with 60% aggregate marks in 10+2 or Intermediate (with English, Physics, Chemistry, Maths or Biology or Forestry) OR 10+2 or Intermediate (Agriculture) OR 2 yrs. Diploma in Agriculture after 10th or equivalent.
- The candidate should be an Indian citizen.
Eligibility required for LPU NEST Design:
- The student should have passed or appeared in the class 12 board exam from any education board with an aggregate of 60 per cent in 10+2 (with English).
- The students with 70 per cent or more in class 12 (10+2 scheme) will be exempted from appearing in LPUNEST and/ or UCEED. Such candidates are eligible to apply directly for admission.
Eligibility required for LPU NEST Hotel Management:
- The applicant must have passed the class 12 board exam (10+2 scheme) with an aggregate of 50% subject to qualifying LPUNEST (Hotel Management). The student must have English in 10+2 to be eligible for LPUNEST (Hotel Management).
Eligibility required for LPU NEST M.B.A:
- The student should have completed or appeared in the final semester of a bachelor’s degree with a minimum aggregate of 55 per cent from a university, institution, college etc. recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
- The student should have completed Completed Chartered Accountancy (CA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India or Completed Company Secretary (CS) from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) or Completed Cost & Management Accountancy (CMA) from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI).
Exam Syllabus
Motion |
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| Laws of motion: Force and inertia, Newton's first law of motion; momentum, Newton's second law of motion; impulse; Newton's third law of motion. Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications; equilibrium of concurrent forces |
| Laws of motion: Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction. Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force and its applications |
| Work, energy, and power: Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic and potential energies, work energy theorem, power. Potential energy of a spring, conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and non-conservative forces |
| Work, energy, and power: Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions |
| Rotational motion: Centre of mass of a two-particle system, centre of mass of a rigid body; basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and its applications |
| Rotational motion: Moment of inertia, radius of gyration. Values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, and their applications. Rigid body rotation, equations of rotational motion |
Kinematics, gravitation, and oscillations |
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| Physics and measurement: Physics, technology, and society, SI units, fundamental and derived units. Least count, accuracy and precision of measuring instruments, errors in measurement, dimensions of physical quantities |
| Physics and measurement: Dimensional analysis and its applications |
| Kinematics: Frame of reference. Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity, uniformly accelerated motion, velocity- time, position-time graphs |
| Kinematics: Frame of reference. Relations for uniformly accelerated motion. Scalars and vectors, vector addition and subtraction, zero vector, scalar and vector products, unit vector, resolution of a vector. Relative velocity, motion in a plane |
| Kinematics: Frame of reference. Projectile motion, uniform circular motion |
| Gravitation: The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity |
| Gravitation: Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geostationary satellites |
| Oscillations and waves: Periodic motion-period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Periodic functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; phase; Oscillations of a spring-restoring force and force constant |
| Oscillations and waves: Energy in S.H.M.-kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum-derivation of expression for its time period; free, forced, and damped oscillations, resonance; wave motion; longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of a wave |
| Oscillations and waves: Displacement relation for a progressive wave; principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonics, beats, Doppler effect in sound |
Thermal physics |
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| Properties of solids and liquids: Elastic behaviour, stress-strain relationship, Hooke's Law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal's law and its applications. Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity |
| Properties of solids and liquids: Streamline and turbulent flow, Reynolds number. Bernoulli's principle and its applications. Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, application of surface tension-drops, bubbles and capillary rise |
| Properties of solids and liquids: Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; specific heat capacity, calorimetry; change of state, latent heat. Heat transfer conduction, convection and radiation, Newton's law of cooling |
| Thermodynamics: Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, concept of temperature. Heat, work, and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics. Second law of thermodynamics: Reversible and irreversible processes. Carnot engine and its efficiency |
| Kinetic theory of gases: Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas. Kinetic theory of gases-assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic energy and temperature: RMS speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom |
| Kinetic theory of gases: Law of equipartition of energy, applications to specific heat capacities of gases; mean free path, Avogadro's number |
Electricity magnetism |
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| Electrostatics: Electric charges-conservation of charge, Coulomb's law-forces between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution. Electric field: Electric field due to a point charge |
| Electrostatics: Electric field-electric field lines, electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole, torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field. Electric flux |
| Electrostatics: Gauss's law and its applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell |
| Electrostatics: Electric potential and its calculation for a point charge, electric dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges in an electrostatic field. Conductors and insulators |
| Electrostatics: Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitor, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor |
| Current electricity: Electric current, drift velocity, Ohm's law, electrical resistance, resistances of different materials, V-I characteristics of Ohmic and non-Ohmic conductors, electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity |
| Current electricity: Colour code for resistors; series and parallel combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance. Electric cell and its internal resistance, potential difference and EMF of a cell |
| Current electricity: Combination of cells in series and in parallel. Kirchhoff's laws and their applications. Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge. Potentiometer-principle and its applications |
| Magnetic effects of current and magnetism: Biot-Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop. Ampere's law and its applications to infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid |
| Magnetic effects of current and magnetism: Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Cyclotron. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force between two parallel current-carrying conductors |
| Magnetic effects of current and magnetism: Definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in uniform magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer, its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter |
| Magnetic effects of current and magnetism: Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; earth's magnetic field and magnetic elements |
| Magnetic effects of current and magnetism: Para-, dia-, and ferro-magnetic substances. Magnetic susceptibility and permeability, hysteresis, electromagnets and permanent magnets |
Atomic structure and optics |
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| Atoms and nuclei: Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford's model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones |
| Atoms and nuclei: Radioactivity-alpha, beta, and gamma particles/ rays and their properties; radioactive decay law. Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission and fusion |
| Dual nature of matter and radiation: Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard's observations; Einstein's photoelectric equation; particle nature of light. Matter waves-wave nature of particle, De Broglie relation |
| Dual nature of matter and radiation: Davisson-Germer experiment |
| Optics: Reflection and refraction of light at plane and spherical surfaces, mirror formula, total internal reflection and its applications, deviation and dispersion of light by a prism, lens formula, magnification, power of a lens |
| Optics: Combination of thin lenses in contact, microscope and astronomical telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers |
| Wave optics: Wavefront and Huygens' principle, laws of reflection and refraction using Huygen's principle. Interference, Young's double slit experiment and expression for fringe width. Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum |
| Wave optics: Resolving power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes, polarisation, plane polarized light; Brewster's law, uses of plane polarized light and polaroids |
Electrical and electronics |
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| Electromagnetic induction and alternating currents: Electromagnetic induction; Faraday's law, induced EMF and current; Lenz's law, Eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance. Alternating currents, peak and rms value of alternating current/ voltage |
| Electromagnetic induction and alternating currents: Reactance and impedance; LCR series circuit, resonance; quality factor, power in AC circuits, wattless current. AC generator and transformer |
| Electromagnetic waves: Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics. Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays). Applications of E.M. waves |
| Electronic devices: Semiconductors; semiconductor diode: I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias; diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell and Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator. Junction transistor |
| Electronic devices: Transistor action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator. Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND, and NOR). Transistor as a switch |
| Electronic devices: Communication systems-propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere; sky and space wave propagation, need for modulation, amplitude and frequency modulation, bandwidth of signals, bandwidth of transmission medium |
| Electronic devices: Basic elements of a communication system |
Result & Counselling
Result
The result of LPUNEST 2023 will be announced by Lovely Professional University (LPU) 24 hours after the completion of the exam. The result is declared individually for each phase of the exam.
Steps to Check LPUNEST 2023 Result
- Go to the official website of the exam.
- Enter user ID and password
- The result will be displayed on the screen
- Download and a print copy of the result for future use
Counselling
The counselling of LPUNEST 2023 for each phase of the exam is conducted in three rounds in online mode. For each round, seats will be allotted separately. Candidates will be allotted seats on the basis of rank and preferred course and/ or programme. After seat allotment, selected candidates must download the allotment letter and pay an initial fee of Rs. 15,000 to confirm the seats allocated to them.
At this stage, the student will need to fill out the admission form and upload the requisite documents.
Registration & Application Process
Steps to fill LPUNEST 2023 application form:
1st Step: Registration – The students can register by entering a name, email ID, gender, and valid mobile number after which a registration ID will be generated and sent to their registered email ID.
2nd Step: Payment of Application Fees – Having successfully registered for the exam, the students will need to pay the requisite fee. Payment of fee can be made online or offline as shown below
| Mode of Payment | Category of candidates | Amount |
| Online | Application form and Soft copy of LPUNEST Kit (Boys) | Rs 1000 |
| Application form and Soft copy of LPUNEST Kit (Girls) | Rs 500 | |
| Application form and hard copy of LPUNEST Kit (Boys) | Rs 1500 | |
| Application form and hard copy of LPUNEST Kit (Girls) | Rs 1000 | |
| Offline | Boys | Rs 1500 |
| Girls | Rs 1000 |
3rd Step: Filling of Online Application Form – The students must fill in all required details in the online application form after payment of the fee including candidates’ personal, academic, and contact information.
4th Step: Uploading of Scanned Documents – After filling in the details in the application form, candidates will need to upload scanned copies of all the necessary documents and images.
5th Step: Submission of Application Form – After successfully uploading the required documents, The student will have to submit the application form for LPUNEST 2023. He/she should print a copy of the filled application form for future reference.
What are LPUNEST 2023 application fees?
| Category | Quota | Mode | Gender | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OBC, ST, General, SC | Online | Male | ₹ 1000 | |
| OBC, ST, General, SC | Online | Female | ₹ 500 | |
| OBC, ST, General, SC | Offline | Male | ₹ 1500 | |
| OBC, ST, General, SC | Offline | Female | ₹ 1000 |
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