Mizoram MCS 2024 Exam - Dates, Application Form, Admit Card, Syllabus, Eligibility, Preparation Tips, Result

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 01

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 02

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 03

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 04

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 05

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 06

• Numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc

Aptitude test (paper-II): Unit 07

• Charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc

General studies-I (Indian heritage and culture, history, and geography of the world and society): Unit 01

• Will cover salient aspects of art forms, literature, and architecture from ancient to modern times
• Mizoram heritage and culture

General studies-I (Indian heritage and culture, history, and geography of the world and society): Unit 02

• From about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues
• The freedom struggle-its various stages and important contributors/ contributions from different parts of the country
• Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country
• History of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization
• Political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism, etc-their forms and effect on the society

General studies-I (Indian heritage and culture, history, and geography of the world and society): Unit 03

• Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty, and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems, and their remedies
• Effects of globalization on indian society
• Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism, and secularism

General studies-I (Indian heritage and culture, history, and geography of the world and society): Unit 04

• Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including south Asia and the Indian subcontinent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India)
• Important geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic activity, cyclone etc
• Geographical features and their location changes in critical geographical features (including water bodies and ice caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes

General studies-II (governance, constitution, polity, social justice, and international relations): Unit 01

• Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein
• Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions
• Comparison of the indian constitutional scheme with that of other countries
• Parliament and state legislatures-structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers, and privileges, and issues arising out of these
• Structure, organization, and functioning of the executive and the judiciary
• Ministries and departments of the government; pressure groups and formal/ informal associations and their role in the polity
• Salient features of the representation of people’s act
• Appointment to various constitutional posts, powers, functions, and responsibilities of various constitutional bodies
• Statutory, regulatory, and various quasi-judicial bodies
• Governance and politics in Mizoram since 1947

General studies-II (governance, constitution, polity, social justice, and international relations): Unit 02

• Development processes and the development industry-the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders
• Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the centre and states and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions, and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections
• Issues relating to development and management of social sector/ services relating to health, education, human resources
• Issues relating to poverty and hunger

General studies-II (governance, constitution, polity, social justice, and international relations): Unit 03

• Transparency and accountability, e-governance-applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency and accountability and institutional, and other measures
• Role of civil services in a democracy

General studies-II (governance, constitution, polity, social justice, and international relations): Unit 04

• Bilateral, regional, and global groupings and agreements involving India and/ or affecting India’s interests
• Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora
• Important International institutions, agencies, and fora-their structure, mandate

General studies-III (technology, economic development, biodiversity, environment, security, and disaster management): Unit 01

• Inclusive growth and issues arising from it
• Government budgeting
• Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers
• Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; public distribution system-objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; technology missions; economics of animal-rearing
• Food processing and related industries in India-scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management
• Land reforms in india
• Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth
• Infrastructure: Energy, ports, roads, airports, railways, etc
• Investment models

General studies-III (technology, economic development, biodiversity, environment, security, and disaster management): Unit 02

• Achievements of Indians in science and technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology
• Awareness in the fields of IT, space, computers, robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and issues relating to intellectual property rights

General studies-III (technology, economic development, biodiversity, environment, security, and disaster management): Unit 03

• Disaster and disaster management

General studies-III (technology, economic development, biodiversity, environment, security, and disaster management): Unit 04

• Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security
• Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention
• Security challenges and their management in border areas-linkages of organized crime with terrorism
• Various security forces and agencies and their mandate

General studies-IV (ethics, integrity, and aptitude): Unit 01

• Essence, determinants, and consequences of ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics; ethics in private and public relationships
• Human values-lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers, and administrators; role of family, society, and educational institutions in inculcating values

General studies-IV (ethics, integrity, and aptitude): Unit 02

• Content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion
• Aptitude and foundational values for civil service, integrity, impartiality, and non partisanship, objectivity, dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and compassion towards the weaker sections
• Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance
• Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India, and world

General studies-IV (ethics, integrity, and aptitude): Unit 03

• Status and problems; ethical concerns and dilemmas in government and private institutions; laws, rules, regulations, and conscience as sources of ethical guidance; accountability and ethical governance
• Strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance; ethical issues in international relations and funding; corporate governance
• Probity in governance: Concept of public service; philosophical basis of governance and probity; information sharing and transparency in government, right to information, codes of ethics, codes of conduct, citizen’s charters, work culture
• Probity in governance: Quality of service delivery, utilization of public funds, challenges of corruption

General studies-IV (ethics, integrity, and aptitude): Unit 04

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Natural resources, their sustainable management, and conservation
• Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution, and production
• Agro ecology; cropping pattern as indicators of environments
• Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals, and humans
• Climate change-international conventions and global initiatives
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Advance tools for ecosystem analysis-remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS)

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Impact of high yielding and short-duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns
• Concepts of various cropping and farming systems
• Organic and Precision Farming
• Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibers, sugar, commercial, and fodder crops
• Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplications; cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Scope, importance, and characteristics, farm planning
• Optimum resource use and budgeting
• Economics of different types of farming systems
• Marketing management-strategies for development, market intelligence
• Price fluctuations and their cost; role of cooperatives in agricultural economy; types and systems of farming and factors affecting them
• Agricultural Price Policy
• Crop insurance

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, socioeconomic survey and status of big, small, and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers
• Training programmes for extension workers
• Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in dissemination of agricultural technologies
• Non government organization (NGO) and self help group approach for rural development

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Propagation of forest plants
• Forest products
• Agro-forestry and value addition
• Conservation of forest flora and fauna

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Processes and factors of soil formation
• Soils of India
• Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity
• Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants
• Principles of soil fertility, soil testing, and fertilizer recommendations, integrated nutrient management biofertilizers
• Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils
• Efficient Phosphorus and Potassium use
• Problem soils and their reclamation
• Soil factors affecting greenhouse gas emission

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Soil erosion and its management
• Dry land agriculture and its problems
• Technology for stabilizing agriculture production in rainfed areas

Agriculture-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways, and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water
• Rainwater harvesting
• Drip and sprinkler irrigation
• Drainage of waterlogged soils, quality of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution
• Irrigation projects in India

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Synthesis, structure, and function of genetic material
• Laws of heredity
• Chromosome structure, Chromosomal aberrations, linkage and cross-over, and their significance in recombination breeding
• Polyploidy, euploids, and aneuploids
• Mutation-their role in crop improvement
• Heritability, sterility, and incompatibility, classification and their application in crop improvement
• Cytoplasmic inheritance, sex-linked, sex-influenced, and sex-limited characters

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Modes of reproduction, selfing, and crossing techniques
• Origin, evolution, and domestication of crop plants, center of origin, law of homologous series, crop genetic resources-conservation and utilization
• Application of principles of plant breeding, improvement of crop plants
• Molecular markers and their application in plant improvement
• Pure-line selection, Pedigree, mass and recurrent selections, combining ability, its significance in plant breeding
• Heterosis and its exploitation
• Somatic hybridization
• Breeding for disease and pest resistance
• Role of interspecific and intergeneric hybridization
• Role of genetic engineering and biotechnology in crop improvement
• Genetically modified crop plants

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Seed certification, seed testing, and storage
• DNA fingerprinting and Seed registration
• Role of public and private sectors in seed production, and marketing
• Intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, WTO issues, and its impact on agriculture
• Principles of Plant Physiology with reference to plant nutrition, absorption, translocation and metabolism of nutrients
• Soil-Water-Plant relationship

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Photosynthesis-modern concepts and factors affecting the process, aerobic and anaerobic respiration; C₃, C₄, and CAM mechanisms
• Carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism
• Growth and development; photoperiodism and vernalization
• Plant growth substances and their role in crop production
• Physiology of seed development and germination; dormancy
• Stress physiology-draught, salt, and water stress

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Package practices of major horticultural crops
• Protected cultivation and high tech horticulture
• Post-harvest technology and value addition of fruits and vegetables
• Landscaping and commercial floriculture
• Medicinal and Aromatic plants
• Role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Classification of pests and diseases and their management
• Integrated pest and Diseases management
• Storage pests and their management
• Biological control of pests and diseases
• Epidemiology and forecasting of major crop pests and diseases
• Plant quarantine measures
• Pesticides, their formulation, and modes of action

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Food security and growing population-vision 2020
• Reasons for grain surplus
• National and international food policies
• Production, procurement, distribution constraints
• Availability of food grains, per capita expenditure on food
• Trends in Poverty, Public Distribution System and Below Poverty Line population, Targeted Public Distribution System (PDS), policy implementation in context to globalization

Agriculture-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Relation of food production to National Dietary Guidelines and food consumption pattern
• Food based dietary approaches to eliminate hunger
• Nutrient deficiency-micronutrient deficiency: Protein energy malnutrition or protein calorie malnutrition (PEM or PCM), micro nutrient deficiency and HRD in context of work capacity of women and children
• Food grain productivity and Food security

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Partitioning of food energy within the animal
• Direct and indirect calorimetry
• Carbon-nitrogen balance and comparative slaughter methods
• Systems for expressing energy value of foods in ruminants, pigs, and poultry
• Energy requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat production
• Latest advances in protein nutrition
• Energy protein inter-relationships
• Evaluation of protein quality
• Use of npn compounds in ruminant diets
• Protein requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat production
• Major and trace minerals-their sources, physiological functions, and deficiency symptoms
• Toxic minerals
• Mineral interactions
• Role of fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins in the body, their sources, and deficiency symptoms
• Feed additives-methane inhibitors, probiotics, enzymes, antibiotics, hormones, oligosaccharides, antioxidants, emulsifiers, mould inhibitors, buffers etc
• Use and abuse of growth promoters like hormones and antibiotics-latest concepts

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Storage of feeds and feed ingredients
• Recent advances in feed technology and feed processing
• Antinutritional and toxic factors present in livestock feeds
• Feed analysis and quality control
• Digestibility trials-direct, indirect, and indicator methods
• Predicting feed intake in grazing animals
• Advances in ruminant nutrition
• Nutrient requirements
• Balanced rations
• Feeding of calves, pregnant, work animals, and breeding bulls
• Strategies for feeding milch animals during different stages of lactation cycle
• Effect of feeding on milk composition
• Feeding of goats for meat and milk production
• Feeding of sheep for meat and wool production
• Swine nutrition
• Nutrition requirements
• Creep, starter, grower, and finisher rations
• Feeding of pigs for lean meat production
• Low cost rations for swine
• Poultry nutrition
• Special features of poultry nutrition
• Nutrient requirements for meat and egg production
• Formulation of rations for different classes of layers and broilers

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Blood constituents: Properties and functions, blood cell formation, haemoglobin synthesis and chemistry, plasma proteins production, classification, and properties, coagulation of blood; haemorrhagic disorders-anticoagulants, blood groups, blood volume
• Blood constituents: Plasma expanders, buffer systems in blood. Biochemical tests and their significance in disease diagnosis
• Circulation: Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle, heart sounds, heartbeat, electrocardiograms. Work and efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart function, metabolism of cardiac muscle, nervous and chemical regulation of heart
• Circulation: Effect of temperature and stress on heart, blood pressure and hypertension, osmotic regulation, arterial pulse, vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock. Coronary and pulmonary circulation
• Circulation: Blood-brain barrier cerebrospinal fluid-circulation in birds
• Respiration: Mechanism of respiration, transport and exchange of gases-neural control of respiration, chemoreceptors, hypoxia, respiration in birds
• Excretion: Structure and function of kidney, formation of urine, methods of studying renal function, renal regulation of acid-base balance: Physiological constituents of urine, renal failure-passive venous congestion, urinary secretion in chicken
• Excretion: Renal regulation of acid-base balance-sweat glands and their function. Biochemical test for urinary dysfunction
• Endocrine glands: Functional disorders, their symptoms, and diagnosis. Synthesis of hormones, mechanism, and control of secretion-hormonal receptors classification and function
• Growth and animal production: Prenatal and postnatal growth, maturation, growth curves, measures of growth, factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition, meat quality
• Physiology of milk production, reproduction, and digestion: Current status of hormonal control of mammary development, milk secretion, and milk ejection. Male and female reproductive organs, their components, and functions
• Reproduction, and digestion: Digestive organs and their functions
• Environmental physiology: Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanisms involved in animal behaviour, climatology-various parameters and their importance. Animal ecology
• Environmental physiology: Physiology of behaviour. Effect of stress on health and production
• Importance of climate in animal health: Effect of environment on animal function and performance relationship between industrialization and animal agriculture. Stress, strain, and productivity in relation to animal habitation

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 04

• 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. Factors affecting semen production and quality
• Semen quality: Preservation, composition of diluents, sperm concentration, transport of diluted semen. Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry. Detection of estrus and time of insemination for better conception
• Semen quality: Anoestrus and repeat breeding. Multiple ovulation and embryo transfer technology (MOET). Dystocia and obstetrical operations

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Commercial dairy farming: Comparison of dairy farming in India with advanced countries. Dairying under mixed farming and as specialized farming, economic dairy farming. Starting of a dairy farm, capital, and land requirement
• Commercial dairy farming: Organization of the dairy farm. Opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal. Heard recording, budgeting cost of milk production, pricing policy; personnel management
• Commercial dairy farming: Developing practical and economic rations for dairy cattle; supply of greens throughout the year, feed and fodder requirements of dairy farm. Feeding regimes for young stock and bulls, heifers and breeding animals
• Commercial dairy farming: New trends in feeding young and adult stock; feeding records
• Commercial meat, egg, and wool production: Development of practical and economic rations for sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, and poultry. Supply of greens, fodder, feeding regimes for young and mature stock. New trends in enhancing production and management
• Commercial meat, egg, and wool production: Capital and land requirements and socioeconomic concept
• Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood, and other natural calamities
• Animal housing requirements for specific categories of domestic animals viz. pregnant cows and sows, milking cows, broiler birds

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 06

• History of animal genetics
• Mitosis and meiosis: Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian genetics; expression of genes; linkage and crossing over; sex determination, sex influenced and sex limited characters; blood groups and polymorphism; chromosome aberrations
• Mitosis and meiosis: Cytoplasmic inheritance
• Gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic material; genetic code and protein synthesis; recombinant dna technology
• Mutations, types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate
• Transgenesis

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Quantitative vs. qualitative traits; Hardy-Weinberg law; population vs. individual; gene and genotypic frequency; forces changing gene frequency; random drift and small populations; theory of path coefficient
• Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding; effective population size; breeding value, estimation of breeding value, dominance and epistatic deviation; partitioning of variation
• Genotype X environment correlation and genotype environment interaction; role of multiple measurements; resemblance between relatives
• Breeding systems: Breeds of livestock and poultry. Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation and precision of estimates; aids to selection and their relative merits; individual, pedigree
• Breeding systems: Family and within family selection; pregnancy testing; methods of selection; construction of selection indices and their uses; comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods
• Breeding systems: Indirect selection and correlated response; inbreeding, outbreeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis of breeds; crossing of inbred lines for commercial production; selection for general and specific combining ability
• Breeding systems: Breeding for threshold characters. Sire index

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Basic philosophy, objectives, concept, and principles of extension
• Different methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions
• Generation of technology, its transfer, and feedback
• Problems and constraints in transfer of technology
• Animal husbandry programmes for rural development

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Histology and histological techniques: Paraffin embedding technique of tissue processing and HE staining-freezing microtomy, microscopy bright field microscope and electron microscope. Cytology-structure of cell organelles and inclusions
• Histology and histological techniques: Cell division-cell types, tissues and their classification, embryonic and adult tissues, comparative histology of organs-vascular. Nervous, digestive, respiratory
• Histology and histological techniques: Musculoskeletal and urogenital systems-endocrine glands, integuments, sense organs
• Embryology: Embryology of vertebrates with special reference to aves and domestic mammals gametogenesis-fertilization, germ layers, foetal membranes and placentation, types of placenta in domestic mammals, teratology, twins and twinning, organogenesis
• Embryology: Germ layer derivatives-endodermal, mesodermal, and ectodermal derivatives
• Bovine anatomy: Regional anatomy-paranasal sinuses of OX, surface anatomy of salivary glands. Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandibular alveolar, mental and cornnal nerve block. Regional anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pudendal nerve
• Bovine anatomy: Median ulnar and radial nerves-tibial, fibular and digital nerves-cranial nerves, structures involved in epidural anesthesia, superficial lymph nodes, surface anatomy of visceral organs of thoracic
• Bovine anatomy: Abdominal and pelvic cavities-comparative features of locomotor apparatus and their application in the biomechanics of mammalian body
• Anatomy of fowl: Musculo-skeletal system, functional anatomy in relation to respiration and flying, digestion, and egg production

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
• Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance
• Drugs acting on autonomic nervous system
• Modern concepts of anesthesia and dissociative anaesthetics
• Autacoids
• Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in microbial infections
• Use of hormones in therapeutics-chemotherapy of parasitic infections
• Drug and economic concerns in the edible tissues of animals-chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases
• Toxicity due to insecticides, plants, metals, non-metals, zootoxins, and mycotoxins

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Etiology, epidemiology pathogenesis, symptoms, post-mortem lesions, diagnosis, and control of infectious diseases of cattle, sheep and goat, horses, pigs, and poultry
• Etiology, epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of production diseases of cattle, horse, pig, and poultry
• Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds
• Diagnosis and treatment of non-specific conditions like impaction, bloat, diarrhoea, indigestion, dehydration, stroke, poisoning

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Principles and methods of immunization of animals against specific diseases-hard immunity, disease free zones, ‘zero’ disease concept, chemoprophylaxis
• Anesthesia: Local, regional, and general-preanesthetic medication
• Symptoms and surgical interference in fractures and dislocation
• Hernia, choking abomasal displacement-caesarian operations
• Rumenotomy-castrations
• Disease investigation techniques: Materials for laboratory investigation-establishment. Animal health centers disease free zone

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Zoonoses: Classification, definition, role of animals and birds in prevalence and transmission of zoonotic diseases-occupational zoonotic diseases
• Epidemiology: Principle, definition of epidemiological terms, application of epidemiological measures in the study of diseases and disease control. Epidemiological features of air, water, and food borne infections. OIE regulation, WTO
• Epidemiology: Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
• Veterinary jurisprudence: Rules and regulations for improvement of animal quality and prevention of animal diseases, state and central rules for prevention of animal and animal product borne diseases, SPCA, veterolegal cases, certificates
• Veterinary jurisprudence: Materials and methods of collection of samples for veterolegal investigation
• Veterinary hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation-assessment of pollution of water, air and soil

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Market milk: Quality, testing, and grading of raw milk. Processing, packaging, storing, distribution, marketing defects, and their control. Preparation of the following milks: Pasteurized, standardized, toned, double toned, sterilized, homogenized
• Market milk: Reconstituted, recombined and flavored milks. Preparation of cultured milks, cultures, and their management, yoghurt, dahi, lassi, and shrikhand. Preparation of flavoured and sterilized milks. Legal standards
• Market milk: Sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk plant equipment
• Milk products technology: Selection of raw materials, processing, storing, distributing, and marketing milk products such as cream, butter, ghee, khoa, channa, cheese, condensed, evaporated, dried milk and baby food, ice cream and kulfi; by-products
• Milk products technology: Selection of raw materials, processing, storing, distributing, and marketing milk products such as whey products, buttermilk, lactose, and casein. Testing, grading, judging milk products-BIS and agmark specifications
• Milk products technology: Judging milk products-legal standards, quality control nutritive properties. Packaging processing and operational control. Costing of dairy products

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Ante mortem care and management of food animals, stunning, slaughter and dressing operations; abattoir requirements and designs; meat inspection procedures and judgment of carcass meat cuts-grading of carcass meat cuts
• Duties and functions of veterinarians in wholesome meat production
• Hygienic methods of handling production of meat: Spoilage of meat and control measures, post-slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and factors that influence them, quality improvement methods, adulteration of meat and detection
• Hygienic methods of handling production of meat: Regulatory provisions in meat trade and industry

