BPSC 70th Civil Services 2024 Exam - Application Form, Exam Dates, Admit card, Syllabus

General studies-Paper-I: Unit 01

• The broad history of the country (with special reference to Bihar) from about the middle of nineteenth century
• The modern history of Bihar: Introduction and expansion of western education (including technical education)
• Bihar’s role in the freedom struggle of India
• The Santhal uprising, 1857 in Bihar, Birsa movement, Champaran Satyagrah and the Quit India movement 1942
• A knowledge of the chief features of Mauryan and Pal art and Patna Qulam painting
• Gandhi, Tagore, and Nehru

General studies-Paper-I: Unit 02

General studies-Paper-I: Unit 03

General studies-Paper-II: Unit 01

• The political system in India including Bihar

General studies-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Planning in India and the physical, economic, and social geography of India and Bihar

General studies-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Awareness of the role and impact of science and technology in India, and Bihar emphasis will be on applied aspects

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 01

• Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production
• Climatic elements as factors of crop growth, impact of changing environment on cropping pattern as indicators of environments
• Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals, and humans

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 02

• Cropping pattern in different agro-climatic zones of the country-with special reference to north Bihar, south Bihar, and Chotanagpur and Santhal Pargana plateau
• Impact of high-yielding and short duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns in Bihar
• Concept of multiple cropping, mixed cropping, relay and intercropping and their importance in relation to food production
• Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fibre, sugar and commercial crops grown during kharif and rabi seasons in different regions of the country
• Important spices crops of Bihar-chillies, ginger, turmeric, and coriander

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 03

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 04

• Their characteristics, dissemination, and association with various crops, their multiplication; integrated weed management; cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 05

• Classification of Indian soils including modern concepts, major soil types of Bihar; mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity
• Problem soils-extent and distribution in India; problems of soil salinity, alkalinity, and acidity and their management
• Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial clements in soil, and plants, their occurrence, factors affecting their distribution, functions and cycling in soils
• Symbiotic and non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation, principles of soil fertility and its evaluation for judicious fertilçer use; biofertilçers
• Problems of tal diara and chour lands in Bihar, cropping system in such situations

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 06

• Erosion and runoff management in foot hills and valley lands; processes and factors affecting them dry land agriculture, and its problems
• Technology for stabilising agriculture production in rainfed agriculture area

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 07

• Ways and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water
• Drainage of waterlogged soils
• Role of different command area development agencies in agricultural development of Bihar

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 08

• Farm planning and budgeting
• Economics of different types of farming systems

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 09

• Price fluctuations, types and systems of farming and factors affecting them
• Role of cooperative marketing and credit in agricultural development of Bihar

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 10

Agriculture (section-I): Unit 11

• Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes; important extension methods and media, rural leadership, socioeconomic survey and status of big, small and marginal farmers, and landless agricultural labourers
• Farm mechançation and its role in agricultural production and rural employment
• Training programmes for extension workers
• Krishi Vigyan Kendras, role of non-government organization (NGOs) in extension

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 01

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 02

• Methods of breeding of self and cross-pollinated crops
• Introduction selection, hybridçation heterosis, and its exploitation
• Male sterility and self incompatibility, utilçation of mutation and polyploidy in breeding, use of biotechnology and tissue culture in agriculture

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 03

• 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

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 04

• Origin and domestication of field crops
• Morphology patterns of variation in varieties and related species of important field crops, causes, and utilçation of variation in crops improvement

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 05

• Production, processing, and testing of seeds of crop plants
• Role of national and state seed organization in production, processing, and marketing of improved seed

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 06

• Nature, physical properties and chemical constitution of protoplasm, imbibition, surface tension, diffusion and osmosis
• Absorption and translocation of water, transpiration, and water economy

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 07

• Modern concepts and factors affecting the process, aerobic and anaerobic respiration

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 08

• Photoperiodism and vernalçation
• Auxim, hormones and other plant regulators and their mechanism of action, and importance in agriculture

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 09

• Handling and marketing problems of fruits and vegetables; principal methods of preservation, important fruits and vegetable products
• Processing techniques and equipments
• Role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition; landscape and floriculture including raising of ornamental plants and design and layout of lands and garden

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 10

• Classification of plant diseases; principles of plant diseases control including exclusion, eradication, immunçation and protection
• Biological control of pests and diseases
• Integrated management of pests and diseases
• Pesticides and their formulation
• Plant quarantine

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 11

• Hygiene of storage godown, preservation and remedial measures
• Hazards of pesticides use and safety measures

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 12

• Honey bees, silk worm, and lac insect
• Rice fish culture in Bihar

Agriculture (section-II): Unit 13

• Food production and consumption trends in India, in general and Bihar, in particular
• National and international food policies, procurement, distribution, processing and production constraints, relation of food production to national dietary pattern, major deficiencies of calorie and protein

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-I): Unit 01

• Energy sources, energy metabolism and requirements for maintenance and production of milk, meat, eggs, and wool
• Evaluation of feeds as sources of energy
• Advanced studies in nutrition protein: Sources of protein, metabolism and synthesis, protein quantity and quality in relation to requirements. Energy protein ratio in a ration
• Advanced studies in nutrition minerals: Sources, functions, requirements, and their relationship of the basic mineral nutrients including trace elements
• Vitamins, hormones, and growth stimulating substances: Sources, functions, requirements, and interrelationship with minerals
• Advanced ruminant nutrition dairy cattle: Nutrients and their metabolism with reference to milk production and its composition. Nutrients requirements for calves, heifers, dry and milking cows, and buffaloes. Limitations of various feeding systems
• Advanced non-ruminant nutrition poultry: Nutrients and their metabolism with reference to poultry, meat and egg production. Nutrients requirements and feed formulation and broilers at different ages
• Advanced non-ruminant nutrition swine: Nutrients and their metabolism with special reference to growth and quality of meat production nutrients requirements and feed formation for baby-growing and finishing pigs
• Advanced applied animal nutrition: A critical review and evaluation of feeding experiments, digestibility, and balance studies. Feeding standards and measure of feed energy. Nutrition requirements for growth, maintenance and production. Balanced rations

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-I): Unit 02

• Growth and animal production: Prenatal and post-natal growth maturation, growth curves, measures of growth, factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition, meat quality
• Milk production and reproduction and digestion: Current status of hormonal control of mammary development milk secretion and milk ejection, composition of milk of cows and buffaloes. Male and female reproductive organs, their components and function
• Milk production and reproduction and digestion: Digestive organs and their functions
• Environmental physiology: Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanism involved in animal behavior, methods of controlling climatic stress
• Semen quality, preservation, and artificial insemination: Components of semen, composition of spermatozoa, chemical and physical properties of ejaculated semen, factors affecting semen in vivo and in vitro
• Semen quality, preservation, and artificial insemination: Factors affecting semen preservation composition of diluents, sperm concentration transport of diluted semen. Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep and goats, swine, and poultry

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-I): Unit 03

• Commercial dairy farming: Comparison or dairy farming in India with advanced countries. Dairying under mixed farming and as a specialized farming; economic dairy farming, starting of a dairy farm. Capital and land requirement
• Commercial dairy farming: Organization of the dairy farm, procurement of goods; opportunities in dairy farming factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal. Herd recording, budgeting, cost of milk production; pricing policy; personnel management
• Feeding practices of dairy cattle: Developing practical and economic ration for dairy cattle; supply of greens throughout, the year, field and fodder requirements of dairy farm
• Feeding practices of dairy cattle: Feeding regimes for day and young stock and bulls heifers and breeding animals. New trends in feeding young and adult stock: Feeding records
• General Problems of sheep, goat, pigs, and poultry management
• Feeding of animals under drought conditions

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-I): Unit 04

• Origination of rural milk procurement, collection, and transport of raw milk
• Quality testing and grading raw milk
• Quality storage grades of whole milk, skimmed milk, and cream
• Processing packaging storing distributing marketing defects and their control and nutritive properties of the following milks
• Pastured, standard, toned, double tones sterilçed, homogençed, reconstituted, recombined, field and flavoured milks
• Preparation of cultured milks, cultures and their management vitamin D soft curd acidified and other special milks
• Legal standards, sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk plant equipment

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-II): Unit 01

• Probability applied to Mendelian inheritance, Hardy Weinberg law concept and measurement of inbreeding and heterozygosity, Wright's approach in contrast to Melecot'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 path coefficient applied to quantitative genetic analysis
• Heritability repeatability and selection models
• Population, genetics applied to animal breeding: Population vs. individual, population sçe and factors changing it. Gene numbers, and their estimation in farm animals, gene frequency and zygotic frequency and forces changing them
• Population, genetics applied to animal breeding: Mean and variance approach to equilibrium under different situations, sub-division of phenotypic variance; estimation of additive, non additive genetic and environmental variances in animal population
• Population, genetics applied to animal breeding: Mendelism, and blending inheritance
• Population, genetics applied to animal breeding: Genetic nature of differences between species, races, breeds and other sub specific grouping and the grouping, and the origin of group differences resemblances between relatives
• Breeding systems: Heritability, repeatability, genetics and environmental correlations methods of estimation and the precision of estimates of animal data, review of biometrical relations between relatives
• Breeding systems: Mating system, inbreeding, outbreeding, and used phenotypic assertive mating aids to selections. Family structure of animal population under non-random mating systems
• Breeding systems: Breeding for threshold traits, selections index, its precision. Choice of effective breeding plans. Different types and methods of selection, their effectiveness and limitations, selection indices construction of selection in retrospect
• Breeding systems: Evaluation of genetic gains through selection, correlated response in animal experimentations. Approach to estimation of general and specific combining ability, diallete fractional diallete crosses, reciprocal recurrent selection
• Breeding systems: In breeding and hydrçation

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-II): Unit 02

• Anatomy of Ox and fowl
• Histological technique, freezing, paraffin embedding, etc
• Preparation and staining of blood films
• Common histological stains, embryology of a cow
• Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration; excretion, endocrine glands in health and disease
• General knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics of drugs
• Vety-hygiene with respect of water, air, and habitation
• Most common cattle and poultry diseases, their mode of infection, prevention, and treatment, etc
• Immunity, general principles, and problems of meat inspection jurisprudence of vet practice
• Milk hygiene

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-II): Unit 03

• Selection of raw materials, assembling production
• Processing, storing, distributing, and marketing milk products such as butter, ghee, khoa, channa, cheese, condensed, evaporated dried milk and baby foods; ice cream and kulfi, by products; whey products, buttermilk, lactose and casein; testing grading
• Judging mill products-ISI and agmark specification, legal standards, quality control nutritive properties
• Packaging processing and operational control costs

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-II): Unit 04

• Zoonosis diseases transmitted from animals to man
• Duties and role of veterinarians in a slaughterhouse to provide meat that is produced under ideal hygienic conditions
• By products from slaughter houses and their economic mutilation
• Methods of collection, preservation, and processing of hormonal glands for medicinal use

Animal husbandry and veterinary science (section-II): Unit 05

• Extension different methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions
• Utilization of fallen animals for profit-extension education etc
• Define trysem-different possibilities and methods to provide self employment to educated youth under rural conditions
• Cross breeding as a method of upgrading the local cattle

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 01

• Social-cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, applied anthropology

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 02

• Culture and civilization; band and tribe

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 03

• The problems of universal definition; incest and prohibited categories preferential forms of marriage; marriage payments; the family as the cornerstone of human society; universality and the family
• Function of the family forms of family-unclear, extended, joint, etc
• Stability and change in the family
• Forms of marriage
• Family and marriage among polyandrous tribes

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 04

• Descent, residence, alliance, kins terms and kinship behavior, lineage and clan kinship categories

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 05

• Meaning and scope; mode of exchanger; barter and ceremonial exchange, reciprocity, and redistribution; market and trade

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 06

• Meaning and scope; the locus and power and the functions of legitimate authority in different societies
• Difference between state and stateless political systems
• Nation-building processes in new state, law, and justice in simpler societies

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 07

• Difference between religions and magic
• Totemism and taboo

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 08

Anthropology (section-I): Unit 09

• Youth organization, economic organization, political organization and religion among Indian tribes-Oraon, Munda, Ho, Santhal and Birhors of Bihar

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 01

• Darwinism and the synthetic theory, human evolution, biological and cultural dimensions, microevolution

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 02

• A comparative study of Primates with special reference to the anthropoid apes and man

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 03

• Pisces, amphibia, reptiles, aves, mamalia, classification of mammalia and anthropoids
• A comparative analysis of anatomical similarities and dissimilarities in man and apes
• Intelligence and social life of monkey and apes

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 04

• Lemuroids, tamrioids, poragpithicus, prophilopithicus, pliopithecus, lemnopithicus, proconsul, driopithicus, ramapithecus, australopithecines, australopithecus africanus, plesianthropus transvaalensis, australopithecus, prometheus, paranthropus robustus
• Homoertus and homosapiens

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 05

• Definition; the mendelian principles and its application to human populations
• The effects of nutrition, inbreeding, and hy-bridçation

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 06

• Concept of pure race race, nation, and linguistic groups race and cultural activities racism and dangerous myth
• Racial differentiation of man and bases of racial classification morphological serological and genetic, role of heredity and environment in the formation of races
• Bass/ criterias of racial classification skin colour, hair, stature, head form, face form, nose, eye, types of blood groups

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 07

• The three major races and their sub-races, caucasoids, and its subdivisions
• Archaic caucasoid races, mongoloids, and its subdivisions, negroids, and its subdivisions
• The American Negros, a comparative study of their physical genetic and intelligence, similarities and differences

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 08

• Lemuroids, tamrioids, poragpithicus, prophilopithicus, pliopithecus, lemnopithicus, proconsul, dryopithecus, ramapithecus, australopithecines, australopithecus africanus, plesianthropus transvalensis, australopithecus, prometheus, paranthropus robustus

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 09

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 10

• The basic assumptions of 19th century evolutionism
• The contemporary trends in evolutionary studies

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 11

• American distributionist and historical ethnology of the german speaking ethnologists
• The attack on the 'the' comparative method by diffusionists and Fraæ Boas
• The nature, purpose, and methods of comparison in social cultural, anthropology
• Redcliffe-Brown, Eggan Oscar Lewis, and Sarana

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 12

• The relevance of anthropological approach to national character studies
• Recent trends in psychological anthropology

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 13

• Malinowski's contribution to functionalism in social anthropology
• Function and structure Redcliffe-Brown
• Firth Fortes and Nadel

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 14

• Levi-Strauss, and leach in viewing social structure as a model
• The structuralist method in the study of myth
• New ethnography and formal semantic analysis

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 15

• Values as a category of anthropological description
• Values of anthropologist and anthropology as source of values
• Cultural relativism and the issue of universal values

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 16

• A critical examination of the plea for the unity of method of the natural and social sciences
• The nature and logic of anthropological field work method and its autonomy

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 17

• Evolution and comparative methods; Herbert Spencer, L. H. Morgan, and Edward Burnett Tylor. Limitations
• Particularism: Fraæ Boas, A. L. Kroeber, Ruth Benedict, Ralph Lintani and Abram Kardiner. Limitations of particularistic approach
• Structure and function approach: Emile Durkheim, Pronislar Malinowski, A.R. Redcliffe Brown, Leslie white, Evans Pritchard and Lévi-Strauss

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 18

• Development studies sociocultural dimensions of planned development sociocultural parameters of directed change, cultural hurdles to technological changes among tribes in India
• Tribal problems-causes, consequences, and solutions

Anthropology (section-II): Unit 19

• Tribal movement in Bihar tana bhagat and birsa movement, changing scenes of tribal movement in Bihar
• Tribal leadership in Bihar

Anthropology (section-III): Unit 01

• Paleolithic, mesolithic, neolithic proto historic (Indus civilization) dimensions of Indian culture
• Distribution of racial and linguistic elements in Indian population
• The bases of the Indian social system: Varna, ashram, purushartha, caste, joint family
• The growth of Indian anthropology
• Distinctiveness of anthropological contribution in the study of tribal and peasant sections of the Indian population
• The basic concepts use
• Great tradition and little tradition; sacred complex universalçation and chialçation
• Sanskritçation and westernçation; dominant caste tribe-caste continuum
• Nature-man-spirit complex
• Ethnographic profiles of Indian tribes racial linguistic and socioeconomic characteristic
• Problems of tribal peoples; land-alienation, indebtedness, lack of educational facilities, shifting cultivation, migration forests and trebles unemployment agricultural labour
• Special problems of hunting and food gathering, and other miner tribes
• The problems of culture contact; impact of urbançation and industrialçation depopulation regionalism economic and psychological frustrations
• History of tribal administration
• The constitutional safeguards for the scheduled tribes policies plans programmes of tribal development and their implementations
• The response of the tribal people to the government measures for them
• The different approaches to tribal problems
• The role of anthropology in tribal development
• The constitutional provisions regarding the scheduled castes
• Social disabilities suffered by the scheduled castes and the socioeconomic problems faced by them
• Issues relating to national integration

