APPSC Assistant Professor Recruitment 2023 - Exam Date, Application, Admit Card, Result

Adult education: Unit 01

Adult education: Unit 02

Adult education: Unit 03

Adult education: Unit 04

Adult education: Unit 05

Adult education: Unit 06

Adult education: Unit 07

Anthropology: Unit 01

Anthropology: Unit 02

Anthropology: Unit 03

Anthropology: Unit 04

Anthropology: Unit 05

Anthropology: Unit 06

Anthropology: Unit 07

Anthropology: Unit 08

Anthropology: Unit 09

Anthropology: Unit 10

Anthropology: Unit 11

Anthropology: Unit 12

Anthropology: Unit 13

Anthropology: Unit 14

Anthropology: Unit 15

Anthropology: Unit 16

Anthropology: Unit 17

Anthropology: Unit 18

Anthropology: Unit 19

Archaeology: Unit 01

• Archaeology, History and growth of Archaeology, History of Indian Archaeology

Archaeology: Unit 02

• Relationship of archaeology with social and natural sciences
• Retrieval of Archaeological data : techniques of explorations and excavations
• Aims and methods of conservation and preservation of archaeological remains
• Recording and preparation of reports
• Relative, stratigraphy, typology, absolute, carbon 14, potassium argon, fission track, thermoluminescence, dendrochronology, pollen analysis, varve clay analysis

Archaeology: Unit 03

• Others – methods : fluorine test, nitrogen and phosphate analysis, soil analysis
• Methods of objective interpretations : ethno – archaeology, experimental archaeology, application of new archaeological methods in India
• Quaternary period : pleistocene and holocene, environment and climatic changes

Archaeology: Unit 04

• Pleistocene flora and fauna, main stages of human evolution and important fossil records
• Appearance of stone tools and development of technology : main techniques and tools of stone age, methods of study of prehistoric remains
• Palaeolithic and mesolithic remains and important sites of india

Archaeology: Unit 05

• Beginning of food production : neolithic stage in West Asia, major neolithic cultures and important sites of India
• Harappa culture : origin, extent, chronology, factors of urbanization, trade, script, religion, art and craft, factors for the decline

Archaeology: Unit 06

• Devaluation of Harappa culture : Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat
• Chalcolithic village communities of gujarat, rajasthan, madhya pradesh and maharashtra
• Copper using cultures of gangetic plains
• Chrono – cultural features

Archaeology: Unit 07

• Main characteristics of the cultures : painted grey ware, black slipped ware and megalithic cultures
• Northern black polished ware culture : extent, chronology, characteristics traits
• Important city sites : Raj ghat, Ujjain, Vaishali, Taxila, Mathura, Sravasti, Kaushambi and Sisupalgarh
• Important sites of historical period : Sringaverapura, Khairadih, Satanikota, Chandraketugarh, Nasik, Arikamedu and Adam
• North and South India

Archaeology: Unit 08

• Rock – cut Architecture : monasteries and shrines
• Main styles of temples : origin and development of temples, main features and examples of Nagar, Vesara and Dravidian styles
• Main styles of sculptural art : Mauryan, Sunga, Kushana, Gupta, Satavahana, Chalukya, Pallava and Chola periods
• Techniques of manufacturing coins

Archaeology: Unit 09

• Important coins : punch – marked coins, inscribed and uninscribed caste coins
• Principal types of Indo – Greek coinage
• Saka and kushan coinage
• Principal types of gupta gold coinage
• Brief account of pre – Islamic Medieval Indian coinage
• Origin of Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts, Study of some select inscriptions – Ashokan edicts, Besnagar Garuda pillar inscription

Archaeology: Unit 10

• Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela, Junagarh inscription of Rudradaman, Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta, Aihole pillar inscription of Pulakesin II and Gwalior inscription of Mihira Bhoja
• Aims and objectives