Animal husbandry and veterinary science-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Physical and chemical characteristics of meat: Meat emulsions, methods of preservation of meat-curing, canning, irradiation, packaging of meat and meat products, processing and formulations
• By-products: Slaughter house by-products and their utilization, edible and inedible by products, social and economic implications of proper utilization of slaughterhouse by-products-organ products for food and pharmaceuticals
• Poultry products technology: Chemical composition and nutritive value of poultry meat, pre-slaughter care and management. Slaughtering techniques, inspection, preservation of poultry meat and products. Legal and BIS standards
• Structure composition and nutritive value of eggs
• Microbial spoilage
• Preservation and maintenance
• Marketing of poultry meat, eggs, and products
• Value added meat products
• Rabbit/ fur animal farming-rabbit meat production
• Disposal and utilization of fur and wool and recycling of waste by products
• Grading of wool

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Relationships with other disciplines: Social sciences, behavioural sciences, life sciences, medical sciences, earth sciences, and humanities
• Main branches of anthropology, their scope, and relevance: (a) Social-cultural anthropology, (b) biological anthropology, (c) archaeological anthropology, (d) linguistic anthropology
• Human evolution and emergence of man: (a) Biological and cultural factors in human evolution, (b) theories of organic evolution (pre-Darwinian, Darwinian, and post-Darwinian)
• Human evolution and emergence of man: (c) Synthetic theory of evolution; brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology (Doll’s rule, Cope’s rule, Gause’s rule, parallelism, convergence, adaptive radiation, and mosaic evolution)

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Evolutionary trend and primate taxonomy; primate adaptations; (arboreal and terrestrial) primate taxonomy; primate behaviour; tertiary and quaternary fossil primates; living major primates; comparative anatomy of man and apes
• Skeletal changes due to erect posture and its implications
• Phylogenetic status, characteristics, and geographical distribution of the following: (a) Plio-preleistocene hominids in south and east African-Australopithecines. (b) Homo erectus: Africa (Paranthropus), Europe (homo erectus (Heidelbergensis)
• Phylogenetic status, characteristics, and geographical distribution of the following: (b) Homo erectus: Asia (homo erectus Javanicus, Homo erectus Pekinensis. (c) Neanderthal man-La-Chapelle-Aux-Saints (classical type), MT. Carmel (progressive type)
• Phylogenetic status, characteristics, and geographical distribution of the following: (d) Rhodesian man. (e) Homo sapiens: Cro-Magnon, Grimaldi, and Chancelade
• The biological basis of life: the cell, DNA structure and Replication, Protein synthesis, Gene, Mutation, Chromosomes, and Cell division
• Principles of prehistoric archaeology
• Chronology: relative and absolute dating methods
• Cultural evolution-broad outlines of prehistoric cultures: (i) Paleolithic, (ii) Mesolithic, (iii) Neolithic, (iv) Chalcolithic, (v) Copper-bronze age, (vi) Iron age

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 03

• The concept and characteristics of culture and civilization; ethnocentrism vis-a-vis cultural relativism
• The nature of society: Concept of society; society and culture; social institution; social groups; and social stratification
• Marriage: Definition and universality; laws of marriage (endogamy, exogamy, hypergamy, hypogamy, incest taboo); type of marriage (monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, group marriage). Functions of marriage
• Marriage: Marriage regulations (preferential, prescriptive and proscriptive); marriage payments (bride wealth and dowry)
• Family: Definition and universality; family, household and domestic groups; functions of family; types of family (from the perspectives of structure, blood relation, marriage, residence and succession); impact of urbanization
• Family: Industrialization and feminist movements on family
• Kinship: Consanguinity and affinity; principles and types of descent (unilineal, double, bilateral ambilineal); forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred); kinship terminology (descriptive and classificatory); descent
• Kinship: Filiation and complementary filiation; decent and alliance

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Meaning, scope, and relevance of economic anthropology; formalist and substantivist debate; principles governing production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity, redistribution and market), in communities, subsisting on hunting and gathering, fishing
• Swiddening, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems
• Political organization and social control: Band, tribe, chiefdom, kingdom and state; concepts of power, authority and legitimacy; social control, law, and justice in simple societies
• Religion: Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional); monotheism and polytheism; sacred and profane; myths and rituals
• Religion: Forms of religion in tribal and peasant societies (animism, animatism, fetishism, naturism, and totemism); religion, magic, and science distinguished; magico-religious functionaries (priest, shaman, medicine man, sorcerer, and witch)

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Classical evolutionism (Tylor, Morgan, and Frazer)
• Diffusionism (British, German, and American)
• Functionalism (Malinowski); Structural-functionalism (Radcliffe-Brown)
• Structuralism (Levi-Strauss and E. Leach)
• Culture and personality (Benedict, Mead, Linton, Kardiner and Cora-Dubois)
• Neoevolutionism (Childe, White, Steward, Sahlins, and service)
• Cultural materialism (Harris)

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Fieldwork tradition in anthropology
• Distinction between technique, method, and methodology
• Tools of data collection: observation, interview, schedules, questionnaire, Case study, genealogy, life-history, oral history, secondary sources of information, participatory methods
• Analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Methods and application: Methods for study of genetic principles in man-family study (pedigree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic method, chromosomal and karyotype analysis), biochemical methods, immunological methods
• Methods and application: DNA technology and recombinant technologies
• Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sublethal, and polygenic inheritance in man
• Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, Hardy-Weinberg law; causes and changes which bring down frequency-mutation, isolation, migration, selection, inbreeding, and genetic drift
• Consanguineous and non consanguineous mating, genetic load, genetic effect of consanguineous and cousin marriages
• Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology: (i) Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders), (ii) sex chromosomal aberration-klinefelter (XXY), turner (XO), super female (XXX), intersex, and other syndromic disorders
• Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology: (iii) Autosomal aberrations-Down syndrome, Patau, Edward, and Cri-Du-Chat syndromes, (iv) genetic imprints in human disease, genetic screening, genetic counseling, human DNA profiling
• Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology: (iv) Gene mapping and genome study

Anthropology-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Stages of growth-prenatal, natal, infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity, senescence
• Factors affecting growth and development genetic, environmental, biochemical, nutritional, cultural, and socioeconomic
• Ageing and senescence
• Theories and observations-biological and chronological longevity
• Human physique and somatotypes
• Methodologies for growth studies
• Relevance of menarche, menopause, and other bioevents to fertility
• Fertility patterns and differentials
• Biological and socioecological factors influencing fecundity, fertility, natality, and mortality
• Applications of anthropology: Anthropology of sports, nutritional anthropology, anthropology in designing of defence and other equipments, forensic anthropology, methods and principles of personal identification and reconstruction
• Applications of anthropology: Applied human genetics-paternity diagnosis, genetic counseling and eugenics, DNA technology in diseases and medicine, serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Prehistoric (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Neolithic-Chalcolithic). Protohistoric (Indus civilization): Pre-Harappan, Harappan, and post-Harappan cultures. Contributions of the tribal cultures to Indian civilization
• Palaeo: Anthropological evidences from India with special reference to Siwaliks and Narmada basin (Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus, and Narmada man)
• Ethno-archaeology in India: The concept of ethnoarchaeology; survivals and parallels among the hunting, foraging, fishing, pastoral and peasant communities including arts and crafts producing communities

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Contributions of indian anthropologists to tribal and caste studies
• Demographic profile of India-ethnic and linguistic elements in the Indian population and their distribution
• Indian population-factors influencing its structure and growth

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Varnashrama, Purushartha, Karma, Rina, and rebirth
• Caste system in India-structure and characteristics, Varna and caste, theories of origin of caste system, dominant caste, caste mobility, future of caste system, jajmani system, tribe-caste continuum
• Sacred complex and nature-man-spirit complex

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Significance of village study in India; Indian village as a social system; traditional and changing patterns of settlement and inter-caste relations; agrarian relations in Indian villages; impact of globalization on Indian villages
• Linguistic and religious minorities and their social, political, and economic status
• Indigenous and exogenous processes of socio-cultural change in Indian society: Sanskritization, westernization, modernization; inter-play of little and great traditions; Panchayati raj and social change; media and social change

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Biogenetic variability, linguistic, and socioeconomic characteristics of the tribal populations, and their distribution
• Problems of the tribal communities: Land alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, poor educational facilities, unemployment, under-employment, health, and nutrition
• Developmental projects and their impact on tribal displacement and problems of rehabilitation
• Development of forest policy and tribals
• Impact of urbanization and industrialization on tribal populations

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Constitutional safeguards for scheduled tribes and scheduled castes
• Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development programmes and welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections
• The concept of ethnicity; ethnic conflicts and political developments; unrest among tribal communities; regionalism and demand for autonomy; pseudo tribalism
• Social change among the tribes during colonial and post-independent india

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Tribe and nation state-a comparative study of tribal communities in India and other countries
• History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies, plans, programmes of tribal development and their implementation
• The concept of PTGs (primitive tribal groups), their distribution, special programmers for their development
• Role of NGOS in tribal development

Anthropology-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism, and ethnic and political movements

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Structure and reproduction/ multiplication of viruses, viroids, bacteriophage, bacteria, fungi, and mycoplasma; applications of microbiology in agriculture, industry, medicine, and in control of soil and water pollution; prion and prion hypothesis
• Conjugation
• General account of crop diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, fungi, and nematodes; modes of infection and dissemination; molecular basis of infection and disease resistance/ defence; physiology of parasitism and control measures
• Fungal toxins; modeling and disease forecasting; plant quarantine

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes-structure and reproduction from evolutionary viewpoint; distribution of cryptogams in India and their ecological and economic importance
• Gymnosperms: Concept of progymnosperms; classification and distribution of gymnosperms; salient features of cycadales, ginkgoales, coniferales, and gnetales, their structure, and reproduction; general account of cycadofilicales
• Gymnosperms: Bennettitales and cordaitales; geological time scale; type of fossils and their study techniques

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Angiosperms: Systematic, anatomy, embryology, palynology, and phylogeny. Taxonomic hierarchy; international code of botanical nomenclature; numerical taxonomy and chemotaxonomy; evidence from anatomy, embryology, and palynology

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Origin and evolution of angiosperms; natural, phylogenetic and modern systems of classification comparative account; study of angiospermic families-magnoliaceae, ranunculaceae, brassicaceae, rosaceae, fabaceae, euphorbiaceae, malvaceae
• Study of angiospermic families-dipterocarpaceae, apiaceae, asclepiadaceae, verbenaceae, solanaceae, rubiaceae, cucurbitaceae, asteraceae, poaceae, arecaceae, liliaceae, musaceae, and orchidaceae

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Development of male and female gametophytes, pollination, fertilization; endosperm-its development and function; patterns of embryo development; polyembryony, apomixis; applications of palynology; experimental embryology including pollen storage

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Domestication and introduction of plants; origin of cultivated plants; Vavilov’s centers of origin; plants as sources for food, fodder, fibers, spices, beverages, edible oils, drugs, narcotics, insecticides, timber, gums, resins and dyes, latex
• Plants as sources for cellulose, starch and its products; perfumery; importance of ethnobotany in Indian context; energy plantations, botanical gardens, and herbaria

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Totipotency, polarity, symmetry, and differentiation; cell, tissue, organ, and protoplast culture; somatic hybrids and cybrids; micropropagation; somaclonal variation and its applications; pollen haploids, embryo rescue methods and their applications

Botany-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Stomata and their types; glandular and non-glandular trichomes; unusual secondary growth; anatomy of C3 and C4 plants; xylem and phloem differentiation; wood anatomy

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Techniques of cell biology; prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells-structural and ultrastructural details; structure and function of extracellular matrix (cell wall), membranes-cell adhesion, membrane transport and vesicular transport
• Structure and function of cell organelles (chloroplasts, mitochondria, ER, dictyosomes ribosomes, endosomes, lysosomes, peroxisomes); cytoskeleton and microtubules; nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear pore complex; chromatin and nucleosome
• Cell signaling and cell receptors; signal transduction mitosis and meiosis; molecular basis of cell cycle; numerical and structural variations in chromosomes and their significance; chromatin organization and packaging of genome
• Polygene chromosomes; B-chromosomes-structure, behaviour and significance

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Development of genetics; gene versus allele concepts (pseudoalleles); quantitative genetics and multiple factors; incomplete dominance, polygenic inheritance, multiple alleles; linkage and crossing over; methods of gene mapping
• Including molecular maps (idea of mapping, function); sex chromosomes and sex-linked inheritance; sex determination and molecular basis of sex differentiation; mutations (biochemical and molecular basis); cytoplasmic inheritance and male sterility
• Structure of nucleic acids and proteins; genetic code protein synthesis regulation of gene expression; gene silencing; multigene families; organic evolution-evidences, mechanism, and theories
• Role of rna in origin and evolution

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Concept of ecosystem; ecological factors; concepts and dynamics of community; plant succession; concept of biosphere; ecosystems; conservation; pollution and its control (including phytoremediation); plant indicators; environment (protection) act
• Forest types of India-ecological and economic importance of forests, afforestation, deforestation, and social forestry

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Endangered plants, endemism, IUCN categories, red data books; biodiversity and its conservation; protected area network; convention on biological diversity; farmers’ rights and intellectual property rights; concept of sustainable development
• Biogeochemical cycles; global warming and climatic change; invasive species; environmental impact assessment; phytogeographical regions of India

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Methods of plant breeding-introduction, selection, and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection, bulk method); mutation, polyploidy, male sterility, and heterosis breeding; use of apomixis in plant breeding; DNA sequencing
• Genetic engineering-methods of transfer of genes; transgenic crops and biosafety aspects; development and use of molecular markers in plant breeding; tools and techniques-probe, southern blotting, DNA fingerprinting, PCR and FISH

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Standard deviation and coefficient of variation (CV); tests of significance (Z-test, t-test, and chi-square tests); probability and distributions (normal, binomial, and Poisson); correlation and regression

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Water relations, mineral nutrition and ion transport, mineral deficiencies; photosynthesis-photochemical reactions; photophosphorylation and carbon fixation pathways; C₃, C₄, and CAM pathways; mechanism of phloem transport; plant movements
• Photoperiodism and flowering, vernalization, senescence; growth substances-their chemical nature, role and applications in agri-horticulture; growth indices, growth movements; stress physiology (heat, water, salinity, metal); fruit and seed physiology
• Dormancy, storage and germination of seed; fruit ripening-its molecular basis and manipulation

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Respiration (anaerobic and aerobic, including fermentation)-electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation; photorespiration; chemiosmotic theory and ATP synthesis; lipid metabolism; nitrogen fixation and nitrogen metabolism; enzymes, coenzymes

Botany-Paper-II: Unit 09

• Energy transfer and energy conservation; secondary metabolites; pigments as photoreceptors (plastidial pigments and phytochrome)

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Classification of solids, seven crystal systems, elements of symmetry in crystals, space lattice and unit cell, classification of crystals on the basis of bond types, Ionic solids, metallic solids and molecular solids
• The close packing of spheres, hexagonal close packing, cubic close packing and body centered cubic packing, coordination number and radius ratio effects
• Bragg’s law of X-ray diffraction, powder pattern method, crystal structure of NaCl, KCl, ZnS, CsCl, and CaF
• Phase equilibrium: Phases, components, degrees of freedom, phase diagram of one and two component systems, Nernst distribution law, applications of distribution law

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Equation of state for real gases, intermolecular interactions, and critical phenomena and liquefaction of gases; Maxwell’s distribution law of molecular velocities, evaluation of average RMS
• Most probable velocity and average kinetic energy from Maxwell equation
• Degrees of freedom, principle of equipartition of energy and molecular basis of heat capacity
• Thermodynamics: Work, heat, and internal energy; first law of thermodynamics. Second law of thermodynamics; entropy as a state function, entropy changes in various processes, entropy-reversibility, and irreversibility, free energy functions
• Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic equation of state; Maxwell relations; temperature, volume, and pressure dependence of U, H, A, G, Cp, and Cv, a and a; J-T effect and inversion temperature; criteria for equilibrium
• Thermodynamics: Relation between equilibrium constant and thermodynamic quantities; Nernst heat theorem, introductory idea of third law of thermodynamics

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Stability and origin of charge on colloids, electrokinetic potential
• Physical and chemical adsorption, various types of adsorption isotherms, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, enzyme catalysis (Michaelis-Menten) equation
• Electrochemistry: Debye-Hückel theory of strong electrolytes and Debye-Hückel limiting law for various equilibrium and transport properties. Galvanic cells, concentration cells; electrochemical series
• Electrochemistry: Measurement of EMF of cells and its applications fuel cells and batteries. Processes at electrodes; double layer at the interface; rate of charge transfer, current density; over potential
• Electrochemistry: Electroanalytical techniques-amperometry, ion selective electrodes and their use

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Differential and integral rate equations for zeroth, first, second, and fractional order reactions; rate equations involving reverse, parallel, consecutive, and chain reactions; branching chain and explosions
• Effect of temperature and pressure on rate constant; study of fast reactions by stop-flow and relaxation methods; collisions and transition state theories
• Photochemistry: Absorption of light; decay of excited state by different routes; photochemical reactions between hydrogen and halogens, and their quantum yields

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Bohr model and its limitations, De Broglie equation, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, quantum mechanical operators and the Schrodinger wave equation (time dependent)
• Physical significance of wave function and its characteristics (normalized, orthogonal), radial distribution and shapes of s, p, d, and f orbitals
• Particle in one dimensional box, quantization of electronic energies (qualitative treatment of hydrogen atom)
• Pauli’s exclusion principle, Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity, Aufbau principle, electronic configuration of atoms, long form of periodic table including Translawrencium elements
• Periodicity in properties of the elements such as atomic and ionic radii, ionization potential, electron affinity, electronegativity and hydration energy
• Nuclear and radiation chemistry: Structure of nucleus (shell model), nuclear forces, nuclear stability-N/P ratio, nuclear binding energy, detection and measurement of radioactivity, artificial transmutation of elements and nuclear reactions
• Nuclear and radiation chemistry: Nuclear fission and fusion, radioactive isotopes and their applications, radiocarbon dating, units of radioactivity

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Ionic bond, characteristics of ionic compounds, lattice energy, Born-Haber cycle; covalent bond and its general characteristics, polarities of bonds in molecules and their dipole moments; valence bond theory (Heitler-London and Pauling-Slater-theories)
• Hybridization, VSEPR theory and shapes of simple inorganic molecules, molecular orbital theory, bonding, non-bonding molecular orbitals, molecular orbital energy
• Lever diagrams for homo and heteronuclear diatomic molecules
• Bond order and bond length and bond strength
• Sigma and pi-bonds, hydrogen bond
• Bioinorganic chemistry: Essential and trace elements in biological processes, metalloporphyrins with special reference to haemoglobin and myoglobin, biological role of alkali and alkaline earth metal ions with special reference to Ca2+

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 07

• General properties of s- and p-block elements, chemical reactivity of elements and group trends
• Chemical behaviour with respect to their hybrids, halides, and oxides
• Chemistry of transition elements: General characteristics, variable oxidation states, complex formation, colour, magnetic and catalytic properties. Comparative study of 4d and 5d transition elements with 3d analogues with respect to their ionic radii
• Chemistry of transition elements: Oxidation states and magnetic properties

Chemistry-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Lanthanide contraction, oxidation states, principles of separation of lanthanides and actinides, magnetic and spectral properties of their compounds
• Coordination chemistry: Preparation, properties and uses of the following-(a) inorganic compounds: Heavy water, boric acid, diborane, hydrazine, hydroxylamine, potassium dichromate, potassium permanganate, Ce (IV) sulphate, and Ti (III) sulphate
• Coordination chemistry: Preparation, properties and uses of the following-(b) polymers: Molecular weight of polymers by sedimentation, light scattering, viscosity and osmotic pressure. Number average and weight average molecular weights
• Coordination chemistry: Preparation, properties and uses of the following-(b) polymers: Elasticity and crystallinity of polymers. (c) Borazines: Silicates and silicones and phosphonitrilic halide polymers