Botany (section-I): Unit 01

• Viruses, bacteria plasmids-structure and reproduction
• General account of infection and immunology
• Microbes in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and air, soil, and water
• Control of pollution using microorganisms

Botany (section-I): Unit 02

• Important plant diseases in India caused by viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma fungi, and nematodes
• Modes of infection, dissemination, physiology of parasitism and methods of control
• Mechanic of action of biocides
• Fungal toxins

Botany (section-I): Unit 03

• Structure and reproduction from evolutionary aspect, and ecology and economic importance of algae, fungi, bryophytes and pteridophytes
• Principal distribution in India

Botany (section-I): Unit 04

• Anatomy of wood secondary growth anatomy of C2 and C2 plants, stomatal types, embryology, barriers to sexual incompatibility
• Seed structure
• Apomixis and polyembryony palynology and its applications
• Comparison of systems of classification of angiosperms
• Modern trends in biosystematics
• Taxonomic and economic importance of cyadacoae, pinacoee, gentabes, magnoliaceae
• Ranunculaceae, cruciferae, rosaceae
• Leguminosae euploia cece, malvaceae
• Dipterocarpaceae, umbelliferae, asclepiadaceae, verbenaceae, solanaceae, pubiaceae cucurbitaceae, compositae, gramineae, palmae, liliaceae, musaceae and orchidaceae

Botany (section-I): Unit 05

• Polarity, symmetry, and totipotency
• Differentiation and dedifferentiation of cells and organs, factors of morphogenesis methodology and applications of cell, tissue, organ and protoplant cultures from vegetative and reproductive parts somatic hybrids

Botany (section-II): Unit 01

• Scope and perspective
• General knowledge of modern tools and techniques in the study of cytology
• Prokaryotic and eukaryotic selis-structural and ultrastructural details functions of organelles including membranes
• Detailed study of mitosis, meiosis
• Numerical and structural variations in chromosome and their significance, study of polytene and lampbrush chromosomes structure, behavior and cytological significance

Botany (section-II): Unit 02

• Development of genetics and gene concept
• Structure and role of nucleic acids in protein synthesis and reproduction
• Genetic code and regulation of gene expression, gene amplification mutation, and evolution
• Multiple factors linkage and crossing over
• Methods of gene mapping
• Sex chromosomes and sex-linked inheritance
• Male sterility, its significance in plant breeding
• Cytoplasmic inheritance elements of human genetic
• Standard deviation and chi-square analysis gene transfer in microorganisms
• Genetic engineering
• Organic evolution evidence, mechanism, and theories

Botany (section-II): Unit 03

• Detailed study of water relations
• Mineral nutrition and ion/ transport
• Mineral deficiencies photosynthesis mechanism and importance, photosystems I and II, photorespiration, respiration, and fermentation
• Nitrogen fixation and nitrogen metabolism
• Protein synthesis
• Enzymes, importance of secondary metabolites
• Pigments as photoreceptors, photoperiodism, flowering
• Growth indices, growth movements
• Senescence
• Growth substance-their chemical nature, role and applications in agri horticulture
• Agrochemicals, stress physiology, vernalçation fruit and seed physiology-dormancy, storage, and germination of seed, parthenocarpy fruit ripening

Botany (section-II): Unit 04

• Ecological factors
• Concept and dynamics of community, succession
• Concept of biospheres
• Conservation of ecosystems
• Pollution and its control
• Forest types of india
• Deforestation, deforestation, and social forestry
• Endangered plants

Botany (section-II): Unit 05

• Origin of cultivated plants
• Study of plants as sources of food, fodder and forage, fatty oils, wood and timber, fiber, paper rubber, beverages, alcohol, drugs, narcotics, resins and gums essential oils, dyes, mucilage, insecticides and pesticides
• Plant indicators, ornamental plants, energy plantation

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 01

• Atomic structure and chemical bonding: Quantum theory, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger wave equation (time independent)
• Interpretation of the wave function, particle in a one-dimensional box, quantum members, hydrogen atom wave functions
• Concept of resonance and resonance energy
• Electronics configuration of H2+H2
• N2, O2, F2, NO, CO, and HF molecules in terms of molecular orbital approach
• Sigma and pi bonds
• Bond order, bond strength, and bond length

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 02

• Work heat and energy
• First law of thermodynamics
• Enthalpy, heat capacity relationship between Cp and Cv
• Laws of thermochemistry, Kirchoff's equation
• Spontaneous and nonspontaneous changes, second law of thermodynamics
• Entropy changes in gases for reversible and irreversible processes
• Third law of thermodynamics
• Free energy, variations of free energy of a gas with temperature, pressure, and volume
• Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
• Chemical potential
• Thermodynamic criteria for equilibrium
• Free energy change in chemical reactions and equilibrium constant
• Effect of temperature and pressure on chemical equilibrium
• Calculation of equilibrium constants from thermodynamic measurements

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 03

• Forms of solids, law of constancy of interfacial angles
• Crystal systems and crystal classes (crystallographic groups) designation of crystal faces, lattice structure and unit cell
• Laws of rational indices
• Bragg's law, X-ray diffraction by crystals
• Defects in crystals
• Elementary study of liquid crystals

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 04

• Order and molecularity of reaction
• Rate equations (differential and integrated forms) of zero, first, and second order reaction
• Half life of a reaction
• Effect of temperature, pressure, and catalysts on reaction rates
• Collision theory of reaction rates of bimolecular reactions
• Absolute reaction rate theory
• Kinetics of polymerçation and photochemical reactions

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 05

• Limitations of Arrhenius theory of dissociation, Debye Huckel theory of strong electrolytes and its quantitative treatment
• Electrolytic conductance theory and theory of activity coefficients
• Derivation of limiting laws for various equilibrium and transport properties of electrolyte solutions

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 06

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 07

• Absorption of light
• Lambert-Beer's law, laws of photochemistry
• Quantum efficiency
• Reasons for high and low quantum yields
• Photoelectric cells

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 08

• Electronic configuration: Introduction to theories of bonding in transition metal complexes, crystal field theory and its modification; applications of the theories in the explanation of magnetism and electronic spectra of metal complexes
• Metal carbonyls: Cyclopentadienyl, olefin, and acetylene complexes
• Compounds with metal-metals bonds and metal atom clusters

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 09

• Lanthanides and actinides; separation, oxidation, states, magnetic and spectral properties

Chemistry (section-I): Unit 10

• Liquid ammonia and sulphur dioxide

Chemistry (section-II): Unit 01

• General methods (both kinetic and non-kinetic) of study of mechanisms of organic reactions illustrated by examples
• Formation and stability of reactive intermediates (carbocations, carbanions free radicals, carbenes, nitrenes, and benzynes)
• SN1 and SN2 mechanisms: H, E2, and E1 CB eliminations, CIS and trans addition to carbon to carbon double bonds mechanisms of addition to carbon, oxygen double bonds, Michael addition, addition to conjugated carbon carbon
• SN1 and SN2 mechanisms: Double bonds aromatic electrophilic and nucleophilic substitutions allylic and beæylic substitutions

Chemistry (section-II): Unit 02

• Classification and examples an elementary study of Woodward Hoffmann rules of pericyclic reactions

Chemistry (section-II): Unit 03

• Aldol condensation, Claisen condensation, Dieckmann reaction, Perkin reaction, Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Cannçzaro reaction

Chemistry (section-II): Unit 04

• Physical chemistry of polymers; end group analysis, sedimentation, light scattering and viscosity of polymers
• Polyethylene polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, Ziegler Natta catalysis, nylon, ethylene
• Inorganic polymeric systems; phosphonitrilic halide compounds; silicones; borazines
• Friedel-Craft reaction Reformatsky reaction, pinacol-pinacilone Wagner-Meerwein and Backman rearrangements and their mechanisms uses of the following reagents in organic synthesis O5 O4, HIO4, NBS diborane, liquid ammonia NaBH4, LiAN4

Chemistry (section-II): Unit 05

• Methods used in structure determination: Principles and applications of UV-visible IR, IH, NMH and mass spectra for structure determination of simple organic and inorganic molecules

Chemistry (section-II): Unit 06

• Principles and application to simple organic and inorganic molecules
• Rotational spectra of diatomic molecules (infrared and Raman) isotopic substitution and rotational constants
• Vibrational spectra of diatomic, linear symmetric, linear asymmetric and bent triatomic molecules (infrared and Raman)
• Specificity of the functional groups (infrared and Raman)
• Electronic spectra singlet and triplet states, conjugated double bonds, unsaturated carbonyl compounds
• Nuclear magnetic resonance; chemical shift, spin-spin coupling
• Electron spin resonance, study of inorganic complexes and free radicals

Civil engineering (section-I): Unit 01

• Theory of structures: Energy theorems-Castigliano theorems I and II, unit load method and method of consistent deformation applied to beams and pin jointed plane frames, slope deflection
• Theory of structures: Moment distribution and Kani method of analysis applied to indeterminate beams and rigid frames. Moving loads, criteria, for maximum shear force and bending moment in beams traversed by a system of moving loads
• Theory of structures: Influence lines for simply supported plane pin-jointed girders. Arches: Three hinged, two hinged, and fixed arches, frib shortening and temperature effects Influence lines
• Theory of structures: Matrix methods of analysis-force method and displacement method
• Structural steel: Factors of safety and load factors. Design of tension and compression members, beams of built up section, riveted and welded plate girders, gantry girders, stanchions with battens and lacings, slab and gusseted braces
• Structural steel: Design of highway and railway bridges-through and deck type plate girder, warren girder, and pratt truss
• Reinforced concrete: Limit state method design-recommendations of IS codes-design of one way and two-way slabs, staircase slabs, simple, and continuous beams of rectangular, T and L sections
• Reinforced concrete: Compression members under direct load with or without eccentricity footings, isolated, and combined. Retaining walls, cantilever, and counterfort types-methods and systems of prestressing, anchorages
• Reinforced concrete: Analysis and design of sections for flexure, loss of prestress

Civil engineering (section-I): Unit 02

• Fluid properties and their role in fluid motion, fluid statics including forces acting on plane and curved surface
• Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Velocity and accelerations, stream lines, equation of continuity, irrotational, and rotational flows, velocity potential and stream function, flow-nets and methods of drawing flow net, sources, and sinks
• Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Flow separation and stagnation. Euler's equation of motion, energy, and momentum equations and their applications to pipe flow, free, and forced vortices, plane, and curved stationary and moving vanes, sluice gates
• Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Weirs, orifice meters, and venturi meters. Dimensional analysis and similitude: Buckingham Pi-theorem, similarities, model laws, undistorted and distorted models, movable bed models, model calibration
• Laminar Flow: Laminar flow between parallel stationary and moving plates, flow through tubes, Reynolds' experiments, lubrication principles
• Boundary layers: Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate, laminar sub-layer, smooth and rough boundaries, drag and lift. Turbulent flow through pipes: Characteristics of turbulent flow, velocity distribution and variation of friction factor
• Boundary layers: Hydraulic grade line and total energy line, siphons, expansions and contractions in pipes, pipe network, water hammer. Open channel flow: Uniform, non-uniform flows, specific energy and specific force, critical depth
• Boundary layers: Resistance equations and variation of roughness coefficient, rapidly varied flow, flow in contractions, flow at sudden drop, hydraulic jump and its applications, surges and waves, gradually varied flow
• Boundary layers: Differential equation of gradually varied flow, classification of surface profiles, control section, step method of integration of varied flow equation

Civil engineering (section-I): Unit 03

• Soil composition, influence of clay minerals on engineering behavior, effective stress principle, change in effective stress due to water flow condition, static water table and steady flow conditions permeability and compressibility of soils
• Strength behaviour, strength determination through direct and triaxial tests, total and effective stress strength parameters, total and effective stress path
• Methods of site exploration, planning a subsurface exploration programme, sampling procedures and sampling disturbance, penetration tests and plate load tests and data interpretation
• Foundation types and selection, footings, rafts, piles, floating foundations, effect of footing shape, dimensions, depth of embedment, load inclination and ground water on bearing capacity, settlement components
• Computation for immediate and consolidation settlements, limits on total and differential settlement, correction for rigidity
• Deep foundations, philosophy of deep foundations, piles, estimation of individual and group capacity, static and dynamic approaches, pile load tests, separation into skin friction and point bearing, under-reamed piles
• Well foundations for bridges and aspects of design
• Earth pressure, states of plastic equilibrium, Culmann's procedure for determination of lateral thrust, determination of anchor force and depth of penetration, reinforced earth retaining walls, concept, materials, and applications
• Machine foundations, modes of vibration, determination of natural frequency, criteria for design, effect of vibration on soils, vibration isolation

Civil engineering (section-I): Unit 04

• Types of computers, components of computers, history and development, different languages
• FORTRAN/ basic programming, constants, variables, expressions, arithmetic statements library functions, control statements, unconditional GO-TO Statements computed GO-TO statements, IF and DO statements, CONTINUE, CALL RETURN, STOP, END statement
• I/O statements, format, field specifications
• Subscripted variables, arrays, dimension statement, function and subroutine sub-programmes, application to simple problems with flow charts in civil engineering

Civil engineering (section-II): Unit 01

• Physical and mechanical properties of construction materials, factors influencing selection, brick and clay products, limes and cements, polymorphic materials and special uses, damp-proofing materials
• Brickwork for walls, types, caving walls, design of brick masonry walls per IS code, factors of safety, serviceability, and strength requirements, detailing of walls, floors, roots, ceiling, finishing of buildings, plastering, pointing, painting
• Functional planning of building, orientation of buildings, elements of fire-proof construction, repairs to damaged and cracked buildings, use of fibro cement, fiber-reinforced and polymer concrete in construction
• Techniques and materials for low cost housing
• Building estimates and specifications, construction scheduling PERT and CPM methods

Civil engineering (section-II): Unit 02

• Roads, traffic engineering and traffic surveys, intersections, road signs, signals and markings
• Classification of roads, plannings and geometric design
• Design of flexible and rigid pavements, Indian road congress guidelines on pavement layers and design methodologies

Civil engineering (section-II): Unit 03

• Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, depression storage, infiltration, hydrograph, unit hydrograph, frequency analysis, flood estimation
• Groundwater flow: Specific yield, storage coefficient, coefficient of permeability, confined and unconfined aquifers, radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions, tube-wells, pumping and recuperation tests, ground water potential
• Water resources planning: Ground and surface water resources, single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoirs losses, reservoir sedimentation, flood routing through reservoirs, economics of water resources projects
• Water requirement for crops: Consumptive use of water, quality of irrigation water, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies
• Canals: Distribution system for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main and distributary canals, most efficient section, lined channels, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress
• Canals: Bed load and suspended load transport cost analysis of lined and unlined canals, drainage behind lining
• Water logging: Causes and control, drainage system design, salinity
• Canal structures: Design of regulation, cross drainage and communication works, cross regulators, head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts metering flumes and canal outlets
• Diversion head works: Principles of design of weirs on permeable and impermeable foundations, Khosla's theory, energy dissipation, stilling basins, sediment exclusion
• Storage works: Types of dams, design principles of rigid gravity and earth dams, stability analysis, foundation treatment, joints and galleries, control of seepage. Construction methods and machinery
• Spillways: Types, crest gates, energy dissipation
• River training: objectives of river training, methods of river training

