MPPSC State Services 2024 Exam - Notification (Out), Application, Eligibility, Syllabus & Exam Pattern

General aptitude test: Unit 01

General aptitude test: Unit 02

General aptitude test: Unit 03

General aptitude test: Unit 04

General aptitude test: Unit 05

General aptitude test: Unit 06

• Numbers and their relations, order of magnitude, etc

General aptitude test: Unit 07

• Charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc

General aptitude test: Unit 08

General studies-I (geography): Unit 01

• Major physical features: Mountains, plateaus, plains, rivers, lakes and glaciers
• Major geographical phenomena: Earthquakes, tsunami, volcanicity, cyclone
• World climate: Climate and seasons, distribution of rainfall and climatic regions, climate change and its effects

General studies-I (geography): Unit 02

• Major physical features: Mountains, plateaus, plains, rivers, lakes and glaciers
• Physiographic division of India
• Climate: Origin of monsoon, El Nino, climate and seasons, distribution of rainfall and climatic regions
• Natural resources: Types and their uses-(a) water, forest, soil, (b) rocks and minerals
• Population: Growth, distribution, density, sex ratio, literacy, migration, rural and urban population
• Food processing and related Industries: Scope and significance, localization of industries, requisites for forward and backward linkages for industries, demand-supply and chain management

General studies-I (geography): Unit 03

• Major geomorphic regions with special reference to Narmada Valley and Malwa Plateau
• Natural vegetation and climate
• Soil: Physical, chemical and biological properties of soil, soil formation process, problems of soil erosion and soil degradation, problem soil and methods of its reclamation, soil conservation planning on watershed basis
• Mineral and energy resources: Types, distribution, and uses
• Major industries: Based on agricultural produce, forests and minerals
• The tribes of state with particular reference to vulnerable tribes

General studies-I (geography): Unit 04

• Drinking water: Supply, factors of impurity of water and quality management
• Water management
• Groundwater and water conservation
• Natural and man-made disasters, concept and scope of disaster management, specific hazards and mitigation
• Community planning: Resource mapping, relief and rehabilitation, preventive and administrative measures, safe construction. Alternative communication and survival efficiency

General studies-I (geography): Unit 05

• Remote sensing: Principles, electromagnetic spectrum, components, types of satellite, application of remote sensing
• GIS (global information system): Components of GIS and its applications
• GPS (global positioning system): Basic concepts of GPS and its applications

General studies-II (constitution, governance, political and administrative structure): Unit 01

• Its foundation, characteristics, basic structure and important amendments
• Conceptual elements: Objectives, fundamental rights and duties, directive principle of state policy
• Federalism, central: State relations, Supreme Court, High Court, judicial review, judicial activism, Lok Adalat and public interest litigation

General studies-II (constitution, governance, political and administrative structure): Unit 02

• Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Union Public Service Commission, Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission and NITI Aayog

General studies-II (constitution, governance, political and administrative structure): Unit 03

• Political parties and voting behaviour in Indian politics, civil society and public movement, national integrity and security issues

General studies-II (constitution, governance, political and administrative structure): Unit 04

• Accountability and rights: Competition commission, consumer forum, information commission, women's commission, human rights commission, SC/ ST/ OBC commission, central vigilance commission
• Features of democracy: Political representations, participation of citizens in the decision making process
• Community-based organizations (CBO), non government organizations (NGOs) and self-help groups (SHG)
• Role of media and problems (electronic, print and social)

General studies-II (constitution, governance, political and administrative structure): Unit 05

• Kautilya, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Ram Manohar Lohia, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, Deendayal Upadhyaya, Jayaprakash Narayan

General studies-II (constitution, governance, political and administrative structure): Unit 06

• Meaning, nature and significance, role of public administration in the developed and developing societies, development of public administration as a subject, modern public administration, principles of public administration
• Concepts: Power, authority, responsibility and delegation
• Theories of organization, steps and area of control and unity of command
• New dimensions of public management, management of change and development administration

