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About NESLET 2024

State Eligibility Test (SET), formerly known as North East State Level Eligibility Test (NESLET) is conducted by SLET Commission, Assam in offline mode for the recruitment of Assistant Lecturers at institutes/colleges/universities in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Tripura. SET is a combined eligibility examination, conducted for 25 subjects for the 7 northeastern states. There is no age limit and capping to appear in SET. Candidates of any age group and as many times as they want can take SET. The exam consists of two papers – Paper I and II which need to be completed by the test takers in 1 and 2 hours respectively. Pass certificates to the qualified candidates are issued 30 days after the result announcement.

NESLET 2024 Highlights

Full Exam Name State Level Eligibility Test
Short Exam Name NESLET
Conducting Body SLET Commission - Guwahati University
Frequency of Conduct Vacancy Based
Exam Level State Level Exam
Languages Arabic, Assamese +7 More
Mode of Application Offline
Application Fee (General) 1200 Rs [Offline]
Mode of Exam Offline
Mode of Counselling Offline
NESLET Paper 1 - Duration 1 Hour +1 More

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NESLET 2024 Important Dates

Past Dates and Events

29 Jul, 2024

Result | Mode: Online

20 May, 2024

Answer Key - Final | Mode: Online

16 Apr, 2024

Answer Key - Objections last date | Mode: Online

28 Mar, 2024

Answer Key | Mode: Online

17 Mar, 2024

Exam | Mode: Offline

27 Feb, 2024

Admit Card | Mode: Online

18 Jan, 2024

Fee payment last date (extended) | Mode: Online

12 Jan, 2024

Fee payment last date | Mode: Offline and Online

23 Nov, 2023 - 08 Jan, 2024

Application | Mode: Online

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NESLET 2024 Eligibility Criteria

SET (SLET) Eligibility Criteria 2024

General category candidates (Indian Nationals only) passed Masters Degree or equivalent Degree with minimum 55% aggregate marks (without rounding up) are eligible. Schedules Cast (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST)/Person with Disability (PWD) category candidates need to have at least 50% marks (without rounding up) in the same qualification.

Candidates appeared or appearing in the final (or 4th Semester) year of their Master Degree Exam and whose result is awaited or candidates whose qualifying exam has been delayed, are also eligible to apply. Such candidates will be admitted provisionally and the pass certificate will only be given to them once they have passed the Masters Degree exam or equivalent with the required marks. Such candidates have to obtain the Masters Degree within two years from the date of the SET result.

Candidates having completed Ph.D degree, whose Masters level exam is completed by September 19, 1991 (irrespective of the result declaration) shall be eligible for relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (i.e from 55% to 50% for appearing in SET).

Qualified candidates can apply for the post of Assistant Professor within the jurisdiction of the Member-States of the SLET Commission.

There is no age limit or fixed number of attempts for appearing in SET.

NESLET 2024 Application Process

Mode of Application : Offline

Mode of Payment : Bank Challan

SET (SLET) Application Form 2024

Documents to be kept ready before filling SET (SLET) Application Form 2024

  • Duly attested M.A/M.Sc./M.Com. certificate and Mark-sheet

  • Scanned Passport sized coloured photograph

  • Scanned copy of the signature

  • Attested copy of SC/ST/OBC* along with non-creamy layer certificate/PWD category certificate (if applicable)

SET (SLET) Application Form 2024

The application form of SET (SLET) 2024 is available online from November 23, 2023, to January 8, 2024 and candidates can pay the application fee till January 12, 2024. They have to register using their email ID and mobile number. Further, they need to fill in the educational and personal details along with the communication particulars.

Apart from these details, a digital copy of the signature, photograph, educational certificates, category certificate, PWD certificate need to be uploaded in the application form. Once all the details are entered, candidates will have the option of previewing the application form. In case corrections are required, candidates can make them at this stage, as no changes can be made after the final submission of the application. Candidates must also note down the generated registration number for future reference.

After the application submission, candidates have to download the bank challan. Print out of the challan must be taken to the nearest SBI branch for fee payment, two days after the application submission. Candidates must take a print the Acknowledgment Slip of the submitted application form for future reference, after 2 days from the day of fee payment.

SET Application Fee

Category

Fee

General

Rs. 1200

OBC (Non-creamy layer)

Rs. 1050

SC/ST

Rs. 1000

PWD

Rs. 800

Application Fees

Category Quota Mode Gender Amount
General Offline Transgender, Female, Male ₹ 1200
OBC Offline Transgender, Female, Male ₹ 1050
SC, ST Offline Transgender, Female, Male ₹ 1000
OBC, SC, ST, EWS, General PWD Offline Female, Male ₹ 800
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NESLET 2024 Syllabus

NESLET Paper 1 Syllabus

General paper on teaching and research aptitude-

General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 01
Reasoning ability
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 02
Comprehension
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 03
Divergent thinking and general awareness

NESLET Paper 2 Syllabus

Anthropology+

Anthropology: Unit 01
History, development, aim, and scope of anthropology
Relationship with other sciences, different branches of anthropology (including linguistic anthropology) and their interrelationship
Research methodology and methods: Concepts of epistemology, ontology, and theoretical perspectives. Types of research (qualitative and quantitative), research design, hypothesis. Fieldwork and fieldwork tradition; ethnography, observation, interview
Research methodology and methods: Case study, life history, focus group, PRA, RRA, genealogical method, schedules and questionnaires, grounded theory, exploration and excavation, GIS
Statistics: concept of variables, sampling, measures of central tendency and dispersion, parametric and nonparametric bivariate and multivariate (linear regression and logistic regression) statistical tests
Techniques of analysis: Content analysis, discourse analysis, and narratives
Anthropology: Unit 02
Lamarckism, Neo-Lamarckism, Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism, synthetic theory, neutral theory of molecular evolution
Concept of cladogenesis and anagenesis, punctuated equilibrium, selection
Trends in primate radiation; primate classification and distribution of extinct and extant species
Characteristics of primates: Morphological (hair), skeletal (cranial, post cranial, dental, brain), physical (opposability of thumb), locomotion (quadrupedalism, brachiation, and bipedalism) and posture, primate social behaviour
Extant primates: Distribution, characteristics, and classification, prosimii (Tarsiioidea, Lorisoidea, Lemuroidea), anthropoidea (Ceboidea, Cercopithecoidea, Hominoidea)
Extant primates: Morphological and anatomical characteristics of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon
Fossils of extinct primates: Oligocene-miocene fossils-parapithecus; Gigantopithecus, Aegyptopithecus, Dryopithecus, Ramapithecus, and Sivapithecus
Pre-hominid groups: Sahelanthropus tchadensis (toumai), orrorin tugenensis, ardipithecus ramidus
Early hominids: Australopithecus afarensis, australopithecus ramidus, australopithecus africanus, australopithecus (paranthropous) boisei, australopithecus (paranthropous) robustus, australopithecus bahrelghazali
Early transitional human: Homo habilis
Hominid evolution: Characteristics and distribution of Homo erectus in general, special reference to the fossil evidences discovered from Africa (Turkana boy), Asia (Java man and Peking man), Europe (Dmanisi), Homo floresiensis (dwarf variety)
Hominid evolution: Characteristics of Archaic sapiens with special reference to Europe (homo Heidelbergensis), Africa (Rhodesian man), Asia (China, Jinniushan; India, Narmada Man). Neandertal man-distribution, salient features and phylogenetic position
Hominid evolution: Characteristics of anatomically modern homo sapiens with special reference to Africa (Omo), Europe (Cro Magnon, Chancelade, Grimaldi), Asia (Jinniushan) and Australia (Lake Mungo)
Hominid evolution: Dispersal of modern humans-out of Africa hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis, partial replacement hypothesis
Anthropology: Unit 03
Modern Human Variation
Typological model, populational model, and clinal model; overview of classification proposed by Blumenbach, Deniker, Hooton, Coon, Garn, and Birdsell
Ethnic classification and distribution of Indian populations: H.H. Risley; B.S. Guha; S.S. Sarkar
Linguistic distribution of ethnic groups
Methods of studying human genetics: cytogenetics, Mendelian genetics, twin genetics, sib-pair methods, population genetics, molecular genetics
Cytogenetics: Cell cycle, standard karyotyping and banding techniques (G, C, and Q), chromosomal abnormalities, fluorescent in-situ hybridization, Lyon's hypothesis, importance of telomere and centromere. Linkage and chromosome mapping, genetic imprinting
Modes of inheritance: Autosomal (dominant, recessive, codominance), sex linked, sex influenced, sex limited, modifying genes, suppressor genes, selfish gene, multiple allelic inheritance, multifactorial inheritance (stature and skin colour)
Modes of inheritance: Polygenic (dermatoglyphics-finger-ball pattern types, Dankmeijer's index, Furuhata's index and pattern intensity index, total finger ridge count, absolute finger ridge count, palmar formula and mainline index, transversality
Modes of inheritance: Angle and flexion creases
Population genetics: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, definition, and application; mating patterns (random, assortative, and consanguineous), inbreeding coefficient, genetic load, genetic isolate, genetic drift, genetic distance)
Population genetics: Genetic polymorphism (balanced and transient)
Molecular genetics: DNA, RNA, genetic code, protein structure and synthesis, concepts of RFLPs, VNTRs, STRs, and SNPs, mitrochondrial DNA, genic and genomic mutations
Anthropology: Unit 04
Human growth, development, and maturation
Definition, concepts
Basic principles of growth; phases of growth: Prenatal and postnatal (growth and development of different body parts, subcutaneous tissues and physiological variables)
Growth curves: Velocity, distance, acceleration, and Scammon's growth curve. Catch up and catch down growth
Aging and senescence with special reference to somatic, skeletal, and dental maturation
Factors affecting growth: Genetic and environmental. Secular trends in growth
Methods of studying human growth: longitudinal, cross-sectional, mixed longitudinal, linked longitudinal
Body composition: bone mass, body mass, percentage of body fat, segmental fat, body age
Human adaptation: Allen's and Bergmann's rule; human adaptability programme; human adaptation to heat, cold, high altitude
Somatotyping: Concept, development (Kretschmer, Sheldon, Parnell, health-carter) and its application
Demography: Multidisciplinary nature of demography and its relation with other disciplines. Relationship between demography and anthropological demography. Fertility (concept and determinants), morbidity and mortality (concept and determinants)
Demography: Migration (concept and determinants), selection intensity
Anthropology: Unit 05
Concept of prehistoric archaeology
Ethno-archaeology, experimental archaeology, environmental archaeology, settlement archaeology, cognitive archaeology, geo archaeology, action archaeology
Theoretical paradigms-descriptive to scientific period to interpretative period
Dating: Typology, seriation, geoarchaeological, obsidian, hydration, chemical dating of bones, oxygen isotope, fluorine estimation, dendrochronology, radiocarbon, fission track, thermo luminescence, potassium-argon, varve clay, cross dating
Dating: Amino acid racemization, palaeomagnetic
Paleoenvironment: Major geological stages (tertiary, quaternary, pleistocene, holocene). Major climatic changes during pleistocene and post pleistocene periods, glacial and interglacial periods, ice age, pluvial and inter-pluvial climatic phases
Paleoenvironment: Evidences of quarternary climatic changes (moraines, varve, river terraces, loess, sea level changes, beach sequences, sea core, fluviatile deposits, palynology, palaeontology). Site formation
Lithic tool typology and technology: Lower palaeolithic (pebble tools, chopper and chopping tools, bifaces, handaxes, and cleavers)
Lithic tool typology and technology: Middle palaeolithic (clactonean, levalloisian and mousterian flakes, discoid cores, tortoise core, fluted core, scrapers, point); upper palaeolithic (blade, knife, blunted back, borer, burin, points)
Lithic tool typology and technology: Mesolithic (microliths); neolithic (ring stone, grind stone, celt, adze)
Overview of lithic cultures of Europe: Lower palaeolithic-acheulian culture. Middle palaeolithic: Mousterian culture. Upper palaeolithic: Perigordian, chatelperronian, gravettian, aurignacian, solutrian, magdalenian
Overview of lithic cultures of Europe: Mesolithic-Azilian, tardenoisean, maglamosean, kitchen midden, natufian
Early farming cultures and neolithic of the near east: Sites like Jericho, Jarmo, Çatal Huyuk, Shanidar
Anthropology: Unit 06
Lower Palaeolithic Period in India
Pebble tool culture: Soan, Acheulian culture: Madrasian (Kortalayar valley), Attirmpakkam, Didwana, Belan valley, Bhimbetka, Chirki-Nevasa, Hunsgi, Krishna valley. Importance of Hathnora, Narmada valley
Middle paleolithic period in India: Belan valley, Bhimbetka, Nevasa, Narmada valley
Upper paleolithic period in India: Renigunta, Billasurgam, Patne, Bhimbetka, Son and Belan valleys, Visadi, Pushkar, Gunjan valley
Mesolithic period in India: Mesolithic economy and society. Post pleistocene environmental changes. Development in microlithic technology, composite tools and bows and arrows
Mesolithic period in India: Sites include Bagor, Tilwara, Langhnaj, Adamgarh, Bagor, Chopani Mando, Bhimbetka, Sarai Nahar Rai, Birbhanpur
Neolithic period in India: Economic and social consequences of food production. Settlements, population growth, craft specializations, class formation and political institutions
Neolithic period in India: Sites like Burzahom, Gufkral, Ahar, Gilund, Nagada, Kayatha, Navdatoli, Eran, Nevasa, Chandoli, Daimabad, Inamgaon, Prakash, Maski, Brahmagiri, Sangankallu, Tekkalkota, Piklihal, Nagarjunakonda, Daojali Hading, Kuchai, Sarutadu
Prehistoric cave art from India: Bhimbetka, Adamgarh
Indus civilization: Expansion of village sites. Development of metal technology, art, and writing. Architecture and city planning. Stages and theories of decline. Sites like Amri, Kot Diji, Kalibangan, Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Lothal, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi
Pottery and traditions: Ochre coloured pottery (OCP), black and red ware, painted grey ware (PGW), northern black polished ware (NBP). Distribution of the pottery types and period
Bronze/ copper age: General characteristics, distribution, people
Iron age and urban revolution: General characteristics, distribution, people
Megaliths: Concept and types (menhir, dolmen, topical, cist, cairn circle, sarcophagi)
Anthropology: Unit 07
Conceptual Understanding of Social Anthropology
Culture: Attributes, holism, universals, acculturation, enculturation, transculturation, culture change, culture shock, cultural relativism, civilization, folk-urban continuum, great and little tradition, cultural pluralism and world-view
Society: Groups, institutions, associations, community, status and role. incest. endogamy and exogamy. Rites of passage
Social institutions: Family-definitions, universality of the family. Typological and processual methods of studying the family. Types of family-conjugal-natal, consanguineal, nuclear, joint, extended. Rules of residence-patrilocal, matrilocal
Social institutions: Family-rules of residence: Ambilocal, bilocal, neolocal, avunculocal, virilocal, amitalocal, uxorilocal. Functions of family, trends of change-urbanization, globalization, industrialization, feminist movements
Social institutions: Marriage-definition, universality, types and functions (monogamy, polygamy-polyandry, polygyny, hypogamy, hypergamy, levirate, sororate). Preferential and prescriptive types
Social institutions: Marriage-types and forms of marital transactions-bride price and dowry. Marriage as exchange. Kinship: Definition, descent, kinship terminology, matrilineal puzzle. Joking and avoidance. Moiety, phratry, clan and lineage.
Social institutions: Kinship-types of kinship systems. Economic anthropology: Definition and relationship with anthropology and economy. Theories (Malinowski, formal, substantivist, Marxist). Livelihoods, subsistence, principles of production
Social institutions: Economic anthropology-distribution, consumption; division of labour in hunting-gathering, pastoral, swidden and agricultural communities. Exchange, reciprocity, gifts and barter systems
Social institutions: Economic anthropology-Kula, potlatch and Jajmani-anthropological explanations. Legal anthropology: Anthropology of law, social sanctions. Political organization: Definitions, political processes in band, tribe
Social institutions: Political organization: Chiefdom and state systems. Conflicts and social control. Nations and nation-state, democracy. Religion and belief systems: Definitions, animism, animatism, manaism, bongaism, totemism, taboo
Social institutions: Religion and belief-religious specialists: Witch, shaman, priest, medicine-man, sorcerer. Magic-definitions, types, approaches. Rituals
Social institutions: Social change-basic ideas and concepts (assimilation, integration, syncretism dominance, and subjugation), approaches
Anthropology: Unit 08
Theories in Social Anthropology
Evolutionism-Tylor, Morgan, Frazer, Maine, McLellan
Diffusionism-three schools (Austro-German, British, American)
Historical particularism-Boas
Functionalism-Malinowski
Structural-functionalism-Radcliffe-Brown, Firth, Fortes, Eggan, Parsons
Structuralism-Levi-Strauss
Culture and personality/ psychological anthropology-Mead, Benedict, Du Bois, Linton, Kardiner, Whiting, and child
Cultural ecology, environmental anthropology, neo-evolutionism (Leslie White, Julian Steward, Marshall Sahlins)
Cultural materialism-Marvin Harris
Symbolic anthropology-Victor Turner, Raymond Firth, Mary Douglas
Cognitive anthropology-Roy D’Andrade, Stephen Tyler, Ward Goodenough
Deep ethnography, interpretive anthropology-Clifford Geertz
Anthropology and gender-Leela Dube, Renato Rosaldo, Marilyn Strathern, Zora Neale Hutson
Postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism-Foucault, Derrida, Bourdieu
Ethnicity-Barth, Jeffery, Weber
Anthropology: Unit 09
Stages in the development of Indian anthropology
Concepts: Social stratification (example caste), scheduled caste (SC), dalit, OBC, nomadic groups. Revivalist/ nativist movements, peasant movements (Malabar and Telengana movements). Tribe, scheduled tribe (ST), particularly vulnerable groups (PVTGs)
Concepts: Tribal movements (birsa and naga movements), tribal development, distribution. Indian Village and village studies in India (S.C. Dube, McKim Marriott, Weiser, Scarlett Epstein, M.N. Srinivas, F.G. Bailey)
Concepts: Constitutional safeguards for SC and ST, inclusion and exclusion. Panchayati raj institutions and other traditional community political organizations, self-help groups (SHGs)
Theoretical ideas: Sanskritization, westernization, modernization, globalization, sacred complex, nature-man-spirit complex
Early Indian anthropologists and their contributions: G.S. Ghurye, B.S. Guha, S.C. Roy, Iravati Karve, L.P. Vidyarthi, S.C. Dube, M.N. Srinivas, N.K. Bose, Surajit Sinha, D.N. Majumdar, S.R.K. Chopra, Verrier Elwin, S.S. Sarkar, Dharani Sen
Early Indian anthropologists and their contributions: T.C. Das, P.C. Biswas
Anthropology: Unit 10
Concepts and Theories
Applied anthropology, action anthropology, engaged anthropology, experimental anthropology, urban anthropology, public anthropology, public archaeology, anthropology of development, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, genomic studies
Genetic screening and counseling, forensic anthropology, food and nutritional anthropology, ergonomics, kinanthropometry, business anthropology
Community development projects (rural, urban, and tribal); revisits, re-studies, reinterpretations, intervention, research process and social impact assessment (SIA)
Anthropological approaches in community studies: Public health, education, nutrition, land alienation, bonded labour, housing, alternative economy, livelihood, gender issues, relief, rehabilitation and relocation, identity crisis, communication
Anthropological approaches in community studies: Training and management, aging and the aged
Development strategies (plan/ sub plan)
Role of NGOs in development
Anthropology and NGOs
Empowerment of women, LGBT groups