Civil engineering (section-II): Unit 04

• Water supply: Estimation of water resources, ground and surface water, ground water hydraulics, predicting demand of water, impurities of water and their significance, physical, chemical and bacteriological analysis, water borne diseases
• Water supply: Standards for potable water, Intake of Water: Pumping and gravity schemes
• Water treatment: Principles of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation, slow, rapid, pressure, Biflow and multi-media filters, chlorination, softening removal of taste, odour and salinity
• Water storage and distribution: Storage and balancing, reservoirs types, location, and capacity
• Distribution system: Layout, hydraulics of pipelines, pipe fittings, valves including check and pressure reducing valves, meters
• Distribution system: Analysis of distribution systems using Hardy Cross methods general principles of optimal design based on cost head loss ratio criterion, leak detection, maintenance of distribution systems, pumping stations, and their operations
• Sewerage system: Domestic and industrial wastes, storm, sewage separate and combined system, flow through sewers, design of sewers, sewer appurtenances, manholes inlets, junctions, siphon
• Sewage characterization: BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal water course and on land
• Sewage treatment: Working, Principles, units, chambers, sedimentation tank, trickling filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of waste water
• Solid waste: Collection and disposal
• Environmental Pollution: Ecological balance, water pollution control acts, radioactive wastes and disposal environmental impact assessment for thermal power plants, mines
• Sanitation: Site and orientation of buildings, ventilation and damp proof courses, houses drainage, conservancy and waterborne system of waste disposal, sanitary appliances, latrines and urinals, rural sanitation

Commerce and accountancy (section-I)-accounting and finance: Unit 01

• Accounting as a financial information system: Impact of behavioral sciences, methods of accounting of changing price levels with particular reference to current purchasing power (CPP) accounting advanced problems of companies accounts
• Accounting as a financial information system: Amalgamation absorption and reconstruction of companies, accounting of holding companies, valuation of shares and goodwill. Controllership functions-property control legal and management
• Important provisions of the income tax act, 1961: Definition charge of income tax, exemptions depreciation and investment allowance, simple problems of computation of income under the various heads and determination of assessable income
• Important provisions of the income tax act, 1961: Income tax authorities
• Nature and functions of cost accounting: Cost classification, techniques of segregating semi variable costs into fixed and variable components, job costing, fifo and weighted average methods or calculating equivalent units of production
• Nature and functions of cost accounting: Reconciliation of cost and financial accounts, marginal costing-cost volume profit relationship: Algebraic formula and graphical representation-shut down point, techniques of cost control and cost reduction
• Nature and functions of cost accounting: Budgetary control flexible budgets, standard costing and variance analysis, responsibility accounting, bases of charging overheads and their inherent fallacy, costing for pricing decisions
• Significance of the attest function: Programming the audit work, valuation, and verification of assets, fixed, wasting and current assets-verification of liabilities, audit of limited companies, appointment status, powers
• Significance of the attest function: Duties and liabilities of the auditor, auditor's report, audit of share capital and transfer of shares, special points in the audit of banking and insurance companies

Commerce and accountancy (section-I)-accounting and finance: Unit 02

• Concept and scope of financial management: Financial goals of corporations, capital budgeting rules of the thumb and discounted cash flow approaches, incorporating uncertainty in investment decision, designing an optimal capital structure
• Concept and scope of financial management: Weighted average cost of capital and the controversy surrounding the Modigliani and miller model, sources of raising short term, intermediate and long-term fiancé-role of public and convertible debentures
• Concept and scope of financial management: Norms and guidelines regarding debt equity ratios, determinants of an optional dividend policy, optimizing models of James E. Walter and John Lintner
• Concept and scope of financial management: Forms of dividend payment-structure of working capital and the variable, affecting, the level of difference of components, cash flow approach of forecasting working capital needs
• Concept and scope of financial management: Profiles of working capital in Indian industries, credit management and credit policy, consideration of tax in relation to financial planning and cash flow statements
• Organization and deficiencies of Indian money market: Structure of assets and liabilities of commercial banks, achievements and failures of nationalization, regional rural banks, recommendations of the Tandon (PL) study group on following of bank credit
• Organization and deficiencies of Indian money market: 1976 and their revision by the Chore (KB) committee, 1979-an assessment of the monetary and credit policies of the reserve bank of India, constituents of the Indian capital market
• Organization and deficiencies of Indian money market: Functions and working of all India term financial institutions (IDBI, IFCI, ICICI, AND IRCI), investment policies of the life insurance corporation of India and the unit trust of India
• Organization and deficiencies of Indian money market: Present state of stock exchanges and their regulation
• Provision of the negotiable instruments act, 1881
• Crossings and endorsements with particular reference to statutory protection to the paying and collecting bankers-salient provision of the banking regulation act, 1949 with regard to chartering, supervision, and regulation of banks

Commerce and accountancy (section-II)-organization theory and industrial relations: Unit 01

• Nature and concept of organization: Organization goals; primary and secondary goals, single and multiple goals, ends-means chain-displacement, succession, expansion, and multiplication of goals-formal organization: Type, structure-line and staff
• Nature and concept of organization: Functional matrix and project-informal origination, functions, and limitations
• Evolution of organization theory: Classical, neo-classical and system approach, bureaucracy nature and basis of power, sources of power, power structure, and politics
• Evolution of organization theory: Organizational behaviour as a dynamic system-technical social and power systems interrelation sand interactions-perception, status system: Theoretical and empirical foundations of Maslow, McGregor's, Herzberg Likert
• Evolution of organization theory: Status system-Vroom, Porter, and Lawler, Odam and human models of motivation. Morale and productivity-leadership, Theories and styles-management of conflicts in organization
• Evolution of organization theory: Transactional analysis, significance of culture to organization. Limits of rationality-Simon March approach
• Evolution of organization theory: Organizational change, adaptation growth, and development-organizational control and effectiveness

Commerce and accountancy (section-II)-organization theory and industrial relations: Unit 02

• Nature and scope of industrial relations
• Industrial labour in India and its commitment, theories of unionism, trade union movement in india, growth and structure, role of outside leadership in, worker education and other problems
• Collective bargaining approaches conditions limitations and its effectiveness in Indian conditions, Korkers participation in management: Philosophy, rationale, present day state of affairs and its future prospects
• Prevention and settlement of industrial disputes in India: Preventive measures, settlement machinery, and other measures in practice-industrial relations in public enterprises, absenteeism, and labour turnover in Indian industries
• Relative wages and wage differentials: Wage policy in India-the bonus issue, international labour organisation and India, role of personnel department in the organization-executive development personnel policies, personnel audit, and personnel research

Economics (section-I): Unit 01

• National income accounting

Economics (section-I): Unit 02

• Producer behaviour and market forms

Economics (section-I): Unit 03

• Microeconomic models of income, distribution, and growth

Economics (section-I): Unit 04

• Performance of commercial banks in Bihar

Economics (section-I): Unit 05

• The impacts of the sçe and the content of budgets
• Objectives and instruments of budgetary, and fiscal policy in a planned developing economy

Economics (section-I): Unit 06

• Tariffs
• The rate of exchange
• The balance of payments
• International monetary and banking institutions

Economics (section-II): Unit 01

• Culding principles of indian economic planned growth and distributive justice' eradication of poverty
• The institutional framework of the Indian economy-federal governmental structure, agricultural and industrial sector public, and private sectors
• National income its sectoral and regional distribution
• Extent and incidence of poverty

Economics (section-II): Unit 02

• Agricultural policy
• Land Reforms
• Technological change
• Relationship with the industrial sector

Economics (section-II): Unit 03

• Industrial policy
• Public and private sector
• Regional distribution
• Control of monopolies and monopolistic practices

Economics (section-II): Unit 04

• Procurement and public distribution

Economics (section-II): Unit 05

Economics (section-II): Unit 06

Economics (section-II): Unit 07

Economics (section-II): Unit 08

• Objectives, strategy, experience, and problems

Economics (section-II): Unit 09

• Relative position of agriculture and industry, retarders of economic growth, poverty and unemployment, progress in land reforms

Electrical engineering (section-I): Unit 01

• Steady state analysis of D.C. and A.C., networks, network theorems, matrix algebra, network functions, transient response, frequency response, Laplace transform, Fourier series and Fourier transform, frequency spectral pole zero concept
• Elementary network synthesis

Electrical engineering (section-I): Unit 02

• Analysis of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, Laplace and Poisson equations, solution of boundary value problems, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic wave propagation, ground and space waves, propagation between earth station and satellites

Electrical engineering (section-I): Unit 03

• Basic methods of measurements, standards, error analysis, indicating instruments cathode ray oscilloscope, measurement of voltage current, power, resistance, inductance, capacitance, time, frequency and flux, electronic meters

Electrical engineering (section-I): Unit 04

• Vacuum and semiconductor devices, equivalent circuits transistor parameters, determination of current and voltage gain and input and output impedances biasing techniques, single and multistage
• Audio and radio small signal, and large signal amplifiers and their analysis feedback amplifiers and oscillators: Wave shaping circuits and time base generators, analysis of different types of multivilerator and their uses, digital circuits

Electrical engineering (section-I): Unit 05

• Generator of EMF, MMF and torque in rotating machines, motor, and generator characteristics of D.C. synchronous and induction machines equivalent circuits, computation parallel operation, phasor diagram and equivalent, circuits of power transformer
• Determination of performance and efficiency, auto-transformers, 3-phase transformers

Electrical engineering (section-II): Unit 01

• Mathematical modeling of dynamic linear control systems, block diagrams and signal flow graphs, transient surprise response steady state error, stability, frequency response techniques, root locus techniques series compensation

Electrical engineering (section-II): Unit 02

• Principles and design of single phase and polyphase rectifiers controlled rectification, smoothing filters, regulated power supplies speed control circuits for drivers, inverters, D.C. to D.C. conversion, choppera, timers and welding circuits

Electrical engineering (section-II): Unit 03

• Induction machines: Rotating magnetic field, polyphase motor, principle of operation Phasor diagram, torque slip characteristic, equivalent circuit and determination of its parameters, circle diagram, starters
• Induction machines: Speed control double cage motor, induction generator. Theory, phasor diagram, characteristics and application of single phase motors. Application of two phase induction motor
• Synchronous machines: EMF equation phase and circle diagram, operation on infinite bus, synchronçing power, operating characteristic and performance by different methods
• Synchronous machines: Sudden short circuit and analysis of oscillogram to determine machine reactances and time constants, motor characteristics and performance methods of starting applications
• Special machines: Amplidyne and metadyne operating characteristics, and their applications
• Power system and protection: General layout and economics of different types of power stations, baseload, peak load, and pumped storage plant, economics of different systems of D.C. and A.C. power distribution, transmission line parameter calculation
• Power system and protection: Concept of G.M.D. short, medium, and long transmission line, insulators, voltage distribution in a string of insulators and grading, environmental effects on insulators. Fault calculation by symmetrical components
• Power system and protection: Load flow analysis and economic operation steady state and transient stability, switchgear methods of extinction, restriking and recovery voltage, testing of circuit breaker, protective relays
• Power system and protection: Protective schemes for power system equipment. CT and PT surges in transmission lines, travelling waves and protection
• Utilization: Industrial drives electric motors for various drives and estimates of their rating; behaviour of motors during starting acceleration, braking and reversing operation; schemes of speed control for D.C and induction motors
• Electrical machines: Economic and other aspects of different systems of rail traction; mechanics of train movement and estimation of power and energy requirements and motor rating characteristics of traction motors, dielectric, and induction heating

Electrical engineering (section-II): Unit 04

• Generation and detection of amplitude-frequency phase and pulse modulate signals using oscillators, modulators and demodulators, comparison of modulated systems, noise problems
• Channel efficiency sampling theorem sound and vision broadcast transmitting, and receiving system, antennas, feeders and receiving circuits, transmission line at audio radio and ultra, high frequencies

Electrical engineering (section-II): Unit 05

• Electromagnetic wave in guided media waveguide components cavity resonators, microwave tubes and solid-state devices, microwave generator and amplifiers, filters microwave measuring techniques, microwave radiation pattern
• Communication and antenna systems, radio aids to navigation

Electrical engineering (section-II): Unit 06

• Direct coupled amplifiers, difference amplifiers, choppers, and analog computation

Geography (section-I)-principles of geography: Unit 01

• Geomorphology: Origin and evolution of the earth's crust-earth movements and plate tectonics; volcanism; cycle of erosion-Davis and Penck; fluvial, glacial, arid and karst landforms; rejuvenated and polycyclic landforms
• Climatology: The atmosphere, its structure and composition; air masses and fronts; cyclones and related phenomena; climatic classification; Koppen and Thornthwaite; groundwater and hydrological cycle
• Soils and vegetation: Soil genesis, classification and distribution: Ecological aspects of savanna and monsoon forest biomes
• Oceanography: Ocean bottom relief. Relief of Indian ocean floor. Salinity. Currents and tides; ocean deposits and coral reefs
• Ecosystem: Ecosystem concept, man's impact on the ecosystem, global ecological imbalances

Geography (section-I)-principles of geography: Unit 02

• Development of geographical thought: Contributions of European and British geographers, determinism, and possibilism; dualism in geography, quantitative and behavioural revolutions in geography
• Human geography-emergence of man and races of mankind cultural evolution of man; major cultural realms of the world; international migrations, past and present; world population-distribution and growth; demographic transition and world population
• Settlements geography: Concepts of rural and urban settlements, organs of urbançation; rural settlement patterns; city classifications; urban spheres of influence and the rural urban fringe, the internal structure of cities
• Settlements geography: Problems of urban growth in the world
• Political geography: Concepts of nation and state; frontiers, boundaries, and buffer zones; concept of heartland and rimland; federalism
• Economic geography: World economic development-measurement and problems; concept of resources, world resources, their distribution and global problems; world energy crisis; and limits to growth; world agriculture-typology and world agricultural regions
• Economic geography: Theory of agricultural location, world industry-theory of location of industries; world industrial patterns and problems; world trade and world trade patterns

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 01

• Geological history, physiography and drainage systems; origin and mechanism of the indian monsoon, soils, and vegetation

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 02

• Tribal areas and their problems; population distribution, density, and growth; population problems and policies

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 03

• Conservation and utilçation of land mineral water biotic and marine resources; ecological problems and their management

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 04

• Irrigation intensity of cropping, crop combinations, green revolution, agricultural land use policy, rural economy-animal husbandry, social forestry, and household industry

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 05

• History of industrial development; factors of location study of mineral based, agro-based and forest based industries, industrial complexed and industrial regionalisation

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 06

• Study of the network of roadways railways, waterways, intra and inter-regional trade and the role of rural market centers

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 07

• Rural Settlement patterns; urban development in Indian and its problems, internal structure of Indian cities; town planning, slums and urban housing; national urbanisation policy

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 08

• Five-years plan; multi level planning; state, district and block level planning regional disparities in development in India

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 09

• Political problem of India, state reorganization; the international boundary of india and related issues; india and geopolitics of the indian ocean area

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 10

• Physiographic divisions, soils, forests, climate, pattern of agriculture, problems of drought-prone and flood affected regions and their solution, chief mineral resources-iron ore, copper

Geography (section-II)-geography of India: Unit 11

• Bauxite mica and coal; principal industries-iron and steel, aluminium, cement, sugar: Principal industrial regions, problems of population in Bihar, problem of tribal population and their solution; pattern of urbanisation in Bihar

Geology (section-I)-general geology, geomorphology, structural geology, palaeontology and stratigraphy: Unit 01

• Energy in relation to geodynamic activities
• Origin and interior of the earth
• Dating of rocks buoy various methods and age of the earth
• Volcanoes-causes and products; volcanic belts
• Earthquakes-causes, geological effect and distribution
• Geosynclines and their classification, island areas, deep sea trenches and mid-ocean ridges, sea-floor spreading and plate tectonics
• Isostasy, mountains types, and origin
• Brief ideas about continental drift, origin of continents and oceans
• Radioactivity and its application to geological problems

Geology (section-I)-general geology, geomorphology, structural geology, palaeontology and stratigraphy: Unit 02

• Basic concepts and significance
• Geomorphic processes and parameters
• Geomorphic cycles and their interpretation
• Relief features; topography and its relation to structures and lithology
• Major landforms
• Drainage patterns
• Geomorphic features of Indian subcontinent and Chotanagpur plateau

Geology (section-I)-general geology, geomorphology, structural geology, palaeontology and stratigraphy: Unit 03

• Stress and strain ellipsoid, and rock deformation
• Mechanics of folding and faulting
• Linear and planar structures and their genetic significance petrofabric analysis, its graphic representation and application to geological problems
• Tectonic framework of india

Geology (section-I)-general geology, geomorphology, structural geology, palaeontology and stratigraphy: Unit 04