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Aromaticity, anti-aromaticity; annulenes, azulenes, tropolones, kekulene, fulvenes, sydnones
• Reactions and rearrangements: (a) Pinacol-pinacolone, Hoffmann, Beckmann, Baeyer-Villiger, Favorskii, Fries, Claisen, Cope, Stevens and Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements. (b) Aldol condensation, Claisen condensation, Dieckmann, Perkin, Knoevenagel, Witting
• Reactions and rearrangements: (b) Clemmensen, Wolff-Kishner, Cannizzaro, and von Richter reactions; Stobbe, benzoin and acyloin condensations; Fischer indole synthesis, Skraup synthesis, Bischler-Napieralski, Sandmeyer
• Reactions and rearrangements: (b) Reimer-Tiemann and Reformatsky reactions

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 02

• General methods (both kinetic and non-kinetic) of study of mechanism or organic reactions illustrated by examples, use of isotopes, cross-over experiment, intermediate trapping, stereochemistry; energy diagrams of simple organic reactions
• Transition states and intermediates; energy of activation; thermodynamic control and kinetic control of reactions
• Reactive intermediates: Generation, geometry, stability and reactions of carbonium and carbonium ions, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes, and niternes
• Substitution reactions: SN1, SN2, SNi, SN1/, SN2/, SNi/, and SRN1 mechanisms; neighbouring group participation; electrophilic and nucleophilic reactions of aromatic compound including simple heterocyclic compounds¡-pyrrole, furan thiophene and indole
• Elimination reactions: E1, E2, and E1cb mechanism; orientation in E2 reactions-Saytzeff and Hofmann; pyrolytic syn elimination-acetate pyrolysis, Chugaev and Cope eliminations
• Addition reactions: Electrophilic addition to C=C and C=C; nucleophilic addition to C=O, C=N, conjugated olefins and carbonyls

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Classification and examples; Woodward Hoffmann rules¡-electrocyclic reactions, cycloaddition reactions [2+2 and 4+2] and sigmatropic shifts [1, 3; 3, 3, and 1, 5] FMO approach

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Organic polymers polythene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, Teflon, nylon, terylene, synthetic and natural rubber
• Biopolymers; structure of proteins, DNA and RNA

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 05

• OsO4, HIO4, CrO3, Pb(OAc)4, SeO2, NBS, B2H6, Na-Liquid NH3, LiA1H4 NaBH4 n-BuLi, MCPBA

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Photochemical reactions of simple organic compounds, excited and ground states, singlet and triplet states, Norrish-Type I and Type II reactions

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Principle and applications in structure elucidation: (i) Rotational-diatomic molecules; isotopic substitution and rotational constants. (ii) Vibrational-diatomic molecules, linear triatomic molecules
• Principle and applications in structure elucidation: (ii) Specific frequencies of functional groups in polyatomic molecules. (iii) Raman spectra: Raman effect, Stokes and anti-Stokes lines, and their intensity difference, rules of mutual exclusion

Chemistry-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Singlet and triplet states
• N¡V>¡Vƒá* and ƒá>* transitions; application to conjugated double bonds and conjugated carbonyls Woodward-Fieser rules; charge transfer spectra
• Nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR): Basic principle; chemical shift and spin interaction and coupling constants
• Mass spectrometry: Parent peak, base peak, metastable peak, McLafferty rearrangement

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Engineering mechanics: Units and dimensions, SI units, vectors, concept of force, concept of particle and rigid body. Concurrent, non-concurrent and parallel forces in a plane, moment of force free body diagram, conditions of equilibrium
• Engineering mechanics: Principle of virtual work, equivalent force system. First and second moment of area, mass moment of inertia. Static friction. Kinematics and kinetics: kinematics in Cartesian coordinates
• Engineering mechanics: Kinematics and kinetics-motion under uniform and non-uniform acceleration, motion under gravity. Kinetics of particle: Momentum and energy principles, collision of elastic bodies, rotation of rigid bodies

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Simple stress and strain, elastic constants, axially loaded compression members, shear force, and bending moment, theory of simple bending, shear stress distribution across cross sections, beams of uniform strength
• Deflection of beams: Macaulay's method, Mohr’s moment area method, conjugate beam method, unit load method. Torsion of shafts, elastic stability of columns, Euler’s, Rankine’s, and Secant formula

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Castigliano’s theorems I and II, unit load method, of consistent deformation applied to beams and pin jointed trusses
• Slope-deflection, moment distribution, rolling loads and influences lines: Influences lines for shear force and bending moment at a section of a beam
• Criteria for maximum shear force and bending moment in beams traversed by a system of moving loads
• Influences lines for simply supported plane pin jointed trusses
• Arches: Three hinged, two hinged, and fixed arches, rib shortening, and temperature effects. Matrix methods of analysis: Force method and displacement method of analysis of indeterminate beams and rigid frames
• Plastic analysis of beams and frames: theory of plastic bending, plastic analysis, statical method, mechanism method
• Unsymmetrical bending: Moment of inertia, product of inertia, position of neutral axis and principal axes, calculation of bending stresses

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Structural steel design: Structural steel-factors of safety and load factors. Riveted, bolted, and welded joints and connections. Design of tension and compression members, beams of built up section, riveted and welded plate girders, gantry girders
• Structural steel design: Structural steel-stancheons with battens and lacings
• Design of concrete and masonry structures: Concept of mix design. Reinforced concrete: Working stress and limit state method of design-recommendations of IS codes. Design of one way and two way slabs, staircase slabs
• Design of concrete and masonry structures: Simple and continuous beams of rectangular, T and L sections. Compression members under direct load with or without eccentricity. Cantilever and counterfort type retaining walls
• Water tanks: Design requirements for rectangular and circular tanks resting on ground
• Prestressed concrete: Methods and systems of prestressing, anchorages, analysis and design of sections for flexure based on working stress, loss of prestress. Design of brick masonry as per IS codes

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Fluid mechanics: Fluid properties and their role in fluid motion, fluid statics including forces acting on plane and curve surfaces
• Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Velocity and accelerations, stream lines, equation of continuity, irrigational and rotational flow, velocity potential and stream functions. Continuity, momentum, energy equation, Navier stokes equation
• Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: Euler’s equation of motion, application to fluid flow problems, pipe flow, sluice gates, weirs
• Dimensional analysis and similitude: Buckingham’s Pi-theorem, dimensionless parameters
• Laminar flow: Laminar flow between parallel, stationary and moving plates, flow through tube

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate, laminar sublayer, smooth and rough boundaries, drag and lift
• Turbulent flow through pipes: characteristics of turbulent flow, velocity distribution and variation of pipe friction factor, hydraulic grade line and total energy line
• Open channel flow: Uniform and non-uniform flows, momentum and energy correction factors, specific energy, and specific force, critical depth, rapidly varied flow, hydraulic jump, gradually varied flow, classification of surface profiles, control section
• Open channel flow: Step method of integration of varied flow equation

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Hydraulic turbines, types classification, choice of turbines performance parameters, controls, characteristics, specific speed
• Principles of hydropower development

Civil engineering-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Soil type and structure-gradation and particle size distribution, consistency limits
• Water in soil-capillary and structural, effective stress and pore water pressure, permeability concept, field and laboratory determination of permeability, seepage pressure, quick sand conditions, shear strength determination, Mohr coulomb concept
• Compaction of soil-laboratory and field test
• Compressibility and consolidation concept-consolidation theory, consolidation settlement analysis
• Earth pressure theory and analysis for retaining walls, application for sheet piles and braced excavation
• Bearing capacity of soil-approaches for analysis, field tests, settlement analysis, stability of slope of earth walk
• Subsurface exploration of soils-methods, foundation, type and selection criteria for foundation of structures, design criteria for foundation, analysis of distribution of stress for footings and pile, pile group action, pile load test
• Ground improvement techniques

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Construction technology: Engineering materials-physical properties of construction materials with respect to their use in construction-stones, bricks, and tiles; lime, cement, different types of mortars and concrete. Specific use of ferro cement
• Construction technology: Engineering materials-fiber reinforced CC, high strength concrete. Timber, properties defects-common preservation treatments. Use and selection of materials for specific use like low cost housing, mass housing, high rise buildings
• Construction: Masonry principles using brick, stone, blocks-construction detailing and strength characteristics. Types of plastering, pointing, flooring, roofing, and construction features. Common repairs in buildings
• Construction: Principle of functional planning of building for residents and specific use-building code provisions. Basic principles of detailed and approximate estimating-specification writing and rate analysis-principles of valuation of real property
• Construction: Machinery for earthwork, concreting and their specific uses-factors affecting selection of equipments, operating cost of equipments

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Construction activity-schedules, organization for construction industry, quality assurance principles
• Use basic principle of network-analysis in form of CPM and PERT, their use in construction monitoring, cost optimization and resource allocation
• Basic principles of economic analysis and methods
• Project profitability-basic principles of boot approach to financial planning-simple toll fixation criterions

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Surveying: Common methods and instruments for distance and angle measurement for CE work-their use in plane table, traverse survey, levelling work, triangulation, contouring and topographical map. Basic principles of photogrammetry and remote sensing

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Permanent way: Components, types and their functions, function and design constituents of turn and crossing, necessity of geometric design of track, design of station and yards
• Highway engineering: Principles of highway alignments-classification and geometrical design elements and standards for Roads. Pavement structure for flexible and rigid pavements-design principles and methodology of pavements
• Highway engineering: Typical construction methods and standards of materials for stabilized soil, WBM, bituminous works and CC roads. Surface and sub-surface drainage arrangements for roads-culvert structures
• Highway engineering: Pavement distresses and strengthening by overlays. Traffic surveys and their application in traffic planning-typical design features for channelized, intersection rotary, etc-signal designs, standard traffic signs, and markings

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Hydrology: Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, overland flow, hydrograph, flood frequency analysis, flood routing through a reservoir, channel flow routing-Muskingum method
• Groundwater flow: Specific yield, storage coefficient, coefficient of permeability, confined and unconfined aquifers, aquifers, aquitards, radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions
• Water resources engineering: Ground and surface water resources, single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoir losses, reservoir sedimentation

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Water requirements of crop: Consumptive use, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies
• Canals: Distribution systems for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main and distributary canals, most efficient section, lined canals, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress, bed load
• Water logging: causes and control, salinity
• Canal structures: Design of head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes and canal outlets
• Diversion head work: Principles and design of weirs on permeable and impermeable foundation, Khosla’s theory, energy dissipation
• Storage works: Types of dams, design, principles of rigid gravity stability analysis
• Spillways: spillway types, energy dissipation
• River training: objectives of river training, methods of river training

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Water supply: Predicting demand for water, impurities of water and their significance, physical, chemical and bacteriological analysis, waterborne diseases, standards for potable water
• Intake of water: Water treatment-principles of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation; slow, rapid, pressure, filters; chlorination, softening, removal of taste, odour, and salinity
• Sewerage systems: Domestic and industrial wastes, store sewage-separate and combined systems, flow through sewers, design of sewers
• 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 in rural and urban contexts, management of long-term ill effects

Civil engineering-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Sustainable development
• Radioactive wastes and disposal
• Environmental impact assessment for thermal power plants, mines, river valley projects
• Air pollution
• Pollution control acts

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-accounting, taxation, and auditing): Unit 01

• Accounting as a financial information system; impact of behavioural sciences
• Accounting standards example accounting for depreciation, inventories, fixed assets, contingencies, foreign exchange transactions, investments and government grants, cash flow statement, funds flow statements, earnings per share
• Issues of shares; (pro-rata allotment); forfeiture of shares; re-issue of shares; preparation and presentation of company final accounts
• Amalgamation, absorption, and reconstruction of companies

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-accounting, taxation, and auditing): Unit 02

• Nature and functions of cost accounting
• Installation of cost accounting system
• Cost concepts related to income measurement, profit planning, cost control and decision making
• Methods of costing: Job costing, process costing, activity based costing. Volume-cost-profit relationship as a tool of profit planning. Preparation of cost sheet

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-accounting, taxation, and auditing): Unit 03

• Income tax: definitions; basis of charge; incomes which do not form part of total income
• Income tax: Simple problems of computation of income (of individuals only) under various heads, that is, salaries, income from house property, profits and gains from business or profession, income of other persons included in assessee’s total income
• Income tax: Set-off and carry forward of loss. Deductions from gross total income. Salient features/ provisions related to vat and services tax

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-accounting, taxation, and auditing): Unit 04

• Audit: meaning, objectives, classification of audit
• Audit programme: Preparation, advantages, and disadvantages. Internal control, internal check, and internal audit. Appointment, removal, remuneration, powers, and duties of company auditor
• Audit programme: Audit of non-profit organizations and charitable societies/ trusts/ organizations

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-financial management, financial institutions, and markets): Unit 01

• Nature, scope, and objectives of financial management: Risk and return relationship
• Tools of financial analysis: Ratio analysis, funds-flow, and cash-flow statement
• Capital budgeting decisions: Process, procedures, and appraisal methods. Risk and uncertainty analysis and methods

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-financial management, financial institutions, and markets): Unit 02

• Theories of capital structure-net income (NI) approach, net operating income (NOI) approach, MM approach and traditional approach
• Designing of capital structure: Types of leverages (operating, financial and combined), EBIT-EPS analysis, and other factors
• Working capital management: Planning of working capital. Determinants of working capital. Components of working capital-cash, inventory, and receivables

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-financial management, financial institutions, and markets): Unit 03

• An overview-the Indian financial system on the eve of planning and in the post 1950 period; structure of Indian financial system and its impact on economic development
• Money markets: Participants, structure, and instruments. Commercial banks. Reforms in banking sector. Monetary and credit policy of RBI. RBI as a regulator
• Capital market: Primary and secondary market. Financial market instruments and innovative debt instruments; SEBI as a regulator

Commerce and accountancy-paper-I (accounting and finance-financial management, financial institutions, and markets): Unit 04

• Mutual funds, venture capital, credit rating agencies, insurance, and IRDA
• Development banks and other non-banking financial institutions: SIDBI; IFCI; NABARD; LIC; EXIM banks-their evolution and growth

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-organization theory and behaviour): Unit 01

• Classical, neoclassical, and systems approach
• Nature and concept of organization; external environment of organizations-technological, social, political, economical, and legal; organizational goals-primary and secondary goals, single and multiple goals; management by objectives
• Organizing: Principles of organization; departmentation; staffing: Nature and importance; process of recruitment and selection

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-organization theory and behaviour): Unit 02

• Organizational design, organizational structure
• Designing organizational structures-authority and control; line and staff functions, specialization and coordination
• Types of organization structure-functional
• Matrix structure, project structure
• Nature and basis of power, sources of power, power structure, and politics
• Impact of information technology on organizational design and structure

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-organization theory and behaviour): Unit 03

• Personality, theories, and determinants; perception-meaning and process
• Motivation: Concepts, theories (Maslow, Herzberg), and applications
• Leadership-theories and styles

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-organization theory and behaviour): Unit 04

• Transactional analysis, organizational effectiveness, management of change
• Directing: Meaning and nature; communication: Nature and process, barriers to communication

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-human resources management and industrial relations): Unit 01

• Human resource planning, job analysis, job description, job specification, recruitment process, selection process, orientation and placement, training and development process

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-human resources management and industrial relations): Unit 02

• Salary and wage administration, job evaluation, employee welfare, promotions, transfers and separations
• Compensation

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-human resources management and industrial relations): Unit 03

• Formation of trade unions, trade union legislation, trade union movement in India
• Recognition of trade unions, problems of trade unions in India
• Impact of liberalization on trade union movement
• Nature of industrial disputes: Strikes and lockouts, causes of disputes, prevention, and settlement of disputes

Commerce and accountancy-paper-II (organization theory and behaviour, human resource management, and industrial relations-human resources management and industrial relations): Unit 04

• Philosophy, rationale, present day status and future prospects
• Salient features of minimum wages act, 1984: Enforcement and objectives of the act; fixation, revision and payment of minimum wages
• The consumer protection act, 1986: Salient features, definitions of consumer; grievance redressal machinery; RTI and its applications

Economics-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Marshallian and varrasiam approaches to price determination, consumer’s behaviour, alternative distribution theories; Ricardo, Kaldor, Kaleeki, markets structure: Monopolistic competition, duopoly, oligopoly, perfect competition
• Modern welfare criteria: Pareto Hicks and Scitovsky, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, A.K. Sen’s social welfare function

Economics-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Approaches to employment income and interest rate determination: Classical, Keynes (IS)-LM) curve
• Neoclassical synthesis and new classical, theories of interest rate determination and interest rate structure

Economics-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Demand for and supply of money: Money multiplier quantity theory of money (Fisher, Pique, and Friedman) and Keynes's theory on demand for money, goals, and instruments of monetary control
• Demand for and supply of money: Role and functions of commercial banks and credit creation by commercial banks. Role of central bank in controlling money and credit determination of growth rate of money supply
• Public finance and its role in market economy: Meaning and scope of public finance, public vs. private finance. Sources of government revenue, forms of taxes and subsidies, their incidence and effects
• Public finance and its role in market economy: Limits to taxation, loans, crowding-out effects and limits to borrowings. Public expenditure and its effects

Economics-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Old and new theories of international trade: (i) Comparative advantage, (ii) terms of trade and offer curve, (iii) product cycle and strategic trade theories, (iv) trade as an engine of growth and theories of underdevelopment in an open economy
• Forms of protection: tariff and quota
• Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(i) Price versus income, income adjustments under fixed exchange rates, (ii) theories of policy mix, (iii) exchange rate adjustments under capital mobility
• Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(iv) floating rates and their implications for developing countries: Currency boards, (v) trade policy and developing countries
• Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(vi) BOP, adjustments and policy coordination in open economy macro model, (vii) speculative attacks, (viii) trade blocks and monetary unions, (ix) WTO: Trims, trips, domestic measures
• Balance of payments adjustment: Alternative approaches-(ix) WTO: Different rounds of WTO talks

Economics-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Theories of growth: Harrod’s model, Lewis model of development with surplus labour, balanced unbalanced growth, human capitals and economic growth, research and development and economic growth
• Process of economic development of less developed countries: Theories of economic transition Myrdal and Kuznets, Colin-Clark, Lewis on economic development and structural change: Role of agriculture in economic development of less developed countries

Economics-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Planning and economic development: changing role of markets and planning, private-public partnership
• Welfare indicators and measures of growth: Human development indices. The basic needs approach
• Development and environmental sustainability: Renewable and non-renewable resources, environmental degradation, intergenerational equity development. Environment and economy linkage

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Land system and its changes, commercialization of agriculture drain theory, laissez faire theory and critique
• Manufacture and transport: Jute, cotton, railways, money, and credit

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Contribution of vakil, gadgil and v.k.r.v. rao
• Agriculture: Land reforms and land tenure system, green revolution, and capital formation in agriculture

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Trends in composition and growth, role of public and private sector, small scale, and cottage industries

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Patterns, trends, aggregate, and sectoral composition and changes therein
• Broad factors determining national income and distribution, measures of poverty, trends in poverty, and inequality

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Agriculture and WTO, food processing, subsidies, agricultural prices and public distribution system, impact of public expenditure on agricultural growth

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Strategy of industrialization, privatization, disinvestments, role of foreign direct investment and multinationals

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Intellectual property rights-implications of TRIPS, TRIMS, GATS, and new EXIM policy
• New exchange rate regime: partial and full convertibility, capital account convertibility

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Fiscal responsibility act, twelfth finance commission and fiscal federalism and fiscal consolidation
• New economic policy and monetary system
• Role of rbi under the new regime

Economics-Paper-II: Unit 09

• From central planning to indicative planning, relation between planning and markets for growth and decentralized planning: 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments
• New economic policy and employment: employment and poverty, rural wages, employment generation, poverty alleviation schemes, new rural, employment guarantee scheme

Education-paper-I (foundations of education and pedagogy): Unit 01

• Definition of psychology, relationship between psychology and education, nature, scope, and methods of educational psychology
• Physiological basis of human/ mental life, functions of the human nervous system and the endocrine system
• Meaning of development, areas of development, fundamentals of Piagetian development psychology
• Concept and theories of individual differences, theories of intelligence, creativity
• Mental health and mental hygiene, personality-Freudian theory of personality
• Learning; theories, factors affecting learning
• Theories of learning, transfer of learning
• Adolescence-psychological characteristics and problems of adolescents

