JKPSC KAS Syllabus 2019

Subjects

Topics

Paper 1 - General Studies

General Science

General appreciation and understanding

of science, including matters of everyday observation and experience

Current events of national and international importance, History of India

General understanding of the subject in

its social, economic and political aspects

World Geography

Physical, social and economic geography of the country, including the main features of Indian agricultural and natural resources.

Indian Polity and Economy

Indian Polity and Economy will test knowledge on the country’s, the political system, Panchayati raj, community development and planning in India

Indian National Movement and also questions on General Mental Ability

Indian National Movement will relate to the nature and character of the

nineteenth-century resurgence, growth of nationalism and attainment of Independence.

Subjects

Topics

Paper 1 - General English

Comprehension of given passages, Usage and vocabulary, Precise writing, Short Essay.

Paper 2 - Essay in English

Current topics

Paper 3 - General Studies

Modern History of India and Indian Culture, Current events of national and international importance, Statistical analysis, graphs and diagrams

Paper 4 - General Studies

Indian Polity, Indian Economy and Geography of India, The role and impact of Science and technology in the development of India.

Subjects

Topics

Agriculture

Paper 1 - Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their management and conservation. Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and

production. Climatic elements as factors of crop growth, impact of changing environments on cropping pattern as indicators of environments. Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals and humans, Water use efficiency in relation to crop production criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water, Drainage of

waterlogged soils etc.

Paper 2 - Heredity and variation, Mendel's law of inheritance, Chromosomal theory of

inheritance, Cytoplasmic inheritance, Sex-linked, sex influenced and sex limited characters. Spontaneous and induced mutations. Quantitative characters, Origin and domestication of field crop. Morphology patterns of variations in varieties and related species of important field crops. Causes and utilization of variations

in crop improvement.

Animal Husbandry and Husbandry and Veterinary Science

Paper 1 - Animal Nutrition: Energy sources, energy, metabolism and requirements for maintenance and production of milk, meat, eggs and wool. Evaluation of feeds as sources of energy, Advanced Applied Animal Nutrition- A critical review and evaluation of feeding experiments, digestibility and balance studies. Feeding standards and measures of feed energy. Nutrition requirements for growth, maintenance and production Balanced

Rations etc.

Paper 2 - Genetics and Animal breeding: Probability applied to Mendelian inheritance Hardy Weinberg Law. Concept and measurement of inbreeding and heterozygosity

Wright's approach in contrast to Malecot's Estimation of Parameters and measurements. Fisher's theorem of natural selection, polymorphism. Polygenic systems and inheritance of quantitative traits. Casual components of variation Biometrical models and covariance between relatives. The theory of Patho coefficient applied to quantitative genetic analysis. Heritability Repeatability and selection models.

Anthropology

Paper 1 - Marriage: The problems of universal definition; incest and prohibited

categories; preferential forms of marriage; marriage payments; the family as the corner stone of human society; universality and the family, functions of the family; diverse forms of family nuclear, extended, joint etc. Stability and change in the family, etc.

Paper 2 - Indian Anthropology

The growth of Indian anthropology. The distinctiveness of anthropological

contribution in the study of tribal and peasant sections of the Indian population. The basic concepts used Great tradition and little tradition. Sacred complex Universalization

and parochialization, Sanskritization and Westernization; Dominant caste. Tribe-caste continuum, Nature-Man-Spirit complex, etc.

Botany

Paper 1 - Microbiology: viruses, bacteria, plasmids- structure and reproduction. General

account of infection and immunology, Microbes in agriculture industry & medicine, and air, soil and water. Control of pollution using micro-organisms, Morphogenesis, Polarity symmetry and totipotency. Differentiation and dedifferentiation of cells and organs. Factors of morphogenesis, Methodology and applications of cell, tissues, organ and protoplast cultures from vegetative and reproductive parts, Somatic hybrids etc

Paper 2 - Cell Biology : Scope and perspective General knowledge of modern tools and techniques in the study of cytology-Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells-structural and

ultrastructural details. Functions of organelles including membranes. Detailed study of mitosis and meiosis, etc.

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S.No

Papers

Marks

Duration

Paper 1

General Studies

200

2 hours

Paper 2

Any one optional subjects

200

2 hours

Total marks

400 marks

4 hours

S.no

Papers

Marks

Paper 1

General English

300 marks

Paper 2

Essay in English

150 marks

Paper 3 and 4

General Studies

300 marks (each paper)

Paper 5, 6, 7 and 8

Any two optional subjects

S.No

Subjects

1.

Political Science

2.

Psychology

3.

Public Administration

4.

Sociology

5.

Statistics

6.

Zoology

7.

Agriculture

8.

Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science

9.

Botany

10.

Chemistry

11.

Civil Engineering

12.

Commerce

14.

Economics

15.

Electrical Engineering

16.

Geography

17.

Geology

18.

Indian History

19.

Law

20.

Mathematics

21.

Mechanical Engineering

22.

Philosophy

23.

Physics

24.

Anthropology