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Lovely Professional University has an edge over others in all the aspects from academics, to placements, practical learning to faculty and many more. One of my cousin has done her BCA from LPU and she further opted for MCA from LPU only and then was a part of campus placement and is currently placed in HCL through campus placements. Based on her experience, I will be sharing the major details. LPU School of Computer Application is ranked among the top four Computer Applications Institutes of North India by NASSCOM. Students from all across India and 15 plus countries around the globe are expertly mentored by an experienced and proficient team of faculty members. Students have instant access to the latest technology labs like iMac, SAP, etc. That keeps them updated with the ever-changing technologies. If you are enrolled at LPU, then you should not at worry about placements. Placements equally depends upon student's caliber too. LPU has become the landing place of many leading industries for recruitment. LPU has many top rankings in placements. The students of LPU has been placed in the top companies with high salary packages. The placements have been divided as dream packages and bulk recruiters. Apart from placements, many eminent companies approach LPU to hire students for internships. BCA students have been hired by top brands from industry:
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions
Alight Solutions (Wipro)
NIIT Technologies
AMYGB
BluJay
More than 550 students hired on a single day by Cognizant, 'Twice' that is more than 1000 students. LPU has a collaboration with Google to provide specialisation Android courses to computer application students. LPU provides free training on SAP Business Suite to the students leading them to the SAP Consultant Certification. LPU has a tie-up with VMware IT ACADEMY for giving students and faculty exposure to products like vSAN, sphere, NSX, Workspace, Airwatch and cloud, including certifications. LPU was ranked SECOND by Hacker Earth leaving behind most IITs among more than 5000 universities, from all around the world. For more details you can check website. I hope this helps. All the Best. !

Company Secretary in the set-up of corporate sector plays the role of a mediator between the company, its board of directors, stakeholders, government and regulatory authorities.
There are three types of Company Secretary Course which you can take up:
1. Foundation Course.
2. Intermediate Course.
3. Executive Course.
The Eligibility Criteria for these courses are mentioned below:
Foundation Course:The candidate should have at least passed 10+2 examinations to get into the Foundation Course. This is a basic-level course, which is of eight-month duration ( 8 Months).
Intermediate Course:The candidate should have passed Foundation Course of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India or ICWAI, ICAI or got their graduation degree or a Masters degree to get enrolled into the Intermediate Course. The duration of the Intermediate Course is nine months (9 Months).
Executive course: The candidate becomes eligible to sit for the Executive course after he completes and clears the Intermediate course.
After the candidate passes the Executive course, he/she has to undergo a five-day Training Orientation Program, which precedes the actual training of 15 months. The 15-month training is followed by a practical training, which is of three-month duration. In practical training, the candidate has to work with a company or an independent company secretary practitioner as an intern to get hand-on knowledge and training about the roles and responsibilities of a company secretary. It is followed by 15-day training with the Registrar of Companies, financial or banking institutions or stock exchange to know their nitty-gritty. Then there is a 15-day Secretarial Modular Training Program. Some of those company secretary candidates who are exceptionally brilliant or have had good practical experience could be partially exempted from training or their training period could be reduced.
A Company Secretary could either get a government job in accounts or law departments or could get attached to a corporate sector and even rise to the post of Chairman or Managing Director or even be a member of the Board of Directors in the private sector. Though an average Company Secretary would get the starting salary of at least Rs 10,000, sky is the only limit for the brilliant and exceptional Company Secretaries.

Hi,
Check the SOL 2017 for Australia and work visa conditions for both the courses.
Post Study work arrangements
The Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) allows graduates to work in Australia temporarily after they finish their studies. It has two streams: the Graduate Work stream and the Post-Study Work stream.
The Graduate Work stream is for international students who graduate with skills and qualifications that relate to an occupation considered in demand in the Australian labour market, as indicated in The Skilled Occupation List (SOL).A visa in this stream is generally granted for 18 months.
The Post-Study Work stream offers extended options for working in Australia to eligible graduates of a higher education degree. Under this stream, successful applicants are granted a visa with a visa period of two, three or four years duration, depending on the highest educational qualification they have obtained.

It is of objective type with multiple choices. There is a negative marking for each wrong answer. A total of 150 are asked which students have to attempt within two and half hours. The five areas covered in the questions are
- English
- Quantitative
- General Awareness
- Analytical Reasoning
- Logical Reasoning
- Syllabus for Entrance Test
Although there is no fixed syllabus for the Symbiosis entrance test. The students can prepare for the questions from the above mentioned areas.
English
Out of 150 questions English carries 25 questions and the students can practice certain areas like
Reading Comprehension
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Meaning of words
- Correct grammar usage and rules of it
- Quantitative Aptitude
This also carries 25 questions from the following areas:
- Statistics
- Geometry
- Algebra
- General Awareness
This section carries out 60 questions and students should know the current issues and events in
- Business
- Health
- Legal area
- Analytical and Logical Reasoning
This section carries 40 questions and the areas covering are
- Coding and decoding
- Data interpretation
- Definitely true or false statements
- Probably true or false statements etc.
Some reference books you can refer to
- Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by R.S. Agarwal
- Mental Aptitude by Subhkamna Publications
- Data Interpretation and Logical reasoning by Arun Sharma
- NCERT of 9th to 12th standard