Education-paper-I (foundations of education and pedagogy): Unit 02

• Concept and scope of education, aims of education, functions of education
• Role of philosophy in education-(a) relationship between education and philosophy, (b) some major schools of philosophy: Idealism, naturalism, realism, and pragmatism-their contribution to present day education
• Role of philosophy in education-(c) emergence of educational thoughts through the works of great educators-M.K. Gandhi, Rousseau, Froebel, Dewey, and Tagore (relevance of each philosophy in education)
• Freedom and discipline
• Components of education and their mutual relationship

Education-paper-I (foundations of education and pedagogy): Unit 03

• Nature and scope of educational sociology
• Education as an instrument of social change
• Social groups
• Culture-concept and components of culture
• Current social problems relating to education in India

Education-paper-I (foundations of education and pedagogy): Unit 04

• Science of teaching-relations between teaching and learning
• Factors affecting teaching, levels of teaching, general principles of teaching, maxims of teaching
• Observations and classroom behaviour: Flanders Interaction analysis, characteristics of good teacher behaviour, difference between traditional and micro-teaching
• Factors affecting perception, attention and attitude
• Teaching methods, functions of a teacher

Education-paper-I (development, issues, and trends in Indian education): Unit 01

• Education in Ancient India: Vedic and Brahmanic Period, Buddhist Education
• Education in Medieval India

Education-paper-I (development, issues, and trends in Indian education): Unit 02

• Education in British India, indigenous education in India at the beginning of the 18th century
• Growth of modern systems of education up to 1947 A.D.
• The charter act 1813, downward filtration theory, Adam’s report 1829, Macaulay’s minutes 1935, Wood’s education despatch 1854, Hunter commission 1882, Lord Curzon’s policy 1902 (university education commission of 1902)
• Movement for compulsory education-Gokhale’s Bill 1913 (government of India resolution on educational policy 1913), Sadler commission 1917 (Calcutta university education commission 1917), Hartog committee report 1929
• Development of Indian education during the post independence period with special reference to major recommendations of university education commission 1948-49, secondary education commission 1952-53, Kothari education commission 1964-66
• National policy on education 1986 and its revised formulation of 1992

Education-paper-I (development, issues, and trends in Indian education): Unit 03

• Aims and objectives of elementary education
• Aims and objectives of secondary education, general and vocational education, role of DIET, NCERT, SCERT, NIEPA, CBSE, etc higher education-general and technical
• Role of UGC, AIU, AICTE, ICSSR, CSIR, ICAR, NCTE
• Types of universities and equivalent institutes of higher learning

Education-paper-I (development, issues, and trends in Indian education): Unit 04

• Non-formal education, adult education
• National adult education programme (NAEP-1978), mass programme for functional literacy (MPFL-1986), national literacy mission (NOM-1988), total literacy campaign (TCL), post literacy campaign (PLC), Jana shikshan nilyan (JSN)
• Continuing education, uses of mass-media in non-formal and continuing education
• Population education, sex education, value oriented education, work experience and SUPW, environmental education, women empowerment through education, education of minority communities

Education-paper-II (research methodology, statistics, and evaluation in education): Unit 01

• Concept, meaning, and nature of educational research, types of research
• Hypothesis-concept and types, characteristics of a good hypothesis

Education-paper-II (research methodology, statistics, and evaluation in education): Unit 02

• Sampling-concept and sampling designs/ techniques, tools of data collection, report writing

Education-paper-II (research methodology, statistics, and evaluation in education): Unit 03

• Meaning, nature, scope and significance of educational statistics, sources and use of educational statistics
• Difference between statistics and parameter, significance of statistics
• Measures of central tendency, measures of variability, normal distribution-normal probability curve
• Concept of variable, types of data, the need and uses of graphical presentation of data, bivariate distribution

Education-paper-II (research methodology, statistics, and evaluation in education): Unit 04

• Meaning and nature of educational measurement, evaluation in education
• General principles of test construction and standardization

Education-Paper-II (educational management, technology, guidance, and curriculum): Unit 01

• Concept, meaning, nature, need and scope of educational management
• Types of educational management
• Concept of financial management, managerial behaviour, educational Planning

Education-Paper-II (educational management, technology, guidance, and curriculum): Unit 02

• Concept and scope of educational technology, communication process
• Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives
• System approach in instructional system designing, programmed learning
• Concept and nature of personalized system of instruction

Education-Paper-II (educational management, technology, guidance, and curriculum): Unit 03

• The concept of guidance, vocational guidance, educational guidance, counselling

Education-Paper-II (educational management, technology, guidance, and curriculum): Unit 04

• Curriculum-concept and nature, curriculum construction, curriculum development, curriculum designs

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Work, power, energy; Ohm’s law; DC circuits; Kirchhoff’s laws; AC circuits, resonance in R-L-circuits
• Nodal analysis; mesh analysis; network theorems; transient analysis of RL, RC, and RLC circuits; 3 phase circuits; two-port networks

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Maxwell’ equations; wave propagation in bounded media; boundary conditions; reflection and refraction of plane waves; distributed parameter circuits
• Transmission line: travelling and standing waves, impedance matching, smith chart

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 03

• D.C. machines: Contraction, working principle, characteristics and application; starting and speed control
• A.C. machines: Single phase and polyphase induction motors, synchronous motor-construction, working principle and characteristics, starting and speed control; FHP motors and stepper motors, alternators-basics and parallel operation
• Power and distribution transformers: Design, efficiency and regulation by direct and indirect loading; types of transformer connections, its installation and maintenance

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Measurement of current, voltage, power, energy, power-factor, resistance, inductance, capacitance, and frequency
• Multimeters, CRO, digital voltmeter, frequency counter, Q-meter, earth tester, potentiometer
• Transducers: Thermocouple, thermistors, LVDT, strain gauge, piezoelectric crystal; use of transducers in measurement of non-electrical quantities, data acquisition systems

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Characteristics and performance of transmission line, Ferranti effect
• Steady-state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables; per unit quantities; bus admittance and impedance matrices; symmetrical components
• Load flow studies in newton Raphson method, Gauss-Seidel method; transient on transmission line; optimal load frequency control, automatic voltage control
• Analysis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults; principle of active and reactive power transfer and distribution, reactive power compensation

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Static VAR systems; concept of HVDC transmission: FACTS devices such as SVC and UPFC
• Introduction to load dispatch centers (LDC); SCADA systems: Speed control of generators; tie-line control; frequency control; economic dispatch

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Block diagram representation; principles and applications of feedback; concept of stability, time- domain and transform-domain analysis; Routh-Hurwitz criterion; root loci; Nyquist criterion, bode plots
• Design of lead-lag compensators; state variable representation; principles of discrete control systems

Electrical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Analog electronics: (a) Characteristics and equivalent circuits of diode, BJT, JFET, and MOSFET; clipping, clamping and rectifier circuits using diodes; biasing and bias stability, FET amplifiers
• Analog electronics: (b) Single and multi-stage, differential, operational, feedback, and power amplifiers; analysis of amplifier; frequency response of amplifiers, OP AMP circuits; filters; function generation; wave shaping circuits; power supplies
• Digital electronics: (a) Boolean algebra; minimization of Boolean functions; logic gates; digital IC families; combinational circuits; arithmetic circuits; code converters; multiplexers; decoders. (b) Latches and flip-flops; counters and shift registers
• Digital electronics: (b) Comparators; timers; multi-vibrators; sample and hold circuits; ADCs and DACs; semiconductor memories; logic implementation using ROM

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Diodes, power transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs, IGBTs-static characteristics and principle of operation; triggering circuits; phase controlled rectifiers; bridge converters-fully controlled and half controlled
• Principles of choppers, inverters and cyclo-converters; basic concepts of speed control of D.C. and A.C. motors drives; applications of variable speed drives

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Evolution of microprocessor technology, 8085 CPU; architecture, programming, memory and I/O interfacing, modes of operation; power control; interfacing; typical applications
• PC organization; CPU, Instruction set, register set, timing diagram, programming, interrupts, memory interfacing, programmable peripheral devices

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Need for modulation; normal amplitude modulation; modulation index; frequency and phase modulation; frequency deviation and modulation index; pulse amplitude modulation; pulse width modulation; pulse position modulation
• Pulse code modulation; differential pulse code modulation, delta modulation; digital modulation and demodulation schemes; interfacing with power line; description of a typical power line carrier communication system

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Time division multiplexing; frequency division multiplexing; optical properties of materials; refractive index; absorption and emission of light
• Optical fibers; lasers and opto-electronic materials; fibre optic links

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Introduction to energy problem; power scenario of Mizoram state and India; basics of wind turbine aerodynamics; wind energy conversions systems and their integration into electrical grid
• Power quality issues solar energy: thermal conversion, photovoltaic conversion
• Importance of energy management; energy conservation opportunities, energy audit; energy economics; discount rate; payback period; internal rate of return; life cycle costing, electricity act 2003

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Principles of circuit breaking; arc extinction for D.C. and A.C.; arc interruption theories; duties of switchgear; various types of circuit breakers and their applications to power systems; specifications of an impulse voltage wave
• Insulation coordinations
• Principles of over current, differential and distance protection; concept of solid-state relays; computer-aided protection; protection of generators; transformers and transmission lines; application of DSP to protection

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Dynamics of synchronous generators; small signal stability analysis (low frequency oscillations)-analysis of single machine systems, applications of power system stabilizers; node elimination technique, numerical solution of swing equation
• Transient stability analysis; dynamic stability analysis; voltage stability analysis, static VAR control of load

Electrical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Representation of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems
• Fourier transforms; Laplace transforms; Z-transforms; transfer functions; DFT, FFT processing of analog signals through discrete time systems
• Frequency domain design of digitals filters; quantization effects in digital filters

English-Paper-I: Unit 01

• The Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; metaphysical poetry; the epic and the mock-epic; neoclassicism; satire; the romantic movement; the rise of the novel; the Victorian age
• William Shakespeare: King lear and the tempest
• Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s house
• John Donne: The following poems-(a) Canonization; (b) Death be not proud; (c) The good morrow; (d) On his mistress going to bed; (e) The relic
• John Milton: Paradise lost, I, II, IV, IX
• Alexander Pope: The rape of the lock
• William Wordsworth: The following poems-(a) Ode on intimations of immortality, (b) Tintern Abbey, (c) Three years she grew, (d) She dwelt among untrodden ways, (d) Michael, (e) Resolution and independence, (f) The world is too much with us
• William Wordsworth: The following poems-(e) Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour, (f) Upon Westminster bridge
• Alfred Tennyson: In memoriam
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
• Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
• George Eliot: The mill on the floss
• Jane Austen: Pride and prejudice
• Charles Dickens: Hard times
• Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
• Mark Twain: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

English-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Modernism; poets of the thirties; the stream of consciousness novel; absurd drama; colonialism and post-colonialism; Indian writing in English; Marxist, psychoanalytical and feminist approaches to literature; postmodernism
• William Butler Yeats: The following poems-(a) Easter 1916, (b) The second coming, (c) A prayer for my daughter, (d) Sailing to Byzantium, (e) The tower, (f) Among school children, (g) Leda and the swan, (h) Meru, (i) Lapis lazuli, (j) The second coming
• William Butler Yeats: The following poems-(k) Byzantium, (l) The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock, (m) Journey of the Magi, (o) Burnt Norton
• W.H. Auden: The following poems-(a) Partition, (b) Musee des beaux arts, (c) In memory of W.B. Yeats, (d) Lay your sleeping head, my love, (e) The unknown citizen, (f) Consider, (g) Mundus et infans, (h) The shield of Achilles
• W.H. Auden: The following poems-(j) September 1, 1939, (k) Petition
• Philip Larkin: The following poems-(a) Next, (b) Please, (c) Deceptions, (d) Afternoons, (e) Days, (f) Mr. Bleaney
• A.K. Ramanujan: The following poems-(a) Looking for a cousin on a swing, (b) A river, of mothers, (c) Among other things, (d) Love poem for a wife 1, (e) Small-scale reflections on a great house, (f) Obituary
• John Osborne: Look back in anger
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for godot
• Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
• James Joyce: Portrait of the artist as a young man
• D.H. Lawrence: Sons and lovers
• E.M. Forster: A passage to India
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
• Raja Rao: Kanthapura
• V.S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 01

• General silvicultural principles; ecological and physiological factors influencing vegetation; natural and artificial regeneration of forests; nursery techniques; seed technology collection, storage, pretreatment and germination
• Establishment and tendings

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Clear felling, uniform, shelter wood selection, coppice and conversion systems, management of silviculture systems of temperate, subtropical, humid tropical, dry tropical and coastal tropical forests with special reference to plantation silviculture
• Choice of species, establishment and management of standards, enrichment methods, technical constraints, intensive mechanized methods, aerial seeding, thinning

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Mangrove: Habitat and characteristics, mangrove, plantation-establishment and rehabilitation of degraded mangrove formations; silviculture systems for mangrove; protection of habitats against natural disasters
• Cold desert: Characteristics, identification, and management of species

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Traditional and recent advances in tropical silvicultural research and practices
• Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as Acacia catechu, Acacia nilotica, Acacia auriculiformis, Albizzia lebbeck, Albizzia procera, Anthocephalus cadamba, Anogeissus latitolia, Azadirachta indica, Bamboo spp
• Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as butea monosperma, cassia siamea, casuarina equisetifolia, cedrus deodara, chukrasia tabularis, dalbergia sisoo, dipterocarpus spp, emblica officinalis, eucalyptus spp
• Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as gmelina arborea, hardwickia binata, lagerstroemia lanceolata, pinus roxburghii, populus spp, pterocarpus marsupium, prosopis juliflora, santalum album, semecarpus anacardium
• Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India such as shorea robusta, salmalia malabaricum, tectona grandis, terminalia tomentosa, tamarindus indica

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Agroforestry: Scope and necessity; role in the life of people and domestic animals use, planning especially related to (i) soil and water conservation; (ii) water recharge; availability to crops
• Agroforestry: Role in the life of people and domestic animals use, planning especially related to (iv) nature and ecosystem preservation including ecological balances through predator relationships
• Agroforestry: Role in the life of people and domestic animals use, planning especially related to (v) providing opportunities for enhancing biodiversity, medical, and other and fauna. Agroforestry systems under different agro ecological zones
• Agroforestry: Selection of species and role multipurpose trees and NTFPs, techniques, food fodder and fuel security
• Research and extension needs, social/ urban forestry: Objectives, scope and necessity; people's participation
• JFM: Principles of social grouping, stages of tribal NGOs
• Tribology: Tribal scene in India; tribes, concept of races, principles of social grouping, stages of tribal economy education, cultural tradition, customs, ethos and participation in forestry programmes and in integrated land (vi) nutrient pest-flora of

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Forests soils: Classification, factors affecting soil formation
• Physical and soil conservation: Definition, causes for erosion; types-wind and water management of eroded soils/ areas, wind breaks, shelterbelts; sand dunes; reclamation of soils, water logged and other waste lands. Role of forests in conserving soils
• Physical and soil conservation: Maintenance soil organic matter, provision of loppings for green leaf manuring; forest leaf litter and composting; role of microorganisms in ameliorating soils; N and C cycles, VAM
• Watershed management: Concepts of watershed; role of mini-forests and forest trees in overall resource management, forest hydrology, watershed development in respect of torrent control, river channel stabilization, avalanche and landslide controls
• Watershed management: Rehabilitation of degraded areas; hilly and mountain areas; watershed management and environmental functions of forests; water-harvesting and conservation; ground water recharge and watershed management
• Watershed management: Role of integrating forest trees, horticultural crops, field crops, grass and fodders

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Environment: Components and importance, principles of conservation, impact of deforestation; forest fires and various human activities like mining, construction and development projects, population growth on environment
• Population: Types, global warming, greenhouse effects, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, impact and control measures, environmental monitoring; concept of sustainable development. Role of trees and forests in environmental conservation
• Population: Control and prevention of air, water and noise population. Environmental policy and legislation in India. Environmental impact assessment, economics assessment of watershed development vis-á-vis ecological and environmental protection

Forestry-Paper-I: Unit 08

• General concept of tree improvement, methods and techniques, variation and its use, provenance, seed source, exotics; quantitative aspects of forest tree improvement, seed production and seed orchards, progeny tests, use of tree improvement in natural
• Forest and stand improvement, genetic testing programming, selection and breeding for resistance to diseases, insects, and adverse environment; the genetics base, forest genetic resources and gene conservation in situ and ex-situ
• Cost benefit ratio, economic evaluation

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Objective and principles; techniques; stand structure and dynamics, sustained yield relation, normal forest, growing stock; regulation of yield; management of forest plantations, commercial forests, forest cover monitoring
• Approaches viz., (i) site-specific planning, (ii) strategic planning, (iii) approval, sanction and expenditure. (iv) Monitoring, (v) reporting and governance
• Details of steps involved such as formation of village forest committees, joint forest participatory management

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Forest planning, evaluation, and monitoring tools and approaches for integrated planning; multipurpose development of forest resources and forest industries development
• Working plans and working schemes, their role in nature conservation, biodiversity and other dimensions; preparation and control
• Divisional working plans, annual plan of operations

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Methods of measuring-diameter, girth, height, and volume of trees; form-factor; volume estimation of stand, current annual increment; mean annual increment, sampling methods and sample plots
• Yield calculation; yield and stand tables, forest cover monitoring through remote sensing; geographic information systems for management and modeling

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Forest surveying-different methods of surveying, maps, and map reading
• Basic principles of forest engineering
• Building materials and construction
• Roads and bridges, general principles, objects, types, simple design and construction of timber bridges

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Forest ecology: Biotic and abiotic components, forest ecosystems; forest community concepts; vegetation concepts, ecological succession and climax, primary productivity, nutrient cycling and water relations
• Forest ecology: Physiology in stress environments (drought, water logging salinity, and alkalinity). Forest types in India, identification of species, composition and associations; dendrology, taxonomic classification
• Forest ecology: Principles and establishment of herbaria and arboreta. Conservation of forest ecosystems. Clonal parks. Role of ethnobotany in India systems of medicine; Ayurveda and unani-introduction, nomenclature, habitat
• Forest ecology: Distribution and botanical features of medicinal and aromatic plants. Factors affecting and toxicity of drug plants and their chemical constituents,
• Forest resources and utilization: Environmentally sound forest harvesting practices; logging and extraction techniques and principles, transportation systems, storage and sales; non-timber forest products (NTFPs)-definition and scope; gums, resins
• Forest resources and utilization: Non-timber forest products (NTFPs)-definition and scope; oleoresins, fibers, oil seeds nuts, rubber, canes, bamboos, medicinal plants, charcoal, lac and shellac, katha and Bidi leaves, collection
• Forest resources and utilization: Processing and disposal need and importance of wood seasoning and preservation; general principles of seasoning, air and kiln seasoning, solar dehumidification, steam heated and electrical kilns
• Forest resources and utilization: Composite wood; adhesives-manufacture, properties, uses plywood manufacture-properties, uses, fibre boards-manufacture properties, uses; particle boards manufacture; properties, uses
• Forest resources and utilization: Present status of composite wood industry in India and future expansion plants. Pulp-paper and rayon; present position of supply of raw material to industry, wood substitution, utilization of plantation wood
• Forest resources and utilization: Problems and possibilities. Anatomical structure of wood, defects and abnormalities of wood, timber identification-general principles

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Injuries to forest-abiotic and biotic, destructive agencies, insect-pests and disease, effects of air pollution on forests and forest die back
• Susceptibility of forests to damage, nature of damage, cause, prevention, protective measures and benefits due to chemical and biological control
• General forest protection against fire, equipment and methods, controlled use of fire, economic and environmental cost; timber salvage operations after natural disasters
• Role of afforestation and forest regeneration in absorption of CO2
• Rotational and controlled grazing, different methods of control against grazing and browsing animals; effect of wild animals on forest regeneration, human impacts; encroachment, poaching, grazing, live fencing, theft, shifting cultivation and control