• Micro and macrofossils
• Modes of preservation and utility of fossils, general idea about classification and nomenclature
• Organic evolution and the bearing of palaeontological studies on it
• Morphology, classification and geological history including evolutionary trends of brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, ammonoids, trilobites, echinoids and corals
• Principal groups of vertebrates and their main morphological characters
• Vertebrates life through ages; dinosaurs: Siwalik vertebrates
• Evolution of horses, elephants and man, Gondwana flora and its importance
• Types of microfossils and their significance with special reference to petroleum exploration

Geology (section-I)-general geology, geomorphology, structural geology, palaeontology and stratigraphy: Unit 05

• Principles of stratigraphy stratigraphic classification and nomenclature
• Standard stratigraphic scale
• Detailed study of various geological systems of Indian subcontinent
• Boundary problems in Indian stratigraphy
• An outline of the stratigraphy of various geological systems in their type-areas
• Brief study of climates and igneous activities in Indian symmetry during geological post palaeogeographic reconstructions

Geology (section-II)-crystallography, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology: Unit 01

• Crystalline and non crystalline substances
• Space groups
• Lattice symmetry
• Classification of crystals into 32 classes of symmetry
• International system of crystallographic notation
• Use of stereographic projections to represent crystal symmetry
• Twinning and twin laws crystal irregularities
• Application of X-rays for crystal studies

Geology (section-II)-crystallography, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology: Unit 02

• General principles of optics Isotropism and anisotropism, concepts of optical indicatrix, pleochroism, interference colours and extinction
• Optic orientation in crystals
• Dispersion
• Optical accessories

Geology (section-II)-crystallography, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology: Unit 03

• Elements of crystal chemistry-types of bondings Ionic Radii, coordination number, isomorphism, polymorphism, and pseudomorphism
• Structural classification of silicates
• Detailed study of rock-forming minerals-their physical, chemical, and optical properties and uses, if any, study of the alteration products of these minerals

Geology (section-II)-crystallography, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology: Unit 04

• Magma, its generation, nature, and composition
• Simple phase diagrams of binary and ternary systems, and their significance, Bowen's reaction principle
• Magmatic differentiation; assimilation, textures and structures, and their petrogenetic significance
• Classification of igneous rocks
• Petrography and petrogenesis of important rock types of India genesis of granites; charnockites; anorthosites; and alkaline rocks
• Processes of formation of sedimentary rocks
• Diagenesis and lithification
• Textures and structures of sedimentary rock and their significance
• Classifications of sedimentary rocks elastic and non-elastic
• Heavy minerals and their significance
• Elementary concept of depositional environments
• Sedimentary facies and provenance
• Petrography of common sedimentary rock types
• Agents of metamorphism
• Types of metamorphism
• Metamorphic grades, zones, and facies
• ACF, AKF, and AFM diagrams
• Textures, structures, and nomenclature of metamorphic rocks
• Petrography and petrogenesis of important metamorphic rock types

Geology (section-II)-crystallography, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology: Unit 05

• Concept of ore, ore mineral, and gangue, tenor of ores
• Processes of formation of mineral deposits
• Common forms and structures of ore deposits
• Classification of ore deposits
• Control of ore deposition metallogenic enochs
• Study of important metallic and non-metallic deposits oil and and natural gas fields, and coalfields of India
• Mineral wealth of Bihar, mineral economics, national mineral policy conservation and utilçation of minerals

Geology (section-II)-crystallography, mineralogy, petrology and economic geology: Unit 06

• Essentials of prospecting and Exploration techniques
• Principal methods of mining sampling redressing and beneficiation
• Application of geology in engineering works
• Elements of soil and groundwater geology
• Groundwater provinces of Bihar
• Use of air related diagrams in geological exploration

History (section-I): Unit 01

• The Indus Civilization: Origins extent, characteristic features, major cities, trade and contacts, causes of decline, survival, and continuity
• The Vedic age: Vedic literature. Geographical area known to Vedic texts. Differences and similarities between Indus civilization and Vedic culture. Political, social, and economic patterns. Major religious ideas and rituals
• The pre-Mauryan period: Religious movements (Jainism, Buddhism, and other sects). Social and economic conditions. Republics and growth of Magadha imperialism
• The Maurya Empire: Sources, rise, extent and fall of the empire administration. Social and economic conditions. Ashoka's policy and reform, art
• The post-Mauryan period (200 BC-300 A.D.): Principal dynasties in northern and southern India. Economy and society, sanskrit, prakrit, and Tamil, religion (rise of Mahayana and theistic cults). Art (Gandhara, Mathura, and other schools)
• The post-Mauryan period (200 BC-300 A.D.): Contacts with central Asia
• The Gupta age: Rise and fall of the Gupta Empire, the Vakatakas. Administration, society, economy, literature, art, and religion. Contacts with south Asia
• Post-Gupta period (BC 500-750 AD): Pushyabhuti. The Maukharis. The later Guptas. Harshavardhana and his times. Chalukyas of badami. The Pallavas society. Administration and art. The Arab conquest
• General review of science and technology, education, and learning

History (section-I): Unit 02

• Political and social conditions: The rajputs their polity and social structure, land structure, and its impacts on society
• Trade and commerce
• Art, religion and philosophy, Sankaracharya
• Maritime activities, contacts with the Arabs, mutual, cultural impacts
• Rashtrakutas, their role in history-contribution to art and culture
• The Chola empire local self government, features of the Indian village system society, economy, art, and learning in the south
• Indian society on the eve of Mahmud of Ghazni's campaigns, Al-Biruni's observations

History (section-I): Unit 03

• Foundation of the Delhi sultanate in northern India, causes and circumstances, its impact on the Indian society
• Khilji imperialism, significance and implications, administrative and economic regulations and their impact on state, and the people
• New orientation of state policies and administration principles under Muhammad bin Tughluq. Religious policy and public works of Firoz Shah
• Disintegration of the Delhi sultanate; causes and its effects on the Indian policy and society
• Nature and character of state; political ideas and institutions
• Agrarian structure and relations, growth of urban centers, trade, and commerce, conditions of artisans and peasants, new crafts, industry, and technology, Indian medicines
• Influence of Islam on Indian culture
• Muslim mystic movements, nature and significance of Bhakti saints, Maharashtra dharma, role of the Vaishnava revivalist movement social and religious significance of the Chaitanya movement, impact of Hindu society on Muslim social life
• The Vijayanagar empire: Its origin and growth contribution to art, literature, and culture; social and economic conditions, system of administration, break-up of the Vijayanagar empire
• Sources of history: Important chronicles. Inscriptions and travellers accounts
• Establishment of Mughal empire in northern India: Political and social conditions in Hindustan on the eve of Babur's invasion, Babur, and Humayun establishment of the portuguese control in the Indian ocean, its political and economic consequences
• Sur administration, political, revenue, and military administration
• Expansion of the Mughal empire under Akbar: Political unification-new concepts of monarchy under Akbar: Akbar's religion political outlook-relations with the non-Muslims
• Growth of regional languages and literature during the medieval period development of art and architecture
• Political ideas and institutions; nature of the Mughal state, land revenue administration; the mansabdari and the Jagirdari systems, the landed structure and the role of the zamindars, agrarian relations, the military organisation
• Aurangzeb's religious policy; expansion of the Mughal Empire in Deccan; revolts against Aurangzeb character and consequences
• Growth of urban centers; industrial economy urban and rural; foreign trade and commerce. The mughals and the european trading companies
• Hindu-Muslim relations; trends of integration; composite culture (16th to 18th centuries)
• Rise of shivaji, his conflict with the Mughals; administration of Shivaji, expansion of the Maratha power under the Peshwas (1707-1761), Maratha political structure under the first three Peshwas; chauth and Sardeshmukhi, third battle of Panipat
• Causes, and effects; emergence of the Maratha confederacy, its structure, and role
• Disintegration of the Mughal empire, emergence of the new regional states

History (section-II): Unit 01

• Historical forces and factors which led to the British conquest of India with special reference to Bengal, Maharashtra, and Sind resistance of Indian powers, and causes of their failure
• Evolution of British paramountcy over princely states
• Stages of colonialism and changes in administrative structure and policies
• Revenue, judicial and social and educational, and their linkages with British colonial interests
• British economic policies and their impact-commercialization of agriculture rural indebtedness, growth of agricultural labour. Destruction of handicraft industries. Drain of wealth, growth of modern industry and rise of a capitalist class
• British economic policies and their impact-activities of the Christian missions
• Efforts at regeneration of Indian society
• Socio Religious movements, social religious, political and economic ideas of the reformers, and their vision of future, nature and limitation of 19th century "renaissance"
• Caste movements in general with special reference to south India and Maharashtra, tribal, revolts, specially in central and eastern India
• Civil rebellions, revolt of 1857, civil rebellions, and peasant revolts with special reference to indigo revolt
• Deccan riots and mapplia uprising
• Rise and growth of Indian national movement: Social basis of Indian nationalism policies. Programme of the early nationalists and militant nationalists militant revolutionary group terrorists. Rises and growth of communalism
• Rise and growth of Indian national movement: Emergence of Gandhiji in Indian politics and his techniques of mass mobilization. Non-cooperation, civil disobedience and quit India movements, trade union and peasant movements. State (s) people movements
• Rise and growth of Indian national movement: Rise and growth of left-wing within the congress-the congress, socialists, and communists; British official response to national movement. Attitude of the congress to constitutional changes, 1909-1935
• Rise and growth of Indian national movement: Indian national army, naval mutiny of 1946, the partition of India and achievement of freedom

History (section-II): Unit 02

• Geographical discoveries: Decline of feudalism; beginnings of capitalism. Renaissance and reformation in Europe. The new absolute monarchies, emergence of the nation state, commercial revolution in western Europe, mercantilism
• Geographical discoveries: Growth of parliamentary institutions in England. The thirty years war. Its significance in European history. Ascendancy of France
• The emergence of a scientific view of the world: The age of enlightenment. The American revolution-its significance. The French revolution and Napoleonic era (1789-1815). Its significance in world history
• The emergence of a scientific view of the world: The growth of liberalism and democracy in western Europe (1815-1914), scientific and technological background to the industrial revolution, stages of the industrial revolution in Europe
• Consolidation of large nation states: The unification of Italy, the founding of socialist and labour, movement in Europe. The German empire. The American Civil War. Colonialism and imperialism in Asia and Africa in the 19th, and 20th centuries
• Consolidation of large nation states: China and the western powers. Modernization of Japan and its emergence as a great power. The European powers and the Ottoman empire (1815-1914), the First World War-the economic and social impact of the war
• Consolidation of large nation states: The peace of Paris, 1919
• The Russian revolution: 1917 economics and social reconstruction in Soviet Union. Rise of national movements in Indonesia, China, and Indo-China. Rise and establishment of communism in china
• The Russian revolution: Awakening in the Arab world-struggle for freedom and reform in Egypt emergence of modern turkey Kamal, Ataturk-the rise of Arab nationalism. World Depression of 1929-32
• The Russian revolution: The new deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Rise of militarism in Japan. Origins and impact of Second World War

Labour and social welfare (section-I)-labour legislation and labour administration: Unit 01

Labour and social welfare (section-I)-labour legislation and labour administration: Unit 02

Labour and social welfare (section-I)-labour legislation and labour administration: Unit 03

Labour and social welfare (section-I)-labour legislation and labour administration: Unit 04

• Factories act, 1948
• Minimum wages act, 1948-working in Bihar
• Payment of wages act, 1936
• Equal remuneration act, 1976
• Workmen's compensation act, 1923
• Maternity benefit act, 1961
• Employees state insurance act, 1948
• Payment of gratuity act, 1972
• Child labour (prohibition and regulation) act, 1986
• Beedi and cigar workmen (conditions of employment) act, 1966
• Bihar shops and establishments act, 1953

Labour and social welfare (section-I)-labour legislation and labour administration: Unit 05

• Composition, activities, creation of international standards of labour-influence on Indian labour legislation

Labour and social welfare (section-I)-labour legislation and labour administration: Unit 06

Labour and social welfare (section-II)-industrial relations and social welfare: Unit 01

• Industrial relations-concept, scope, main aspects
• Industrial dispute and strikes-forms, causes, and prevention-different methods of settling industrial dispute, collective bargaining, industrial dispute act, 1947
• Workers participation in management-objectives, institutions, present position, causes of failure in India
• Trade unions in India-brief history, kinds, objectives and methods of achievement, structure and government, political affiliation and leadership, problem of rivalry and recognition, trade unions act, 1925
• Code of discipline and code of conduct

Labour and social welfare (section-II)-industrial relations and social welfare: Unit 02

• Social security-meaning, scope, nature, and methods
• Unemployment-meaning, kinds courses, measures for removing, special employment programmes in India
• Poverty-meaning, kinds, extent, causes measures for eradicating-special governments, programme for eradicating rural poverty in India and Bihar
• Child welfare-problems of children, welfare measures for them
• Women welfare-problems of women, welfare measures of them
• Welfare of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes-problems, welfare measures
• Prohibition-position in Bihar
• Prostitution-nature, causes, effects, measures for removing
• Beggary-nature courses, situation in Bihar
• Social security programmes of the government of Bihar old-age pension unemployment dole-group insurance, rehabilitation of bonded labourers

Law (section-I): Unit 01

• Nature of the Indian constitution' the distinctive features of its federal character
• Fundamental right; directive principles and their relationship with fundamental right; fundamental duties
• Right to equality
• Right to freedom of speech and expression
• Right to life and personal liberty
• Religious, cultural and educational rights
• Constitutional position of the president and relationship with the council ministers
• Governor and his powers
• Supreme court and high courts, their powers and jurisdiction
• Union public service commission and state public service commission: Their powers and functions
• Principles of natural justice
• Distribution of legislative powers between the union and the states
• Delegated legislation its constitutionality
• Judicial and legislative controls
• Administrative and financial relations between the union, and the states
• Trade, commerce, and intercourse in India
• Emergency provisions
• Constitutional safeguards to civil servants
• Parliamentary privileges and immunities
• Amendment of the constitution

Law (section-I): Unit 02

• Nature of international law
• Sources: Treaty; custom, general principles of law recognçed by civilçed nations. Subsidiary means for the determination of law resolutions of international organs and regulations of specialçed agencies
• Relationship between international law and municipal law
• State recognition and state succession
• Territory of states: Modes of acquisition, boundaries, international rivers
• Sea: Inland waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone and ocean beyond national jurisdiction
• Air space and aerial navigation
• Outer space: Exploitation and use of outer space
• Individuals, nationality statelessness; human rights and procedures available for their enforcement
• Jurisdiction of states: Bases of jurisdiction, immunity from jurisdiction
• Extradition and asylum
• Diplomatic missions and consular posts
• Treaties: Formation, application, and termination
• State responsibility
• United nations: Its principal organs, powers, and functions
• Peaceful settlement of disputes
• Lawful recourse to force; aggression, self defense, intervention
• Legality of the use of nuclear weapons; ban on testing of nuclear weapons; nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Law (section-II): Unit 01

• Concept of crime: Actus reus, mens rea, mens rea in statutory offences, punishments mandatory sentences preparation and attempt
• Indian penal codes: (a) Application of the code. (b) General exceptions. (c) Joint and constructive liability. (d) Abetment. (e) Criminal conspiracy. (f) Offences against the state. (g) Offences against public tranquility
• Indian penal codes: (h) Offences by or relating to public servants. (I) Offences against human body. (j) Offences against property. (k) Offences relating to marriage; cruelty by husband or his relatives to wife. (l) defamation
• Protection of civil rights act, 1955
• Dowry prohibition act, 1961
• Prevention of food adulteration act, 1954

Law (section-II): Unit 02

• Nature of tortious liability
• Liability based upon fault and strict liability
• Statutory liability
• Vicarious liability
• Joint Tortfeasors
• Remedies
• Negligence
• Occupier's liability and liability in respect of structures
• Detinue and conversion
• Defamation
• Nuisance
• Conspiracy
• False imprisonment and malicious prosecution

Law (section-II): Unit 03

• Formation of contract
• Factors vitiating consent
• Void, voidable, illegal, and unenforceable agreements
• Performance of contracts
• Dissolution of contractual obligations, frustration of contracts
• Quasi-contracts
• Remedies for breach of contract
• Sale of goods and hire purchase
• Agency
• Formation and dissolution of partnership
• Negotiable instruments
• The Banker-customer relationship
• Government control over private companies
• The monopolies and restrictive trade practices act, 1969
• The consumer protection act, 1986