Arabic+

Arabic: Unit 01
Arabic poetry upto Abassid period
Arabic: Unit 02
Arabic prose upto Abassid period
Arabic: Unit 03
Migrant and Andalusian literature
Arabic: Unit 04
Litertary criticism and prominent circles
Arabic: Unit 05
Rhetroic and prosody
Arabic: Unit 06
Importance Arabic sources and references
Arabic: Unit 07
Modern Arabic literature
Arabic: Unit 08
Litertary trends, movements and schools
Arabic: Unit 09
Indo-Arabic literature
Arabic: Unit 10
Arabic-English-Arabic translation, langugage applications and general knowledge

Assamese

Bengali

Bodo

English+

English: Unit 01
Drama
English: Unit 02
Poetry
English: Unit 03
Fiction, short story
English: Unit 04
Non fictional prose
English: Unit 05
Language
Basic concepts, theories, and pedagogy
English in use
English: Unit 06
English in India
History, evolution, and futures
English: Unit 07
Cultural Studies
English: Unit 08
Literary criticism
English: Unit 09
Literary theory post World War-II
English: Unit 10
Research methods and materials in English

Hindi+

Hindi: Unit 01
Hindi language and its development
Hindi: Unit 02
History of Hindi literature
Hindi: Unit 03
Prose genres in Hindi literature
Hindi: Unit 04
Literature ethology
Hindi: Unit 05
Conceptual background
Hindi: Unit 06
Hindi poem
Hindi: Unit 07
Hindi novel
Hindi: Unit 08
Hindi stories
Hindi: Unit 09
Hindi play
Hindi: Unit 10
Hindi essay
Hindi: Unit 11
Autobiography, biography and different prose genres

Manipuri

Persian

Chemical sciences+

Chemical sciences: Unit 01
Inorganic chemistry
Chemical periodicity
Structure and bonding in homo-and heteronuclear molecules, including shapes of molecules (VSEPR theory)
Concepts of acids and bases, hard-soft acid base concept, non-aqueous solvents
Main group elements and their compounds: Allotropy, synthesis, structure, and bonding, industrial importance of the compounds
Transition elements and coordination compounds: structure, bonding theories, spectral, and magnetic properties, reaction mechanisms
Inner transition elements: spectral and magnetic properties, redox chemistry, analytical applications
Organometallic compounds: synthesis, bonding and structure, and reactivity
Organometallics in homogeneous catalysis
Cages and metal clusters
Analytical chemistry-separation, spectroscopic, electro-and thermoanalytical methods
Bioinorganic chemistry: Photosystems, porphyrins, metalloenzymes, oxygen transport, electron-transfer reactions; nitrogen fixation, metal complexes in medicine
Characterisation of inorganic compounds by IR, Raman, NMR, EPR, Mössbauer, UV-vis, NQR, MS, electron spectroscopy, and microscopic techniques
Nuclear chemistry: Nuclear reactions, fission and fusion, radio-analytical techniques, and activation analysis
Chemical sciences: Unit 02
Physical chemistry
Basic principles of quantum mechanics: Postulates; operator algebra; exactly-solvable systems; particle-in-a-box, harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom, including shapes of atomic orbitals; orbital and spin angular momenta; tunneling
Approximate methods of quantum mechanics: Variational principle; perturbation theory up to second order in energy; applications
Atomic structure and spectroscopy; term symbols; many-electron systems and antisymmetry principle
Chemical bonding in diatomics; elementary concepts of MO and VB theories; Huckel theory for conjugated π-electron systems
Chemical applications of group theory; symmetry elements; point groups; character tables; selection rules
Molecular spectroscopy: Rotational and vibrational spectra of diatomic molecules; electronic spectra; IR and Raman activities-selection rules; basic principles of magnetic resonance
Chemical thermodynamics: Laws, state, and path functions and their applications; thermodynamic description of various types of processes; Maxwell’s relations; spontaneity and equilibria; temperature and pressure dependence of thermodynamic quantities
Chemical thermodynamics: Le Chatelier principle; elementary description of phase transitions; phase equilibria and phase rule; thermodynamics of ideal and non-ideal gases, and solutions
Statistical thermodynamics: Boltzmann distribution; kinetic theory of gases; partition functions and their relation to thermodynamic quantities-calculations for model systems
Electrochemistry: Nernst equation, redox systems, electrochemical cells; Debye-Hückel theory; electrolytic conductance-Kohlrausch’s law and its applications; ionic equilibrium; conductometric and potentiometric titrations
Chemical kinetics: Empirical rate laws and temperature dependence; complex reactions; steady state approximation; determination of reaction mechanisms; collision and transition state theories of rate constants; unimolecular reactions; enzyme kinetics
Chemical kinetics: Salt effects; homogeneous catalysis; photochemical reactions
Colloids and surfaces: Stability and properties of colloids; isotherms and surface area; heterogeneous catalysis
Solid state: Crystal structures; Bragg’s law and applications; band structure of solids
Polymer chemistry: Molar masses; kinetics of polymerization
Data analysis: Mean and standard deviation; absolute and relative errors; linear regression; covariance and correlation coefficient
Chemical sciences: Unit 03
Organic chemistry
IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules including regio-and stereoisomers
Principles of stereochemistry: Configurational and conformational isomerism in acyclic and cyclic compounds; stereogenicity, stereoselectivity, enantioselectivity, diastereoselectivity, and asymmetric induction
Aromaticity: Benzenoid and non-benzenoid compounds-generation and reactions
Organic reactive intermediates: Generation, stability and reactivity of carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes, and nitrenes
Organic reaction mechanisms involving addition, elimination, and substitution reactions with electrophilic, nucleophilic or radical species
Determination of reaction pathways
Common named reactions and rearrangements-applications in organic synthesis
Organic transformations and reagents: Functional group interconversion including oxidations and reductions; common catalysts and reagents (organic, inorganic, organometallic, and enzymatic). Chemo, regio, and stereoselective transformations
Concepts in organic synthesis: Retrosynthesis, disconnection, synthons, linear, and convergent synthesis, umpolung of reactivity and protecting groups
Asymmetric synthesis: Chiral auxiliaries, methods of asymmetric induction-substrate, reagent and catalyst controlled reactions; determination of enantiomeric and diastereomeric excess; enantio-discrimination. Resolution-optical and kinetic
Pericyclic reactions: Electrocyclisation, cycloaddition, sigmatropic rearrangements and other related concerted reactions. Principles and applications of photochemical reactions in organic chemistry
Synthesis and reactivity of common heterocyclic compounds containing one or two heteroatoms (o, n, s)
Chemistry of natural products: Carbohydrates, proteins, and peptides, fatty acids, nucleic acids, terpenes, steroids, and alkaloids. Biogenesis of terpenoids and alkaloids
Structure determination of organic compounds by IR, UV-Vis, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, and mass spectroscopic techniques
Chemical sciences: Unit 04
Interdisciplinary topics
Chemistry in Nanoscience and Technology
Catalysis and Green Chemistry
Medicinal chemistry
Supramolecular Chemistry
Environmental chemistry