Archaeology: Unit 11

• Proposed methodology
• Primary and secondary sources
• Review of previous researches in the proposed area, and likely contribution of the proposal
• Meaning and elements of business environment

Commerce: Unit 01

• Economic environment, Economic Policies, Economic Planning
• Legal environment of Business in India, competition policy, consumer protection, environment protection
• Policy environment : Liberalization privatisation and globalisation, second generation reforms, Industrial policy and implementation. Industrial growth and structural changes
• Basic accounting concepts, capital and revenue, financial statements

Commerce: Unit 02

• Partnership accounts : admission, retirement, death, dissolution and cash distribution.
• Advanced company accounts : issue, forfeiture, purchase of business, liquidation, valuation of shares, amalgamation, absorption and reconstruction, holding company accounts
• Cost and Management accounting : ratio analysis, funds flow analysis, cash flow analysis, marginal costing and break-even analysis, standard costing, -budgetary control, costing for decision-making responsibility accounting
• Nature and uses of business Economics, concept of profit and wealth maximization

Commerce: Unit 03

• Demand analysis and elasticity of demand, indifference curve analysis, law
• Utility analysis and laws of returns and law of variable proportions
• Cost, revenue, price determination in different market situations : perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly, Price discrimination and Oligopoly, Pricing strategies
• Data types, data collection and analysis, sampling, need, errors and methods of sampling, normal distribution, Hypothesis testing, analysis and Interpretation of aata

Commerce: Unit 04

• Correlation and regression, small sample tests : t-test, F-test and chi-square test
• Data processing : elements, aata entry, data processing and computer applications
• Computer application to functional areas : accounting, inventory control, marketing
• Principles of management

Commerce: Unit 05

• Planning : objectives, strategies, planning process, decision-making
• Organising, organisational structure, formal and informal organisations, organisational culture
• Staffing
• Leading : motivation, leadership, committees, communication
• Controlling
• Corporate governance and business ethics
• The evolution of marketing, concepts of marketing, marketing mix, marketing environment

Commerce: Unit 06

• Consumer behaviour, market segmentation
• Product decisions
• Pricing decisions
• Distribution decisions
• Promotion decisions
• Marketing planning, organising and control
• Capital structure, financial and operating leverage

Commerce: Unit 07

• Cost of capital, capital budgeting
• Working capital management
• Dividend policy
• Concepts, role and functions of human resource management

Commerce: Unit 08

• Human resource planning, recruitment and selection
• Training and development, succession planning
• Compensation : wage and salary administration, incentive and fringe benefits, morale and productivity
• Performance appraisal
• Industrial relations in India, health, safety, welfare and social security, workers’ participation in management
• Importance of banking to business, types of banks and their functions, reserve bank of India, NABARD and rural banking

Commerce: Unit 09

• Banking sector reform in India, NPA, capital adequacy norms
• E-banking
• Development banking : IDBI, IFCI, SFCs, UTI, SIDBI
• Theoretical foundations of international business, balance of payments

Commerce: Unit 10

• International liquidity, International Economic Institutions : IMF, World Bank IFC, IDA, ADB
• World Trade Organisation-its functions and policies
• Structure of India’s foreign trade : composition and direction, EXIM Bank, EXIM Policy of India, Regulation and promotion of Foreign Trade

Economics: Unit 01

• Demand analysis – Marshallian, Hicksian and revealed preference approaches

Economics: Unit 02

• Theory of production and costs
• Pricing and output under different forms of market structure
• Factor pricing analysis
• Elements of general equilibrium and new welfare economics
• Determination of output and employment – classical approach, Keynesian approach, consumption hypotheses

Economics: Unit 03

• Demand for money – fisher and cambridge versions, approaches of Keynesian, Friedman, Patinkin, Baumol and Tobin
• Supply of money, determinants of money supply, High – powered money, money multiplier
• Phillips curve analysis
• Business cycles – models of Samuelson, Hicks and Kaldor
• Macroeconomic Equilibrium – relative roles of monetary and fiscal policies