Forestry-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Forest economics: Fundamental principles, cost-benefit analyses; estimation of demand and supply; analysis of trends in the national and international market and changes in production and consumption patterns
• Forest economics: Assessment and projection of market structures; role of private sectors and cooperatives; role of corporate financing. Socioeconomic analysis of forest productivity and attitudes; evaluation of forest goods and service
• Legislation: History of forest development; Indian forest policy of 1894, 1952, and 1988. People’s involvement, joint forest management, involvement of women; forestry policies and issues related to land use, timber and non-timber products
• Legislation: Sustainable forest management; industrialization policies; institutional and structural changes. Decentralization and forestry public administration, forest laws, necessity; general principles, Indian forest act 1927
• Legislation: Forest conservation act, 1980; wildlife protection act 1972 and their amendments; application of Indian penal code of forestry, scope and objectives of forest inventory

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-physical geography): Unit 01

• Process of landform development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces; origin and evolution of the earth’s crust; fundamentals of geomagnetism; interior of the earth’s; geosynclines; continental drift; isostasy; plate tectonics
• Recent views on mountain building; vulcanicity; earthquakes and tsunamis; concepts of geomorphic cycles and landscape development; denudation chronology; channel morphology; erosion surfaces; slope development
• Applied geomorphology: Geohydrology, economic geology, and environment

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-physical geography): Unit 02

• Temperature and pressure belts of the world; heat budget of the earth; atmospheric circulation; atmospheric stability and instability
• Planetary and local winds; monsoons and jet streams; air masses and frontogenesis, temperate and tropical cyclones; types and distribution of precipitation; weather and climate; Koppen’s, Thornthwaite’s and Trewartha’s classification of world climates
• Hydrological cycle; global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes, applied climatology and urban climate

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-physical geography): Unit 03

• Bottom relief of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans; temperature and salinity of the oceans; heat and salt budgets, ocean deposits; waves, currents and tides; marine resources: Biotic, mineral and energy resources; coral reefs and tools
• Marine resources: Coral bleaching; sea-level changes; law of the sea and marine pollution

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-physical geography): Unit 04

• Genesis of soils; classification and distribution of major soils; soil profile; soil erosion, degradation and conservation; factors influencing world distribution of plants and animals; problems of deforestation and conservation measures
• Social forestry; agroforestry; wild life; major gene pool centers
• Principle and concept of ecology; human ecological adaptations; influence of man on ecology and environment; global and regional ecological changes and imbalances; ecosystem their management and conservation; environmental degradation
• Management, and conservation; biodiversity and sustainable development; environmental policy; environmental hazards and remedial measures; environmental education and legislation

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-human geography): Unit 01

• Areal differentiation; regional synthesis; dichotomy and dualism; environmentalism; quantitative revolution and locational analysis; radical, behavioural, human and welfare approaches; languages, religions and secularisation; cultural regions of the world
• Human development index
• Models, theories, and laws in human geography: Systems analysis in human geography; malthusian, Marxian and demographic transition models; central place theories of christaller and losch; perroux and boudeville; von Thunen's model of agricultural location
• Models, theories and laws in human geography: Weber’s model of industrial location; Rostow’s model of stages of growth. Heartland and Rimland theories; laws of international boundaries and frontiers

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-human geography): Unit 02

• World economic development: Measurement and problems; world resources and their distribution; energy crisis; the limits to growth; world agriculture: Typology of agricultural regions; agricultural inputs and productivity; food and nutrition problems
• World agriculture: Food security; famine-causes, effects, and remedies; world industries: Locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-human geography): Unit 03

• Growth and distribution of world population; demographic attributes; causes and consequences of migration; concepts of over-under-and optimum population; population theories, world population problems and policies, social well-being and quality of life
• Population as social capital
• Types and patterns of rural settlements; environmental issues in rural settlements; hierarchy of urban settlements; urban morphology: Concepts of primate city and rank-size rule; functional classification of towns; sphere of urban influence
• Urban morphology: Rural-urban fringe; satellite towns; problems and remedies of urbanization; Sustainable development of cities

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-human geography): Unit 04

• Concept of a region; types of regions and methods of regionalization; growth centers and growth poles; regional imbalances; regional development strategies; environmental issues in regional planning; planning for sustainable development

Geography-paper-I (principles of geography-human geography): Unit 05

• System analysis in human geography; Malthusian, Marxian, and demographic transition models; central place theories of Christaller and Losch; Perroux and Boudeville; Von Thunen’s model of agricultural location; Weber’s model of industrial location
• Rostow's model of stages of growth
• Heartland and Rimland theories; laws of international boundaries and frontiers

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 01

• Space relationship of India with neighbouring countries; structure and relief; drainage system and watersheds; physiographic regions; mechanism of Indian monsoons and rainfall patterns, tropical cyclones and western disturbances; floods and droughts
• Climatic regions; natural vegetation; soil types and their distributions
• Land, surface, and groundwater, energy, minerals, biotic and marine resources; forest and wildlife resources and their conservation; energy crisis

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 02

• Infrastructure: Irrigation, seeds, fertilizers, power; institutional factors: Land holdings, land tenure, and land reforms; cropping pattern, agricultural productivity, agricultural intensity, crop combination, land capability; Agro and social-forestry
• Green revolution and its socioeconomic and ecological implications; significance of dry farming; livestock resources and white revolution; aqua-culture; sericulture, apiculture, and poultry; agricultural regionalization; agro-climatic zones
• Agro-ecological regions

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 03

• Evolution of industries; locational factors of cotton, jute, textile, iron, and steel, aluminium, fertilizer, paper, chemical and pharmaceutical, automobile, cottage and agro-based industries
• Industrial houses and complexes including public sector undertakings; industrial regionalization; new industrial policies; multinationals and liberalization; special economic zones; tourism including eco-tourism

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 04

• Road, railway, waterway, airway, and pipeline networks and their complementary roles in regional development; growing importance of ports on national and foreign trade; trade balance; trade policy; export processing zones
• Developments in communication and information technology and their impacts on economy and society; Indian space programme

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 05

• Historical perspective of Indian society; racial, linguistic and ethnic diversities; religious minorities; major tribes, tribal areas, and their problems; cultural regions; growth, distribution and density of population
• Demographic attributes: Sex-ratio, age structure, literacy rate, work-force, dependency ratio, longevity; migration (interregional, intra-regional, and international) and associated problems; population problems and policies; health indicators
• Types, patterns, and morphology of rural settlements; urban developments; morphology of Indian cities; functional classification of Indian cities; conurbations and metropolitan regions; urban sprawl; slums and associated problems; town planning
• Problems of Urbanization and Remedies

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 06

• Experience of regional planning in India; five year plans; integrated rural development programmes; Panchayati Raj and decentralised planning; command area development; watershed management
• Planning for backward area, desert, drought prone, hill, tribal area development; multi-level planning; regional planning and development of island territories

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 07

• Geographical basis of Indian federalism; state reorganization; emergence of new states; regional consciousness and inter state issues; international boundary of India and related issues; cross border terrorism; India’s role in world affairs
• Geopolitics of south asia and indian ocean realm

Geography-Paper-II (Geography of India): Unit 08

• Ecological issues: Principles of environmental impact assessment and environmental management; population explosion and food security; environmental degradation; deforestation, desertification and soil erosion; problems of agrarian and industrial unrest
• Ecological issues: Regional disparities in economic development; concept of sustainable growth and development; environmental awareness; linkage of rivers; globalization and Indian economy
• The solar system, meteorites, origin and interior of the earth and age of earth; volcanoes-causes and products, volcanic belts; earthquakes-causes, effects, seismic zones of India; island arcs, trenches and mid-ocean ridges; continental drifts

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Seafloor spreading, plate tectonics; isostasy
• Basic concepts of geomorphology; weathering and soil formations; landforms, slopes, and drainage; geomorphic cycles and their interpretation; morphology and its relation to structures and lithology; coastal geomorphology

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Applications of geomorphology in mineral prospecting, civil engineering; hydrology and environmental studies; geomorphology of Indian subcontinent
• Aerial photographs and their interpretation-merits and limitations; the electromagnetic spectrum; orbiting satellites and sensor systems; Indian remote sensing satellites; satellites data products; applications of remote sensing in geology
• The geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS)-its applications

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Hydrologic cycle and genetic classification of water; movement of subsurface water; springs; hydrological properties of rocks-porosity, permeability, hydraulic conductivity, specific yield, specific retention, transmissivity and storage coefficient
• Hydrological properties of rocks-classification of aquifers; water-bearing characteristics of rocks; groundwater chemistry; saline water intrusion; types of wells; drainage basin morphometry; exploration for groundwater; groundwater; artificial recharge
• Problems and management of groundwater; rainwater harvesting
• Engineering properties of rocks; geological investigations for dams, tunnels highways, railway and bridges; rock as construction material; landslides causes, prevention and rehabilitation; earthquake-resistant structures

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Principles of geologic mapping and map reading, projection diagrams, stress and strain ellipsoid and stress-strain relationships of elastic, plastic and viscous materials; strain markers in deformed rocks
• Behaviour of minerals and rocks under deformation conditions; folds and faults classification and mechanics; structural analysis of folds, foliations, lineations, joints, and faults, unconformities
• Time-relationship between crystallization and deformation

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Species-definition and nomenclature; megafossils and microfossils; modes of preservation of fossils; different kinds of microfossils; application of microfossils in correlation, petroleum exploration, paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic studies
• Evolutionary trend in hominidae, equidae and proboscidea; Siwalik fauna; Gondwana flora and fauna and its importance; index fossils and their significance

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Fundamental law of stratigraphy; classification of stratigraphy sequences-lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic and their interrelationships; sequences stratigraphic; geological time scale

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Distribution and classification of Precambrian rocks of India; study of stratigraphic distribution and lithology of phanerozoic rocks of India with reference to fauna, flora, and economic importance
• Major boundary problems-Cambrian/ Precambrian, Permian/ Triassic, cretaceous/ tertiary, and Pliocene/ Pleistocene; study of climatic conditions, paleogeography and igneous activity in the Indian subcontinent in the geological past
• Tectonic framework of India; evolution of the Himalayas

Geology-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Classification of crystals into systems and classes of symmetry; international system of crystallographic notation; use of projection diagrams to represent crystal symmetry; elements of X-ray crystallography

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Physical and chemical characters of rock forming silicate mineral groups; structural classification of silicates; common minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks; minerals of the carbonate, phosphate, sulphide and halide groups; clay minerals

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Generation and crystallization of magmas; crystallization of albite-anorthite, diopside-anorthite and diopside-wollastonite-silica systems; Bowen’s reaction principle; magmatic differentiation and assimilation
• Petrogenetic significance of the textures and structures of igneous rocks; petrography and petrogenesis of granite, syenite, diorite, basic and ultrabasic groups, charnockite, anorthosite and alkaline rocks; carbonatites; deccan volcanic province

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Types and agents of metamorphism; metamorphic grades and zones; phase rule; facies of regional and contact metamorphism; ACF and AKF diagrams; textures and structures of metamorphic rocks; metamorphism of arenaceous, argillaceous and basic rocks
• Minerals assemblages retrograde metamorphism; metasomatism and granitisation, migmatites, granulite terrains of India

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Sediments and sedimentary rocks: Processes of formation; diagenesis and lithification; sedimentary rocks of mechanical origin and biochemical origin-their classification, petrography and depositional environment; sedimentary facies and provenance
• Sediments and sedimentary rocks: Sedimentary structures classification and their significance; heavy minerals and their significance; sedimentary basins of India

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Ore, ore minerals, and gangue, tenor of ore, classification of ore deposits; process of formation of minerals deposits; controls of ore localization; ore textures and structures; metallogenic epochs and provinces
• Geology of the important Indian deposits of aluminium, chromium, copper, gold, iron, lead zinc, manganese, titanium, uranium, and thorium and industrial minerals; deposits of coal and petroleum in India; national mineral policy
• Conservation and utilization of mineral resources; marine mineral resources and law of sea
• Methods of prospecting-geological, geophysical, geochemical, and geobotanical; techniques of sampling; estimation of reserves or ore; methods of exploration and mining metallic ores, industrial minerals, marine mineral resources and building stones

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Mineral beneficiation and ore dressing

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Cosmic abundance of elements; composition of the planets and meteorites; structure and composition of earth and distribution of elements; trace elements; elements of crystal chemistry-types of chemical bonds, coordination number
• Isomorphism and polymorphism; elementary thermodynamics

Geology-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Natural hazards-floods, mass wasting, coastal hazards, earthquakes, and volcanic activity and mitigation; environmental impact of urbanization, mining, industrial and radioactive waste disposal, use of fertilizers, dumping of mine waste and fly ash
• Pollution of ground and surface water, marine pollution; environment protection-legislative measures in India; sea level changes: Causes and impact

History-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Archaeological sources: Exploration, excavation, epigraphy, numismatics, monuments
• Literary sources: Indigenous-primary and secondary; poetry, scientific literature, literature, literature in regional languages, religious literature
• Foreign account: Greek, Chinese, and Arab writers

History-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Geographical factors; hunting and gathering (Paleolithic and Mesolithic); beginning of agriculture (Neolithic and chalcolithic)

History-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Origin, date, extent, characteristics-decline, survival and significance, art and architecture

History-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Distribution of pastoral and farming cultures outside the Indus, Development of community life, Settlements, Development of agriculture, Crafts, Pottery, and Iron industry

History-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Expansion of Aryans in India
• Vedic period: Religious and philosophic literature; transformation from rig Vedic period to later Vedic period; political, social, and economical life; significance of Vedic age; evolution of monarchy and Varna system

History-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Formation of states (Mahajanapada): Republics and monarchies; rise of urban centers; trade routes; economic growth; introduction of coinage; spread of Jainism and Buddhism; rise of Magadha and Nandas
• Iranian and macedonian invasions and their impact

History-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Foundation of the Mauryan empire, Chandragupta, Kautilya, and Arthashastra; Ashoka; concept of Dharma; edicts; polity, administration, economy; art, architecture, and sculpture; external contacts; religion; spread of religion; literature
• Disintegration of the empire; Sungas and Kanvas

History-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Contact with outside world; growth of urban centers, economy, coinage, development of religions, Mahayana, social conditions, art, architecture, culture, literature, and science

History-Paper-I: Unit 09

• Kharavela, the Satavahanas, Tamil states of the Sangam age; administration, economy, land grants, coinage, trade guilds and urban centres; Buddhist centres; Sangam literature and culture; art and architecture

History-Paper-I: Unit 10

• Polity and administration, economic conditions, coinage of the Guptas, land grants, decline of urban centres, Indian feudalism, caste system, position of women, education and educational institutions; Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Vallabhi, literature
• Scientific literature, art, and architecture

History-Paper-I: Unit 11

• The Kadambas, Pallavas, Chalukyas of Badami; polity and administration, trade guilds, literature; growth of Vaishnava and Saiva religions
• Tamil Bakthi movement, Shankaracharya; Vedanta; institutions of temple and temple architecture; Palas, Senas, Rashtrakutas, Paramaras, polity and administration; cultural aspects
• Arab conquest of Sind; Alberuni, the Chalukyas of Kalyana, Cholas, Hoysalas, Pandyas; polity and administration; local government; growth of art and architecture, religious sects, institution of temple and Mathas, Agraharas, education and literature
• Economy and society

History-Paper-I: Unit 12

• Languages and texts, major stages in the evolution of art and architecture, major philosophical thinkers and schools, ideas in science and mathematics

History-Paper-I: Unit 13

• Polity: Major political developments in northern India and the peninsula, origin, and the rise of Rajputs, the Cholas: Administration, village economy, and society, “Indian feudalism”, agrarian economy and urban settlements, trade and commerce
• Society: The status of the Brahman and the new social order, condition of women, Indian science and technology

History-Paper-I: Unit 14

• Philosophy: Shankaracharya and Vedanta, Ramanuja, and Vishishtadvaita, Madhva, and Brahma-Mimansa, religion: Forms and features of religion, Tamil devotional cult, growth of Bhakti, Islam and its arrival in India, Sufism
• Literature: Literature in Sanskrit, growth of Tamil literature, literature in the newly developing languages, Kalhana's Rajatarangini, Alberuni's India, art and architecture: Temple architecture, sculpture, painting

History-Paper-I: Unit 15

• Establishment of the Delhi sultanate: The Ghorian invasions-factors behind Ghurian success, economic, social, and cultural consequences, foundation of Delhi sultanate and early Turkish sultans, Consolidation: The rule of Iltutmish and Balban

History-Paper-I: Unit 16

• The Khalji revolution, Alauddin Khilji: Conquests and territorial expansion, agrarian, and economic measures, Muhammad Tughluq: Major projects, agrarian measures, bureaucracy of Muhammad Tughluq
• Firuz Tughluq: Agrarian measures, achievements in civil engineering and public works, decline of the sultanate, foreign contacts, and Ibn Battuta's account

History-Paper-I: Unit 17

• Society: Composition of rural society, ruling classes, town dwellers, women, religious classes, caste, and slavery under the sultanate, Bhakti movement, Sufi movement
• Culture: Persian literature, literature in the regional languages of north India, literature in the languages of South India, sultanate architecture and new structural forms, painting, evolution of a composite culture
• Economy: Agricultural production, rise of urban economy and non-agricultural production, trade and commerce

History-Paper-I: Unit 18

• Rise of provincial dynasties: Bengal, Kashmir (Zainul Abedin), Gujarat, Malwa, Bahmanids, the vijayanagara empire, Lodis, Mughal empire, first phase: Babur, Humayun, the Sur empire: Sher Shah’s administration, Portuguese colonial enterprise
• Bhakti and sufi movements

History-Paper-I: Unit 19

• Regional cultures specificities, literary traditions, provincial architectural, society, culture, literature, and the arts in Vijayanagara empire

History-Paper-I: Unit 20

• Conquests and consolidation of empire, establishment of Jagir and Mansab systems, Rajput policy, evolution of religious and social outlook, theory of Sulh-i-Kul and religious policy, court patronage of art and technology

History-Paper-I: Unit 21

• Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb, the empire and the zamindars, religious policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb, nature of the mughal state, late seventeenth century crisis and the revolts, the ahom kingdom
• Shivaji and the early maratha kingdom

History-Paper-I: Unit 22

• Population agricultural and craft production, towns, commerce with Europe through Dutch, English, and French companies: A trade revolution, Indian mercantile classes, banking, insurance, and credit systems, conditions of peasants, condition of women
• Evolution of the sikh community and the khalsa panth

History-Paper-I: Unit 23

• Persian histories and other literature, Hindi and religious literatures, Mughal architecture, Mughal painting, provincial architecture and painting, classical music, science and technology

History-Paper-I: Unit 24

• Factors for the decline of the Mughal empire, the regional principalities: Nizam’s Deccan, Bengal, Awadh, Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas, the Maratha fiscal and financial system, emergence of Afghan power, Battle of Panipat, 1761
• State of, political, cultural, and economic, on eve of the British conquest

History-Paper-II: Unit 01

• The early European settlements; the Portuguese and the Dutch; the English and the French East India companies; their struggle for supremacy; carnatic wars; Bengal-the conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English
• The Battle of Plassey; significance of Plassey

History-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Bengal-Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; the Battle of Buxar; Mysore; the Marathas; the three Anglo-Maratha wars; the Punjab, annexation and consolidation of the Lushai Hills

History-Paper-II: Unit 03

• The early administrative structure; from diarchy to direct control; the regulating act (1773); the Pitt's India act (1784); the charter act (1833); the voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule
• The english utilitarian and india

History-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Land revenue settlements in British India; the permanent settlement; Ryotwari settlement; Mahalwari settlement; economic impact of the revenue arrangements; commercialization of agriculture; rise of landless agrarian labourers
• Impoverishment of the rural society
• Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; deindustrialization; decline of traditional crafts; drain of wealth; economic transformation of India; railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services
• Famine and poverty in the rural interior; European business enterprise and its limitations

History-Paper-II: Unit 05

• The state of indigenous education, its dislocation; orientalist-anglicist controversy, the introduction of western education in India; the rise of press, literature, and public opinion; the rise of modern vernacular literature; progress of science
• Christian missionary activities in india