Commerce+

Commerce: Unit 01
Business Environment and International Business
Concepts and elements of business environment: Economic environment-economic systems, economic policies (monetary and fiscal policies); political environment role of government in business; legal environment-consumer protection act, FEMA
Concepts and elements of business environment: Sociocultural factors and their influence on business; corporate social responsibility (CSR), scope and importance of international business; globalization and its drivers
Concepts and elements of business environment: Modes of entry into international business
Theories of international trade; government intervention in international trade; tariff and non-tariff barriers; India’s foreign trade policy
Foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI); types of FDI, costs and benefits of FDI to home and host countries; trends in FDI; India’s FDI policy
Balance of payments (BOP): importance and components of BOP
Regional economic Integration: Levels of regional economic integration; trade creation and diversion effects; regional trade agreements: European union (EU), ASEAN, SAARC, NAFTA
International Economic institutions: IMF, World Bank, UNCTAD
World trade organization (WTO): Functions and objectives of WTO; agriculture agreement; GATS; TRIPS; TRIMS
Commerce: Unit 02
Accounting and auditing
Basic accounting principles; concepts and postulates, partnership accounts: Admission, retirement, death, dissolution, and insolvency of partnership firms
Corporate accounting: Issue, forfeiture, and reissue of shares; liquidation of companies; acquisition, merger, amalgamation, and reconstruction of companies
Holding company accounts, cost and management accounting: Marginal costing and break-even analysis; standard costing; budgetary control; process costing; activity based costing (ABC); costing for decision-making; life cycle costing, target costing
Cost and management accounting: Kaizen costing and JIT
Financial statements analysis: Ratio analysis; funds flow analysis; cash flow analysis
Human resources accounting; inflation accounting; environmental accounting
Indian accounting standards and IFRS, auditing; independent financial audit; vouching; verification ad valuation of assets and liabilities; audit of financial statements and audit report; cost audit, recent trends in auditing: Management audit
Recent trends in auditing: Energy audit; environment audit; systems audit; safety audit
Commerce: Unit 03
Business economics
Meaning and scope of business economics, objectives of business firms, demand analysis: Law of demand; elasticity of demand and its measurement; relationship between AR and MR
Consumer behaviour: Utility analysis; indifference curve analysis, law of variable proportions: Law of returns to scale, theory of cost: Short-run and long-run cost curves, price determination under different market forms: Perfect competition
Price determination under different market forms: Monopolistic competition; oligopoly-price leadership model; monopoly; price discrimination, pricing strategies: Price skimming; price penetration; peak load pricing
Commerce: Unit 04
Business finance
Scope and sources of finance; lease financing, cost of capital and time value of money, capital structure, capital budgeting decisions: Conventional and scientific techniques of capital budgeting analysis
Working capital management; dividend decision: Theories and policies, risk and return analysis; asset securitization, international monetary system, foreign exchange market; exchange rate risk and hedging techniques
International financial markets and instruments: Euro currency; GDRs; ADRs, International arbitrage; Multinational capital budgeting
Commerce: Unit 05
Business Statistics and Research Methods
Measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of skewness, correlation and regression of two variables, probability: Approaches to probability; Bayes’s theorem, probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions
Research: Concept and types; research designs, data: Collection and classification of data, sampling and estimation: Concepts; methods of sampling-probability and non-probability methods; sampling distribution; central limit theorem
Sampling and estimation: Standard error; statistical estimation, hypothesis testing: Z-test; t-test; ANOVA; chi-square test; Mann-Whitney test (U-test); Kruskal-Wallis test (H-test); rank correlation test, report writing
Commerce: Unit 06
Business Management and Human Resource Management
Principles and functions of management, organization structure: Formal and informal organizations; span of control, responsibility and authority: Delegation of authority and decentralization, motivation and leadership: Concept and theories
Corporate governance and business ethics, human resource management: Concept, role, and functions of HRM; human resource planning; recruitment and selection; training and development; succession planning
Compensation management: Job evaluation; Incentives and fringe benefits, Performance appraisal including 360 degree performance appraisal, Collective bargaining and workers’ participation in management
Personality: Perception; Attitudes; Emotions; Group dynamics; Power and politics; Conflict and negotiation; Stress management, Organizational Culture: Organizational development and organizational change
Commerce: Unit 07
Banking and Financial Institutions
Overview of Indian financial system, types of banks: Commercial banks; regional rural banks (RRBs); foreign banks; cooperative banks, reserve bank of India: Functions; role and monetary policy management, banking sector reforms in India: Basel norms
Banking sector reforms in India: Risk management; NPA management, financial markets: Money market; capital market; government securities market, financial institutions: Development finance institutions (DFIs); non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)
Financial institutions: Mutual funds; pension funds, financial regulators in India, financial sector reforms including financial inclusion, digitization of banking and other financial services: Internet banking; mobile banking; digital payments systems
Insurance: Types of insurance-life and non-life insurance; risk classification and management; factors limiting the insurability of risk; re-insurance; regulatory framework of insurance-IRDA and its role
Commerce: Unit 08
Marketing management
Marketing: Concept and approaches; marketing channels; marketing mix; strategic marketing planning; market segmentation, targeting, and positioning, product decisions: Concept; product line; product mix decisions; product life cycle
Product decisions: New product development, pricing decisions: Factors affecting price determination; pricing policies and strategies, promotion decisions: Role of promotion in marketing; promotion methods-advertising; personal selling; publicity
Promotion decisions: Sales promotion tools and techniques; promotion mix, distribution decisions: Channels of distribution; channel management, consumer behaviour; consumer buying process; factors influencing consumer buying decisions, service marketing
Trends in marketing: Social marketing; online marketing; green marketing; direct marketing; rural marketing; CRM, logistics management
Commerce: Unit 09
Legal Aspects of Business
Indian contract Act, 1872: Elements of a valid contract; capacity of parties; free consent; discharge of a contract; breach of contract and remedies against breach; quasi contracts; special contracts: Contracts of indemnity and guarantee
Special contracts: Contracts of bailment and pledge; contracts of agency, sale of goods act, 1930: Sale and agreement to sell; doctrine of caveat emptor; rights of unpaid seller and rights of buyer
Negotiable instruments act, 1881: Types of negotiable instruments; negotiation and assignment; dishonour and discharge of negotiable instruments, the companies act, 2013: Nature and kinds of companies; company formation; management
The companies act, 2013: Meetings and winding up of a joint stock company, limited liability partnership: Structure and procedure of formation of LLP in India, the competition act, 2002: Objectives and main provisions
The information technology act, 2000: Objectives and main provisions; cyber crimes and penalties, the RTI act, 2005: Objectives and main provisions, intellectual property rights (IPRs): Patents, trademarks, and copyrights
Intellectual property rights (IPRs): Emerging issues in intellectual property, goods and services tax (GST): Objectives and main provisions; benefits of GST; implementation mechanism; working of dual GST
Commerce: Unit 10
Income-Tax and Corporate Tax Planning
Income-tax: Basic concepts; residential status and tax incidence; exempted incomes; agricultural income; computation of taxable income under various heads; deductions from gross total income; assessment of individuals; clubbing of incomes
International taxation: Double taxation and its avoidance mechanism; transfer pricing, corporate tax planning: Concepts and significance of corporate tax planning; tax avoidance versus tax evasion; techniques of corporate tax planning
Corporate tax planning: Tax considerations in specific business situations-make or buy decisions; own or lease an asset; retain, renewal or replacement of asset; shut down or continue operations, deduction and collection of tax at source
Advance payment of tax; e-filing of income-tax returns

Computer science and applications+

Computer science and applications: Unit 01
Discrete Structures and Optimization
Mathematical logic: Propositional and predicate logic, propositional equivalences, normal forms, predicates and quantifiers, nested quantifiers, rules of inference
Sets and relations: Set operations, representation and properties of relations, equivalence relations, partially ordering
Counting, mathematical induction, and discrete probability: Basics of counting, pigeonhole principle, permutations and combinations, inclusion-exclusion principle, mathematical induction, probability, Bayes’ theorem
Group theory: Groups, subgroups, semi groups, product and quotients of algebraic structures, isomorphism, homomorphism, automorphism, rings, integral domains, fields, applications of group theory
Graph theory: Simple graph, multigraph, weighted graph, paths and circuits, shortest Paths in weighted graphs, Eulerian paths and circuits, Hamiltonian paths and circuits, planner graph, graph coloring, bipartite graphs, trees, and rooted trees
Graph theory: Prefix codes, tree traversals, spanning trees, and cut-sets
Boolean algebra: Boolean functions and its representation, simplifications of Boolean functions
Optimization: Linear programming-mathematical model, graphical solution, simplex and dual simplex method, sensitive analysis; integer programming, transportation and assignment models. PERT-CPM: Diagram representation, critical path calculations
Optimization: PERT-CPM-resource levelling, cost consideration in project scheduling
Computer science and applications: Unit 02
Computer System Architecture
Digital logic circuits and components: Digital computers, logic gates, Boolean algebra, map simplifications, combinational circuits, flip-flops, sequential circuits, integrated circuits, decoders, multiplexers, registers, and counters, memory unit
Data representation: Data types, number systems and conversion, complements, fixed point representation, floating point representation, error detection codes, computer arithmetic-addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division algorithms
Register transfer and micro-operations: Register transfer language, bus and memory transfers, arithmetic, logic, and shift micro-operations
Basic computer organization and design: Stored program organization and instruction codes, computer registers, computer instructions, timing and control, instruction cycle, memory-reference instructions, input-output, interrupt
Programming the basic computer: Machine language, assembly language, assembler, program loops, subroutines, input-output programming
Micro-programmed control: Control memory, address sequencing, design of control unit
Central processing unit: General register organization, stack organization, instruction formats, addressing modes, RISC computer, CISC computer
Pipeline and vector processing: Parallel processing, pipelining, arithmetic pipeline, instruction pipeline, vector processing array processors
Input-output organization: Peripheral devices, input-output interface, asynchronous data transfer, modes of transfer, priority interrupt, DMA, serial communication
Memory hierarchy: Main memory, auxiliary memory, associative memory, cache memory, virtual memory, memory management hardware
Multiprocessors: Characteristics of multiprocessors, interconnection structures, interprocessor arbitration, interprocessor communication and synchronization, cache coherence, multicore processors
Computer science and applications: Unit 03
Programming Languages and Computer Graphics
Language design and translation issues: Programming language concepts, paradigms, and models, programming environments, virtual computers and binding times, programming language syntax, stages in translation, formal transition models
Elementary data types: Properties of types and objects; scalar and composite data types
Programming in C: Tokens, identifiers, data types, sequence control, subprogram control, arrays, structures, union, string, pointers, functions, file handling, command line arguments, preprocessors
Object oriented programming: Class, object, instantiation, inheritance, encapsulation, abstract class, polymorphism
Programming in C++: Tokens, identifiers, variables and constants; data types, operators, control statements, functions parameter passing, virtual functions, class and objects; constructors and destructors
Programming in C++: Overloading, iInheritance, templates, exception and event handling; streams and files; multifile programs
Web programming: HTML, DHTML, XML, scripting, java, servlets, applets
Computer graphics: Video-display devices, raster-scan and random-scan systems; graphics monitors, input devices, points and lines; line drawing algorithms, mid-point circle and ellipse algorithms
Computer graphics: Scan line polygon fill algorithm, boundary-fill and flood fill
2-D geometrical transforms and viewing: Translation, scaling, rotation, reflection and shear transformations; matrix representations and homogeneous coordinates; composite transforms, transformations between coordinate systems, viewing pipeline
2-D geometrical transforms and viewing: Viewing coordinate reference frame, window to view-port coordinate transformation, viewing functions, line, and polygon clipping algorithms
3-D object representation, geometric transformations and viewing: Polygon surfaces, quadric surfaces, spline representation, Bezier and B-spline curves; Bezier and B-spline surfaces; illumination models, polygon rendering methods
3-D object representation, geometric transformations and viewing: Viewing pipeline and coordinates; general projection transforms and cipping
Computer science and applications: Unit 04
Database management systems
Database system concepts and architecture: Data models, schemas, and instances; three-schema architecture and data independence; database languages and interfaces; centralized and client/ server architectures for DBMS
Data modeling: Entity-relationship diagram, relational model-constraints, languages, design, and programming, relational database schemas, update operations and dealing with constraint violations; relational algebra and relational calculus; Codd rules
SQL: Data definition and data types; constraints, queries, insert, delete, and update statements; views, stored procedures and functions; database triggers, SQL injection
Normalization for relational databases: Functional dependencies and normalization; algorithms for query processing and optimization; transaction processing, concurrency control techniques, database recovery techniques
Normalization for relational databases: Object and object-relational databases; database security and authorization
Enhanced data models: Temporal database concepts, multimedia databases, deductive databases, XML and internet databases; mobile databases, geographic information systems, genome data management, distributed databases, and client-server architectures
Data warehousing and data mining: Data modeling for data warehouses, concept hierarchy, OLAP and OLTP; association rules, classification, clustering, regression, support vector machine, K-nearest neighbour, hidden Markov Model, summarization
Data warehousing and data mining: Dependency modeling, link analysis, sequencing analysis, social network analysis
Big data systems: Big data characteristics, types of big data, big data architecture, introduction to map-reduce and hadoop; distributed file system, HDFS
NOSQL: NOSQL and query optimization; different NOSQL products, querying and managing NOSQL; indexing and ordering data sets; NOSQL in cloud
Computer science and applications: Unit 05
System Software and Operating System
System software: Machine, assembly, and high-level languages; compilers and interpreters; loading, linking, and relocation; macros, debuggers
Basics of operating systems: Operating system structure, operations and services; system calls, operating-system design and implementation; system boot
Process management: Process scheduling and operations; interprocess communication, communication in client-server systems, process synchronization, critical-section problem, Peterson’s solution, semaphores, synchronization
Threads: Multicore programming, multithreading models, thread libraries, implicit threading, threading issues
CPU scheduling: Scheduling criteria and algorithms; thread scheduling, multiple processor scheduling, real-time CPU scheduling
Deadlocks: Deadlock characterization, methods for handling deadlocks, deadlock prevention, avoidance, and detection; recovery from deadlock
Memory management: Contiguous memory allocation, swapping, paging, segmentation, demand paging, page replacement, allocation of frames, thrashing, memory-mapped files
Storage management: Mass-storage structure, disk structure, scheduling and management, RAID structure
File and input/ output systems: Access methods, directory and disk structure; file system mounting, file sharing, file-system structure and implementation; directory implementation, allocation methods, free-space management, efficiency and performance
File and input/ output systems: Recovery, I/O hardware, application I/O interface, kernel I/O subsystem, transforming I /O requests to hardware operations
Security: Protection, access matrix, access control, revocation of access rights, program threats, system and network threats; cryptography as a security tool, user authentication, implementing security defenses
Virtual machines: Types of virtual machines and implementations; virtualization
Linux operating systems: Design principles, kernel modules, process management, scheduling, memory management, file systems, input and output; interprocess communication, network structure
Windows operating systems: Design principles, system components, terminal services and fast user switching; file system, networking
Distributed systems: Types of network based operating systems, network structure, communication structure and protocols; robustness, design issues, distributed file systems
Computer science and applications: Unit 06
Software engineering
Software process models: Software process, generic process mmodel-framework activity, task set and process patterns; process life cycle, prescriptive process models, project management, component based development, aspect-oriented software development
Software process models: Formal methods, agile process models-extreme programming (XP), adaptive software development, scrum, dynamic system development model, feature driven development, crystal, web engineering
Software requirements: Functional and non-functional requirements; eliciting requirements, developing use cases, requirement analysis and modelling; requirements review, software requirment and specification (SRS) document
Software design: Abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, functional independence, cohesion and coupling; object-oriented design, data design
Software design: Architectural design, user interface design, component level design
Software quality: McCall’s quality factors, ISO 9126 quality factors, quality control, quality assurance, risk management, risk mitigation, monitoring and management (RMMM); software reliability
Estimation and scheduling of software projects: Software sizing, LOC and FP based estimations; estimating cost and effort; estimation models, constructive cost model (COCOMO), project scheduling and staffing; time-line charts
Software testing: Verification and validation; error, fault, bug and failure; unit and integration tesing; white-box and black-box testing; basis path testing, control structure testing, deriving test cases, alpha and beta testing
Software testing: Regression testing, performance testing, stress testing
Software configuration management: Change control and version control; software reuse, software re-engineering, reverse engineering
Computer science and applications: Unit 07
Data structures and algorithms
Data structures: Arrays and their applications; Sparse matrix, stacks, queues, priority queues, linked lists, trees, forest, binary tree, threaded binary tree, binary search tree, AVL tree, B tree, B+ tree, B* tree
Data structures: Data structure for sets, graphs, sorting, and searching algorithms; hashing
Performance analysis of algorithms and recurrences: Time and space complexities; asymptotic notation, recurrence relations
Lower bound theory: Comparison trees, lower bounds through reductions
Graph algorithms: Breadth-first search, depth-first search, shortest paths, maximum flow, minimum spanning trees
Complexity theory: P and NP class problems; NP-completeness and reducibility
Selected topics: Number theoretic algorithms, polynomial arithmetic, fast Fourier transform, string matching algorithms
Advanced algorithms: Parallel algorithms for sorting, searching and merging, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms
Computer science and applications: Unit 08
Theory of Computation and Compilers
Theory of computation: Formal language, non-computational problems, diagonal argument, Russell's paradox
Regular language models: Deterministic finite automaton (DFA), non-deterministic finite automaton (NDFA), equivalence of DFA and NDFA, regular languages, regular grammars, regular expressions, properties of regular language, pumping lemma
Regular language models: Non regular languages, lexical analysis
Context free language: Pushdown automaton (PDA), non-deterministic pushdown automaton (NPDA), context free grammar, Chomsky normal form, Greibach normal form, ambiguity, parse tree representation of derivation trees
Context free language: Equivalence of PDA’S and context free grammars; properties of context free language
Turing machines (TM): Standard turing machine and its variations; universal turing machines, models of computation and church-turing thesis; recursive and recursively enumerable languages; context-sensitive languages, unrestricted grammars
Turing machines (TM): Chomsky hierarchy of languages, construction of TM for simple problems
Unsolvable problems and computational complexity: Unsolvable problem, halting problem, post correspondence problem, unsolvable problems for context-free languages, measuring and classifying complexity, tractable and intractable problems
Syntax analysis: Associativity, precedence, grammar transformations, top down parsing, recursive descent predictive parsing, LL (1) parsing, bottom up parsing, LR parser, LALR (1) parser
Semantic analysis: Attribute grammar, syntax directed definitions, inherited and synthesized attributes; dependency graph, evaluation order, S-attributed and L-attributed definitions; type-checking
Run time system: Storage organization, activation tree, activation record, stack allocation of activation records, parameter passing mechanisms, symbol table
Intermediate code generation: Intermediate representations, translation of declarations, assignments, control flow, Boolean expressions, and procedure calls
Code generation and code optimization: Control-flow, data-flow analysis, local optimization, global optimization, loop optimization, peep-hole optimization, instruction scheduling
Computer science and applications: Unit 09
Data communication and computer networks
Data communication: Components of a data communication system, simplex, half duplex and duplex modes of communication; analog and digital signals; noiseless and noisy channels; bandwidth, throughput and latency; digital and analog transmission
Data communication: Data encoding and modulation techniques; broadband and baseband transmission; multiplexing, transmission media, transmission errors, error handling mechanisms
Computer networks: Network topologies, local area networks, metropolitan area networks, wide area network, wireless networks, internet
Network models: Layered architecture, OSI reference model and its protocols; TCP/ Ip protocol suite, physical, logical, port and specific addresses; switching techniques
Functions of OSI and TCP/ IP layers: Framing, error detection and correction; flow and error control; sliding window protocol, HDLC, multiple access-CSMA/ CD, CSMA/ CA, reservation, polling, token passing, FDMA, CDMA, TDMA, network devices
Functions of OSI and TCP/ IP layers: Backbone networks, virtual lans. IPv4 structure and address space; classful and classless addressing; datagram, fragmentation and checksum; IPv6 packet format, mapping logical to physical address (ARP)
Functions of OSI and TCP/ IP layers: Direct and indirect network layer delivery; routing algorithms, TCP, UDP, and SCTP protocols; flow control, error control and congestion control in TCP and SCTP
World wide web (www): Uniform resource locator (URL), domain name service (DNS), resolution-mapping names to addresses and addresses to names; electronic mail architecture, SMTP, POP, and IMAP; telnet and FTP
Network security: Malwares, cryptography and steganography; secret-key algorithms, public-key algorithms, digital signature, virtual private networks, firewalls
Mobile technology: GSM and CDMA; services and architecture of GSM and mobile computing; middleware and gateway for mobile computing; mobile IP and mobile communication protocol; communication satellites, wireless networks, and topologies
Mobile technology: Cellular topology, mobile adhoc networks, wireless transmission and wireless LANs; wireless geolocation systems, GPRS, and SMS
Cloud computing and IOT: SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, public and private cloud; virtualization, virtual server, cloud storage, database storage, resource management, service level agreement, basics of IOT
Computer science and applications: Unit 10
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Approaches to AI: Turing test and rational agent approaches; state space representation of problems, heuristic search techniques, game playing, min-max search, alpha beta cutoff procedures
Knowledge representation: Logic, semantic networks, frames, rules, scripts, conceptual dependency and ontologies; expert systems, handling uncertainty in knowledge
Planning: Components of a planning system, linear and non linear planning; goal stack planning, hierarchical planning, strips, partial order planning
Natural language processing: Grammar and language; parsing techniques, semantic analysis, and prgamatics
Multi agent systems: Agents and objects; agents and expert systems; generic structure of multiagent system, semantic web, agent communication, knowledge sharing using ontologies, agent development tools
Fuzzy sets: Notion of fuzziness, membership functions, fuzzification and defuzzification; operations on fuzzy sets, fuzzy functions and linguistic variables; fuzzy relations, fuzzy rules, and fuzzy inference
Fuzzy sets: Fuzzy control system and fuzzy rule based systems
Genetic algorithms (GA): Encoding strategies, genetic operators, fitness functions and GA cycle; problem solving using GA
Artificial neural networks (ANN): Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning; single perceptron, multi layer perceptron, self organizing maps, Hopfield network