General studies-II (economics and sociology): Unit 01

• Measurement of national income in India
• Functions of Reserve Bank of India and commercial banks, financial inclusion, monetary policy
• Characteristics of good taxation system-direct tax and indirect taxes, subsidies, cash transaction, fiscal policy
• Public distribution system, current trends and challenges of the Indian economy, poverty, unemployment and regional imbalances
• India's international trade and balance of payment, role of foreign capital, multinational companies, foreign direct investment, import-export policy, international monetary fund, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, World Trade Organization, ASIAN, SAARC
• NAFTA AND OPEC

General studies-II (economics and sociology): Unit 02

• Major crops, holdings and cropping patterns, social and physical environmental impact on production and distribution of crops, issues and challenges related with quality and supply of seeds and manure, farming practices
• Issues and challenges of horticulture, poultry, dairy, fisheries and husbandry, etc
• Problems and challenges related to agricultural produce, transportation, storage and marketing
• Welfare schemes of agriculture
• Contribution of service sector
• Infrastructure and resources of Madhya Pradesh
• Demographic scenario of Madhya Pradesh and its impacts on the economy of Madhya Pradesh
• Industrial sector, growth, trends and challenges
• Availability of skilled human resources, employability and productivity of human resources, different trends of employment

General studies-II (economics and sociology): Unit 03

• Education: Elementary education, quality of higher, vocational, technical and medical education. Issues related to girls education
• Issues related with following social classes and their welfare programmes: Differently abled classes, senior citizens, children, women, under privileged classes and displaced groups arising out of developmental projects

General studies-II (economics and sociology): Unit 04

• Features of Indian culture
• Rituals: Various references, caste system. Ashram, Purushartha, Chatushtaya, religion and sect influences on society and methods of marriage
• Community development programme, extension education, Panchayati Raj, role of non governmental organizations (NGO's) in community development
• Recent trends in voluntary sector regarding rural development, family court

General studies-II (economics and sociology): Unit 05

• Health education and empowerment, family welfare programmes, population control
• Status of tribes in Madhya Pradesh, social structure, customs, beliefs, marriage, kinship, religious beliefs and traditions, festivals and celebrations in tribes
• Women education, family health, vital statistics, causes and effects of malnutrition, government programmes of supplementary nutrition, technological inventions in the field of immunology
• Remedies (treatment and cure) of communicable and non communicable diseases
• World health organization: Objectives, structure, functions and programmes

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 01

• Gravitational force, friction, atmospheric pressure and work
• Units and measurement, example from daily life
• Speed, velocity, acceleration
• Sound: Definition, medium of propagation, audible and inaudible sound, noise and music
• Terminology related with sound: Amplitude, wave length, frequency of vibration
• Electricity: Different types of cell, circuit
• Magnet: Properties, preparation and uses of artificial magnet
• Light: Reflection, refraction, mirrors and lenses, image formation
• Heat: Measuring temperature, thermometers, transformation of heat

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 02

• Definition, chemical symbols, properties, availability on the Earth
• Material: Metals and non metals, periodic table and periodicity
• Atom, atomic structure, valency, bonding, nuclear fusion and fission
• Acids, bases and salts
• pH value indicators
• Physical and chemical changes
• Chemistry in daily life

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 03

• Cell-structure and function, classification of animals and plants
• Nutrition in plants, animals and human beings, balanced diet, vitamins, deficiency diseases, hormones
• Body organs of human beings, structure and functioning
• Respiration in organisms
• Transportation in animals and plants
• Reproduction in animals and plants
• Health and hygiene and diseases

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 04

• Memory, input and output devices, storage devices, software and hardware, operating systems, Windows, uses of Microsoft office
• Computer languages, translators, compilers, interpreters and assemblers
• Internet, e-mail
• Social media
• E-governance
• Different useful portals, sites and web pages