Management (section-I): Unit 01

• Significance of social psychological factors for understanding organizational behaviour, relevance of theories of motivation; contribution of Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, McClelland and other leading authorities, research studies in leadership
• Management by objectives
• Small group and intergroup behaviour
• Application of these concepts for understanding the managerial role, conflict and cooperation, work norms, and dynamics of organizational behaviour
• Organisational change

Management (section-I): Unit 02

• Classical, neo-classical and open systems theories of organization, centralisation, decentralçation, delegation, authority and control
• Management information system and role of computer in management

Management (section-I): Unit 03

• Organizational structure, systems, and processes, strategies, policies, and objectives, decision making communication and control

Management (section-I): Unit 04

• National income, analysis, and its use in business forecasting
• Trends and structure in Indian economy, government programmes, and policies
• Regulatory policies: Monetary fiscal and planning, and the impact of such macro-policies on enterprise decisions and plans-demand analysis and forecasting, cost analysis, pricing decisions under different market structures
• Pricing of joint products, and price discrimination, capital budgeting, applications under Indian conditions
• Choice of projects and cost benefit analysis choice of production techniques

Management (section-I): Unit 05

• Classical optimçatoin: Maxima and minima of single and several variables; optimçation under constraints-applications
• Linear programming: Formulation, graphical solution simplex method duality, post optimality, analysis-applications of integer programming and dynamic programming
• Formulation of transportation and assignment models of linear programming, and methods of solution

Management (section-I): Unit 06

• Measures of central tendencies and variations-application of binomial
• Poison and normal distributions
• Time series-regression and correlation tests of hypotheses, decision making under risk: Decision trees expected monetary value-value of information, application of Bayes theorem to posterior analysis
• Decision making under uncertainty
• Different criteria for selecting optimum strategies

Management (section-II): Unit 01

• Marketing and economic development: Marketing concept and its applicability to the Indian economy, major tasks of management in the context of developing economy, rural and urban marketing, their prospects, and problems
• Planning and strategy in the context of domestic and export marketing concept of marketing mix: Market segmentation and product differentiation strategies, consumer motivation and behaviour, consumer behavioural models product
• Planning and strategy in the context of domestic and export marketing concept of marketing mix: Brind distribution public distribution system price and promotion
• Decisions: Planning and control of marketing programmes, marketing research and models, sales organisational dynamic, marketing information system. Marketing audit and control
• Export incentives and promotional strategies: Role of government, trade association and individual organization, problems and prospects of export marketing

Management (section-II): Unit 02

• Fundamentals of production from management point of view
• Types of manufacturing systems continuous repetitive, intermittent
• Organising for production, long range, forecast, and aggregate production planning
• Plant design: Process planning, plant SCE and scale of operations, location of plant, layout of physical facilities
• Equipment replacement and maintenance
• Functions of production planning and control, routing, loading and scheduling for different types of production systems
• Assembly line balancing, machine line balancing
• Role and importance of materials management, material handling, value analysis, quality control waste and scrap disposal, make or buy decisions, codification, standardisation and spare parts inventory
• Inventory control-ABC analysis, economic order quantity, recorder point, safety stock
• Two bin system
• Waste management DGS and D purchase process and procedure

Management (section-II): Unit 03

• General tools of financial analysis: Ratio analysis, funds flow analysis, cost volume-profit analysis, cash budgeting, financial and operating leverage
• Investment decision: Steps in capital expenditure managements, criteria for investment appraisal, cost of capital and its application in public and private sectors. Risk analysis in investment decisions
• Investment decision: Organizational evaluation of capital expenditure management with special reference to India
• Financing decision: Estimating the firms of financial requirements, financial structure determinations, capital markets, institutional mechanism for funds with special reference to India. Security analysis leasing and subcontracting
• Working capital managements: Determining the SÇE of working capital, managing the managerial attitude towards risk in working capital, management of cash, inventory and accounts receivables, effects of inflation on working capital management
• Income determination and distribution: Internal financing, determination of dividend policy, implication of inflationary tendencies in determining the dividend policy, valuation and dividend policy
• Financial management in public sector with special reference to India
• Performance budgeting and principles of financial accounting
• Systems of management control

Management (section-II): Unit 04

• Characteristics and significance of human resources: Personnel policies, manpower, policy and planning, recruitment and selection technique, training and development-promotions, and transfer: Performance appraisal
• Characteristics and significance of human resources: Job evaluation-wage and salary administration; employee morale and motivation. Conflict management. Management of change and development
• Industrial relations economy and society in India: Worker profile and management styles in India
• Trade unionism in India: Labour legislation with special reference to industrial disputes act-payment of bonus act: Trade unions act-industrial democracy and workers participation in menage indication. Discipline and grievances handling in industry

Mathematics (section-I): Unit 01

• Vector space bases, dimension of finitely generated space
• Linear transformations, rank and nullity of a linear transformation, Cayley Hamilton theorem
• Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
• Matrix of a linear transformation
• Row and column reduction
• Echelon form
• Equivalence
• Congruence and similarity
• Reduction to canonical forms
• Orthogonal, symmetrical, skew-symmetric, unitary, Hermitian and skew-Hermitian matrices-their eigenvalues, orthogonal, and unitary reduction of quadratic and Hermitian forms, positive definite quadratic forms
• Simultaneous reduction

Mathematics (section-I): Unit 02

• Real numbers, limits, continuity, differentiability, mean-value theorem, Taylor's theorem, indeterminate forms, maxima and minima, curve tracing, asymptotes, functions of several variables, partial derivatives
• Maxima and minima, Jacobian
• Definite and indefinite integrals, double, and triple integrals (techniques only)
• Application to beta and gamma functions
• Areas, volumes, centre of gravity

Mathematics (section-I): Unit 03

• First and second degree equations in two dimensions in Cartesian and polar coordinates
• Plane, sphere, paraboloid, ellipsoid
• Hyperboloid of one and two sheets and their elementary properties
• Curves in space, curvature, and torsion
• Frenet formula

Mathematics (section-I): Unit 04

• Order and degree and a differential equation, differential equation of first order and degree, variables separable
• Homogeneous, linear, and exact differential equations
• Differential equations with constant coefficients
• The complementary function and the particular integral of eᵃˣ, cosᵃˣ, sinᵃˣ, xᵐ, eᵃˣ, cosbx, eᵃˣ, sin bx

Mathematics (section-I): Unit 05

• Vector analysis-vector algebra, differential of vector function of a scalar variable, gradient, divergence and curl in Cartesian cylindrical and spherical coordinates and their physical interpretation. Higher order derivatives
• Vector analysis-vector identities and vector equations, vector analysis-Gauss and Stokes theorems
• Tensor analysis-definition of tensor, transformation of coordinates, contra variant, and covariant tensor. Addition and multiplication of tensors, contraction of tensors, inner product, fundamental tensor, Christoffel symbols, covariant differentiation
• Tensor analysis-gradient, Curl, and divergence in tensor notation
• Statics-equilibrium of a system of particles, work, and potential energy. Friction, common catenary. Principle of virtual work stability of equilibrium, equilibrium of forces in three dimensions
• Dynamics-degree of freedom and constraints. Rectilinear motion. Simple harmonic motion. Motion in a plane. Projectiles. Constrained motion. Work and energy motion under impulsive forces. Kepler's laws. Orbits under central forces. Motion of varying mass
• Dynamics-motion under resistance
• Hydrostatics-pressure of heavy fluids. Equilibrium of fluids under given system of forces centre of pressure. Thrust on curved surfaces, equilibrium, and pressure of gases, problems relating to atmosphere

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 01

• Groups, sub-groups, normal sub-groups, homomorphism of groups, quotient groups
• Basic isomorphism theorems
• Sylow theorems
• Permutation groups, Cayley's theorem
• Rings and Ideals, principal ideal domains, unique factorçation domains and Euclidean domains
• Field extensions
• Finite fields

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 02

• Metric spaces, their topology with special reference to Rn sequence in a metric space, Cauchy sequence completeness, completion continuous functions, uniform continuity, properties of continuous function on compact sets
• Riemann-Stieltjes integral, improper integrals, and their conditions of existence
• Differentiation of functions of several variable, implicit function theorem, maxima and minima, absolute and conditional convergence series of real and complex terms, rearrangement of series
• Uniform convergence, infinite products, continuity, differentiability, and ineffability for series, multiple integrals

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 03

• Analytic functions, Cauchy's theorem, Cauchy's integral formula, power series, Taylor's, singularities, Cauchy's residue theorem and contour integration

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 04

• Formations of Partial differential equations
• Types of integrals of Partial differential equations of first order Charpit's method
• Partial differential equation with constant coefficient

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 05

• Generalized coordinates, constraints, holonomic and non-holonomic systems, D'Alembert's principle and lagrange's equations
• Moment of inertia, motion of rigid bodies in two dimension

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 06

• Equation of continuity, momentum, and energy
• Inviscid flow theory-two dimensional motion, streaming motion, sources and sinks

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 07

• Transcendental and polynomial equations-methods of tabulation, bisection, regula falsi, secant, and Newton-Raphson and order of its convergence
• Interpolation and numerical differentiation-polynomial interpolation with equal or unequal step sçe
• Spline interpolation-cubic splines
• Numerical differentiation formulae with error terms
• Numerical integration-problems of approximate guardrative quadrature formulae with equispaced arguments
• Gaussian quadrature convergence
• Ordinary differential equations-Euler's method, multistep-predictor corrector methods-Adam's and Milne's method, convergence and stability, Runge-Kutta methods

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 08

• Statistical methods: Concept of statistical population and random sample. Collection and presentation of data. Measure of location and dispersion. Moments and Shepherd correction cumulants. Measures of skewness and kurtosis
• Statistical methods: Curve fitting by least squares regression, correlation, and correlation ratio. Rank correlation, Partial correlation coefficient and multiple correlation coefficient
• Probability: Discrete sample space, events, their union and intersection, etc., probability-classical relative frequency and axiomatic approaches. Probability in continuum probability space conditional probability and independence
• Probability: Basic laws of probability, probability of combination of events, Bayes's theorem, random variable probability function, probability density function. Distributions function, mathematical expectation. Marginal and conditional distributions
• Probability: Conditional expectation
• Probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson normal gamma, beata. Cauchy, multinomial, hypergeometirc, negative binomial, Chebyshev's Lemma. (weak) law of large numbers, central limit theorem for independent and identical varieties, standard errors
• Probability distributions: Sampling distribution of TF and chi-square and their uses in tests of significance large sample tests for mean and proportion

Mathematics (section-II): Unit 09

• Mathematical programming: Definition and some elementary properties of convex sets, simplex methods, degeneracy, duality, sensitivity analysis rectangular games and their solutions. Transportation and assignment problems
• Mathematical programming: Kuhn Tucker condition for non-linear programming Bellman's optimality principle and some elementary applications of dynamic programming
• Theory of queues: Analysis of steady-state and transient solution for queuing system with Poisson arrivals, and exponential service time
• Deterministic replacement models, sequencing problems with two machines, n jobs, 3 machines, n jobs (special case), and n machines, 2 jobs

Mechanical engineering (section-I): Unit 01

• Equilibrium in three dimension suspension cables, principle of virtual work

Mechanical engineering (section-I): Unit 02

• Relative motion Coriolis force motion, of a rigid body
• Gyroscopic motion impulse

Mechanical engineering (section-I): Unit 03

• Higher and lower pairs, inversions, steering mechanisms
• Hooks joint velocity and acceleration of links, inertia forces
• Cama conjugate action of gearing and interference, gear trains epicyclic gears
• Clutches, belt drives, brakes dynamometers, flywheels governors
• Balancing of rotating and reciprocating masses, and multi cylinder engines
• Free, forced, and damped vibrations for a single degree of freedom
• Degrees of freedom critical speed and whirling of shafts

Mechanical engineering (section-I): Unit 04

• Stress and strain in two dimension
• Mohr's circle
• Theories of failure, deflection of beams
• Buckling of columns, combined bending and torsion Castigliano's theorem
• Thick cylinders rotating disks shrink fit
• Thermal stresses

Mechanical engineering (section-I): Unit 05

• Merchant's theory Taylors equation
• Machine ability
• Unconventional machining methods including EDM, ECM, and ultrasonic machining
• Use of lasers and plasma
• Analysis of forming processes high velocity forming explosive forming
• Surface roughness, gauging comparators, jigs and fixtures

Mechanical engineering (section-I): Unit 06

• Work simplification work sampling value engineering
• Line balancing, workstation design, storage space requirement
• ABC analysis
• Economic order, quantity including finite production rate
• Graphical and simplex methods for linear programming; transportation model, elementary quieting theory
• Quality control and its uses in product design
• Use of X, R, P (sigma), and C charts
• Single sampling plans, operating characteristic curves, average sample SCE regression analysis

Mechanical engineering (section-II): Unit 01

• Applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics
• Detailed analysis of thermodynamics cycles

Mechanical engineering (section-II): Unit 02

• Continuity, momentum, and energy equations
• Velocity distribution in laminar and turbulent flow
• Dimensional analysis
• Boundary layer on a flat plate
• Adiabatic and isentropic flow
• Mach number

Mechanical engineering (section-II): Unit 03

• Critical thickness of insulation conduction in the presence of heat sources and sinks
• Heat transfer from fines
• One dimensional unsteady conduction
• Time constant for the mocouples
• Momentum and energy equations for boundary layers on a flat plate
• Dimensionless number free and forced convection
• Boiling and condensation nature of radiant heat
• Stefan-Boltzmann law
• Configuration factor logarithmic mean temperature difference
• Heat exchanger effectiveness and number of transfer units

Mechanical engineering (section-II): Unit 04

• Combustion phenomenon in CI and SI engines carburetion and fuel injection selection of plumbs classification of hydraulic turbines, specific speed
• Performance of compressor
• Analysis of steam and gas turbines
• High pressure boilers, unconventional power systems, including nuclear power and MHD systems
• Utilization of solar energy

Mechanical engineering (section-II): Unit 05

• Vapour compression absorption, steam jet, and air refrigeration systems, properties and characteristics of important refrigerants
• Use of psychrometric chart and comfort chart, estimation of cooling and heating loads
• Calculation of supply air state and rate
• Air conditioning plants lay-out

Philosophy (section-I): Unit 01

• Western-idealism; realism; absolutism empiricism rationalism; logical positivism; analysis; phenomenology; existentialism and pragmatism
• India-pramanans and pranaya; theories of truth and error, philosophy of language and meaning; theories of reality with reference to main system (orthodox and heterodox) of philosophy

Philosophy (section-II): Unit 01

• Nature of philosophy its relation to life, thought, and culture
• The following topics with special reference to the Indian context including Indian constitution: Political ideologies; democracy socialism, fascism, theocracy, communism and sarvodaya. Methods of political action-constitutionalism, revolution
• The following topics with special reference to the Indian context including Indian constitution: Methods of political action-terrorism, and satyagraha
• Tradition, change, and modernity with reference to Indian social Institutions
• Philosophy of religious language and meaning
• Nature and scope of philosophy of religion
• Philosophy of religion with special reference to Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism: (a) Theolgoy and philosophy of religion, (b) foundations of religious belief, reason revelation faith, and mysticism
• Philosophy of religion with special reference to Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism: (c) God immortality of soul, liberation, and problem of evil and sin
• Philosophy of religion with special reference to Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism: (d) Equality, unity, and universality of religions; religious tolerance; conversion secularism
• Moksha-paths leading to moksha

Physics (section-I)-mechanics, thermal physics and wave, and oscillations: Unit 01

• Conservation laws
• Collisions, impact parameter, scattering cross-section
• Centre of mass and lab-systems with transformation of physical quantities, Rutherford Scattering
• Motion of a rocket under constant force field
• Rotating frames of reference, coriolis force, motion of rigid bodies, angular momentum, torque and precession of a top, gyroscope
• Central forces, motion under inverse square law, Kepler's laws, motion of satellites (including geostationary)
• Galilean relativity, special theory of relativity, Michelson-morley experiment, Lorentz transformation-addition theorem of velocities, variation of mass with, velocity, mass energy equivalence, fluid dynamics, streamlines, turbulence
• Bernoulli's equation with simple applications

Physics (section-I)-mechanics, thermal physics and wave, and oscillations: Unit 02