Economics+

Economics: Unit 01
Micro economics
Theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and costs, decision making under uncertainty attitude towards risk, game theory-non cooperative games, market structures, competitive and non-competitive equilibrium, and their efficiency properties
Factor pricing, general equilibrium analysis, efficiency criteria: Pareto-optimality, Kaldor-Hicks, and wealth maximization, welfare economics: Fundamental theorems, social welfare function, asymmetric information: Adverse selection and moral hazard
Economics: Unit 02
Macro economics
National income: Concepts and measurement, determination of output and employment: Classical and Keynesian approach, consumption function, investment function, multiplier and accelerator, demand for money, supply of money, IS-LM model approach
Inflation and Phillips curve analysis, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, rational expectation hypothesis and its critique
Economics: Unit 03
Statistics and econometrics
Probability theory: Concepts of probability, distributions, moments, central limit theorem, descriptive statistics-measures of central tendency and dispersions, correlation, index numbers, sampling methods and sampling distribution
Statistical inferences, hypothesis testing, linear regression models and their properties-blue, identification problem, simultaneous equation models-recursive and non-recursive, discrete choice models, time series analysis
Economics: Unit 04
Mathematical Economics
Sets, functions, and continuity, sequence, series, differential calculus and its applications, linear algebra-matrices, vector spaces, static optimization problems, and their applications
Input-output model, linear programming
Difference and differential equations with applications
Economics: Unit 05
International economics
International trade: Basic concepts and analytical tools, theories of international trade, international trade under imperfect competition, balance of payments: Composition, equilibrium and disequilibrium, and adjustment mechanisms
Exchange rate: Concepts and theories, foreign exchange market and arbitrage, gains from trade, terms of trade, trade multiplier, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade; dumping, GATT, WTO, and regional trade blocks; trade policy issues
IMF and world bank
Economics: Unit 06
Public Economics
Market failure and remedial measures: Asymmetric information, public goods, externality
Regulation of market-collusion and consumers’ welfare, public revenue: Tax and non-tax revenue, direct and indirect taxes, progressive and non-progressive taxation, incidence, and effects of taxation
Public expenditure, public debt and its management, public budget and budget multiplier, fiscal policy and its implications
Economics: Unit 07
Money and banking
Components of Money Supply, Central Bank, Commercial Banking, Instruments and Working of Monetary Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions, Capital Market and its Regulation
Economics: Unit 08
Growth and Development Economics
Economic growth and economic development, theories of economic development: Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Schumpeter, Rostow, balanced and unbalanced growth, big push approach
Models of economic growth: Harrod-Domar, Solow, Robinson, Kaldor, technical progress-disembodied and embodied; endogenous growth, indicators of economic development: PQLI, HDI, SDGS, poverty and inequalities-concepts and measurement
Social sector development: health, education, gender
Economics: Unit 09
Environmental Economics and Demography
Environment as a public good, market failure, Coase theorem, cost-benefit analysis and compensation criteria, valuation of environmental goods, theories of population, concepts and measures: Fertility, morbidity, mortality
Age structure, demographic dividend, life table, migration
Economics: Unit 10
Indian economy
Economic growth in India: Pattern and structure, agriculture: Pattern and structure of growth, major challenges, policy responses, industry: Pattern and structure of growth, major challenges, policy responses
Services: Pattern and structure of growth, major challenges, policy responses, rural development-issues, challenges, and policy responses
Urban development-issues, challenges, and policy responses
Foreign trade: structure and direction, bop, flow of foreign capital, trade policies
Infrastructure development: Physical and social; public-private partnerships
Reforms in land, labour, and capital markets
Centre-state financial relations and finance commissions of India; FRBM, Poverty, inequality, and unemployment

