Civil Service Examination : Syllabus of the Examination
Part A - Preliminary Examination :
The Examination shall comprise two compulsory papers of 200 marks each.
Paper I - (200 marks) Duration :
Two hours
• Current events
of national and international importance.
• History of
India and Indian National Movement.
• Indian and
World Geography - Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the
World.
• Indian Polity
and Governance - Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public
Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
• Economic and
Social Development - Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics,
Social Sector initiatives, etc.
• General issues
on Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not
require subject specialisation
• General Science
Paper II- (200 marks) Duration: Two hours
• Comprehension
• Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
• Logical reasoning and analytical ability
• Decision making and problem solving
• General mental ability
• Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude
etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data
sufficiency etc. -Class X level)
• English Language Comprehension skills (Class X level).
Questions relating to English Language Comprehension skills of Class X
level (last item in the Syllabus of Paper- II) will be tested through
passages from English language only without providing Hindi translation
thereof in the question paper.
The questions will be of multiple choice, objective type.
Part B- Main Examination
Compulsory Subjects
English and Indian Languagues
The aim of the paper is to test the candidate's ability to read
and understand serious discursive prose, and to express his ideas clearly
and correctly in English/ Indian language concerned.
The pattern of questions would be broadly as follows :-
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis Writing
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary
(iv) Short Essay
Indian Languages
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis Writing
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary.
(iv) Short Essay
(v) Translation from English to the Indian language and vice-versa.
Note 1 : The Papers on Indian languages and English will be of Matriculation
or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature only. The marks
obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking.
Note 2 : The candidates will have to answer the English and Indian Languages
papers in English and the respective Indian language (except where translation
is involved).
Essay
Candidates will be required to write an essay on a specific topic. The
choice of subjects will be given. They will be expected to keep closely
to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion,
and to write concisely. Credit will be given for effective and exact expression.
General
Studies - Paper I & II
Optional Subjects
Agriculture,
Animal
Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Anthropology,
Botany,
Chemistry,
Civil
Engineering, Commerce
and Accountancy, Economics,
Electrical
Engineering, Geography,
Geology,
History,
Law,
Management,
Mathematics,
Mechanical
Engineering, Medical
Science, Philosophy,
Physics,
Political
Science and International relations,
Psychology, Public
Administration, Sociology,
Statistics,
Zoology.
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Literature of one of the following languages : (A candidate may
be required to answer some or all the questions in the language concerned;
In regard to the languages include in the Eighth schedule to constitution,
the scripts will be the same; Candidates should note that the questions
not required to be answered in a specific language will have to be answered
in the language medum indicated by them for answering papers on Essay,
general studies and optional subjects)
Arabic,
Assamese,
Bengali,
Bodo,
Chinese,
Dogri,
English,
French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili,
Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian,
Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. |