• Laws of thermodynamics, entropy, Carnot cycle, isothermal and adiabatic changes, thermodynamic potentials Maxwell relations
• The Clausius-Clapeyron equation reversible cell, Joule-Kelvin effect etc
• Fan Boltzmann law, kinetic theory of gases, Maxwell's distribution law of velocities, equipartition of energy, specific heats of gases mean free path, Brownian motion
• Black body radiation, specific heat of solids-Einstein and Debye theories, Wien's law, Planck's law, solar constant
• Thermalionçation and stellar spectra
• Production of law temperatures using adiabatic remagnalçation and deduction refrigeration, concept of negative temperature

Physics (section-I)-mechanics, thermal physics and wave, and oscillations: Unit 03

• Oscillations, simple harmonic motion, stationary and travelling waves, damped harmonic motion, forced oscillation and resonance
• Wave equation, harmonic solutions, plane and spherical waves, superposition of waves, phase, and group velocities, beats
• Huygens's principle, interference
• Diffraction-Fresnel and Fraunhofer
• Diffraction by straight edge, single and multiple slits, resolving power of grating and optical instruments
• Rayleigh criterion
• Polarçation, production, and detection of polarçed light (linera, circular, and elliptical)
• Laser sources (Helium-Neon, Ruby, and semiconductor diode) concept of spatial and temporal coherence diffraction as a Fourier transformation
• Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction by rectangular and circular apertures, holography; theory and applications

Physics (section-II)-electricity and magnetism, modern physics and electronics: Unit 01

• Coulomb's law, electric field
• Gauss's law, electric-potential Passion and Laplace equation for a homogeneous dielectric, uncharged conducting sphere in a uniform field, point charge and infinite conducting plane
• Magnetic shell magnetic induction and field strength
• Biot-Savart law and applications
• Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's and Leæ's laws, self and mutual inductances
• Alternating currents
• LCR circuits series and parallel resonance circuits, quality factor
• Kirchhoff's laws with application
• Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves, transverse nature of electromagnetic waves, Poynting vector
• Magnetic fields in matter-dia para, ferro antiferro, and ferri magnetism (qualitative approach only)

Physics (section-II)-electricity and magnetism, modern physics and electronics: Unit 02

• Bohr's theory of hydrogen atom
• Electron spin, optical, and X-ray spectra
• Stern-Gerlach experiment and spatial quantçation
• Vector model of the atom, spectral terms, fine structure of spectral fines
• J-J and LS coupling Zeeman effect, Paull's; exclusion principle, spectral term of two equivalent and nonequivalent electrons
• Gross and fine structure of electronic band spectra
• Raman effect
• Photoelectric effect
• Compton effect, de broglie waves
• Wave particle duality and uncertainty principle
• Schrödinger wave equation with application to (I) particle in a box (II) motion across a step potential, one dimensional harmonic oscillator Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions
• Uncertainty principle radioactivity, alpha, beta, and gamma radiations
• Elementary theory of the alpha decay
• Nuclear binding energy
• Mass spectroscopy, semi empirical mass formula
• Nuclear fission and fusion
• Elementary reactor physics elementary particle their classification
• Strong and weak electromagnetic interactions
• Particle accelerators; cyclotron
• Linear accelerations
• Elementary ideas of superconductivity

Physics (section-II)-electricity and magnetism, modern physics and electronics: Unit 03

• Band theory of solids-conductors, insulators, and semiconductors
• Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductor PN junction, thermistor, zener diodes reverse and forward biased PN junction, solar cell use of diodes and transistors for rectification, amplification, oscillation, modulation and detection of RF waves
• Transistor receiver, television logic gates

Political science and international relations (section-I): Unit 01

• Main feature of ancient Indian political thought; Manu and Kautilya; ancient Greek thought plato
• Aristotle; general characteristics of European medieval political thought; St. Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua; Machiavelli
• Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau Bentham J.S. Mill, T.H.Green, Hegel Marx, Lenin and Mao-Se Tung
• Nature and scope of political science; growth of political science as a discipline
• Traditional vs. Contemporary approaches; behaviouralism and post-behavioural development; systems theory and other recent approaches to political analysis
• Marxist approach to political analysis
• The emergence and nature of the modern state: Sovereignty; monistic and pluralistic analysis of sovereignty; power authority and legitimacy
• Political obligation: Resistance and revolution; rights, liberty, equality, justice
• Theory of democracy
• Liberalism, evolutionary socialism (democratic and febian); marxian socialism; fascism

Political science and international relations (section-I): Unit 02

• Approaches to the study of comparative politics; traditional, structural functional approach
• Political institution; the legislature, executive and judiciary; parties and pressure groups; theories of party system
• Lenin, Michels and Duverger; electoral system; bureaucracy-Weber’s view and modern critiques of Weber
• Political process: Political socialization, modernçation and communication; the nature of the non-western political process; a general study of the constitutional and political problems affecting afro-Asian societies
• Indian political system: (a) The roots; colonialism and nationalism in India; a general study of modern Indian social and political thought; Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dadabhai Naoroji, Tilak, Sri Aurobindo, Iqbal, Jinnah, Gandhi, B.R.Ambedkar, M.N.Roy
• Indian political system: (a) Nehru and Jay Prakash Narain. (b) The structure: Indian constitution, fundamental rights, and directive principles; union government; parliament, cabinet, supreme court, and judicial review
• Indian political system: (b) The structure: Indian federalism centre-state relation, state government role of the governor; Panchayati Raj, Panchayati Raj system in Bihar. (c) The functioning: Class and caste in Indian politics, politics of regionalism
• Indian political system: (c) The functioning-linguism and communalism. Problems of secularçation of the policy and national integration. Political elites; the changing composition; political parties and political participation
• Indian political system: (c) The functioning-planning and developmental administration, socio-economic changes and its impact on Indian democracy, regionalism with special reference to Jharkhand movement in Bihar

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 01

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 02

• Power; national interest; balance of power, "power vacuum"

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 03

• The realist theory; system theory: Decision making

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 04

• National interest; ideology; elements of national power (including nature of domestic socio-political institution)

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 05

• Choices-imperialism; balance of power; alley chances; isolationism: Nationalistic universalism (pax Britannica pax Americana pax-sovietica); the “middle kingdom” complex of china; non alignment

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 06

• Origin, evolution and its impact on international relation: Defense and its impacts-a new Cold War

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 07

• Heaning bases (national and international) the non-aligned movement and its role in international relations

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 08

• Neo-colonialism and racialism, their impact on international relations; Asian-African resurgence

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 09

• Aid trade and economic development, the struggle for the new international economic, order; sovereignty over natural resources; the crisis in energy resources

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 10

• The international court of justice

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 11

• The United Nations and specialçed agencies; their role in international relations

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 12

• OAS, OAU, the Arab league, the ASEAN, the EEC, their role in international relations

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 13

• Conventional and nuclear arms, the arms trade, its impact on third world role in international relations

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 14

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 15

• Ideological, political, and economic; cultural imperialism, covert intervention by the major power

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 16

• The impact of nuclear weapons on international relations; the partial test-ban, treaty; the nuclear neo-proliferation; treaty (NPT) peaceful nuclear explosions (PNE)

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 17

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 18

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 19

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 20

• United States, soviet union, china

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 21

• The north-south "dialogue” in the united nations and outside

Political science and international relations (section-II): Unit 22

• India and the super powers; India and its neighbour; India and Southeast Asia; India and African problems; India’s economic diplomacy; India and the question of nuclear weapons

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 01

• Place of psychology in the family of social and behavioural sciences

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 02

• Methodological problems of psychology
• General design of psychological research
• Types of psychological research
• The characteristics of psychological measurement

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 03

• Heredity and environment
• Cultural factors and behaviour
• The process of socialçation
• Concept of national character

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 04

• Perception, theories of perception, perceptual organization
• Person perception, perceptual defense
• Transactional approach to perception
• Perception and personality
• Figural after-effect
• Perceptual styles, perceptual abnormalities vigilance

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 05

• Cognitive, operant and classical conditioning approaches, learning phenomena, extinction
• Discrimination and generalization, discrimination learning, probability learning
• Programmed learning

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 06

• Theories of remembering
• Short-term memory, long-term memory, measurement of memory, forgetting reminiscence

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 07

• Problem solving, concept formation, strategies of concept formation, information processing, creative thinking, convergent and divergent thinking, development of thinking in children, theories

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 08

• Nature of intelligence theories of intelligence, measurement of intelligence, measurement of creativity
• Aptitude, measurement of aptitudes
• The concept of social intelligence

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 09

• Characteristics of motivated behavior
• Approaches to motivation: Psychoanalytic theory; drive theory; need hierarchy theory, vector valence approach, concept of level of aspiration
• Measurement of motivation
• The apathetic and the alienated individual, incentives

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 10

• The concept of personality
• Trait and type approaches, factorial and dimensional approaches, theories of personality; Freud, all port, Murray, Cattell; social learning theories and field theory
• The Indian approach to personality-the concept of guans
• Measurement of personality: Questionnaires; rating scales; psychometric tests; projective tests; observation method

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 11

• Psychological basis of language
• Theories of language development: Skinner and Chomsky, nonverbal communication, body language, effective communication: Source and receiver characteristics
• Persuasive communication

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 12

• Structure of attitudes, formation of attitudes
• Theories of attitude, attitude measurement
• Types of attitude scales, theories of attitude change, values
• Types of values
• Motivational properties of values
• Measurement of values

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 13

• Psychology and the computer, cybernetic model of behaviour
• Simulation studies in psychology, study of consciousness
• Altered states if consciousness
• Sleep, dream, meditation, and hypnotic trance
• Drug induced changes
• Sensory deprivation
• Human problems in aviation and space flight

Psychology (section-I)-foundations of psychology: Unit 14

• The organizational man
• The humanistic man
• Implications of the different models for behaviour changes
• An integrated model

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 01

• Measurement of individual differences
• Types of psychological tests
• Construction of psychological tests
• Characteristics of good psychological tests
• Limitations of psychological tests

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 02

• Classification of disorders and nosological systems
• Neurotic, psychotic, and psychophysiologic disorders
• Psychopathic personality
• Theories of psychological disorder
• The problems of anxiety, depression, and stress

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 03

• Psychodynamic Approach
• Behaviour therapy, client centered therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Group therapy

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 04

• Personnel selection
• Training
• Work motivation
• Theories of work motivation job designing
• Leadership training
• Participatory management

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 05

• The concept of small group
• Properties of groups
• Group at work
• Theories of group behaviour
• Measurement of group behavior
• Interaction process analysis
• Interpersonal relations

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 06

• Characteristics of social change
• Psychological basis of change
• Steps in the change process resistance to change
• Factors contributing to resistance
• Planning for change
• The concept of change-proneness

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 07

• The learner
• School as an agent of socialçation problems relating to adolescents in learning situations
• Gifted and retarded children, and problems related to their training

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 08

• Types: Social, cultural, and economic
• Psychological consequences of disadvantage
• Concept of deprivation
• Educating the disadvantaged groups
• Problems of motivating the disadvantaged groups

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 09

• The problem of ethnic prejudice
• Nature of prejudice
• Manifestations of prejudice development of prejudice
• Measurement of prejudice
• Amelioration of prejudice
• Prejudice and personality steps to achieve social integration

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 10

• The nature of achievement motivation
• Motivating people for achievement
• Promotion of entrepreneurship
• The entrepreneur syndrome
• Technological change and its impact on human behavior

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 11

• Psychological factors in information management
• Information overload: Psychological basis of effective communication
• Mass media and their role in social change
• Impact of television
• Psychological basis of effective advertising

Psychology (section-II)-psychology: Issues and applications: Unit 12

• Stress
• Management of stress
• Alcoholism and drug addiction
• The socially deviant
• Juvenile delinquency
• Crime
• Rehabilitation of the deviant
• The problems of the aged

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 01

• Meaning scope and significance of public administration; private and public administration; role of public administrator in developed and developing societies: Ecology of administration-social, economic, cultural, political, and legal
• Evolution of public administration as a discipline; public administration as an art and a science; new public administration

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 02

• Scientific management (Taylor and his associates); bureaucratic theory of organization (Weber), classical theory of organizations (Henri Fayol, Luther Gulick and other); human relations theory of organisations (Elton Mayo and his colleagues)
• Behavioural approach, systems approach; organizational effectiveness

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 03

• Hierarchy, unity of command, authority, and responsibility, coordination span of control, supervision, centralçation, and decentralçation, delegation

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 04

• Decision making with special reference to the contribution of Herbert Simon; theories of leadership; communication morale; motivation (Maslow and Herzberg)

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 05

• Chief executive; types of chief executives and their functions; line staff and auxiliary agencies; departments; corporation companies
• Boards and commissions
• Headquarters and field relationship

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 06

• Bureaucracy and civil services, position classification; recruitment: Training-career development; performance appraisal; promotion; pay and service conditions; retirement benefits; discipline; employer-employee relations
• Integrity in administration; generalists versus specialists; neutrality and anonymity

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 07

• Concept of budget; preparation and execution of the budget; performance budgeting; legislative control; accounts and audit

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 08

• The concepts of accountability and control; legislative, executive and judicial control over administration; citçen and administration

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 09

• O and M; work study; work measurement administrative reforms; processes and obstacles

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 10

• Importance of administrative law; delegated legislation; meaning, types, advantages, limitations, safeguards; administrative tribunals

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 11

• Meaning, nature and scope of comparative public administration
• Contribution of Freud
• Riggs with particular reference to the prismatic sala model
• The concept, scope, and significance of development administration
• Political economic and sociocultural context of development administration
• The concept of administrative development

Public administration (section-I)-administrative theory: Unit 12

• Relevance of policy making in public administration
• The processes of policy formulation and implementation

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 01

• Kautilya; Mughal period; British period

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 02

• Constitution, parliamentary democracy, federalism, planning, socialism

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 03

• President, prime minister, council of ministers, cabinet committees

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 04

• Secretariat, cabinet secretariat, ministries, and departments
• Boards and commissions, field organization

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 05

• Legislative, administrative, planning, and financial

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 06

• All India services, central services, state services, local civil services, union and state public service commissions
• Training of civil services

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 07

• Plan formulation at the national level; national development council, planning commission; planning machinery at the state and district levels

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 08

• Forms management, control and problems

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 09

• Parliamentary control; role of the finance ministry; comptroller and auditor general

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 10

• Role of central and state agencies in maintenance of law and order

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 11

• Governor, chief minister; council of ministers; secretariat, chief secretary, directorates

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 12

• Role and importance; district collector; land revenue, law and order and developmental functions
• District rural development agency; special development programmes

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 13

• Panchayati raj and urban local government features, forms, problems, autonomy of local bodies

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 14

• Administration for the welfare of weaker sections with particular reference to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes; programmes for the welfare of women and children

Public administration (section-II)-Indian administration: Unit 15

• Relationship between political and permanent executives
• Generalists and specialists in administration
• Integrity in administration
• People’s participation in administration
• Redressal of citizen grievances
• Lokpal and Lokayukta, administrative reforms in India

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 01

• Emergence of sociology and its relationship with other disciplines, their scope, and approaches
• Science and study of social behaviour, the problems of objectivity, reliability, and validity
• Scientific methods and scientific language; their meaning, goals, types; elements and features
• Research design techniques of data collection and analysis, attitude measurements; problems and scales
• Concept of social causation with special reference to R. M. Mac’ver

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 02

• Theoretical beginnings-positivism and evolutionism with reference to Comte, Spencer and Morgan; historical sociology contributions of Karl Marx, Max Weber and P.A. Sorokin; functionalism; E. Durkheim, PAreto
• Historical sociology contributions of Parsons and Merton, conflict school; Gumplowicz Dahrendorf and Coser; recent approaches in sociology, microsociology, macrosociology, middle range theories, neopositivism, exchange theories and interactions sociology

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 03

• Elements of social structure-individual and society; social interaction; social groups, concept and types; concept of status and role, their determinants and types, dimensions of roles in simple and complex societies, role conflict; social network
• Basic concepts and types, culture, and personality, concepts of conformity and social control, agencies of social control; concept of minority groups, their relationship with majority; secularism versus integration

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 04

• Concept, consequences and types of stratification; inequality and stratification, dimensions and bases, of stratification; theoretical approaches to the study of stratification, functionalist approach, and conflict approach
• Social stratification and social mobility; concept of sankskritçation and westernçation
• Types of mobility: Intergenerational mobility, vertical versus horçontal mobility, open and closed models of mobility