Education+

Education: Unit 01
Educational Studies
Contribution of Indian Schools of philosophy (Sankhya Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Jainism) with special reference to Vidya, Dayanand Darshan; and Islamic traditions towards educational aims and methods of acquiring valid knowledge
Contribution of Western schools of thoughts (idealism, realism, naturalism, pragmatism, Marxism, existentialism) and their contribution to education with special reference to information, knowledge, and wisdom
Approaches to sociology of education (symbolic interaction, structural functionalism, and conflict theory)
Concept and types of social Institutions and their functions (family, school, and society), concept of social movements, theories of social movements (relative deprivation, resource mobilization, political process theory, and new social movement theory)
Socialization and education-education and culture; contribution of thinkers (Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo, J. Krishnamurti, Paulo Freire, Wollstonecraft Nel Noddings and Savitribai Phule)
To the development of educational thought for social change, national values as enshrined in the Indian constitution-socialism, secularism, justice, liberty, democracy, equality, freedom with special reference to education
Education: Unit 02
History, politics, and economics of education
Committees and commissions contribution to teacher education secondary education commission (1953), Kothari education commission (1964-66), national policy of education (1986, 1992), national commission on teachers (1999)
National curriculum framework 2005, national knowledge commission (2007), Yashpal committee report (2009), national curriculum framework for teacher education (2009), justice Verma committee report (2012)
Relationship between policies and education, linkage between educational policy and national development, determinants of educational policy and process of policy formulation: Analysis of the existing situation, generation of policy options
Determinants of educational policy and process of policy formulation: Evaluation of policy options, making the policy decision, planning of policy implementation, policy impact assessment, and subsequent policy cycles
Concept of economics of education: Cost benefit analysis vs. cost effective analysis in education, economic returns to higher education signaling theory vs. human capital theory, concept of educational finance
Concept of economics of education: Educational finance at micro and macro levels, concept of budgeting
Relationship between politics and education, perspectives of politics of education liberal, conservative, and critical, approaches to understanding politics (behaviouralism, theory of systems analysis, and theory of rational choice)
Education for Political Development and Political Socialization
Education: Unit 03
Learner and Learning Process
Growth and development: Concept and principles, cognitive processes and stages of cognitive development , personality: Definitions and theories (Freud, Carl Rogers, Gordon Allport, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka), mental health and mental hygiene
Approaches to intelligence from unitary to multiple: Concepts of social intelligence, multiple intelligence, emotional intelligence theories of intelligence by Sternberg, Gardner, assessment of intelligence
Approaches to intelligence from unitary to multiple: Concepts of problem solving, critical thinking, metacognition and creativity
Principles and theories of learning: behaviouristic, cognitive and social theories of learning, factors affecting social learning, social competence, concept of social cognition, understanding social relationship and socialization goals
Guidance and counselling: Nature, principles, and need, types of guidance (educational, vocational, personal, health, and social and directive, non-directive, and eclectic)
Guidance and counselling: Approaches to counselling-cognitive behavioural (Albert Ellis-REBT) and humanistic, person-centred counselling (Carl Rogers)-theories of counselling (behaviouristic, rational, emotive, and reality)
Education: Unit 04
Teacher education
Meaning, nature, and scope of teacher education; types of teacher education programs, the structure of teacher education curriculum and its vision in curriculum documents of NCERT and NCTE at elementary, secondary and higher secondary levels
Organization of components of pre-service teacher education transactional approaches (for foundation courses) expository, collaborative, and experiential learning
Understanding knowledge base of teacher education from the view point of Schulman, Deng and Luke and Habermas, meaning of reflective teaching and strategies for promoting reflective teaching, models of teacher education-behaviouristic
Competency-based and inquiry oriented teacher education models
Concept, need, purpose, and scope of in-service teacher education, organization and modes of in-service teacher education, agencies and institutions of in-service teacher education at district
State and national levels (SSA, RMSA, SCERT, NCERT, NCTE, and UGC), preliminary consideration in planning in-service teacher education programme (purpose, duration, resources, and budget)
Concept of profession and professionalism, teaching as a profession, professional ethics of teachers, personal and contextual factors affecting teacher development, ICT integration, quality enhancement for professionalization of teacher education
Innovation in teacher education
Education: Unit 05
Curriculum Studies
Concept and principles of curriculum, strategies of curriculum development, stages in the process of curriculum development, foundations of curriculum planning-philosophical bases (national, democratic), sociological basis (socio-cultural reconstruction)
Psychological bases (learner’s needs and interests), bench marking and role of national level statutory bodies-UGC, NCTE and university in curriculum development
Models of curriculum design: Traditional and contemporary models (academic/ discipline based model, competency based model, social functions/ activities model (social reconstruction), individual needs and interests model, outcome based integrative model
Models of curriculum design: Intervention model, C.I.P.P. model (context, input, process, product model)
Instructional system, instructional media, instructional techniques and material in enhancing curriculum transaction, approaches to evaluation of curriculum: Approaches to curriculum and instruction (academic and competency based approaches)
Models of curriculum evaluation: Tyler’s Model, Stakes’ Model, Scriven’s Model, Kirkpatrick’s model
Meaning and types of curriculum change, factors affecting curriculum change, approaches to curriculum change, role of students, teachers, and educational administrators in curriculum change and improvement
Scope of curriculum research and types of research in curriculum studies
Education: Unit 06
Research in education
Meaning and scope of educational research, meaning and steps of scientific method, characteristics of scientific method (replicability, precision, falsifiability, and parsimony), types of scientific method (exploratory, explanatory, and descriptive)
Aims of research as a scientific activity: Problem-solving, theory building, and prediction, types of research (fundamental, applied, and action), approaches to educational research (quantitative and qualitative)
Designs in educational research (descriptive, experimental, and historical)
Variables: Meaning of concepts, constructs, and variables, types of variables (independent, dependent, extraneous, intervening, and moderator), hypotheses-concept, sources, types (research, directional, non-directional, null), formulating hypothesis
Characteristics of a good hypothesis, steps of writing a research proposal, concept of universe and sample, characteristics of a good sample, techniques of sampling (probability and non-probability sampling), tools of research-validity
Reliability and standardization of a tool, types of tools (rating scale, attitude scale, questionnaire, aptitude test, and achievement test, inventory), techniques of research (observation, interview, and projective techniques)
Types of measurement scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio), quantitative data analysis-descriptive data analysis (measures of central tendency, variability, fiduciary limits, and graphical presentation of data)
Testing of hypothesis (type-I and type-II errors), levels of significance, power of a statistical test and effect size, parametric techniques, non-parametric techniques, conditions to be satisfied for using parametric techniques, inferential data analysis
Use and interpretation of statistical techniques: correlation, t-test, z-test, ANOVA, chi-square (equal probability and normal probability hypothesis)
Qualitative data analysis-data reduction and classification, analytical induction and constant comparison, concept of triangulation
Qualitative research designs: Grounded theory designs (types, characteristics, designs, steps in conducting a GT research, strengths, and weakness of GT)
Qualitative research designs: Narrative research designs (meaning and key characteristics, components of a CS design, types of CS design, steps of conducting a CS research, strengths and weaknesses)
Qualitative research designs: Ethnography (meaning, characteristics, underlying assumptions, steps of conducting ethnographic research, writing ethnographic account, strengths and weaknesses)
Mixed method designs: Characteristics, types of MM designs (triangulation, explanatory, and exploratory designs), steps in conducting a MM designs, strengths and weakness of MM research
Education: Unit 07
Pedagogy, andragogy, and assessment
Pedagogy, pedagogical analysis-concept and stages, critical pedagogy-meaning, need and its implications in teacher education, organizing teaching: Memory level (Herbartian model), understanding level (Morrison teaching model)
Reflective level (Bigge and Hunt teaching model), concept of andragogy in education: Meaning, principles, competencies of Self-directed learning, theory of andragogy (Malcolm Knowles), the dynamic model of learner autonomy
Assessment-meaning, nature, perspectives (assessment for learning, assessment of learning, and assessment of learning)-types of assessment (placement, formative, diagnostic, summative) relations between objectives and outcomes
Assessment of cognitive (Anderson and Krathwohl), affective (Krathwohl) and psychomotor domains (R.H. Dave) of learning
Assessment in pedagogy of education: Feedback devices-meaning, types, criteria, guidance as a feedback devices: Assessment of portfolios, reflective journal, field engagement using rubrics, competency based evaluation
Assessment in pedagogy of education: Assessment of teacher prepared ICT resources
Assessment in andragogy of education-interaction analysis: Flanders’ interaction analysis, Galloway’s system of interaction analysis (recording of classroom events, construction, and interpretation of interaction matrix)
Assessment in andragogy of education-interaction analysis: Criteria for teacher evaluation (product, process, and presage criteria, rubrics for self and peer evaluation (meaning, steps of construction)
Education: Unit 08
Technology in/ for Education
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Information technology, communication technology, and information and communication technology (ICT) and instructional technology, applications of educational technology in formal
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Non formal (open and distance learning), informal and inclusive education systems, overview of behaviourist
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Cognitive and constructivist theories and their implications to instructional design (Skinner, Piaget, Ausubel, Bruner, Vygotsky)
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Relationship between learning theories and instructional strategies (for large and small groups, formal and, non formal groups)
Systems approach to instructional design, models of development of instructional design (Addie, assure, Dick and Carey model mason’s), Gagne’s nine events of instruction and five E’s of constructivism, nine elements of constructivist instructional design
Application of computers in education: CAI, CAL, CBT, CML, concept, process of preparing ODLM, concept of e learning, approaches to e-learning (offline, online, synchronous, asynchronous, blended learning, mobile learning)
Emerging trends in e-learning: Social learning (concept, use of web 2.0 tools for learning, social networking sites, blogs, chats, video conferencing, discussion forum)
Emerging trends in e-learning: Open education resources (creative common, massive open online courses; concept and application), e-inclusion-concept of e-inclusion, application of assistive technology in e-learning
Emerging trends in e-learning: Quality of e-learning-measuring quality of system: Information, system, service, user satisfaction and net benefits (D and M IS success model, 2003)
Quality of e-learning-measuring quality of system: Ethical issues for e-learner and e-teacher teaching, learning and research
Use of ICT in evaluation, administration and research: E-portfolios, ICT for research-online repositories and online libraries, online and offline assessment tools (online survey tools or test generators)-concept and development
Education: Unit 09
Educational management, administration, and leadership
Educational management and administration: Meaning, principles, functions, and importance, institutional building, POSDCORB, CPM, PERT, management as a system, SWOT analysis, taylorism, administration as a process, administration as a bureaucracy
Educational management and administration: Human relations approach to administration, organizational compliance, organinsational development, organisational climate
Leadership in educational administration: Meaning and nature, approaches to leadership-trait, transformational, transactional, value based, cultural, psychodynamic, and charismatic
Leadership in educational administration: Models of leadership (Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid, Fiedler’s contingency model, tri-dimensional model, Hersey and Blanchard’s model, leader-member exchange theory)
Concept of quality and quality in education: Indian and international perspective, evolution of quality-inspection, quality control, quality assurance, total quality management (TQM), six sigma, quality gurus: Walter Shewart, Edward Deming, C.K Pralhad
Change management: Meaning, need for planned change, three step-model of change (unfreezing, moving, refreezing), the Japanese models of change: just-in-time, poka yoke, cost of quality: Appraisal costs, failure costs and preventable costs
Change management: Cost of quality-cost benefit analysis, cost effective analysis, Indian and international quality assurance agencies: Objectives, functions, roles and initiatives (national assessment accreditation council (NAAC), performance indicators
Change management: Indian and international quality assurance agencies-quality assurance agencies in higher education (INQAAHE)
Education: Unit 10
Inclusive education
Inclusive education: Concept, principles, scope, and target groups (diverse learners; including marginalized group and learners with disabilities), evolution of the philosophy of inclusive education: Special, integrated, inclusive education
Inclusive education: Legal provisions-policies and legislations (national policy of education (1986), programme of action of action (1992), persons with disabilities act (1995), national policy of disabilities (2006), national curriculum framework (2005)
Inclusive education: Legal provisions-concession and facilities to diverse learners (academic and financial), rehabilitation council of India act (1992), inclusive education under sarva shiksha abhiyan (SSA)
Inclusive education: Legal provisions-features of UNCRPD (united nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities) and its implication
Concept of impairment, disability and handicap, classification of disabilities based on ICF model, readiness of school and models of inclusion, prevalence, types, characteristics and educational needs of diverse learners’ intellectual
Physical and multiple disabilities, causes and prevention of disabilities, identification of diverse learners for inclusion, educational evaluation methods, techniques and tools
Planning and management of inclusive classrooms: infrastructure, human resource and instructional practices, curriculum and curricular adaptations for diverse learners
Planning and management of inclusive classrooms: Assistive and adaptive technology for diverse learners-product (aids and appliances) and process (individualized education plan, remedial teaching), parent professional partnership: Role of parents, peers
Planning and management of inclusive classrooms: Parent professional partnership-professionals, teachers, school
Barriers and facilitators in inclusive education: attitude, social and educational, current status and ethical issues of inclusive education in India, research trends of inclusive education in India