History-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Ram Mohan Roy, the Brahmo movement; Devendranath Tagore; Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar; the Young Bengal movement; Dayananda Saraswati; the social reform movements in India including Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage etc
• The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India; Islamic revivalism-the Feraizi and Wahabi movements

History-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Peasant movement and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783), the Kol rebellion (1832), the Moplah rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920), the Santal Hul (1855), Indigo rebellion (1859-60)
• Deccan uprising (1875) and the Munda Ulgulan (1899-1900); the great revolt of 1857-origin, character, causes of failure, the consequences; the shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period
• The peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s

History-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Politics of association; the foundation of the Indian national congress; the safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the congress; programme and objectives of early congress; the social composition of early congress leadership
• The moderates and extremists; the partition of Bengal (1905); the Swadeshi movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi movement; the beginning of revolutionary extremism in India

History-Paper-II: Unit 09

• Character of Gandhian nationalism; Gandhi's popular appeal; Rowlatt Satyagraha; the Khilafat movement; the non-cooperation movement; national politics from the end of the non-cooperation movement to the beginning of the civil disobedience movement
• The two phases of the civil disobedience movement; Simon commission; the Nehru report; the round table conferences; nationalism and the peasant movements; nationalism and working class movements
• Women and Indian youth and students in Indian politics (1885-1947); the election of 1937 and the formation of ministries; Cripps mission; the Quit India movement; the Wavell plan; the cabinet mission

History-Paper-II: Unit 10

• The revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, UP the Madras presidency, outside India
• The left; the left within the congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the congress socialist party; the communist party of India, other left parties

History-Paper-II: Unit 11

• The Muslim league; the Hindu mahasabha; communalism and the politics of partition; transfer of power; independence
• Consolidation as a nation; Nehru's foreign policy; India and her neighbours (1947-1964); the linguistic reorganization of states (1935-1947); regionalism and regional inequality; integration of princely states; princes in electoral politics
• The question of national language
• Caste and ethnicity after 1947; backward castes and tribes in post-colonial electoral politics; dalit movements
• Economic development and political change; land reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction; ecology and environmental policy in post-colonial India; progress of science

History-Paper-II: Unit 12

• Major ideas of enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau, spread of enlightenment in the colonies, rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian socialism

History-Paper-II: Unit 13

• European states system
• American revolution and the constitution
• French revolution and aftermath, 1789-1815
• American civil war with reference to abraham lincoln and the abolition of slavery
• British democratic politics, 1815-1850: Parliamentary reformers, free traders, chartists

History-Paper-II: Unit 14

• English industrial revolution: Causes and impact on society, industrialization in other countries: USA, Germany, Russia, Japan, industrialization and globalization

History-Paper-II: Unit 15

• Rise of nationalism in 19th century, nationalism: State-building in Germany and Italy, disintegration of empires in the face of the emergence of nationalities across the world

History-Paper-II: Unit 16

• South and south-East Asia, Latin America, and South Africa, Australia, imperialism and free trade: Rise of neo imperialism

History-Paper-II: Unit 17

• 19th century European revolutions, the Russian revolution of 1917-1921, fascist counter-revolution, Italy and Germany, the Chinese revolution of 1949

History-Paper-II: Unit 18

• 1st and 2nd World Wars as total wars: Societal implications, World War-I: Causes and consequences, World War-II: Causes and consequences

History-Paper-II: Unit 19

• Emergence of two power blocs, emergence of third world and non-alignment, UNO and the global disputes

History-Paper-II: Unit 20

• Latin America-Bolivar, Arab world-Egypt, Africa-apartheid to democracy, South-East Asia-Vietnam

History-Paper-II: Unit 21

History-Paper-II: Unit 22

• Post war foundations; NATO and European community, consolidation and expansion of European community, European union

History-Paper-II: Unit 23

• Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet communism and Soviet Union, 1985-1991, political changes in east Europe 1989-2001, end of the Cold War and us ascendancy in the world as the lone superpower

Home science-paper-I (family resource management, extension education and family, and child welfare): Unit 01

• Meaning and Importance, Basic concepts of management
• Factors motivating management-goals, values, standards, decision making
• Management process-meaning and elements of process-planning controlling the plan and evaluation; planning-importance and types of plan
• Management of resources in the family-types and characteristics; time management; energy management; money management
• Consumer education-needs and objectives; rights and responsibilities of consumers; consumer protection laws

Home science-paper-I (family resource management, extension education and family, and child welfare): Unit 02

• Family types, functions of family, types of family income, sources of income in family, method of handling income in families
• Financial management-budgeting, record keeping
• Savings and Investment
• Household equipment and electrical appliances-base materials, insulating materials, selection, classification of household equipments
• Housing-house and its surroundings, physical features, locality, sanitation conditions, principles of house planning
• Interior decoration
• Kitchen-principles of kitchen planning, orientation, location, size, shape, colour, ventilation, light, work centres, work triangle

Home science-paper-I (family resource management, extension education and family, and child welfare): Unit 03

• Definition, meaning, importance and scope, principles of extension education, qualities of extension education, role of home science in extension education
• Extension techniques-selection and uses, individual approach, group approach, mass approach; audio visual aids
• Rural sociology-rural society in NE India, structure of rural society, role of rural youth programmes and Mahila Mandal
• Kitchen gardening
• Community development-meaning, principles, philosophy and objectives; role of community development worker; role of extension work in community development
• Concepts and functions of communication in home science-meaning of communication in extension education, importance of communication in extension work, new communication technologies
• Leadership in extension education-meaning, characteristics of a good leadership, role and functions of local leaders in extension work

Home science-paper-I (family resource management, extension education and family, and child welfare): Unit 04

• Meaning, needs, and importance
• Central social welfare board (CSWB) and state social welfare board-meaning and scope
• Different schemes of CSWB: (i) condensed courses of education, (ii) vocational training programme, (iii) awareness generation programme, (iv) family counselling centres, (v) creches
• Programmes for family welfare at the national level: (i) Rural health services, (ii) family counselling centres, (iii) national policy for the aging
• Programmes for women’s welfare at the national level: (i) National family welfare programmes since 1951, (ii) child and mother health care programmes, (iii) reproductive and child health (RCH) programmes, (iv) national commission on women
• Children’s welfare programme at the national level: (i) Childline services, (ii) the juvenile justice act, 2000, (iii) central adoption resource agency (CARA), (iv) national plan for children, 1992, (v) agencies-accredited social health activist (ASHA)
• Children’s welfare programme at the national level: (v) Agencies-national institute for public cooperation and child development, government of India-unicef grant-in-aid
• Family and child welfare services at the state level-programmes implemented in Mizoram: (i) Integrated child development services (ICDS), (ii) anganwadis, (iii) destitute home, (iv) protective home, (v) adoption programme, (vi) self help group for women

Home science-paper-I (textile and clothing, physiology, and child psychology): Unit 01

• Classification of textile fibers and their properties: (a) Natural fibers-cellulose fibers, protein fibers, mineral fibers, (b) man made fibers-thermoplastic fibers, non-thermoplastic fibers, mineral fibers
• Fabric construction: (a) Types of yarns, processing of making yarns, (b) weaving-description and working of loom, different types of weave, count of cloth, (c) knitting, (d) braiding, (e) felting
• Textile finishes: (a) Introduction to finishes, (b) objectives of the application of finishes, (c) types of finishes, (d) dry cleaning
• Laundry work: (a) Laundry equipment, (b) water-hard and soft water, importance of soft water in laundry work, softening of water, (c) cleansing materials and other reagents, (d) blueing agents, (e) bleaching agents-oxidizing agents and reducing agent

Home science-paper-I (textile and clothing, physiology, and child psychology): Unit 02

• Laundry work: (f) Stiffening agents, (g) stain removal

Home science-paper-I (textile and clothing, physiology, and child psychology): Unit 03

• Dyeing of textiles: (a) Study of different indigenous and chemical dyes, (b) different stages of applying dyes-raw stock dyeing, skein dyeing, piece dyeing, (c) methods of dyeing
• Printing of textiles: (a) Hand printing-block, stencil, screen, batik, flock, (b) machine printing-discharge, resist, roller. Storage of clothes. Methods of taking body measurements for bodice, arm, and skirt. Fitting of garments
• Fashion and fashion cycle: (a) Terminology of fashion, (b) components of fashion, (c) principles of fashion, (d) factors affecting fashion, (e) fashion movement, (f) fashion cycle and its stages, (g) theories of fashion adaptation
• Fashion and fashion cycle: (g) Fashion business and merchandising

Home science-paper-I (textile and clothing, physiology, and child psychology): Unit 04

• Blood and its composition, Coagulation of blood, Structure and functions of heart, Heart rate, Cardiac cycle, Blood pressure and its Regulation, Circulation of blood
• Gastrointestinal system-anatomy of gastrointestinal tract, digestion and absorption of food, role of saliva, gastric and pancreatic juice in digestion
• Reproductive system-structure and functions of male and female reproductive organs, menstrual cycle, parturition, lactation, menopause
• Excretory system-structure and functions of kidney, formation of urine
• Respiratory system-structure of lungs, mechanism of respiration and its regulation, oxygen and carbon dioxide transport in blood, respiratory quotient
• Nervous system-structure of nerve cells, conduction and transmission of nerve impulse, synaptic transmission, central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
• Muscular system-structure of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles, mechanism of muscle contraction, chemical change during muscle contraction
• Endocrine system-various endocrine glands and their secretions in man, biological role of hormones of different endocrine glands, pheromones

Home science-paper-I (textile and clothing, physiology, and child psychology): Unit 05

• Introduction to child psychology-definition and scope
• Theories of child psychology: Freud-psychosexual theory, piaget cognitive theory, erikson-psychosocial theory
• Cognitive behaviour-stages of cognitive development, role of cognition in language and language formation
• Attitudes-attitude formation, attitudes change and cognitive dissonance
• Self identity-component of one’s identity, self concept, self esteem, self monitoring and self efficacy
• Persons perception-techniques of communications, attributions, impression formation and management
• Interpersonal attraction-proximity and emotion, need to affiliation and observable characteristics, similarity, and reciprocal positive evaluation

Home science-paper-II (food and nutrition, organic chemistry, and biochemistry): Unit 01

• Definition, functions, and food groups
• Major nutrients-functions, food sources, deficiency diseases, dietary measures for solving these problems
• Digestion, absorption, and metabolism of food; water and electrolyte balance
• Balanced diet-(a) factors to be considered while planning a balanced diet (b) meal planning-objectives and factors affecting meal planning, (c) food exchange lists in meal planning, (d) steps in menu planning, (e) food preparation
• Physiological condition and nutritional requirement of normal adult, adolescents and elderly
• Food fads and Fallacies, Food selection, Purchase and Storage

Home science-paper-II (food and nutrition, organic chemistry, and biochemistry): Unit 02

• Factors contributing to malnutrition, indication of malnutrition, malnutrition, and infection
• Diet therapy-meaning, general rule for dietary treatments
• Definition of obesity, aetiology, assessment, metabolic change
• Types, complications, treatments, and principles of dietetic management
• Underweight-aetiology, dietary modifications, ideal weight
• Diet in diseases of gastrointestinal system and cardiovascular system-diarrhoea, constipation, and peptic ulcer
• Diet in diseases of liver and kidneys-jaundice, cirrhosis of liver, glomerulonephritis and renal failure
• Nutritional anaemia, Iron deficiency and Vitamin B12 deficiency
• Nutrition for Diabetes Mellitus and Cancer patients
• Food standards, health hazards, and detection of food adulteration
• Food preservation-principles, methods of food preservation
• Food borne intoxication, food borne infection, and micro-organisms responsible for food spoilage

Home science-paper-II (food and nutrition, organic chemistry, and biochemistry): Unit 03

• Detection of carbon and hydrocarbons-detection of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur, and phosphorus in organic substances
• Hydrocarbons-structural formula, preparation, properties, and uses of methane and ethane
• Alkyl halides-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of methyl iodide and ethyl iodide
• Alcohols-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol and glycerol
• Ketones and aldehydes-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of acetone and formaldehyde
• Carboxylic acid-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of acetic acid, formic acid, oxalic acid
• Hydroxy acid-definition, structural formula, preparation, properties and uses of tartaric acid and citric acid

Home science-paper-II (food and nutrition, organic chemistry, and biochemistry): Unit 04

• Carbohydrates-definition, classification, structure, and properties, biological importance
• Lipids-definition, classification, properties and functions, classification of amino acids, essential and non-essential amino acids
• Enzymes-definition and classification of enzymes, definition and types of coenzyme, specificity of enzyme, isozyme, factors affecting enzyme action, enzyme inhibition
• Intermediary metabolism-gluconeogenesis, glycogenesis, glycolysis, glycogenolysis, elementary knowledge of protein biosynthesis
• Nucleic acids-composition, structure, replication of DNA, DNA as a genetic material, different types of RNA and their significance
• Biological oxidation-oxidative phosphorylation, high energy compounds, structure and role of ATP

Home science-paper-II (human development, mother and child health, and early childhood education): Unit 01

• Factors affecting growth and development-(a) genetic inheritance, (b) environmental prerequisites
• Beginnings of a new life-prenatal influences on the child, biological risks, age of mother, illness, diet and nutrition, stress and emotional strains, environmental hazards
• Physical Development
• Social development
• Emotional Development
• Personality development

Home science-paper-II (human development, mother and child health, and early childhood education): Unit 02

• Course of prenatal development, overview of birth process and complications, conditions affecting prenatal development
• Infancy (0-2 years)-definition and highlights of development
• Early childhood-definition and characteristics of early childhood, developmental task of early childhood
• Middle childhood (6-12 years)-definition, importance of peer group
• Adolescence (13-18 years)-definition, heightened emotionality, problems of drugs and alcohol abuse
• Young adulthood (19-40 years)-definition, responsibilities and adjustment-parenthood marriage, family
• Middle adulthood (40-65 years)-physical changes, coping with stress in family
• Late adulthood (65 years and above)-physiological changes, heath problems, and memory changes, retirement

Home science-paper-II (human development, mother and child health, and early childhood education): Unit 03

• Mortality rate of neonatal and infant, child survival rate at neonatal and infant
• Prenatal Care of Mother
• Postnatal care of mother
• Infant Nutrition
• Pre-school Nutrition and Immunization Schedule for Infants and Children
• School child
• Common nutritional problems in public health-low birth weight, protein energy malnutrition, xerophthalmia, iodine deficiency disorders, endemic fluorosis

Home science-paper-II (human development, mother and child health, and early childhood education): Unit 04

• Objectives, importance of early childhood years in individual development
• Motor development
• Language development
• Child rearing practices
• Contribution of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in Early Childhood Education
• Views of Fröbel, Maria Montessori, and Rousseau on early childhood education
• Play-importance, types and factors affecting play
• Organizing a Pre-School

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 01

• The distinctive features of the constitution
• Fundamental rights-public interest litigation; legal aid; legal service authority
• Relationship between fundamental rights, directive principles, and fundamental rights

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 02

• Governor and his powers
• Centre, states, and local bodies: (a) Distribution of legislative powers between the union and the states. (b) Local bodies. (c) Administrative relationship among union, state, and local bodies. (d) Eminent domain-state property, community property
• Legislative powers, privileges, and immunities

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 03

• Appointments and transfer
• Powers, functions, and jurisdiction
• Services under the union and the states: (a) Recruitment and conditions of services; constitutional safeguards; administrative tribunals. (b) Union public service commission and state public service commission-powers and functions
• Services under the union and the states: (c) Election commission-powers and functions
• Emergency provisions
• Amendment of the constitution

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 04

• Emerging trends and judicial approach
• Delegated legislation and its constitutionality
• Separation of powers and constitutional governance
• Judicial review of administrative action
• Ombudsman: Lokayukta, Lokpal, etc

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 05

• Relationship between international law and municipal law
• State recognition and state succession
• Individuals; nationality, statelessness; human rights and procedures available for their enforcement

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 06

• Treaties: formation, application, termination, and reservation
• United nations: Its principal organs, powers, functions, and reform

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 07

• Inland waters, Territorial sea, Contiguous zone, Continental shelf, Exclusive economic zone, High seas
• New International economic order and monetary law: WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF, World Bank
• Protection and Improvement of the Human environment: International efforts

Law-paper-I (Indian constitution and administrative law): Unit 08

• Lawful recourse to force: Aggression, self-defense, intervention
• Fundamental principles of international humanitarian law-international conventional and contemporary developments
• Legality of the use of nuclear weapons; ban on testing of nuclear weapons; nuclear-non-proliferation treaty, CTBT
• International terrorism, state sponsored terrorism, hijacking, international criminal court
• New International economic order and monetary law: WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF, World Bank
• Protection and Improvement of the Human environment: International efforts

Law-paper-II (law of crime and law of torts): Unit 01

• General principles of criminal liability: Mens rea and actus reus, mens rea in statutory offences
• Kinds of punishment and emerging trends as to abolition of capital punishment
• Preparation and Criminal attempt
• General exceptions
• Joint and constructive liability
• Abetment
• Criminal conspiracy
• Offences against the state
• Offences against public tranquility
• Defamation
• Offence against Women
• Offence against human body
• Offence against Property
• Prevention of corruption act, 1988
• Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and Subsequent Legislative Development
• Plea bargaining

Law-paper-II (law of crime and law of torts): Unit 02

• Nature and definition of tort
• General defenses
• Joint Tortfeasors
• Remedies
• Conspiracy
• False imprisonment
• Malicious prosecution
• Liability based upon fault and strict liability; absolute liability
• Vicarious liability including state liability
• Negligence
• Defamation
• Nuisance
• Consumers Protection Act, 1986

Law-paper-II (law of contracts and mercantile law and contemporary legal developments): Unit 01

• Nature and formation of contract/ E-contract
• Factors vitiating free consent
• Void, voidable, illegal, and unenforceable agreements
• Performance and discharge of contracts
• Quasi-contracts
• Consequences of breach of contract
• Contract of indemnity, guarantee, and insurance
• Contract of agency
• Standard form contracts
• Sale of Goods and Hire-Purchase
• Formation and dissolution of partnership
• Negotiable instruments act, 1881
• Arbitration and conciliation act, 1996

Law-paper-II (law of contracts and mercantile law and contemporary legal developments): Unit 02

• Public interest litigation
• Major statutes concerning environmental law: (a) Environment (protection) act, 1986. (b) Air (protection and control of pollution) act, 1981. (c) Water (protection and control of pollution) act, 1974
• Right to information act
• Trial by media
• Intellectual property right-concept, types/ prospects
• Information technology law including cyber laws-concepts, purpose/ prospects
• Competition law-concepts, purpose/ prospects
• Alternate dispute resolution-concept, types/ prospect

Management-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Concept and foundations of management, evolution of management thoughts; managerial functions-planning, organizing, controlling; decision making; role of manager, managerial skills; management of innovation; managing in a global environment
• Flexible systems management; social responsibility and managerial ethics; managerial processes on direct and indirect value chain

Management-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Conceptual model of organization behaviour; the individual processes-personality, values and attitude, perception, motivation, learning and reinforcement, work stress and stress management, the dynamics of organization behaviour-power and politics

Management-Paper-I: Unit 03

• The dynamics of organization behaviour-conflict and negotiation, leadership process and styles, communication

Management-Paper-I: Unit 04

• The organizational processes-decision making, job design; classical, neoclassical and contingency approaches to organizational design; organizational theory and design-organizational culture, managing cultural diversity, learning organization

Management-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Organizational change and development; knowledge based enterprise-systems and processes; networked and virtual organizations

Management-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Concept of entrepreneurship; theories of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and economic development, factors contributing to entrepreneurship; characteristics of an entrepreneur, entrepreneur vs. manager, types of entrepreneur
• Creativity and business opportunity; opportunity and competitive advantages, business model and planning
• Financing an entrepreneurial venture, financing a small business, legal and technical issues in starting a small business, growth strategies and start-up; business failure and turn-around; harvest and exit; entrepreneurship
• Innovations and Women Entrepreneurship