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 05

• Structure, functions, and types of family marriage and kinship; social change and change in age and sex roles; change in marriage, family and kinship; significance of family in industrial society

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 06

• Elements of formal and informal structures and organization, bureaucracy functions, dysfunctions and characteristics, bureaucracy and political development, political socialization and political participation, modes of participation
• Democratic and authoritarian forms, voluntary organization

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 07

• Property concepts, social dimensions of division of labour; type of exchange, social aspects of pre-industrial and industrial economic systems; industrialçation and changes in the political, educational religious, familiar and stratificational spheres
• Social determinants and consequences of economic development

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 08

• Concepts, elements and types of political systems: Functions of a political system, institutions under the political system; political processes with reference to individuals, groups, political organization, parties and other agencies
• Concepts, bases and types of power, authority, and legitimacy; concept of stateless societies; political socialçation versus political participation; properties of state
• Power of elites, and masses in democracy and in totalitarian societies; political parties and voting, leadership democratic order and democratic stability

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 09

• Concepts and goals of education; schools of philosophy;- naturalism, idealism and pragmatism, their bearing on education; importance of education in society, democracy, international understanding and nationalism
• New trends in education; role of various agencies-school home society state and religion in education and socialçation
• Population education-its concepts and components, education as a medium of cultural reproduction, indoctrination, social stratification, mobility, and modernization

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 10

• The religious phenomenon; the concepts of sacred and protan, social functions and dysfunctions of religion, magic religion, and science, social change and religious secularisation

Sociology (section-I)-general sociology: Unit 11

• Factors of social change, economic, biological and technological; theories of social change- evolutionary, functional and conflict; social change, modernization and development; democratization equality and social justice; social reconstruction

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 01

• Features of traditional Hindu social organization, sociocultural dynamics through the ages, impact of Buddhism, Islam and west on Indian society, factors in continuity and change

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 02

• Caste system and its transformation, economic structural and cultural view about caste, origin of the caste system, issues of inequality and social justice among Hindu and non-Hindu castes, caste mobility, casteism, backward caste versus backward classes
• Scheduled caste and untouchability, changes among scheduled castes, eradication of untouchability, industrial and agrarian class structures, rising trends in inter caste relations in bihar under the impact of Mandal commission and its reservation policy

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 03

• Regional variation in kinship system and its socio-cultural correlates, changing aspects of kinship, the joint family system its structural and functional aspects, its changing form and disorganization, marriage among various ethnic groups
• Economic and caste categories, its changing trend in future, impact of legislation and socioeconomic changes upon family and marriage, inter caste marriages-causes and consequences in Bihar intergenerational gap and youth unrest, changing status of women
• Women and social development

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 04

• Jajmani system and its bearing on the traditional society, market economy and its social consequences, occupational diversification and social structure, professional trade unions, social determinants and consequences of economic development
• Economic inequalities, exploitation, and corruption; causes of economic backwardness in Bihar, potentialities of economic growth in Bihar, relationship between economic growth and social development with specific reference to Bihar

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 05

• Functioning of a democratic political system in a traditional society, political parties and their social composition, origin of political elites and their social orientation, decentralçation of power, political participation, voting pattern in Bihar
• Relevance of caste, community, and economic factor in voting behaviour in Bihar, its changing trends, functions dysfunctions and characteristics of India bureaucracy, bureaucracy and political development in India, concept of mass society
• Socio-political sources of mass movement in India

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 06

• Education and society in the traditional and modern contexts, educational inequality and change, education and social mobility, educational problems of women, backward classes and the scheduled castes, causes of educational backwardness in Bihar
• Functional and dysfunctional aspects of mushroom growth of institutions in Bihar; prospects and problems of higher education in Bihar, new educational policies, mass

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 07

• Demographic dimensions, geographical distribution and neighbourhood, living patterns of major religious categories; interreligious interactions and its manifestations in the problems of conversion minority status, communications and secularism
• Impact of various religious movement in India
• Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Brahmanism, and arya samaj movement on caste system in india; westernçation and modernçation in bihar; the cohesive and decisive factors
• Impact of growing religious and politics interrelationship of India’s social organization

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 08

• Major tribal communities in India, their distinctive features; tribe and case their acculturation and integration; problem of Bihar tribes (social, economic and political), different approaches to tribal welfare, constitutional and governmental safeguards
• Tribal movements in India
• The tana bhagat movement, the birsa movement and the Jharkhand movement, their significance in tribal development

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 09

• Sociocultural dimensions of the village community, traditional power structure, democratçation and leadership, poverty, indebtedness and bonded labour, social consequences of land reforms
• Community development programme and other planned development projects of green revolution, new strategies of rural development

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 10

• Continuity and change in the traditional causes of social organization, namely kinship, caste and religion in the urban context, stratification and mobility in urban communities, ethnic diversity and community integration, urban neighbourhoods
• Rural urban differences in demographic and sociocultural characteristics and their social consequences

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 11

• Theories of population growth Malthusian, biological, demographic transition, optimum population sociocultural aspects of population composition (sex, age, marital status), determinants of fertility, mortality, and migration
• Need of population policy in India; population explosion and other determinants factors; social psychological cultural and economic determinants behind population acceptance of family planning practices in India
• Family planning programmer through first to eighth five year plans; population education; concept, goals, aspects, agencies, and techniques of population education

Sociology (section-II)-society of India: Unit 12

• Problems of role conflict youth unrest-intergenerational gap, changing status of women
• Major sources of social change and of resistance to change, impact of west reform movements, social movements, industrialçation and urbançation pressure groups, factors of planned change, five year plans legislative of executive measures
• Process of change sanskritçation, westernçation and modernçation means of modernçation man media and education, problems of change and modernçation, structural contradictions and breakdowns
• Current social evils-corruption and nepotism smuggling, black money

Statistics (section-I): Unit 01

• Sample space and events, probability measures and probability space, statistical independence, random variable as a measurable function, discrete and continuous random variables, probability density and distribution functions
• Marginal and conditional distributions functions of random variables and their distributions, expectation, and movements, conditional expectation, correlation coefficient, convergence in probability in LP almost everywhere
• Markov chebyshev and kolmogorov inequalities, Borel-Cantelli lemma, weak and strong law of large numbers probability generating and characteristic functions uniqueness and continuity theorems
• Determination of distribution by moments Lindeberg
• Levy central limit theorem
• Standard discrete and continuous probability distributions, their interrelations including limiting cases

Statistics (section-I): Unit 02

• Properties of estimates, consistency, unbiasedness, efficiency, sufficiency, and completeness Cramer Rao bond, minimum variance unbiased estimation, Rao block well and Lehman Scheffe’s theorem methods of estimation by moment maximum likelihood
• Minimum chi-square
• Properties of maximum likelihood estimators confidence intervals for parameters of standards distributions
• Simple and composite hypotheses, statistical tests, and critical region, two kinds of error power function unbiased tests, most powerful and uniformly most powerful tests Nyman, person lemma
• Optimal tests for simple hypotheses concerning one parameter monotone likelihood ratio property and its use in constructing UMP test, likelihood ratio criterion and its asymptotic distributing sign test for location
• Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the two sample problem
• Distribution free confidence intervals for quantitation, chi-square and Kolmogorov tests for goodness of fit
• Run test for randomness and confidence bands for distribution functions
• Notions of a sequential test, Walds, SPRT, its CC and ASN function

Statistics (section-I): Unit 03

• Theory of least squares and analysis of variance

Statistics (section-I): Unit 04

• Gaussa, Markoff theory, normal equations least square estimates and their precision
• Tests of signification and intervals estimates based on least square theory in one way, two way and three way classified data
• Regression Analysis, linear regression, estimates, and tests about correlation of regression coefficient curve linear regression and orthogonal polynomials, test for linearity and regression Multivariate normal distribution, multiple regression
• Multiple and partial correlation
• Mahalanobis D2 and hotelling T2-statistics and their applications (derivations of distribution of D2 and T2 excluded) Fisher’s discriminant analysis

Statistics (section-II): Unit 01

• Nature and scope of sampling, simple random sampling, sampling from finite populations with and without replacement, estimation of the standard errors sampling with equal probabilities and PPS sampling
• Stratified random and systematic sampling, two stage and multi-stage sampling, multiphase and cluster sampling schemes
• Estimation of population total and mean, use of biased and unbiased estimates auxiliary variables
• Double sapling standard errors of estimates cost and variance function ratio and regression estimates and their relative efficiency planning, and organization of sample surveys with special reference to recent large scale surveys conducted in India
• Principles of experimental designs, CRD, RBD, LSD, missing plot technique factorial experiments 2n and 3n design general theory of total and partial confounding and fractional replication
• Analysis of split plot, BIB and simple lattice designs

Statistics (section-II): Unit 02

• Concepts of quality and meaning of control, different types of control charts like X-R charts, P charts np charts and cumulative sum control charts
• Sampling inspection vs. 100 percent inspection, single, double, multiple and sequential sampling plans for attributes inspection, OC, ASN and ATI curves
• Concept of producer's risk and consumer's risk AQL, AGQL, LTPD etc
• Variable sampling plans
• Different types of redundancy like hot and cold and use of redundancy in reliability improvement problems in life testing, censored and truncated experiments for exponential model

Statistics (section-II): Unit 03

• Scope and definition of or different types of models, their construction, and obtaining solution
• Homogeneous discrete time Markov chains, transition probability matrix, classification of states and ergodic theorems
• Homogeneous continuous time Markov chains
• Elements of queuing theory, M/M/I and M/M/K queues, the problem of machine interference and GI/M/I and B/GI queues
• Concept of scientific inventory management and analytical structure of inventory problems simple models with deterministic and stochastic demand with and without lead time
• Storage models with particular reference to dam type
• The Structure and formation of a linear programming problem
• The Simplex procedure two phase methods and charnes-M method with artificial variables
• The quality theory of linear programming and its economic interpretation
• Sensitivity analysis
• Transportation and assignment problems
• Replacement of items that fail and those that deteriorate, group and individual replacement policies
• Introduction to computer and elements of fortran IV programming formats for input and output statements specification and logical statements and subroutines
• Application to some simple statistical problems

Statistics (section-II): Unit 04

• Concept of time-series, additive and multiplicative models, resolution into four components, determination of trend by free-hand drawing, moving averages and fitting of mathematical curves
• Seasonal indices and estimate of the variance of the random components
• Definition, construction, interpretation, and limitation of index numbers
• Lefevre porsche Marshall Edgeworth and Fisher index number their comparisons tests for index numbers and construction of cost of living index
• Theory and analysis of consumer demand-specification and estimation of demand functions
• Demand elasticities
• Theory of production, supply functions, and elasticities, input demand functions
• Estimation of parameters in single equation model-classical least squares, generalçed least squares heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, multicollinearity, errors in variables model, simultaneous equation models-identification
• Rank and order conditions
• Indirect least squares and two stage least squares, short-term economic forecasting

Statistics (section-II): Unit 05

• Sources of demographic data: Census registration: NSS and other demographic surveys
• Limitation and uses of demographic data
• Vital rates and ratios: Definition construction and uses
• Life tables-complete and abridged: Construction of life tables from vital statistics and census returns uses of life tables
• Logistic and other population growth curves
• Measures of fertility
• Gross and net reproduction rates
• Stables population theory
• Uses of stable and quasi-stable population techniques in estimation of demographic parameters
• Morbidity and its measurement standard classification by cause of death
• Health surveys and use of hospital statistics
• Educational and psychological statistics methods of standardization of scales and tests
• IQ tests, reliability of tests and T and Z scores

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 01

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 02

• Study of the structure, binomial and life history of paramecium, monocytosis, malarial parasite, trypanosoma, and leishmania
• Locomotion, nutrition, and reproduction in protozoa

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 03

• Canal system skeleton and reproduction

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 04

• Structure and life history of obelia aurelia, polymorphism in hydrozoa, coral formation, metagenesis, phylogenetic relationship of cinideria and acnidaria

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 05

• Structure and life history of planaria, fasciola, taenia, and ascaris
• Parasitic adaptation, helminths in relation to man

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 06

• Nereis, earthworm and leech, coelom and metamerism, modes of life in polychaetes

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 07

• Paleo Mom, scorpion, cockroach
• Larval forms and parasitism in crustacean, mouth part vision and respiration in arthropods, social life and metamorphosis in insects
• Importance of peripatus

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 08

• Unio pila, oyster culture and pearl formation, cephalopods

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 09

• General organization, larval, forms and affinities of echinodermata

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 10

• Outline classification and interrelationship of protochordata, pisces, amphibia, reptilia, aves, and mammalia

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 11

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 12

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 13

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 14

• Distribution, anatomical peculiarities and affinities of urodela, and apoda

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 15

• Adaptive radiation in reptiles, fossil reptiles, poisonous and non-poisonous snakes of India, poison apparatus of snake

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 16

• Flightless birds, aerial adaptation, and migration of birds

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 17

• Homologies of ear ossicles in mammals, dentition and skin derivatives and mammals, distribution, structural peculiarities and phylogenetic relation of prototheria and metatheria

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 18

• Environment: Abiotic factors and their role, biotic factors-and inter, specific relations
• Animal: Organization at population and community levels, ecological successions
• Ecosystem: Concept, components, fundamental operation, energy flow, biogeochemical cycle, food chain, and trophic levels
• Adaptation in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial habitats
• Pollution in air, water, and land
• Wildlife in India and its conservation

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 19

• General survey of various types of animal behaviour
• Role of hormones and pheromones in behaviours
• Chronobiology: Biological check, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms
• Neuroendocrine control of behaviour
• Methods of studying animals behaviour

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 20

• Methods of sampling, frequency distribution, and measures of central tendency, standard deviation, standard error, and standard deviance, correlation, and repression and chi-square and f-test
• Parasitic protozoans, helminthes, and insects of man and domestic animals
• Insect pests of crops and stored products
• Beneficial insects
• Pisciculture and induced breeding

Zoology (section-I)-non chordata and chordata, ecology, ethology, biostatistics, and economic zoology: Unit 21

• Parasitism, commensalism, and host parasite relationship

Zoology (section-II)-cell biology, genetics, evolution and systematics, biochemistry, physiology and embryology: Unit 01

• Structure and function of cell and cytoplasmic constituents, structure of nucleus, plasma membrane mitochondria, golgi bodies, endo, plasmic reticulum and ribosomes, cell division, mitosis spindle and chromosome movements, and meiosis
• Gene structure and function, watson-Crick model of DNA, replication of DNA genetic code, protein synthesis, cell differentiation, sex-chromosomes and sex determination

Zoology (section-II)-cell biology, genetics, evolution and systematics, biochemistry, physiology and embryology: Unit 02

• Mendelian laws of inheritance, recombinations, linkage and linkage maps, multiple, allele, mutation (natural and induced), mutation and evolution meiosis, chromosome number and form, structural rearrangements, polyploidy, cytoplasmic inheritance
• Regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
• Biochemical genetics, elements of human genetics, normal and abnormal karyotypes, genes and diseases
• Eugenics

Zoology (section-II)-cell biology, genetics, evolution and systematics, biochemistry, physiology and embryology: Unit 03

• Origin of life, history of evolutionary thought, Lamarck and his works. Darwin and his works, sources and nature of organic variation, natural selection, Hardy-Weinberg law, cryptic and warning colouration mimicry, isolating mechanisms and their role
• Insular fauna concept of species and subspecies, principles of classification, zoological nomenclature and international code
• Fossils, outline of geological cras phylogeny of horse, elephant, camel, origin, and evolution of man, principles, and theories of continental distribution of animals, zoogeographical realms of the world

Zoology (section-II)-cell biology, genetics, evolution and systematics, biochemistry, physiology and embryology: Unit 04

• Structure of carbohydrates, lipids, amino-acids, proteins, and nucleic acid, glycolysis and Krebs cycle, oxidation and reduction, oxidative phosphorylation, energy conservation and release ATP, CYCLIC AMP
• Saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, cholesterol, steroid hormones, type of eæymes, mechanism of eæyme action, immunoglobulins and immunity, vitamins and coeæymes, hormones their classification, biosynthesis and functions

Zoology (section-II)-cell biology, genetics, evolution and systematics, biochemistry, physiology and embryology: Unit 05