Environmental sciences+

Environmental sciences: Unit 01
Fundamentals of Environmental Sciences
Definition, principles, and scope of environmental science
Structure and composition of atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere
Laws of thermodynamics, heat transfer processes, mass and energy transfer across various interfaces, material balance
Meteorological parameters-pressure, temperature, precipitation, humidity, mixing ratio, saturation mixing ratio, radiation and wind velocity, adiabatic lapse rate, environmental lapse rate
Wind roses
Interaction between earth, man, and environment
Biogeographic provinces of the world and agro-climatic zones of India, concept of sustainable development
Natural resources and their assessment
Remote sensing and gis: principles of remote sensing and gis
Digital image processing and ground truthing
Application of remote sensing and gis in land cover/ land use planning and management (urban sprawling, vegetation study, forestry, natural resource), waste management, and climate change
Environmental education and awareness
Environmental ethics
Environmental sciences: Unit 02
Environmental chemistry
Fundamentals of environmental chemistry: Classification of elements, stoichiometry, Gibbs’ energy, chemical potential, chemica kinetics, chemical equilibrium, solubility of gases in water, the carbonate system, unsaturated and saturated hydrocarbons
Fundamentals of environmental chemistry: Radioisotopes
Composition of air
Particles, ions, and radicals in the atmosphere
Chemical speciation
Chemical processes in the formation of inorganic and organic particulate matters, thermochemical and photochemical reactions in the atmosphere, oxygen, and ozone chemistry
Photochemical smog
Hydrological cycle
Water as a universal solvent
Concept of DO, BOD, and COD
Sedimentation, coagulation, flocculation, filtration, pH, and redox potential (Eh)
Inorganic and organic components of soils
Biogeochemical cycles-nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, and sulphur
Toxic chemicals: Pesticides and their classification and effects. Biochemical aspects of heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Pb, Cr) and metalloids (As, Se) CO, O₃, PAN, VOC and POP. Carcinogens in the air
Principles of analytical methods: Titrimetry, gravimetry, bomb calorimetry, chromatography (paper chromatography, TLC, GC, and HPLC), flame photometry, spectrophotometry (UV-vis, AAS, ICP-AES, ICP-MS), electrophoresis, XRF, XRD, NMR, FTIR, GC-MS, SEM, TEM
Environmental sciences: Unit 03
Environmental biology
Ecology as an inter-disciplinary science
Origin of life and speciation
Human ecology and settlement
Ecosystem structure and functions: Structures-biotic and abiotic components. Functions-energy flow in ecosystems, energy flow models, food chains, and food webs. Biogeochemical cycles, ecological succession
Ecosystem structure and functions: Species diversity, concept of ecotone, edge effects, ecological habitats and niche. Ecosystem stability and factors affecting stability. Ecosystem services
Basis of ecosystem classification
Types of ecosystem: desert (hot and cold), forest, rangeland, wetlands, lotic, lentic, estuarine (mangrove), oceanic
Biomes: Concept, classification and distribution. Characteristics of different biomes: Tundra, Taiga, Grassland, Deciduous forest biome, Highland Icy Alpine Biome, chaparral, Savanna, tropical rain forest
Population ecology: Characteristics of population, concept of carrying capacity, population growth and regulations. Population fluctuations, dispersion, and metapopulation. Concept of ‘r’ and ‘k’ species. Keystone species
Community ecology: Definition, community concept, types, and interaction-predation, herbivory, parasitism, and allelopathy. Biological invasions
Biodiversity and its conservation: Definition, types, importance of biodiversity and threats to biodiversity. Concept and basis of identification of ‘hotspots’; hotspots in India. Measures of biodiversity
Biodiversity and its conservation: Strategies for biodiversity conservation-in-situ, ex-situ and in-vitro conservation. National parks, sanctuaries, protected areas and sacred groves in India. Concepts of gene pool, biopiracy, and bioprospecting
Biodiversity and its conservation: Strategies for biodiversity conservation-concept of restoration ecology, extinct, rare, endangered and threatened flora and fauna of India. Concept of industrial ecology
Toxicology and microbiology: Absorption, distribution, and excretion of toxic agents, acute, and chronic toxicity, concept of bioassay, threshold limit value, margin of safety, therapeutic index, biotransformation
Toxicology and microbiology: Major water borne diseases and air borne microbes
Environmental biotechnology: Bioremediation-definition, types and role of plants and microbes for in-situ and ex-situ remediation. Bioindicators, biofertilizers, biofuels, and biosensors
Environmental sciences: Unit 04
Environmental geosciences
Origin of earth
Primary geochemical differentiation and formation of core, mantle, crust, atmosphere, and hydrosphere
Concept of minerals and rocks
Formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks
Controls on formation of landforms-tectonic including plate tectonic and climatic
Concept of steady state and equilibrium, energy budget of the earth
Earth’s thermal environment and seasons
Coriolis force, pressure gradient force, frictional force, geostrophic wind field, gradient wind
Climates of India, western disturbances, Indian monsoon, droughts, El Nino, La Nina
Concept of residence time and rates of natural cycles
Geophysical fields
Weathering including weathering reactions, erosion, transportation, and deposition of sediments
Soil forming minerals and process of soil formation, identification, and characterization of clay minerals, soil physical and chemical properties, soil types and climate control on soil formation, cation exchange capacity and mineralogical controls
Geochemical classification of elements, abundance of elements in bulk earth, crust, hydrosphere and biosphere
Partitioning of elements during surficial geologic processes, geochemical recycling of elements
Paleoclimate
Distribution of water in earth, hydrology and hydrogeology, major basins and groundwater provinces of india, darcy’s law and its validity, groundwater fluctuations, hydraulic conductivity, groundwater tracers, land subsidence
Effects of excessive use of groundwater, groundwater quality
Pollution of groundwater resources, Ghyben-Herzberg relation between fresh-saline water
Natural resource exploration and exploitation, and related environmental concerns
Historical perspective and conservation of non-renewable resources
Natural hazards: Catastrophic geological hazards-floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanism, avalanche, tsunami and cloud bursts. Prediction of hazards and mitigation of their impacts
Environmental sciences: Unit 05
Energy and environment
Sun as source of energy; solar radiation and its spectral characteristics
Fossil fuels: Classification, composition, physico-chemical characteristics and energy content of coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Shale oil, coal bed methane, gas hydrates. Gross-calorific value and net-calorific value
Principles of generation of hydro-power, tidal energy, ocean thermal energy conversion, wind power, geothermal energy, solar energy (solar collectors, photo-voltaic modules, solar ponds)
Nuclear energy-fission and fusion, nuclear fuels, nuclear reactor-principles, and types
Bioenergy: methods to produce energy from biomass
Environmental implications of energy use; energy use pattern in India and the world, emissions of CO2 in developed and developing countries including India, radiative forcing and global warming
Impacts of large scale exploitation of solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear energy sources
Environmental sciences: Unit 06
Environmental Pollution and Control
Air pollution: Sources and types of pollutants-natural and anthropogenic sources, primary and secondary pollutants. Criteria air pollutants. Sampling and monitoring of air pollutants (gaseous and particulates); period, frequency, and duration of sampling
Air pollution: Principles and instruments for measurements of-(i) ambient air pollutants concentration and, (ii) stack emissions. Indian national ambient air quality standards. Impact of air pollutants on human health, plants and materials. Acid rain
Air pollution: Dispersion of air pollutants. Mixing height/ depth, lapse rates, Gaussian plume model, line source model and area source model. Control devices for particulate matter: Principle and working of-settling chamber, centrifugal collectors
Air pollution: Control devices for particulate matter-wet collectors, fabric filters, and electrostatic precipitator. Control of gaseous pollutants through adsorption, absorption, condensation, and combustion including catalytic combustion
Air pollution: Indoor air pollution, vehicular emissions and urban air quality
Noise pollution: Sources, weighting networks, measurement of noise indices (Leq, L₁₀, L₉₀, L₅₀, LDN, TNI). Noise dose and noise pollution standards. Noise control and abatement measures: Active and passive methods. Vibrations and their measurements
Noise pollution: Impact of noise and vibrations on human health
Water pollution: Types and sources of water pollution. Impact on humans, plants and animals. Measurement of water quality parameters: sampling and analysis for pH, EC, turbidity, TDS, hardness, chlorides, salinity, DO, BOD, COD, nitrates, phosphates
Water pollution: Measurement of water quality parameters-sulphates, heavy metals and organic contaminants. Microbiological analysis-MPN. Indian standards for drinking water (IS:10500, 2012). Drinking water treatment: Coagulation and flocculation
Water pollution: Drinking water treatment-sedimentation, and filtration, disinfection, and softening. Wastewater treatment: Primary, secondary, and advanced treatment methods. Common effluent treatment plant
Soil pollution: Physico-chemical and biological properties of soil (texture, structure, inorganic, and organic components). Analysis of soil quality. Soil pollution control. Industrial effluents and their interactions with soil components
Soil pollution: Soil microorganisms and their functions-degradation of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers
Thermal, marine pollution and radioactive: Sources of thermal pollution, heat islands, causes and consequences. Sources and impact of marine pollution. Methods of abatement of marine pollution. Coastal management. Radioactive pollution-sources
Thermal, marine pollution and radioactive: Biological effects of ionizing radiations, radiation exposure and radiation standards, radiation protection
Environmental sciences: Unit 07
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Solid waste: Types and sources. Solid waste characteristics, generation rates, solid waste components, proximate, and ultimate analyses of solid wastes
Solid waste collection and transportation: Container systems-hauled and stationary, layout of collection routes, transfer stations, and transportation
Solid waste processing and recovery: Recycling, recovery of materials for recycling and direct manufacture of solid waste products. Electrical energy generation from solid waste (fuel pellets, refuse derived fuels), composting and vermicomposting
Solid waste processing and recovery: Biomethanation of solid waste. Disposal of solid wastes-sanitary land filling and its management, incineration of solid waste
Hazardous waste: Types, characteristics, and health impacts. Hazardous waste management: Treatment methods-neutralization, oxidation reduction, precipitation, solidification, stabilization, incineration, and final disposal
E-waste: Classification, methods of handling, and disposal
Fly ash: Sources, composition, and utilization
Plastic waste: Sources, consequences, and management
Environmental sciences: Unit 08
Environmental assessment, management, and legislation
Aims and objectives of environmental impact assessment (EIA)
Environmental impact statement (EIS) and environmental management plan (EMP), EIA guidelines
Impact assessment methodologies
Procedure for reviewing EIA of developmental projects
Life-cycle analysis, costbenefit analysis
Guidelines for environmental audit
Environmental planning as a part of EIA and environmental audit
Environmental management system standards (ISO14000 series)
EIA notification, 2006 and amendments from time to time
Eco-labeling schemes
Risk assessment-hazard identification, hazard accounting, scenarios of exposure, risk characterization and risk management
Overview of environmental laws in India: Constitutional provisions in India (article 48A and 51A), wildlife protection act, 1972 amendments 1991, forest conservation act, 1980, Indian forest act, revised 1982, biological diversity act, 2002
Overview of environmental laws in India: Water (prevention and control of pollution) act, 1981 amended 1987 and rules 1982, environmental (protection) act, 1986 and rules 1986, motor vehicle act, 1988
Overview of environmental laws in India: The hazardous and other waste (management and transboundary movement) rules, 2016, the plastic waste management rules, 2016, the biomedical waste management rules, 2016, the solid waste management rules, 2016
Overview of environmental laws in India: The e-waste (management) rules 2016, the construction and demolition waste management rules, 2016, the manufacture, storage and import of hazardous chemical (amendment) rules, 2000
Overview of environmental laws in India: The batteries (management and handling) rules, 2010 with amendments, the public liability insurance act, 1991 and rules 1991, noise pollution (regulation and control) rules, 2000
Overview of environmental laws in India: Coastal regulation zones (CRZ) 1991 amended from time to time. National forest policy, 1988, national water policy, 2002, national environmental policy, 2006
Environmental conventions and agreements: Stockholm conference on human environment 1972, montreal protocol, 1987, conference of parties (COPs), Basel Convention (1989, 1992), Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (1971), earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, 1992
Environmental conventions and agreements: Agenda-21, global environmental facility (GEF), convention on biodiversity (1992), UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, 1997, clean development mechanism (CDM), earth summit at Johannesburg, 2002, RIO+20
Environmental conventions and agreements: UN Summit on millennium development goals, 2000, Copenhagen Summit, 2009. IPCC, UNEP, IGBP
Environmental sciences: Unit 09
Statistical Approaches and Modelling in Environmental Sciences
Attributes and variables: Types of variables, scales of measurement, measurement of central tendency and dispersion, standard error, moments-measure of Skewness and Kurtosis, basic concept of probability theory, sampling theory
Attributes and variables: Distributions-normal, log-normal, binomial, Poisson, t, X² and F-distribution, correlation, regression, tests of hypothesis (t-test, X²-test ANOVA: One-way and two-way); significance and confidence limits
Approaches to development of environmental models; linear, simple, and multiple regression models, validation and forecasting
Models of population growth and interactions: Lotka-Volterra model, Leslie’s matrix model
Environmental sciences: Unit 10
Contemporary Environmental Issues
Global environmental issues-biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone layer depletion
Sea level rise
International efforts for environmental protection
National action plan on climate change: Eight national missions-national solar mission, national mission for enhanced energy efficiency, national mission on sustainable habitat, national water mission
National action plan on climate change: National mission for sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, national mission for a ‘green India’, national mission for sustainable agriculture, national mission on strategic knowledge for climate change
Environmental sciences: Unit 11
Current environmental issues in India
Environmental issues related to water resource projects-Narmada dam, Tehri dam, Almatti dam, Cauvery and Mahanadi, hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal and north-eastern states
Water conservation-development of watersheds, rain water harvesting and ground water recharge
National river conservation plan-Namami Gange and Yamuna action plan
Eutrophication and restoration of lakes
Conservation of wetlands, Ramsar sites in India
Soil erosion, reclamation of degraded land, desertification and its control
Climate change-adaptability, energy security, food security, and sustainability
Forest conservation-Chipko movement, Appiko movement, silent valley movement and Gandhamardhan movement
People biodiversity register
Wildlife conservation projects: Project tiger, project elephant, crocodile conservation, GOI-UNDP sea turtle project, Indo-rhino vision
Carbon sequestration and carbon credits
Waste management-Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
Sustainable habitat: Green building, GRIHA rating norms
Vehicular emission norms in India
Epidemiological issues: Fluorosis, arsenocosis, goitre, dengue
Environmental disasters: Minnamata disaster, love canal disaster, Bhopal gas disaster, 1984, Chernobyl disaster, 1986, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 2011

