JEST Reference Books

The Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) is responsible for conducting the Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST). The exam is conducted for admission to PhD/ Integrated PhD Programme in Physics or Theoretical Computer Science or Neuroscience or Computational Biology. Some textbooks are listed below which help aspirants in preparing for the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) test. The suggested textbooks are:

1. Jest Physics Solved Paper Paperback - 2018 by Rakesh Dhaka (Author), Poonam Choudhary (Author), Sarita Dukla (Author).

2. Elements of Discrete Mathematics: C.L. Liu

3. Discrete Mathematical Structures with Applications to Computer Science: Jean-Paul Tremblay and Ram P. Manohar

4. Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman

5. Fundamentals of Data Structures: Ellis Horowitz and Sartaj Sahni

6. An Introduction to Data Structures with Applications: Jean-Paul Tremblay and P.G. Sorenson

7. Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms: Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni and S. Rajasekaran

8. The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms: Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman

9. Introduction to Algorithms: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson and Ronald L. Rivest

10. How to solve it by computer: R.G. Dromey

11. Programming Languages, Concepts and Constructs: Ravi Sethi

12. Elements of Discrete Mathematics: C.L. Liu

13. Mathematics of Discrete Structures for Computer Science (English, Paperback, Gordon J. Pace)

14. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools 2nd Edition (English, Paperback, Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, D. Jeffrey Ulman, Monica S. Lam)

15. Fundamentals Of Data Structures In C++ (Paul) 2nd Edition (English, Paperback, Ellis Horowitz, Sahni Sartaj, Dinesh Mehta)

16. An Introduction to Data Structures with Applications: Jean-Paul Tremblay and P.G. Sorenson

17. Fundamentals Of Computer Algorithms 2nd Edition (English, Paperback, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Sartaj Sahni, Ellis Horowitz)

18. Data Structures & Algorithms 1 Edition (English, Paperback, Alfred V Aho, John E Hopcroft, Jeffrey D Ullman)

19. Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Edition (English, Paperback, Al. Cormen)

20. How to Solve it By Computer 1st Edition (English, Paperback, R. G. Dromey)

21. Programming Languages: Concepts & Constructs 2 Edition (English, Paperback, Ravi Sethi)