• Physiology with special reference to mammals, composition of blood, blood groups in man, coagulation, oxygen and carbon dioxide transport, haemoglobin
• Breathing and its regulation, nephron, and urine formation, acid-base balance and homeostasis, temperature regulation in man, mechanism of conduction along axon across synapses, neurotransmitters, vision, hearing and other receptors, types of muscles
• Ultrastructure and mechanism of contraction of skeletal muscle, role of salivary gland, liver pancreas and intestinal glands in digestion absorption of digested food, nutrition and balanced diet of man
• Mechanism of action of steroid and peptide hormones, role of hypothalamus, pituitary thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, adrenal, testis, ovary and pineal organs and their inter-relationships, physiology of reproduction in humans
• Hormonal control of development in man and insects, pheromones in insects and mammals

Zoology (section-II)-cell biology, genetics, evolution and systematics, biochemistry, physiology and embryology: Unit 06

• Gametogenesis, fertilçation, types of eggs, cleavage, development up to gastrulation in branchiostoma, frog and chick, fate maps of frog and chick
• Metamorphosis in frog, formation and fate of extra embryonic membranes in chick formation of amnion
• Allantois and types of placenta in mammals, function of placenta in mammals, organisers, regeneration, genetic control of development
• Organogenesis of central nervous system, sense organs heart and kidney of vertebrate embryos. Aging and its implication in relation to man

Hindi language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• Grammatical and lexical features of apabhramsa, avahatta and early Hindi
• Evolution of Awadhi and Braj bhasa as literary language during the medieval period
• Evolution of khari boli-Hindi as literary language during the 19th century
• Standardçation of Hindi language with Devanagari script
• Development of Hindi as Rashtrabhasha during the freedom struggle
• Development of Hindi as official language of Indian union since independence
• Major dialects of Hindi and their inter-relationship
• Significant grammatical features of standard Hindi

Hindi language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• Chief characteristics of the major periods of Hindi literature: vç., Adi Kal, Bhakti Kal, Riti Kal, Bhartendu Kal and Dwivedi Kal, etc
• Significant features of the main literary trends and tendencies in modern Hindi: vç, Chhayavad Rahasyavad, Pragativad, Proyogvad, NayiKavita, Nayi Kahani, Akavita, etc
• Rise of novel and realism in modern Hindi
• A brief history of theatre and drama in Hindi
• Theories of literary criticism in Hindi and major Hindi literary critics
• Origin and development of literary genres in Hindi

Hindi language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Kabir: Kabir granthavali by Shyam Sunder Das (700 stanzas from the beginning)
• Surdas: Bhramar geet saar 200 stanzas from the beginning
• Tulsidas: Ramcharitmanas (Ayodhya Kand only): Kavitavali (Uttarakhand only)
• Bharatendu Harishchandra: Andher nagari
• Premchand: Godan. Mansarovar (bhag ek)
• Jaishankar Prasad: Chandragupta, Kamayani (Chinta, Shradha, Lajja, Ida only)
• Rama Chandra Shukla: Chintamani (pahila bhag) (10 essay from the beginning)
• Suryakant Tripathi Nirala: Anamikahai (Saroj Smriti). (Ramki shakti pooja only)
• S.H. Vatsyayan: Shekhar ek jeevani (two parts)
• Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh: Chand ka mukhda hai (andhere mein only)

English language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• With special reference to the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Lamb, Hazlitt, Thackeray, Dickens, Tennyson, Robert Browning Arnold, George Eliot, Carlyle Ruskin, Peter

English language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Shakespeare: As you like it; Henry IV part I. II-The Hamlet, The Tempest
• Milton: Paradise lost
• Jane Austen: Emma
• Wordsworth; The prelude
• Dickens: David copperfield
• George Eliot: Middlemarch
• Hardy: Jude the obscure
• Yeats: (a) Easter 1916, (b) The second coming-Byzantium, (c) A prayer for my daughter-Leda and the swan, (d) Sailing to Byzantium-Meru, (e) The tower: Among school children-Lapis Lazuli
• Eliot: The waste land
• D.H. Lawrence: The rainbow

Urdu language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• The development of the Indo Aryan through three stages
• Old Indo-Aryan (OIA)
• Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA) and new Indo-Aryan (NIA)-Grouping of the new Indo-Aryan Languages, western Hindi and its dialects Khari Boli, Braj Bhasha, and Haryanvi- relationship of Urdu to Khadi
• Perso-Arabic elements in Urdu development of Urdu from 1200 to 1800 in the north and 1400 to 1700 in the Deccan
• With special reference to the development of Urdu in Bihar from 1200 to 1800

Urdu language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• Morphology syntax-Perso-Arabic elements in its phonology, morphology and syntax its vocabulary

Urdu language and literature (section-I): Unit 03

• Its origin and developments, its significant linguistic features

Urdu language and literature (section-I): Unit 04

• The two classical backgrounds of Urdu literature, Perso-Arabic and Indian, Mynavi, Indian tales, the influence of the the west on Urdu litera classical genres-Ghazal, masticism-Qasida, Rubai-Qita, prose, fiction, modern genres blank verse, free verse
• Masticism-novel
• Short stories, drama-literary criticism and essay

Urdu language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Mir amman-bagho bahar
• Ghalib-khatu-e-ghalib (anjuman taraqqi-e-Urdu)
• Kalimuddin ahmad-Urdu tanqeed par ek nazar
• Ruswa-uma o jan ada
• Prem Chand-wardat
• Abdul Kalam Azad-ghubar-E-Khatir
• Imtiaz ali taj-anarkali

Urdu language and literature (section-II): Unit 02

• Mir-intikhab-e-kalam-G-Mir,Ed. Abdul Haq
• Sauda-Qasaid (including hajiyat)
• Ghalib-Diwan-e-ghalib
• Iqbal-bal-a-gibrail
• Josh malihabadi-Saif Subu
• Shad Azimabadi-kulliyat-E-Shad
• Faiz-kalam-e-faiz (complete)

Bengali language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• Origin and development of the language
• Major dialects of Bengali
• Sadhu bhasa and Chalita bhasa
• Problems of standardçation and reform with special reference to spelling system alphabet and transliteration (romançation)

Bengali language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• The history of the Bengali literature from the earliest period to the modern times
• Social and cultural background of Bengali literature
• Sanskritic background of Bengali literature
• Western influence on Bengali literature
• Modern trends

Bengali language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Vaishnava padavali
• Mukundaram-Chandimangal
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt-Meghnad Badh kavya
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay-Krishna Kanter Vill, Kamalakanter Daptar
• Rabindranath Tagore: Galpaguchchha (1) chitra, punascha rakta karabi
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay: Srikanta (1)
• Pramatha Chaudhuri: Prabandha sangraha (1)
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay : Pather panchali
• Tarashankar Bandhopadhyay: Ganadevata
• Jibanananda Das: Banalata sen

Sanskrit language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• From Indo-European to middle Indo-Aryan languages (general outline only)
• Significant features of the grammar with particular stress on sandhi karaka, samasa and vachya (voice)

Sanskrit language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• Origin and development of literary, genres, including epic, drama, prose, kavya, lyric, and anthology

Sanskrit language and literature (section-I): Unit 03

• Varnashrama vyavastha, sanskaras, and principal philosophical trends

Sanskrit language and literature (section-I): Unit 04

Sanskrit language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Kathopanishad
• Bhagavad Gita
• Buddhachar Gita-(Asvaghosha)
• Swapnavasavadatta-(Bhasa)
• Abhijnanasakuntalam (Kalidasa)
• Meghaduta-(Kalidasa)
• Raghuvamsa-(Kalidasa)
• Kumarasambhava-(Kalidasa)
• Mricchakatika-(Sudraka)
• Kiratarjuniya-(Bharavi)
• Sisupalavadha-(Magha)
• Uttararamacharita-(Bhavabhuti)
• Mudrarakshasa-(Visakhadatta)
• Naishadha Charita (Sriharsa)
• Rajatarangini (Kalhama)
• Nitaisataka (Bharatihari)
• Kadambari-(Banabhatta)
• Harsacharita-(Banabhatta)
• Dasakumaracharita-(Dandi)
• Prabodha Chandrodaya-(Krishna Mishra)

Sanskrit language and literature (section-II): Unit 02

• Kathopanishad I chapter III valli verses 10 to 15
• Bhagwat Gita II chapter (13 to 25 verses)
• Buddhacarita canto III (1 to 10 verses)
• Svapnavasavadatta (6th act)
• Abhijnana shakuntalam (4th act)
• Meghaduta (1 to 10 opening verses)
• Kiratarjuniya (1st canto)
• Uttara ramacharitam (3rd act)
• Nitishatakam (1 to 10 verses)
• Kadambari (Shukanasopadesha)
• Kautilya Arthasastra-I Adhikarana I Prakarana-2nd Adhyaya entitled; Vidyasamuddesah
• Tatra Anviksikishthapana and VII Prakarans 11th adhyay entitled: Gudhapurusotpottih
• Prescribed editions R.P. Kangle, the Kautilya Arthasastra, Part I

Persian language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• Significant features of the grammar of the language rhetoric prosody

Persian language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• Literary movements, classical background, socio-culture influences and modern trends origin and development of modern literary genres including drama, novel, short story, essay

Persian language and literature (section-I): Unit 03

Persian language and literature (section-I): Unit 04

• Firdausi: Shah nama-(i) Dastan rostam va sohrab. (ii) Dastan vizanba mança
• Nizami-i Aruzi-i Samarqandi chahar magalas
• Khayyam, Rubaiyat, (Radif Alif, Be, Dal)
• Manuchehri-Qasaid (Radif Lam and Mim)
• Maulana Rum Masnavi (1st vol. 1st half)
• Saadi Shirazi Gulistan
• Amir Khusrau: Majmua-I-Dawawin Khusrau (Radif Alif and Te)
• Hafiz: Diwan-i-Hafiz (1st half)
• Abul Fazl: Ain-I-Akbari
• Bahar Mashhadi. Diwan-I-Bahar (1st vol., 1st half)
• Jawal Zadesh: Yake Bud Yake Na Bud

Arabic language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• Significant features of the grammar of the language, rhetoric, prosody

Arabic language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• Literary movements, classical background, sociocultural influences, and modern trends, origin and development of modern literary genres including drama, novel, short story, essay

Arabic language and literature (section-I): Unit 03

Arabic language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Imraul Qais: His maullagah-"Qifa nabki min zika haibin wa manzili" (complete)
• Zoflair Bin Abi Sulma: His maula haq-"A min aufaa dimnatun lam takalemi" (complete)
• Hassan Bin Thabit: The following five Qasaid from his Diwan-from qasidah no. 1 to qasidah iv and the qasidah: "Lillahi, darni isaabatin nadamthuhm + Yauman bijililage"
• Umar Bin Abi Rabiah: 5 Ghazals from his Diwan-(i) Falamma towagafna wa sallam ashraqat wujud hum zaharah husnu an-tata guanna (complete). (ii) Laita hindan anjazanta ma taidu+wa shaft anfusona mimma tajidu (complete)
• Umar Bin Abi Rabiah: 5 Ghazals from his Diwan-(iii) Katabtu Iiaiki min baladi + kitaba muwallahim kamdi (complete). (iv) Amin aali numin anta ghaadin famubkiru ghadia ghandia an raaihum famuhajjaru (complete)
• Umar Bin Abi Rabiah: 5 Ghazals from his Diwan-(v) Qalali feeha ateeq maqaal. + fajarat mimma yaqoolud dumoou (complete)
• Faradaq: The following 4 Qasaid from his Diwan-(i) "Haazal iasi tariful bateau watatah" in praise of zainul abideen ali bin hussain. (ii) "Zarrat sakeenatu atleahan ankha bihim" in praise of umar bin A. Azç
• Faradaq: The following 4 Qasaid from his Diwan-(iii) "Wa kcomin tanamul adhyaf ainan" in praise of saeed bin al-ass (complete) (iv) "wa atlas assalam wa maakano sahiban" in praise of "the wolf"
• Bashar bin murad: The following two Qasaid from his Diwan-(i) "Izaa balaghar raaiul mashwarata fastain + Biraai naseehinaw naseefate haazimi" (complete). Khelaiya min kabin seenaa akhookumma allaa darahi innal kareem menu (complete)
• Aba Nawas: First three Qasaid from the Diwan
• Shauoh: The following five Qasaid from his Diwan "Al-Sharqiya"-(i) "Ghana Bolum" (complete). (ii) "Kaneesatusm Saarat illa masjidi" (complete). (iii) "Ashloo hawaki ilman yaloomu fayaozafu" (complete)
• Shauoh: The following five Qasaid from his Diwan "Al-Sharqiya"-(iv) "Salamun min saban barada raqqa (nakbatu dimashq)" (complete). (v) Salaamun neel yaa ghandi-wa hazaz zahru min indi" (complete)

Arabic language and literature (section-II): Unit 02

• Ibn al-Muqaffa: "Kalila wa dimna" excluding muqaddimah-chapter I. Complete "al-asad wa-althaus"
• Al-Jahiz: Al-bayan wat tab-in vii edited by Abdul Salam Mohd. Haroon, cairo, Egypt from PP. 31 to 85
• Ibn Khaldun: His muqaddamah-39 pages, part six from the first chapter: From "Al faslul saadis minal kitab ul awal" to "Wa min furoodhi at jabru wal muqabla"
• Mahmud Timur: Story, "Amni Mutawalli" from his book "Qaalar Raavi"
• Tawfiq al-Hakim: Drama-"Sinful Muntahia" from his book "Masrahiyat Tariq Hakim"

Pali language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

• A general outline only, from the Indo-European to the middle Indo-Aryan languages), it's homeland and the main characteristics
• Salient features of the grammar with particular emphasis on Sandhi, Karaka, Vibhakti, Samasa, Itti Paccaya, Apacca (Bodh Pacaya) and Sankhya (Bodhaka Paccaya)

Pali language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

• Principal forms of writings including analytical compositions (Meiti Pakarana, Petakopadesa, Milinadapanda)
• Chronicles (Dipavenss, Mahavamsa, etc)
• Commentatorial expositions (Attakathi of Buddhas, Buddhaghosa and dhammapala), origin and development and literary genres including epic prose, kavya, lyric, and anthology

Pali language and literature (section-I): Unit 03

• Cattari ariya saccani
• Tilakkhana (Dukkha Anatta and Anicca) and four Abhidhamma Paramithas (Cita, Cetasika, Pupa, and Nibbana)

Pali language and literature (section-I): Unit 04

Pali language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Mahavagga
• Cullavagga
• Patimokkha
• Dighamkaya
• Mjihimanikaya
• Samyutta Nikaya
• Dhammapada
• Sutta Nipata
• Jataka
• Chergatha
• Theragatha
• Dhammasangani
• Kathavatthu
• Milindapanha
• Dipavamsa
• Mahavamsa
• Atthasalini
• Visuddhimagga
• Abhidhammattha Sangaha
• Teleckatahagatha
• Subodhalankara
• Vouttodaya

Pali language and literature (section-II): Unit 02

• Mahavagga (Mahakhandhaka only)
• Digha Nikaya (Samannaphala-Sutta only)
• Majihimanikaya (Mulapariyaya-Sutta and Samma Ditthi Sutta)
• Dhammapada (Yamaka, Vagga only)
• Sutta Nipata (Uraga Vagga only)
• Milindapanha (Lakkhana Panha only)
• Mahavansa (Pratham-Sangiti, Dutiya-Sangiti, and Tativa-Sangiti)
• Visuddhimagga (Sila Niddesa only)
• Abhdhammatthasangaho

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 01

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 02

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 03

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 04

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 05

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 06

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 07

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 08

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 09

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 10

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 11

Maithili language and literature (section-I): Unit 12

Maithili language and literature (section-II): Unit 01

• Vidyapati: Vidyapati geet wall, Maithili academy, Patna, poem no-1 to 50
• Govinddas: Govind Dash bhajanavali, Maithili academy, Patna, poem no.-1 to 50
• Manboth: Krishna Janma
• Chanda Jha: Mithila bhasha Ramayan (Sunderkand only)
• Yatri-Chitra
• Munshi Raghunandan Das: Mithila natak
• Aysi Prasad Singh: Suryamukhi
• Prof. Hari Mohan Jha: Kanyadan and dwiragaman
• Prof. Ramanath Jha: Prabandh sangrah
• Raj Kamal Choudhary: Lalka paag