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 05

• Methods of unit measurement, equations and factors, profit loss, percentage, simple and compound interest, ratio proportion
• Statistics: Probability, measurement of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and variance, types of sampling

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 06

• National vaccination programme
• Primary knowledge of AYUSH-ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha, homeopathy
• Health related important welfare schemes of central and state government
• Major health organizations of central and the state government

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 07

• History of remote sensing, remote sensing in India
• General information of these institutions: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Raja Ramanna Center for Atomic Technology (RRCAT), Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) Sriharikota, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)
• General information of these institutions: Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Tirupati, Liquid Propulsion System Center (LPSC), Bengaluru
• General information of these institutions: Space Application Center (SAC), Ahmedabad, Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN), Ramanagara, Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC), Ramanagara, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram
• General information of these institutions: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun
• Generations of geostationary satellite launch vehicles
• Biotechnology: Definition, uses in sector of health and medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, industry and environment
• Clones, robots and artificial intelligence
• Patents and rights of intellectual property (trips, trims)
• Contribution of Indians in the field of science and technology: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Hargovind Khurana, Jagdish Chandra Basu, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, M. Vishweshraiya, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Vikram Sarabhai, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• Contribution of Indians in the field of science and technology: Satyendra Nath Bose. Raja Ramanna, Prafulla Chandra Roy
• National and international awards in the field of science

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 08

• Meaning, definition, examples and differences
• Energy efficiency, energy management, organizational integration, energy management in operational functions, energy purchase, production, production planning and control, maintenance
• Issues and challenges related with energy strategies
• Alternate sources of energy: Present scenario and future possibilities. Solar energy, wind energy, oceanic energy, geothermal energy, biomass energy, biofuel energy, etc

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 09

• Physical, economic, cultural, educational, psychological, etc, concepts of environment in Indian context, concepts of environment in modern world
• Effect of human activities on environment, ethics and values related to environment; biodiversity, environmental pollution, environmental changes
• Issues and challenges related with environment, causes and effects of environmental degradation
• Environmental education: Programmes for mass awareness, environmental education and its relationship with health and safety
• Eco friendly technologies, conservation of energy, constitutional provisions related to environment and its protection
• Environmental protection policies and regulatory framework

General studies-III (science and technology): Unit 10

• Earth-crust, mantle, core lithosphere, hydrosphere, origin and age of earth, geological time scale, rock-definition, types of rocks-igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock
• Minerals and ores, fossils, weathering and erosion, formation of soil, groundwater, natural coal, natural oil and gas

General studies-IV (philosophy, psychology and public administration): Unit 01

• Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Mahavir, Buddha, Acharya Shankar, Charwak, GuruNanak, Kabir, Tulsidas, Ravindra Nath Tagore, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Savitribai Phule, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Swami Vivekanand, Maharshi Arvind and Sarvpalli Radhakrishnan

General studies-IV (philosophy, psychology and public administration): Unit 02

• Content, elements, function formation of attitude, attitudinal change, persuasive communication, prejudice and discrimination, stereotypes orthodox in indian context
• Aptitude-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-emotional intelligence-concepts, their utilities and application in administration and governance
• Individual differences

General studies-IV (philosophy, psychology and public administration): Unit 03

• Ethics and values in public administration: Ethical elements in governance-integrity, accountability and transparency, ethical reasoning and moral dilemmas, conscience as a source of ethical guidance. Code of conduct for civil servants
• Ethics and values in public administration: Implementation of higher values in governance

General studies-IV (philosophy, psychology and public administration): Unit 04

• Types and causes of corruption, effects of corruption, approaches to minimizing corruption, role of society, media, family and whistleblower, United Nation convention on corruption, measuring corruption, transparency international, Lokpal and Lokayukta

General studies-IV (philosophy, psychology and public administration): Unit 05

• Based on the contents of the syllabus