Management-Paper-I: Unit 07

• HR challenges; HRM functions; the future challenges of HRM; strategic management of human resources; human resource planning; job analysis; job evaluation; recruitment and selection; training and development; promotion and transfer; performance management
• Compensation management and benefits; employee morale and productivity; management of organizational climate and industrial relations; human resources accounting and audit; human resource information system; international human resource management

Management-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Concept, evolution, and scope; marketing strategy formulation and components of marketing plan; segmenting and targeting the market; positioning and differentiating the market offering; analyzing competition; analyzing consumer markets
• Industrial buyer behaviour; market research; product strategy; pricing strategies; designing and managing marketing channels; integrated marketing communications; building customer satisfaction, value and retention; services and non-profit marketing
• Ethics in marketing; consumer protection; internet marketing; retail management

Management-Paper-I: Unit 09

• Financial accounting-concept, importance, and scope, generally accepted accounting principles, preparation of financial statements with special reference to analysis of a balance sheet and measurement of business income
• Preparation of financial statements with special reference to analysis of a inventory valuation and depreciation, financial statement analysis, fund flow analysis, the statement of cash flows; management accounting-concept, need, importance and scope
• Cost accounting-records and processes, cost ledger and control accounts, reconciliation and integration between financial and cost accounts; overhead cost and control, job and process costing, budget and budgetary control, performance budgeting
• Zero-base budgeting, relevant costing and costing for decision-making, standard costing and variance analysis, marginal costing and absorption costing

Management-Paper-I: Unit 10

• Goals of finance function; concepts of value and return; valuation of bonds and shares; management of working capital: Estimation and financing; management of cash, receivables, inventory and current liabilities; cost of capital; capital budgeting
• Management of working capital: Financial and operating leverage; design of capital structure: Theories and practices; shareholder value creation: Dividend policy, corporate financial policy and strategy
• Shareholder value creation: Management of corporate distress and restructuring strategy; capital and money markets: Institutions and instruments; leasing, hire purchase and venture capital; regulation of capital market; risk and return: Portfolio theory
• Risk and return: CAPM; APT; financial derivatives: Option, futures, swap Recent reforms in financial sector

Management-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Descriptive statistics-tabular, graphical and numerical methods, introduction to probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, inferential statistics-sampling distributions, central limit theorem
• Hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions, inference about population variances, chi-square and ANOVA, simple correlation and regression, time series and forecasting, index numbers

Management-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Overview of operations research, modeling in operations research, applications and scope of operations research, linear programming-graphical and simplex method, duality, sensitivity analysis, transportation-mathematical models
• Methods of finding initial and optimal solutions, assignment problems-mathematical models, statement of the problems and finding optional solutions
• Project management-PERT, CPM, steps in PERT, and CPM, crashing, simulation, Markov analysis, decision theory, game theory, queuing theory, simulation

Management-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Fundamentals of operations management; organizing for production; aggregate production planning, capacity planning, plant design: Process planning, plant size and scale of operations, management of facilities; line balancing
• Equipment replacement and maintenance; production control; supply chain management-vendor evaluation and audit; statistical process control, flexibility and agility in manufacturing systems; world class manufacturing; project management concepts
• R and D management, management of service operations; make or buy decision; waste management

Management-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Material management-concept, role, and importance of material management, purchase management, store management, Introduction in to quality management-conceptual framework, strategic quality management, contemporary views
• TQM-evolutions and issues related to quality control, responsibilities for quality, quality cost concept, quality and productivity, contribution of quality gurus-dancing, juram, cosby, ishikawn and its comparison

Management-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Conceptual foundations of information systems; information theory; information resource management; types of information systems; systems development-overview of systems and design; system development management life-cycle
• Designing for online and distributed environments; implementation and control of project; trends in information technology; managing data resources-organizing data; DSS and RDBMS; enterprise resource planning (ERP), expert systems, e-business architecture
• E-governance; information systems planning, flexibility in information systems; user involvement; evaluation of information systems

Management-Paper-II: Unit 06

• State participation in business, interaction between government, business and different chambers of commerce and industry in India; government’s policy with regard to small scale industries; government clearances for establishing a new enterprise
• Public distribution system; government control over price and distribution; consumer protection act (CPA) and the role of voluntary organizations in protecting consumers’ rights; new industrial policy of the government: Liberalization
• New industrial policy of the government: Deregulation and privatization; Indian planning system; government policy concerning development of backward areas/ regions
• The responsibilities of the business as well as the government to protect the environment; corporate governance; cyber laws

Management-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Business policy as a field of study; nature and scope of strategic management, strategic intent, vision, objectives and policies; process of strategic planning and implementation; environmental analysis and internal analysis; SWOT analysis
• Tools and techniques for strategic analysis-impact matrix: The experience curve, BCG matrix, GEC mode, industry analysis, concept of value chain; strategic profile of a firm; framework for analyzing competition; competitive advantage of a firm
• Generic competitive strategies; growth strategies-expansion, integration and diversification; concept of core competence, strategic flexibility; reinventing strategy; strategy and structure; chief executive and board; turnaround management
• Management of strategic change; strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions; strategy and corporate evolution in the Indian context

Management-Paper-II: Unit 08

• International business environment: Changing composition of trade in goods and services; India’s foreign trade: Policy and trends; financing of international trade; regional economic cooperation; ftas; internationalisation of service firms
• International production; operation management in international companies; international taxation; global competitiveness and technological developments; global e-business; designing global organizational structure and control; multicultural management
• Global business strategy; global marketing strategies; export management; export-import procedures; joint ventures; foreign investment: Foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment; cross-border mergers and acquisitions
• Foreign exchange risk exposure management; world financial markets and international banking; external debt management; country risk analysis

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Vector spaces over R and C, linear dependence and independence, subspaces, bases, dimension; linear transformations, rank and nullity, matrix of a linear transformation
• Algebra of matrices; row and column reduction, echelon form, congruence and similarity; rank of a matrix; inverse of a matrix; solution of system of linear equations; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial, Cayley-Hamilton theorem
• Symmetric, skew-symmetric, Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, orthogonal and unitary matrices and their Eigenvalues

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Real numbers, functions of a real variable, limits, continuity, differentiability, mean-value theorem, Taylor’s theorem with remainders, indeterminate forms, maxima and minima, asymptotes; curve tracing
• Functions of two or three variables: Limits, continuity, partial derivatives, maxima and minima, Lagrange’s method of multipliers, Jacobian

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Indefinite integrals; infinite and improper integrals; double and triple integrals (evaluation techniques only); areas, surface, and volumes

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Cartesian and polar coordinates in three dimensions, second degree equations in three variables, reduction to canonical forms, straight lines, shortest distance between two skew lines; plane, sphere, cone, cylinder, paraboloid, ellipsoid
• Hyperboloid of one and two sheets and their properties

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Formulation of differential equations; equations of first order and first degree, integrating factor; orthogonal trajectory; equations of first order but not of first degree, Clairaut’s equation, singular solution
• Second and higher order linear equations with constant coefficients, complementary function, particular integral and general solution
• Second order linear equations with variable coefficients, Euler-Cauchy equation; determination of complete solution when one solution is known using method of variation of parameters
• Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms and their properties; Laplace transforms of elementary functions
• Application to initial value problems for 2nd order linear equations with constant coefficients

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Rectilinear motion, simple harmonic motion, motion in a plane, projectiles; constrained motion; work and energy, conservation of energy; Kepler’s laws, orbits under central forces

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Work and potential energy, friction; common catenary; principle of virtual work; stability of equilibrium, equilibrium of forces in three dimensions

Mathematics-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Scalar and vector fields, differentiation of vector field of a scalar variable; gradient, divergence and curl in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates; higher order derivatives; vector identities and vector equations
• Application to geometry: Curves in space, curvature and torsion; Serret-Frenet formulae
• Gauss and Stokes’ theorems, Green’s identities

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Groups, subgroups, cyclic groups, cosets, Lagrange’s theorem, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphism of groups, basic isomorphism theorems, permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem
• Rings, subrings, and ideals, homomorphisms of rings; integral domains, principal ideal domains, Euclidean domains and unique factorization domains; fields, quotient fields

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Real number system as an ordered field with least upper bound property; sequences, limit of a sequence, Cauchy sequence, completeness of real line; series and its convergence, absolute and conditional convergence of series of real and complex terms
• Rearrangement of series
• Continuity and uniform continuity of functions, properties of continuous functions on compact sets
• Riemann integral, improper integrals; fundamental theorems of integral calculus
• Uniform convergence, continuity, differentiability and inerrability for sequences and series of functions; partial derivatives of functions of several (two or three) variables, maxima and minima

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, power series representation of an analytic function, Taylor’s series; singularities; Laurent’s series; Cauchy’s residue theorem; Contour integration

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Linear programming problems, basic solution, basic feasible solution and optimal solution; graphical method and simplex method of solutions; duality
• Transportation and assignment problems

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Family of surfaces in three dimensions and formulation of partial differential equations; Solution of quasilinear partial differential equations of the first order, Cauchy’s method of characteristics
• Linear partial differential equations of the second order with constant coefficients, canonical form; equation of a vibrating string, heat equation, Laplace equation and their solutions

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Numerical methods: Solution of algebraic and transcendental equations of one variable by bisection, regula-falsi and Newton-Raphson methods; solution of system of linear equations by Gaussian elimination and Gauss-Jordan (direct)
• Solution of system of linear equations by Gauss-Seidel (iterative) methods
• Newton’s (forward and backward) interpolation, Lagrange’s interpolation
• Numerical integration: Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s rules, Gaussian quadrature formula
• Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations: Euler and Runga Kutta-methods

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Computer programming: Binary system; arithmetic and logical operations on numbers; octal and hexadecimal systems; conversion to and from decimal systems; algebra of binary numbers
• Elements of computer systems and concept of memory; basic logic gates and truth tables, Boolean algebra, normal form
• Representation of unsigned integers, signed integers, and reals, double precision reals and long integers
• Algorithms and flow charts for solving numerical analysis problems

Mathematics-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Generalized coordinates; D'Alembert’s principle and Lagrange’s equations; Hamilton equations; moment of inertia; motion of rigid bodies in two dimensions
• Equation of continuity; Euler’s equation of motion for inviscid flow; stream-lines, path of a particle; potential flow; two-dimensional and axisymmetric motion; sources and sinks, vortex motion; Navier-Stokes equation for a viscous fluid

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Mechanics of rigid bodies: Equations of equilibrium in space and its application; first and second moments of area; simple problems on friction; kinematics of particles for plane motion; elementary particle dynamics
• Mechanics of deformable bodies: Generalized Hooke’s law and its application; design problems on axial stress, shear stress and bearing stress; material properties for dynamic loading; bending shear and stresses in beams
• Mechanics of deformable bodies: Determination of principle stresses and strains-analytical and graphical; compound and combined stresses; biaxial stresses-thin walled pressure vessel; deflection of beam for statically determinate problems
• Mechanics of deformable bodies: Theories of failure

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Material behaviour and design factors for dynamic load; design of circular shafts for bending and torsional load only; design of belts and gears for transmission of power

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Basic concepts on structure of solids; common ferrous and non-ferrous materials and their applications; heat-treatment of steels; non-metals, plastics, composite materials and nano-materials

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Kinematic and dynamic analysis of plane mechanisms
• Cams, gears, and epicyclic gear trains, flywheels, governors, balancing of rigid rotors, balancing of single and multi cylinder engines, linear vibration analysis of mechanical systems (single degree of freedom), critical speeds and whirling of shafts

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Machine tool engineering-merchant’s force analysis; Taylor’s tool life equation; forming and welding processes; NC and CNC machining processes; jigs and fixtures

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 06

• EDM, ECM, ultrasonic, water jet machining; application of lasers and plasmas; energy rate calculations

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 07

• System design: Factory location-simple OR models; plant layout-methods based; applications of engineering economic analysis and break-even analysis for product selection, process selection and capacity planning; predetermined time standards
• System planning; forecasting methods based on regression and decomposition, design and balancing of multi model and stochastic assembly lines; inventory management-probabilistic inventory models for order time and order quantity determination
• JIT systems; strategic sourcing; managing inter plant logistics

Mechanical engineering-Paper-I: Unit 08

• System operations and control: Scheduling algorithms for job shops; applications of statistical methods for product and process quality control-applications of control charts for mean, range, percent defective, number of defectives and defects per unit
• System operations and control: Quality cost systems; management of resources, organizations and risks in projects
• System improvement: Implementation of systems, such as total quality management, developing and managing flexible, lean, and agile organizations
• Metrology-concept of fits and tolerances; tools and gauges; comparators; inspection of length; position; profile and surface finish

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Basic concept of first-law and second law of thermodynamics; concept of entropy and reversibility; availability and unavailability and irreversibility

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Classification and properties of fluids; incompressible and compressible fluids flows; effect of mach number and compressibility; continuity momentum and energy equations; normal and oblique shocks; one dimensional isentropic flow
• Flow or fluids in duct with frictions that transfer energy

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Flow through fans, blowers and compressors; axial and centrifugal flow configuration; design of fans and compressors; single problems compresses and turbine cascade; open and closed cycle gas turbines; work done in the gas turbine; reheat and regenerators

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Conduction heat transfer-general conduction equation-Laplace, Poisson, and Fourier equations; Fourier law of conduction; one dimensional steady state heat conduction applied to simple wall, solid and hollow cylinder of spheres
• Convection heat transfer-Newton’s law of convection; free and forced convection; heat transfer during laminar and turbulent flow of an incompressible fluid over a flat plate; concepts of Nusselt number
• Hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layer their thickness; Prandtl number; analogy between heat and momentum transfer-Reynolds, Colbum, Prandtl analogies; heat transfer during laminar and turbulent flow through horizontal tubes
• Free convection from horizontal and vertical plates
• Black body radiation-basic radiation laws such as Stefan-Boltzmann, Planck distribution, Wien’s displacement etc
• Basic heat exchanger analysis; classification of heat exchangers

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Classification, thermodynamic cycles of operation; determination of break power, indicated power, mechanical efficiency, heat balance sheet, interpretation of performance characteristics, petrol, gas and diesel engines
• Combustion in SI and CI engines, normal and abnormal combustion; effect of working parameters on knocking, reduction of knocking; forms of combustion chamber for SI and CI engines; rating of fuels; additives; emission
• Different systems of IC engines-fuels; lubricating; cooling and transmission systems
• Alternate fuels in ic engines

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Steam generation-modified Rankine cycle analysis; modern steam boilers; steam at critical and supercritical pressures; draught equipment; natural and artificial draught; boiler fuels solid, liquid and gaseous fuels
• Steam turbines-principle; types; compounding; impulse and reaction turbines; axial thrust
• Steam nozzles-flow of steam in convergent and divergent nozzle; pressure at throat for maximum discharge with different initial steam conditions such as wet, saturated and superheated, effect of variation of back pressure
• Supersaturated flow of steam in nozzles, Wilson line
• Rankine cycle with internal and external irreversibility; reheat factor; reheating and regeneration, methods of governing; back pressure and pass out turbines
• Steam power plants-combined cycle power generation; heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) fired and unfired, co-generation plants

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Various types of pumps, reciprocating pump; centrifugal pump; axial flow pump and jet pump
• Classification of water turbines
• Impulse turbine (Pelton wheel); inward flow reaction turbine (Francis turbine) and axial flow reaction turbine (Kaplan turbine)

Mechanical engineering-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Vapour compression refrigeration cycle-cycle on p-H and T-s diagrams; eco friendly refrigerants-R134a,123; systems like evaporators, condensers, compressor, expansion devices
• Simple vapour absorption systems
• Psychrometry-properties; processes; charts; sensible heating and cooling; humidification and dehumidification effective temperature; air-conditioning load calculation; simple duct design

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and principles of management (including prevention) of: Tetanus, rabies, AIDS, dengue, kala-azar, Japanese encephalitis
• Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and principles of management of: Ischaemic heart disease, pulmonary embolism. Bronchial asthma. Pleural effusion, tuberculosis, malabsorption syndromes, acid peptic diseases, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis of liver
• Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and principles of management of: Glomerulonephritis and pyelonephritis, renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, renovascular hypertension, complications of diabetes mellitus, coagulation disorders, leukemia
• Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and principles of management of: Hypo and hyperthyroidism, meningitis and encephalitis

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Mechanism of action and side effects of the following drugs: Antipyretics and analgesics, antibiotics, antimalaria; anti kala azar, antidiabetics, antihypertensive, antidiuretics, general and cardiac vasodilators, antiviral, antiparasitic, antifungal
• Mechanism of action and side effects of the following drugs: Immunosuppressant, anticancer

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Psoriasis, allergic dermatitis, scabies, eczema, vitiligo, Steven Johnson syndrome, Lichen planus

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Imaging in medical problems, ultrasound, echocardiogram, CT scan, MRI
• Anxiety and depressive psychosis and schizophrenia and ect

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Immunization, baby friendly hospital, congenital cyanotic heart disease, respiratory distress syndrome, bronchopneumonias, kernicterus
• IMNCI Classification and Management, Pem grading and Management
• Ari and Diarrhoea of under five and their Management

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Inflammation and Repair, Disturbances of Growth and Cancer, Pathogenesis and Histopathology of Rheumatic and Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes Mellitus
• Differentiation between benign, malignant, primary and metastatic malignancies, pathogenesis, and histopathology of bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoma breast, oral cancer, cancer cervix, leukaemia, etiology
• Pathogenesis and histopathology of-cirrhosis liver, glomerulonephritis, tuberculosis, acute osteomyelitis

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Principles, methods, approach and measurements of epidemiology nutrition, nutritional disease/ disorders and nutrition programmers
• Health information collection, analysis, and presentation
• Objectives, components, and critical analysis of national programmes for control/ eradication of: Malaria, Kala-Azar, filaria, and tuberculosis, HIV/ AIDS, STDs, and dengue critical appraisal of health care delivery system
• Health management and administration: Techniques, tools, programme implementation and evaluation
• Objective, component, goals and status of reproductive and child health, national rural health mission and millennium development goals, management of hospital and industrial waste

Medical science-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Conduction and transmission of impulse, mechanism of contraction, neuromuscular transmission, reflexes, control of equilibrium, posture and muscle tone, descending pathways, functions of cerebellum, basal ganglia, Physiology of sleep and consciousness
• Endocrine system: Mechanism of action of hormones, formation, secretion, transport, metabolism, function and regulation of secretion of pancreas and pituitary gland
• Physiology of reproductive system: menstrual cycle, lactation, pregnancy
• Blood: Development, regulation and fate of blood cells
• Cardiovascular, cardiac output, blood pressure, regulation of cardiovascular functions

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Clinical Features, Causes, Diagnosis and Principles of Management of Cleft Palate, Harelip
• Laryngeal tumour, oral, and oesophageal tumours
• Peripheral arterial diseases, varicose veins, coarctation of aorta tumours of thyroid, adrenal glands abscess, cancer, fibroadenoma, and adenosis of breast
• Bleeding Peptic Ulcer, Tuberculosis of Bowel, Ulcerative Colitis, Cancer Stomach
• Renal mass, cancer prostate, haemothorax, stones of gallbladder, kidney, ureter and urinary bladder
• Management of surgical conditions of rectum, anus, and anal canal, gallbladder and bile ducts splenomegaly, cholecystitis, portal hypertension, liver abscess, peritonitis, carcinoma head of pancreas

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Forensic examination of injuries and wounds; examination of blood and seminal stains; poisoning, sedative overdose, hanging, drowning, burns, DNA and fingerprint study

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Applied anatomy including blood and nerve supply of upper and lower limbs and joints of shoulder, hip and knee
• Gross anatomy, blood supply and lymphatic drainage of tongue, thyroid, mammary gland, stomach, liver, prostate, gonads and uterus, applied anatomy of diaphragm, perineum and inguinal region
• Clinical anatomy of Kidney, Urinary bladder, Uterine tubes, Vas deferens
• Embryology: Placenta and placental barrier. Development of heart, gut, kidney, uterus, ovary, testis and their common congenital abnormalities
• Central and peripheral autonomic nervous system: Gross and clinical anatomy of ventricles of brain, circulation of cerebrospinal fluid; neural pathways and lesions of cutaneous sensations, hearing and vision; cranial nerves
• Central and peripheral autonomic nervous system: Distribution and clinical significance; components of autonomic nervous system