Geography+

Geography: Unit 01
Geomorphology
Continental drift, plate tectonics, endogenetic, and exogenetic forces
Denudation and weathering, geomorphic cycle (Davis and Penck), theories and process of slope development, earth movements (seismicity, folding, faulting, and vulcanicity)
Landform occurrence and causes of geomorphic hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and avalanches)
Geography: Unit 02
Climatology
Composition and structure of atmosphere; insolation, heat budget of earth, temperature, pressure, and winds, atmospheric circulation (air-masses, fronts and upper air circulation, cyclones, and anticyclones (tropical and temperate)
Climatic classification of Koppen and Thornthwaite, ENSO events (El Nino, La Nina, and southern oscillations), meteorological hazards and disasters (cyclones, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hailstorms, heat, and cold waves drought and cloudburst
Glacial Lake Outburst (GLOF), Climate Change: Evidences and Causes of Climatic Change in the past, Human impact on Global Climate
Geography: Unit 03
Oceanography
Relief of oceans, composition: Temperature, density, and salinity, circulation: Warm and cold currents, waves, tides, sea level changes, hazards: Tsunami and cyclone
Geography: Unit 04
Geography of Environment
Components: Ecosystem (geographic classification) and human ecology, functions: Trophic levels, energy flows, cycles (geochemical, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen), food chain, food web, and ecological pyramid, human interaction, and impacts
Functions: Environmental ethics and deep ecology, environmental hazards and disasters (global warming, urban heat island, atmospheric pollution, water pollution, land degradation), national programmes and policies: Legal framework, environmental policy
National programmes and policies: International treaties, international programmes, and polices (Brundtland Commission, Kyoto protocol, agenda 21, sustainable development goals, Paris agreement)
Geography: Unit 05
Population and Settlement Geography
Population geography: Sources of population data (census, sample surveys, and vital statistics, data reliability, and errors). World population distribution (measures, patterns, and determinants), world population growth (prehistoric to modern period)
Population geography: Demographic transition, theories of population growth (Malthus, Sadler, and Ricardo). Fertility and mortality analysis (indices, determinants, and world patterns). Migration (types, causes, and consequences and models)
Population geography: Population composition and characteristics (age, sex, rural-urban, occupational structure, and educational levels), population policies in developed and developing countries
Settlement geography: Rural settlements (types, patterns, and distribution), contemporary problems of rural settlements (rural-urban migration; land use changes; land acquisition and transactions)
Settlement geography: Theories of origin of towns (Gordon Childe, Henri Pirenne, Lewis Mumford)
Settlement geography: Characteristics and processes of urbanization in developed and developing countries (factors of urban growth, trends of urbanization, size, structure, and functions of urban areas)
Settlement geography: Urban systems (the law of the primate city and rank size rule) central place theories (Christaller and Losch), internal structure of the city, models of urban land use (Burgess, Harris, and Ullman, and Hoyt), concepts of megacities
Settlement geography: Global cities and edge cities, changing urban forms (peri-urban areas, rural-urban fringe, suburban, ring, and satellite towns), social segregation in the city, urban social area analysis
Settlement geography: Manifestation of poverty in the city (slums, informal sector growth, crime, and social exclusion)
Geography: Unit 06
Geography of Economic Activities and Regional Development
Economic geography: Factors affecting spatial organization of economic activities (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quarternary), natural resources (classification, distribution, and associated problems), natural resources management
Economic geography: World energy crises in developed and developing countries
Agricultural geography: Land capability classification and land use planning, cropping pattern-methods of delineating crop combination regions (Weaver, Doi, and Rafiullah), crop diversification, Von Thunen’s model of land use planning
Agricultural geography: Determinants of agricultural productivity, regional variations in agricultural productivity, agricultural systems of the world
Industrial geography: Classification of industries, factors of industrial location; theories of industrial location (A. Weber, E.M. Hoover, August Losch, A. Pred, and D.M. Smith). World industrial regions
Industrial geography: Impact of globalization on manufacturing sector in less developed countries, tourism industry
Industrial geography: World distribution, and growth of Information and communication technology (ICT) and knowledge production (education and R and D) industries
Geography of transport and trade: Theories and models of spatial interaction (Edward Ullman and M.E. Hurst) measures and indices of connectivity and accessibility; spatial flow models: Gravity model and its variants, world trade organization
Geography of transport and trade: Globalization and liberalization and world trade patterns. Problems and prospects of Inter and Intra regional cooperation and trade
Regional development: Typology of regions, formal, and fictional regions, world regional disparities, theories of regional development (Albert O. Hirschman, Gunnar Myrdal, John Friedman), dependency theory of under development, global economic blocks
Regional development: Regional development, and social movements in India
Geography: Unit 07
Cultural, social, and political geography
Cultural and social geography: Concept of culture, cultural complexes, areas, and region, cultural heritage, cultural ecology. Cultural convergence, social structure and processes, social well-being and quality of life, social exclusion
Cultural and social geography: Spatial distribution of social groups in India (tribe, caste, religion, and language), environment and human health, diseases ecology
Cultural and social geography: Nutritional status (etiological conditions, classification and spatial, and seasonal distributional patterns with special reference to India), health care planning and policies in India, medical tourism in India
Political geography: Boundaries and frontiers (with special reference to India), Heartland and Rimland theories. Trends and developments in political geography, geography of federalism, electoral reforms in India, determinants of electoral behavior
Political geography: Geopolitics of climate change, geopolitics of world resources, geopolitics of India ocean, regional organizations of cooperation (SAARC, ASEAN, OPEC, EU), neopolitics of world natural resources
Geography: Unit 08
Geographic thought
Contributions of Greek, Roman, Arab, Chinese, and Indian scholars, contributions of geographers (Bernhardus Varenius, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, Schaefer, and Hartshorne), impact of Darwinian theory on geographical thought
Contemporary trends in Indian geography: cartography, thematic and methodological contributions
Major geographic traditions (earth science, man environment relationship, area studies, and spatial analysis), dualisms in geographic studies (physical vs. human, regional vs. systematic, qualitative vs. quantitative, ideographic vs. nomothetic)
Paradigm shift, perspectives in geography (positivism, behaviouralism, humanism, structuralism, feminism, and postmodernism)
Geography: Unit 09
Geographical Techniques
Sources of geographic information and data (spatial and non-spatial), types of maps, techniques of map making (choropleth, isarithmic, dasymetric, chorochromatic, flow maps), data representation on maps pie diagrams, bar diagrams, and line graph
GIS database (raster and vector data formats and attribute data formats)
Functions of GIS (conversion, editing, and analysis), digital elevation model (DEM), georeferencing (coordinate system and map projections and datum), GIS applications (thematic cartography, spatial decision support system)
Basics of remote sensing (electromagnetic spectrum, sensors, and platforms, resolution, and types, elements of air photo and satellite image interpretation and photogrammetry), types of aerial photographs
Digital image processing: Developments in remote sensing technology and big data sharing and its applications in natural resources management in India, GPS components (space, ground control, and receiver segments) and applications
Applications of measures of central tendency, dispersion and inequalities, sampling, sampling procedure, and hypothesis testing (chi square test, t-test, ANOVA), time series analysis, correlation, and regression analysis, measurement of indices
Making indicators scale free, computation of composite index, principal component analysis, and cluster analysis, morphometric analysis: Ordering of streams, bifurcation ratio, drainage density, and drainage frequency
Basin circularity ratio and form factor, profiles, slope analysis, clinographic curve, hypsographic curve, and altimetric frequency graph
Geography: Unit 10
Geography of India
Major physiographic regions and their characteristics; drainage system (himalayan and peninsular), climate: Seasonal weather characteristics, climatic divisions, Indian monsoon (mechanism and characteristics), jet streams, and himalayan cryosphere
Types and distribution of natural resources: Soil, vegetation, water, mineral, and marine resources
Population characteristics (spatial patterns of distribution), growth and composition (rural-urban, age, sex, occupational, educational, ethnic, and religious), determinants of population, population policies in India
Agriculture (production, productivity and yield of major food crops), major crop regions, regional variations in agricultural development, environmental, technological, and institutional factors affecting Indian agriculture; agro-climatic zone
Green revolution, food security, and right to food. Industrial development since independence, industrial regions, and their characteristics, industrial policies in India
Development and patterns of transport networks (railways, roadways, waterways, airways, and pipelines), internal and external trade (trend, composition, and directions), regional development planning in India
Globalization and its impact on Indian economy, natural disasters in India (earthquake, drought, flood, cyclone, tsunami, Himalayan highland hazards, and disasters)

History+

History: Unit 01
Negotiating the sources
Archaeological sources: Exploration, excavation, epigraphy, and numismatics. Dating of archaeological sites
Literary sources: Indigenous literature-primary and secondary, problem of dating religious and secular literature, myths, legends, etc
Foreign accounts: Greek, Chinese, and Arabic
Pastoralism and food production: Neolithic and chalcolithic phase-settlement, distribution, tools, and patterns of exchange
Indus/ Harappa civilization: Origin, extent, major sites, settlement pattern, craft specialization, religion, society and polity, decline of Indus civilization, internal and external trade, first urbanization in India
Vedic and later Vedic periods: Aryan debates, political and social institutions, state structure and theories of state; emergence of varnas and social stratification, religious and philosophical ideas. Introduction of iron technology
Vedic and later Vedic periods: Megaliths of south India
Expansion of state system: Mahajanapadas, monarchical and republican states, economic and social developments and emergence of second urbanization in 6th century BCE; emergence of heterodox sects-Jainism, Buddhism, and Ajivikas
History: Unit 02
From State to Empire
Rise of Magadha, Greek invasion under Alexander and its effects, Mauryan expansion, Mauryan polity, society, economy, Ahsoka’s Dhamma and its nature, decline, and disintegration of the Mauryan empire, Mauyan art, and architecture
Ashokan edicts: Language and script
Dissolution of empire and emergence of regional powers: Indo-Greeks, Sungas, Satavahanas, Kushanas and Saka-Ksatrapas, Sangam literature, polity and society in south India as reflected in Sangam literature
Dissolution of empire and emergence of regional powers: Trade and commerce from 2nd century BCE to 3rd century CE, trade with the roman world, emergence of Mahayana Buddhism, Kharavela, and Jainism, post-Mauryan art and architecture
Dissolution of empire and emergence of regional powers: Gandhara, Mathura, and Amravati schools
Gupta Vakataka age: Polity and Society, Agrarian Economy, Land Grants, Land Revenue and Land Rights, Gupta Coins, Beginning of Temple Architecture, Emergence of Puranic Hinduism, Development of Sanskrit Language and Literature
Gupta Vakataka age: Developments in science technology, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine
Harsha and his times: Administration and religion
Salankayanas and Visnukundins in Andhradesa
History: Unit 03
Emergence of Regional Kingdoms
Kingdoms in Deccan: Gangas, Kadmabas, western and eastern Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Kalyani Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, Hoysalas, and Yadavas
Kingdoms in south India: Pallavas, Cheras, Cholas, and Pandyas
Kingdoms in eastern India: Palas and senas of Bengal, Varmans of Kamarupa, Bhaumakaras, and Somavamsis of Odisha
Kingdoms in western India: Maitrakas of Vallabhi and Chalukyas of Gujarat
Kingdoms in north India: Gurjara-pratiharas, Kalacuri-Chedis, Gahadavalas, and Paramaras
Characteristics of early medieval India: Administration and political structure legitimation of kingship
Agrarian economy; land grants, changing production relations; graded land rights and peasantry, water resources, taxation system, coins, and currency system
Trade and urbanization: Patterns of trade, and urban settlements, ports and trade routes, merchandise and exchange, trade guilds; trade and colonization in southeast Asia
Growth of Brahminical religions; Vaisnavism and Saivism; temples; patronage and regional ramification; temple architecture and regional styles
Dana, tirtha, and bhakti, Tamil bhakti movement-Shankara, Madhava, and Ramanujacharya
Society: Varna, jati and proliferation of castes, position of women; gender, marriage, and property relations; women in public life. Tribes as peasants and their place in Varna order. Untouchability
Education and educational institutions: Agraharas, Mathas, and Mahaviharas as centers of education. Growth of regional languages
Debates of state formation in early medieval India: Feudal model; segmentary model; integrative model
Arab contracts: Suleiman Ghaznavid conquests. Alberuni’s accounts
History: Unit 04
Source of Medieval Indian History
Archaeological, epigraphic, and numismatic sources, material evidences and monuments; chronicles; literary sources-Persian, Sanskrit, and regional languages; Daftar khannas: Firmans, Bahis/ Pothis/ Akhbarat; foreign travellers’ accounts-Persian and Arabic
Political developments: The Delhi Sultanate-the Ghorids, the Turks, the Khaljis, the Tughlaqs, the Sayyids, and the Lodis. Decline of Delhi sultanate
Foundation of the Mughal empire: Babur, Humayun, and the Suris; expansion and consolidation from Akbar to Aurangzeb. Decline of the Mughal empire
Later mughals and disintegration of the mughal empire
The Vijayanagara and the Bahmanis-Deccan sultanate; Bijapur, Golkonda, Bidar, Berar, and Ahmednagar-rise, expansion, and disintegration; eastern Gangas and Suryavamshi Gajapatis
Rise of the Marathas and the foundation of Swaraj by Shivaji; its expansion under the Peshwas; Mughal-Maratha relations, Maratha confederacy, causes of decline
History: Unit 05
Administration and economy
Administration under the sultanate, nature of state-theocratic and the centric, central, provincial and local administration, law of succession
Sher Shah’s administrative reforms; Mughal administration-central, provincial, and local: Mansabdari and Jagirdari systems
Administrative system in the Deccan-the Vijayanagara state and polity, Bahamani administrative system; Maratha administration asta pradhan
Frontier policies under Delhi sultanate and Mughals
Inter-state relations during the sultanate and the Mughals
Agricultural production and irrigation system, village economy, peasantry, grants, and agricultural loans, urbanization, and demographic structure
Industries-Cotton textiles, handicrafts, agro-based industries, organization, factories, and technology
Trade and commerce-state policies, internal and external trade: European trade, trade centers, and ports, transport and communication
Hundi (bills of exchange) and insurance, state income and expenditure, currency, mint system; famines and peasant revolts
History: Unit 06
Society and culture
Social organization and social structure
The Sufis-their orders, beliefs, and practices, the leading Sufi saints, social synchronization
Bhakti movement-Shaivism; Vaishnavism, Shaktism
The saints of the medieval period-north and south-their impact on sociopolitical and religious life-women saints of medieval India
The Sikh movement-Guru Nanak Dev: His teachings and practices, Adi Granth; the Khalsa
Social classification: Ruling class, major religious groups, the ulemas, the mercantile, and professional classes-rajput society
Rural society-Petty chieftains, village officials, cultivators, and non-cultivating classes, artisans
Position of women-Zanana system, Devadasi system
Development of education centers of education and curriculum, Madarasa education
Fine arts-major schools of painting-Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, Garhwali; development of music
Art and architecture, Indo-Islamic architecture, Mughal architecture, regional styles
Indo-Arabic architecture, Mughal gardens, Maratha forts, shrines, and temples
History: Unit 07
Sources of Modern Indian History
Archival materials, biographies, and memoirs, newspapers, oral evidence, creative literature, and painting, monuments, coins
Rise of British power: European traders in India in the 16th to 18th centuries-Portuguese, Dutch, French, and the British
Establishment and expansion of British dominion in India
British relations with principal Indian states-Bengal, Oudh, Hyderabad, Mysore, Carnatic, and Punjab
Revolt of 1857, causes, nature, and impact
Administration of the company and the crown; evolution of central and provincial structure under east India company
Paramountcy, civil service, judiciary, police and the army under the company; British policy and paramountcy in the princely states under the crown
Local self-government
Constitutional changes, 1909-1935
History: Unit 08
Colonial economy
Changing composition, volume, and direction of trade
Expansion and commercialization of agriculture, land rights, land settlements, rural indebtedness, landless labour, irrigation, and canal system
Decline of industries-changing socioeconomic conditions of artisans; DE-urbanization; economic drain; world wars and economy
British industrial policy; major modern industries; nature of factory legislation; labour and trade union movements
Monetary policy, banking, currency, and exchange, railways and road transport, communications-post and telegraph
Growth of new urban centers; new features of town planning and architecture, urban society and urban problems
Famines, epidemics, and the government policy
Tribal and peasant movements
Indian society in transition: Contact with Christianity-the missions and missionaries; critique of Indian social and economic practices and religious beliefs; educational and other activities
The new education-government policy; levels and contents; English language; development of science, technology, public health and medicine-towards modernism
Indian renaissance-socioreligious reforms; emergence of middle class; caste associations and caste mobility
Women’s question-nationalist discourse; women’s organizations; British legislation concerning women, gender identity and constitutional position
The printing press-journalistic activity and the public opinion
Modernization of Indian languages and literary forms-reorientation in painting, music, and performing arts
History: Unit 09
Rise of Indian Nationalism
Social and economic basis of nationalism
Birth of Indian national congress: Ideologies and programmes of the Indian national congress, 1885-1920: Early nationalists, assertive nationalists, and revolutionaries
Swadeshi and Swaraj
Gandhian mass movements; Subas Chandra Bose and INA; role of middle class in national movement; women participation in national movement
Left wing politics
Depressed class movement
Communal politics; muslim league and genesis of Pakistan
Towards independence and partition
India after independence: Challenges of partition; integration of the Indian princely states; Kashmir, Hyderabad, and Junagadh
B.R. Ambedkar-The making of the Indian constitution, its features
The structure of bureaucracy
New education policy
Economic policies and the planning process; development, displacement, and tribal issues
Linguistic reorganization of states; centre-state relations
Foreign policy initiatives-Panchsheel; dynamics of Indian politics-emergency; liberalization, privatization, and globalization of Indian economy
History: Unit 10
Historical method, research, methodology, and historiography
Scope and importance of history, objectivity, and bias in history, heuristics operation, criticism in history, synthesis, and presentation
History and its auxiliary sciences
History a science, arts or a social science, causation and imagination in history, significance of regional history, recent trends of Indian history, research methodology, hypothesis in history, area of proposed research
Sources-data collection, primary/ secondary, original, and transit sources, trends in historical research, recent Indian historiography, selection of topic in history, notes taking, references, footnotes, and bibliography, thesis and assignment writing
Plagiarism, intellectual dishonesty, and history writing, beginnings of historical writings-Greek, Roman, and Church historiography, renaissance, and its impact on history writing, negative and positive schools of historical writing
Berlin revolution in history writing-Von Ranke, Marxist philosophy of history-scientific materialism, cyclical theory of history-Oswald Spengler, challenge and response theory-Arnold Joseph Toynbee, post-modernism in history