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Fractures of spine, colles’ fracture and bone tumours
• Endoscopy laparoscopic surgery

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Labour management, complications of 3rd stage, antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage, resuscitation of the newborn, management of abnormal lie and difficult labour, management of small for date or premature newborn
• Diagnosis and management of anaemia
• Preeclampsia and toxaemias of pregnancy

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Management of post menopausal syndrome
• Intrauterine devices, pills, tubectomy, and vasectomy
• Medical termination of pregnancy including legal aspects
• Cancer cervix
• Leucorrhoea, pelvic pain, infertility, dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB), amenorrhoea, fibroid and prolapse of uterus

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Organ function tests-liver, kidney, thyroid, protein synthesis
• Vitamins and minerals
• Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP)
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
• Radio-immunoassays (RIA)

Medical science-Paper-II: Unit 08

• Humoral and cell mediated immunity
• Diseases caused by and laboratory diagnosis of-meningococcus, salmonella, shigella, herpes, dengue, polio, HIV/ AIDS, malaria, E. Histolytica, giardia, candida, cryptococcus, aspergillus

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Idiqs; substance; form and matter; causation; actuality and potentiality rationalism (descates, spinoza, leibniz): Cartesian method and certain knowledge; substance; god; mind-body dualism; determinism and freedom

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Theory of knowledge; substance and qualities; self of God; scepticism
• Kant: Possibility of synthetic a priori judgments; space and time; categories; ideas of reason; antinomies; critique of proofs for the existence of God
• Moore, Russell, and early Wittgenstein: Defence of common sense,; refutation of idealism; logical atomism; logical constructions; incomplete symbols; picture theory of meaning; saying and showing

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Dialectical method; absolute idealism
• Logical positivism: Verification theory of meaning; rejection of metaphysics; linguistic theory of necessary propositions
• Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and use; language games; critique of private language

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Method; theory of essences; avoidance of psychologism
• Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger): Existence and essence; choice, responsibility and authentic existence; being-in-the world and temporality
• Quine and strawson: Critique of empiricism; theory of basic particulars and persons

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Theory of knowledge; rejection of transcendent entities
• Jainism: Theory of reality; saptabhan (ginaya; bondage and liberation)

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Pratityasamutpada; Ksanikavada, Nairatmyavada
• Nyaya-Vaisesika: theory of categories; theory of appearance; theory of prama-na; self, liberation; God; proofs for the existence of God; theory of causation; atomistic theory of creation

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Prakriti; purusa; causation; liberation yoga: Citta; citta vrtti; klesas; samadhi; kaivalya
• Mimamsa: Theory of knowledge

Philosophy-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Brahman; i-s’vara; a-tman; jagat; ma-ya; avidya; dhya-sa; moksa; aprthaksiddhi; pancavidhabheda
• Aurobindo: Evolution, involution; integral yoga

Philosophy-paper-II (socio-political philosophy): Unit 01

• Equality, justice, liberty
• Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya

Philosophy-paper-II (socio-political philosophy): Unit 02

• Rights; duties, and accountability
• Forms of Government: Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy
• Political ideologies: Anarchism

Philosophy-paper-II (socio-political philosophy): Unit 03

• Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism
• Crime and punishment: Corruption, mass violence

Philosophy-paper-II (socio-political philosophy): Unit 04

• Development and social progress
• Gender discrimination: Female foeticide, land and property rights; empowerment
• Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Ambedkar

Philosophy-paper-II (philosophy of religion): Unit 01

• Attributes; relation to man and the world (Indian and Western)
• Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western)
• Problem of evil

Philosophy-paper-II (philosophy of religion): Unit 02

• Immortality; rebirth and liberation
• Reason, revelation, and faith

Philosophy-paper-II (philosophy of religion): Unit 03

• Nature and object (Indian and Western)
• Religion without god
• Religion and morality

Philosophy-paper-II (philosophy of religion): Unit 04

• Nature of religious language: Analogical

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 01

• Mechanics of particles: Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, applications to rotating frames, centripetal and Coriolis accelerations; motion under a central force; conservation of angular momentum, Kepler’s laws; fields and potentials
• Mechanics of particles: Gravitational field and potential due to spherical bodies, Gauss and Poisson equations, gravitational self-energy; two-body problem; reduced mass; Rutherford scattering; centre of mass and laboratory reference frames

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 02

• Mechanics of rigid bodies: System of particles; centre of mass, angular momentum, equations of motion; conservation theorems for energy, momentum and angular momentum; elastic and inelastic collisions; rigid body; degrees of freedom, Euler’s theorem
• Mechanics of rigid bodies: Angular velocity, angular momentum, moments of inertia, theorems of parallel and perpendicular axes, equation of motion for rotation; molecular rotations (as rigid bodies); di and triatomic molecules; precessional motion
• Mechanics of rigid bodies: Top, gyroscope
• Mechanics of continuous media: Elasticity, Hooke’s law and elastic constants of isotropic solids and their inter-relation; streamline (laminar) flow, viscosity, Poiseuille’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Stokes’ law and applications

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 03

• Special relativity: Michelson-Morley experiment and its implications; Lorentz transformations-length contraction, time dilation, addition of relativistic velocities, aberration and Doppler effect, mass-energy relation
• Special relativity: Simple applications to a decay process; four dimensional momentum vector; covariance of equations of physics

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 04

• Thermodynamics: Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, isochoric processes, and entropy changes; otto and diesel engines, Gibbs’ phase rule and chemical potential
• Thermodynamics: Van Der Waals equation of state of a real gas, critical constants; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecular velocities, transport phenomena, equipartition and viral theorems; Dulong-Petit
• Thermodynamics: Einstein, and Debye theories of specific heat of solids; Maxwell relations and applications; Clausius-Clapeyron equation; adiabatic demagnetisation, Joule-Kelvin effect and liquefaction of gases
• Statistical Physics: Macro and micro states, statistical distributions, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, applications to specific heat of gases and blackbody radiation; concept of negative temperatures

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 05

• Waves: Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced oscillation, and resonance; beats; stationary waves in a string; pulses and wave packets; phase and group velocities; reflection and refraction from Huygens’ principle
• Geometrical optics: Laws of reflection and refraction from Fermat’s principle; matrix method thin lens formula, nodal planes, system of two thin lenses, chromatic and in paraxial optics-spherical aberrations
• Interference: Interference of light-Young’s experiment, Newton’s rings, interference by thin films, Michelson interferometer; multiple beam interference and Fabry-Perot interferometer

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 06

• Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction-single slit, double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power; by a circular aperture and the airy pattern; Fresnel diffraction: Half-period zones diffraction and zone plates, circular aperture
• Polarization and modern optics: Production and detection of linearly and circularly polarized wave plate; optical activity; principles of fiber optics, attenuation; light; double refraction
• Polarization and modern optics: Quarter pulse dispersion in step index and parabolic index fibers; material dispersion, single mode fibers; lasers-Einstein A and B coefficients; ruby and He-Ne lasers
• Polarization and modern optics: Characteristics of laser light-spatial and temporal coherence; focusing of laser beams; three-level scheme for laser operation; holography and simple applications

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 07

• Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Laplace and Poisson equations in electrostatics and their applications; energy of a system of charges, multipole expansion of scalar potential; method of images and its applications
• Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Potential and field due to a dipole, force and torque on a dipole in an external field; dielectrics, polarization; solutions to boundary-value problems-conducting and dielectric spheres in a uniform electric field
• Electrostatics and magnetostatics: Magnetic shell, uniformly magnetized sphere; ferromagnetic materials, hysteresis, energy loss
• Current electricity: Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications; Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, Lenz’ law; self-and mutual-inductances; mean and RMS values in AC circuits; DC and AC circuits with R, L, and C components
• Current electricity: Series and parallel resonances; quality factor; principle of transformer

Physics-Paper-I: Unit 08

• Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation: Displacement current and Maxwell’s equations; wave equations in vacuum, poynting theorem; vector and scalar potentials; electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of Maxwell’s equations
• Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation: Wave equations in isotropic dielectrics, reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics; Fresnel’s relations; total internal reflection; normal and anomalous dispersion; Rayleigh scattering
• Electromagnetic waves and blackbody radiation: Blackbody radiation and Planck’s radiation law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien’s displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans’ law

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 01

• Wave-particle duality; Schrödinger equation and expectation values; uncertainty principle; solutions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation for a free particle (Gaussian wave-packet), particle in a box, particle in a finite well

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 02

• Linear harmonic oscillator; reflection and transmission by a step potential and by a rectangular barrier; particle in a three dimensional box, density of states, free electron theory of metals; angular momentum, hydrogen atom; spin half particles
• Properties of pauli spin matrices
• Atomic physics: Stern-Gerlach experiment, electron spin, fine structure of hydrogen atom; L-S coupling, J-J coupling; spectroscopic notation of atomic states; Zeeman effect; Franck-Condon principle and applications

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 03

• Elementary theory of rotational, vibrational and electronic spectra of diatomic molecules; Raman effect and molecular structure; Laser Raman spectroscopy; importance of neutral hydrogen atom, molecular hydrogen and molecular hydrogen ion in astronomy
• Fluorescence and phosphorescence; elementary theory and applications of NMR and EPR; elementary ideas about lamb shift and its significance

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 04

• Basic nuclear properties-size, binding energy, angular momentum, parity, magnetic moment; semi-empirical mass formula and applications, mass parabolas; ground state of deuteron, magnetic moment and non-central forces; Meson theory of nuclear forces
• Salient features of nuclear forces; shell model of the nucleus-successes and limitations; violation of parity in beta decay; gamma decay and internal conversion; elementary ideas about Mossbauer spectroscopy; Q-value of nuclear reactions
• Nuclear fission and fusion, energy production in stars; nuclear reactors

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 05

• Classification of elementary particles and their interactions; conservation laws; quark structure of hadrons; field quanta of electroweak and strong interactions; elementary ideas about unification of forces; physics of neutrinos

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 06

• Crystalline and amorphous structure of matter; different crystal systems, space groups; methods of determination of crystal structure; X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopies; band theory of solids-conductors
• Insulators and semiconductors; thermal properties of solids, specific heat, Debye theory; magnetism: Dia, para, and ferromagnetism; elements of superconductivity, Meissner effect, Josephson junctions and applications
• Elementary ideas about high temperature superconductivity

Physics-Paper-II: Unit 07

• Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors; p-n-p and n-p-n transistors; amplifiers and oscillators; op-amps; FET, JFET, and MOSFET; digital electronics-Boolean identities, De Morgan’s laws, logic gates and truth tables; simple logic circuits
• Thermistors, solar cells; fundamentals of microprocessors and digital computers

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 01

• Meaning and approaches
• Theories of the state: Liberal, Neo-Liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-Colonial
• Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques
• Equality: Social, political, and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; affirmative action
• Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of human rights

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 02

• Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy-representative, participatory, and deliberative
• Concept of welfare state-various dimensions
• Political Ideologies; Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Democratic Socialism

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 03

• Kautilya, arthashastra, the theory of government, power and functions of the rulers; Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 04

• Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Karl Marx

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 05

• Indian nationalism: (a) Political strategies of India’s freedom struggle-constitutionalism to mass satyagraha, non-cooperation, civil disobedience, militant and revolutionary movements
• Indian nationalism: (b) Making of the Indian constitution-ideology and philosophy, legacies of the British rule; sources of the Indian constitution

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 06

• The preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles, parliamentary system, amendment procedures, judicial review
• Principal organs of the union government: Envisaged role and actual working of the executive, legislature, and supreme court
• Principal organs of the state government: Envisaged role and actual working of the executive, legislature, and high courts

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 07

• Panchayati Raj and municipal government; significance of the 73rd and 74th amendments; grassroot movements
• Statutory institutions/ commission: Election commission, comptroller and auditor general, finance commission, union public service commission, national commission for women, national human rights commission, national commission for minorities
• Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations, inter-state disputes

Political science and international relations-paper-I (political theory and Indian politics): Unit 08

• Liberalization and privatization; role of planning and public sector, poverty alleviation and development
• Casteism, communalism, and ethnicity in Indian politics
• Party system: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties, patterns of coalition politics; pressure groups; trends in electoral behavior
• Social movements: Women’s movements; students’ movements, peasants, and workers’ movements

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 01

• State in comparative perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the state in capitalist and socialist economies and advance industrial and developing societies
• The British political system: Rule of law, conventions, monarchy, and parliamentary government
• Federal system, separation of powers, the congress, executive, and judicial system in the USA
• The Swiss government: Federal assembly, Federal council and Federal tribunal, Direct democracy
• People republic of China: Political development, NPC, president of PRC, state council

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 02

• Approaches to the study of international relations: idealist, realist, Marxist, functionalist and systems theories

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 03

• National interest, collective security, national power, balance of power, and diplomacy
• Changing international political order: Rise of superpowers; arms control and cold war, disarmament

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 04

• Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and functioning; working and future prospects of the UN

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 05

• ASEAN, APEC, NAFTA
• Contemporary global concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, nuclear proliferation

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 06

• Indian foreign policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making; continuity and change
• India and the nuclear question: Changing perceptions and policy

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 07

• India and SAARC countries, role of SAARC in South Asian politics, India’s “look east” policy
• Impediments to regional cooperation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration, ethnic conflicts and insurgencies, border disputes

Political science and international relations-paper-II (comparative politics and international relations)-major political system (political systems of UK, USA, Switzerland, and China) and international politics: Unit 08

• Role in UN peacekeeping, demand for permanent seat in the security council
• Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: India’s position on the recent crises in Afghanistan and West Asia; vision of a new world order

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

• Definitions and perspective
• Psychology in relation to other social and natural sciences
• Use of interdisciplinary approach

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

• Characteristics and Components of methods in psychology (induction, deduction, and introspection)
• Observation, survey, laboratory, and field experiments
• Clinical and case study
• Experimental and quasi experimental methods
• Research methods and quantitative analysis: Major steps in psychological research (problem statement, hypothesis formulation, research design, sampling, tools of data collection, analysis, and interpretation and report writing)
• Research methods and quantitative analysis: Fundamental versus applied research. Methods of data collection (interview, observation, questionnaire, and case study). Research designs (ex-post facto and experimental)
• Research methods and quantitative analysis: Application of statistical techniques (t-test, one-way ANOVA correlation and regression and chi-square tests)

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

• The nature, origin, and development
• Role of genetic and environmental factors in determining human behaviour
• Influence of cultural factors and socialization
• Life span development-the critical periods and their handling, mastery of the developmental tasks
• Influence of child rearing practices and its impact on the growth and development of the individual

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

• Attention-factors, influencing attention including set and characteristics of stimulus
• Sensation-concepts of threshold, absolute and difference thresholds, signal detection and vigilance
• Definition and concept of perception, biological factors in perception
• Perceptual organization-influence of past experiences, perceptual defence-factors influencing
• Space and depth perception, size estimation, and perceptual readiness
• Learning: Concepts and theories of learning (Pavlov, Skinner, and Piaget). The processes of extinction, discrimination, and generalization. Programmed learning, probability learning, self instructional learning
• Learning: Concepts, types, and the schedules of reinforcement. Modelling and social learning
• Memory: Concepts and definition of memory and forgetting, 7+/-2 concept and chunking encoding, storage and retrieval. Factors influencing retention and forgetting. Theories of forgetting (repression, decay, and interference theories)
• Memory: The concept of reminiscence

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

• Concept and definition of personality
• Theories of personality (psychoanalytical, socio-cognitive, interpersonal, and developmental, humanistic, behaviouristic, trait and type approaches)
• Measurement of personality (projective tests, pencil-paper test)
• The indian approach to personality
• Training for personality development
• Attitudes, values, and interests: Definitions, concepts of attitudes, values and interests. Components of attitudes, values, and interests. Formation and maintenance of attitudes. Measurement of attitudes, values, and interests
• Attitudes, values, and interests: Theories of attitudes, and attitudes changes, strategies for fostering values
• Motivation and emotion: Definition and concepts. Theories and physiological basis of motivation and emotion. Measurement of motivation and emotion motivation and emotion-their effects on behavior

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

• Concept formation processes
• Reasoning and problem solving
• Creative thinking and fostering creativity
• Information processing
• Decision making and judgment
• Intelligence and aptitude: Concept and definition of Intelligence and aptitude, nature and theories of intelligence. Measurement of intelligence and aptitude, concepts and measurement of emotional and multiple intelligence

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

• Human language-properties, structure and linguistic hierarchy, language acquisition-predisposition, critical period hypothesis
• Theories of language development (Skinner, Chomsky), process and types of communication
• Effective communication and training

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

• Computer application in the psychological laboratory and psychological testing
• Artificial intelligence
• Psycho Cybernetics
• Study of consciousness-sleep-wake schedules; dreams, stimulus deprivation, meditation, hypnotic/ drug induced states
• Extrasensory perception
• Inter sensory perception, simulation studies

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 01

• The nature of individual differences
• Characteristics and construction of standardized psychological tests
• Types of psychological tests
• Use, misuse and limitation of psychological tests
• Ethical issues in the use of psychological tests

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 02

• Concept of health, positive health, well being and ill health
• Mental disorders (anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and delusional disorders; personality disorders, substance abuse disorders)
• Causal factors in Mental disorders
• Assessment and diagnosis: DSM IV and other tool
• Factors influencing positive health, well being, lifestyle and quality of life
• Therapeutic approaches: Psychodynamic therapies. Behaviour therapies. Client centered therapy. Cognitive therapies. Indigenous therapies (yoga, Reiki, meditation) biofeedback therapy. Prevention and rehabilitation of the mentally ill

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 03

• Personnel selection and training
• Use of psychological tests in the industry
• Training and human resource development
• Theories of work motivation
• Leadership and participatory management
• Advertising and Marketing, Stress and its Management
• Community psychology: Definition and concept of community psychology. Role of community psychologists in social change. Use of small groups in social action. Arousing community consciousness and action for handling social problems
• Community psychology: Group decision making and leadership for social change
• Rehabilitation psychology: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programmes-role of psychologists. Organizing of services for rehabilitation of physically, mentally, and socially challenged persons including old persons
• Rehabilitation psychology: Rehabilitation of persons suffering from substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, criminal behaviours. Rehabilitation of victims of violence. Rehabilitation of HIV/ AIDS victims

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 04

• Psychological principles underlying effective teaching-learning process; learning styles gifted, retarded, learning disabled and their training
• Training for improving memory and better academic achievement
• Personality development and value education, educational, vocational guidance, and career counseling
• Use of psychological tests in educational institutions

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 05

• The concepts of disadvantaged, deprivation and socially deprived
• Social, physical, cultural, and economic consequences of disadvantaged and deprived groups
• Educating and motivating the disadvantaged towards development
• Application of psychology in the field of defence: The concept of military psychology, aviation psychology, and psychological warfare, role of military psychologists in the defence. Selection, recruitment, and training of personnel
• Application of psychology in the field of defence: Facilitating the process of adjustment of personnel to military life-role of counselling. Devising psychological tests for defence personnel. Psychological disorders due to war
• Application of psychology in the field of defence: Human engineering in defence
• Application of psychology in information technology and mass media: The present scenario of information technology and the mass media boom and the role of psychologists
• Application of psychology in information technology and mass media: Selection and training of psychology professionals to work in the field of it and mass media. Distance learning through it and mass media. Entrepreneurship through ecommerce
• Application of psychology in information technology and mass media: Multilevel marketing. Impact of TV and fostering value through it and mass media. Psychological consequences of recent developments in information technology

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 06

• The concept of social integration
• The problem of caste, class, religion, and language conflicts and prejudice
• Nature and manifestation of prejudice between the in-group and out-group
• Causal factors of such conflicts and prejudices
• Psychological strategies for handling the conflicts and prejudices
• Measures to achieve social integration

Psychology-paper-II (issues and applications): Unit 07

• Achievement motivation and economic development
• Characteristics of entrepreneurial behaviour
• Motivating and training people for entrepreneurship and economic development
• Women entrepreneurs
• Consumer rights and consumer courts