Law+

Law: Unit 01
Jurisprudence
Nature and sources of law, schools of jurisprudence, law and morality, concept of rights and duties, legal personality, concepts of property, ownership, and possession, concept of liability, law, poverty, and development, global justice
Modernism and post-modernism
Law: Unit 02
Constitutional and administrative law
Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles of state policy
Union and state executive, and their interrelationship, union and state legislature and distribution of legislative powers, judiciary, emergency provisions, temporary, transitional, and special provisions in respect of certain states
Election commission of India, nature, scope, and importance of administrative law, principle of natural justice, judicial review of administrative actions-grounds
Law: Unit 03
Public International Law and IHL
International law-definition, nature, and basis, sources of international law, recognition of states and governments, nationality, immigrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons (IDPs), extradition and asylum
United nations and its organs, settlement of international disputes, world trade organization (WTO), international humanitarian law (IHL)-conventions and protocols, implementation of IHL-challenges
Law: Unit 04
Law of crimes
General principles of criminal liability-actus reus and mens rea, individual and group liability and constructive liability
Stages of crime and inchoate crimes-abetment, criminal conspiracy, and attempt, general exceptions, offences against human body
Offences against state and terrorism, offences against property, offences against women and children, drug trafficking and counterfeiting, offences against public tranquility
Theories and kinds of punishments, compensation to the victims of crime
Law: Unit 05
Law of Torts and Consumer Protection
Nature and definition of tort
General principles of tortious liability, general defenses, specific torts-negligence, nuisance, trespass, and defamation, remoteness of damages, strict and absolute liability, tortious liability of the state
The consumer protection act 1986-definitions, consumer rights, and redressal mechanism, the motor vehicles act, 1988-no fault liability, third party insurance, and claims tribunal
The competition act, 2002-prohibition of certain agreements, abuse of dominant position and regulation of combinations
Law: Unit 06
Commercial law
Essential elements of contract and e-contract, breach of contract, frustration of contract, void and voidable agreements, standard form of contract and quasi-contract, specific contracts-bailment, pledge, indemnity, guarantee, and agency
Sale of goods act, 1930, partnership and limited liability partnership, negotiable instruments act, 1881, company law-incorporation of a company, prospectus, shares, and debentures, company law-directors and meetings, corporate social responsibility
Law: Unit 07
Family law
Sources and schools, marriage and dissolution of marriage, matrimonial remedies-divorce and theories of divorce, changing dimensions of institution of marriage-live-in relationship
Recognition of foreign decrees in India on marriage and divorce, maintenance, dower, and stridhan, adoption, guardianship, and acknowledgement, succession and inheritance, Will, gift, and Wakf, uniform civil code
Law: Unit 08
Environment and Human Rights Law
Meaning and concept of ‘environment’ and ‘environmental pollution’, International environmental law and UN Conferences, Constitutional and legal framework for protection of environment in India
Environmental impact assessment and control of hazardous waste in India
National green tribunal, concept and development of human rights, universalism and cultural relativism, international bill of rights, group rights-women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly persons, minorities and weaker sections
Protection and enforcement of human rights in India-national human rights commission, national commission for minorities, national commission for women, national commission for scheduled castes
National Commission for Schedule Tribes and National Commission for Backward Classes
Law: Unit 09
Intellectual Property Rights and Information Technology Law
Concept and meaning of intellectual property, theories of intellectual property, international conventions pertaining to intellectual properties, copyright and neighboring rights-subject matters, limitations, and exceptions, infringement and remedies
Law of patent-patentability, procedure for grant of patent, limitations and exceptions, infringement and remedies
Law of trademark-registration of trademarks, kinds of trademarks, infringement and passing off, remedies
Protection of geographical indications, biodiversity and traditional knowledge, information technology law-digital signature and electronic signature, electronic governance, electronic records and duties of subscribers
Cyber crimes, penalties, and adjudication
Law: Unit 10
Comparative Public Law and Systems of Governance
Comparative law-relevance, methodology, problems, and concerns in comparison, forms of governments-presidential and parliamentary, unitary, and federal, models of federalism-USA, Canada, and India, rule of law-‘formal’ and ‘substantive’ versions
Separation of powers-India, UK, USA, and France, independence of judiciary, judicial activism, and accountability-India, UK and USA, systems of constitutional review-India, USA, Switzerland, and France
Amendment of the constitution-India, USA, and South Africa, ombudsman-Sweden, UK, and India, open government and right to information-USA, UK, and India

Life sciences+

Life sciences: Unit 01
Molecules and their interaction relevant to biology
Structure of atoms, molecules, and chemical bonds
Composition, structure, and function of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and vitamins)
Stability of proteins and nucleic acids
Metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids nucleotides, and vitamins
Life sciences: Unit 02
Molecules and their interaction relevent to biology
Stabilizing interactions (Van Der Waals, electrostatic, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction, etc)
Principles of biophysical chemistry (pH, buffer, reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, colligative properties)
Bioenergetics, glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, coupled reaction, group transfer, biological energy transducers
Principles of catalysis, enzymes and enzyme kinetics, enzyme regulation, mechanism of enzyme catalysis, isozymes
Conformation of proteins (Ramachandran plot, secondary structure, domains, motif, and folds)
Conformation of nucleic acids (helix (A, B, Z), t-RNA, micro-RNA)
Life sciences: Unit 03
Cellular organization
Membrane structure and function: Structure of model membrane, lipid bilayer and membrane protein diffusion, osmosis, ion channels, active transport, membrane pumps, mechanism of sorting and regulation of intracellular transport
Membrane structure and function: Electrical properties of membranes
Structural organization and function of intracellular organelles: Cell wall, nucleus, mitochondria, golgi bodies, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, peroxisomes, plastids, vacuoles, chloroplast
Structural organization and function of intracellular organelles: Structure and function of cytoskeleton and its role in motility
Organization of genes and chromosomes: Operon, unique and repetitive DNA, interrupted genes, gene families, structure of chromatin and chromosomes, heterochromatin, euchromatin, transposons
Cell division and cell cycle: Mitosis and meiosis, their regulation, steps in cell cycle, regulation, and control of cell cycle
Microbial physiology: Growth yield and characteristics, strategies of cell division, stress response
Life sciences: Unit 04
Fundamental processes
DNA replication, repair and recombination: Unit of replication, enzymes involved, replication origin and replication fork, fidelity of replication, extra chromosomal replicons, DNA damage and repair mechanisms, homologous and site-specific recombination
RNA synthesis and processing: Transcription factors and machinery, formation of initiation complex, transcription activator and repressor, RNA polymerases, capping, elongation, and termination, RNA processing, RNA editing
RNA synthesis and processing: Splicing, and polyadenylation, structure and function of different types of RNA, RNA transport
Protein synthesis and processing: Ribosome, formation of initiation complex, initiation factors and their regulation, elongation and elongation factors, termination, genetic code, aminoacylation of tRNA, tRNA-identity
Protein synthesis and processing: Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase, and translational proof-reading, translational inhibitors, post translational modification of proteins
Control of gene expression at transcription and translation level: Regulating the dxpression of phages, viruses, prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes, role of chromatin in gene expression and gene silencing
Life sciences: Unit 05
Cell communication and cell signaling
Host parasite interaction: Recognition and entry processes of different pathogens like bacteria, viruses into animal and plant host cells, alteration of host cell behaviour by pathogens, virus-induced cell transformation
Host parasite interaction: Pathogen-induced diseases in animals and plants, cell-cell fusion in both normal and abnormal cells
Cell signaling: Hormones and their receptors, cell surface receptor, signaling through G-protein coupled receptors, signal transduction pathways, second messengers, regulation of signaling pathways, bacterial, and plant two component systems
Cell signaling: Light signaling in plants, bacterial chemotaxis, and quorum sensing
Cellular communication: Regulation of hematopoiesis, general principles of cell communication, cell adhesion and roles of different adhesion molecules, gap junctions, extracellular matrix, integrins, neurotransmission and its regulation
Cancer: Genetic rearrangements in progenitor cells, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, cancer, and the cell cycle, virus-induced cancer, metastasis, interaction of cancer cells with normal cells, apoptosis
Cancer: Therapeutic interventions of uncontrolled cell growth
Innate and adaptive immune system: Cells and molecules involved in innate and adaptive immunity, antigens, antigenicity, and immunogenicity. B and T cell epitopes, structure and function of antibody molecules. Generation of antibody diversity
Innate and adaptive immune system: Monoclonal antibodies, antibody engineering, antigen-antibody interactions, MHC molecules, antigen processing and presentation, activation and differentiation of B and T cells, B and T cell receptors
Innate and adaptive immune system: Humoral and cell mediated immune responses, primary and secondary immune modulation, the complement system, toll-like receptors, cell-mediated effector functions, inflammation, hypersensitivity and autoimmunity
Innate and adaptive immune system: Immune response during bacterial (tuberculosis), parasitic (malaria) and viral (HIV) infections, congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies, vaccines
Life sciences: Unit 06
Developmental biology
Basic concepts of development: Potency, commitment, specification, induction, competence, determination and differentiation; morphogenetic gradients; cell fate and cell lineages; stem cells; genomic equivalence and the cytoplasmic determinants
Basic concepts of development: Imprinting; mutants and transgenics in analysis of development
Gametogenesis, fertilization, and early development: Production of gametes, cell surface molecules in sperm-egg recognition in animals; embryo sac development and double fertilization in plants; zygote formation
Gametogenesis, fertilization, and early development: Cleavage, blastula formation, embryonic fields, gastrulation, and formation of germ layers in animals; embryogenesis, establishment of symmetry in plants; seed formation and germination
Morphogenesis and organogenesis in animals: Cell aggregation and differentiation in dictyostelium; axes and pattern formation in drosophila, amphibia and chick; organogenesis-vulva formation in caenorhabditis elegans, eye lens induction
Morphogenesis and organogenesis in animals: Limb development and regeneration in vertebrates; differentiation of neurons, post embryonic development-larval formation, metamorphosis; environmental regulation of normal development; sex determination
Morphogenesis and organogenesis in plants: Organization of shoot and root apical meristem; shoot and root development; leaf development and phyllotaxy; transition to flowering, floral meristems, and floral development in arabidopsis and antirrhinum
Programmed cell death, aging, and senescence
Life sciences: Unit 07
System physiology-plant
Photosynthesis: Light harvesting complexes; mechanisms of electron transport; photoprotective mechanisms; CO₂ fixation-C₃, C₄, and CAM pathways
Respiration and photorespiration: Citric acid cycle; plant mitochondrial electron transport and ATP synthesis; alternate oxidase; photorespiratory pathway
Nitrogen metabolism: Nitrate and ammonium assimilation; amino acid biosynthesis
Plant hormones: Biosynthesis, storage, breakdown, and transport; physiological effects and mechanisms of action
Sensory photobiology: Structure, function, and mechanisms of action of phytochromes, cryptochromes, and phototropins; stomatal movement; photoperiodism and biological clocks
Solute transport and photoassimilate translocation: Uptake, transport and translocation of water, ions, solutes, and macromolecules from soil, through cells, across membranes, through xylem and phloem; transpiration
Solute transport and photoassimilate translocation: Mechanisms of loading and unloading of photoassimilates
Secondary metabolites: Biosynthesis of terpenes, phenols, and nitrogenous compounds and their roles
Stress physiology: Responses of plants to biotic (pathogen and insects) and abiotic (water, temperature, and salt) stresses
Life sciences: Unit 08
System physiology-animal
Blood and circulation-blood corpuscles, haemopoiesis and formed elements, plasma function, blood volume, blood volume regulation, blood groups, haemoglobin, immunity, haemostasis
Cardiovascular system: Comparative anatomy of heart structure, myogenic heart, specialized tissue, ECG-its principle and significance, cardiac cycle, heart as a pump, blood pressure, neural, and chemical regulation of all above
Respiratory system: Comparison of respiration in different species, anatomical considerations, transport of gases, exchange of gases, waste elimination, neural, and chemical regulation of respiration
Nervous system: Neurons, action potential, gross neuroanatomy of the brain and spinal cord, central and peripheral nervous system, neural control of muscle tone and posture
Sense organs: Vision, hearing, and tactile response
Excretory system: Comparative physiology of excretion, kidney, urine formation, urine concentration, waste elimination, micturition, regulation of water balance, blood volume, blood pressure, electrolyte balance, acid-base balance
Thermoregulation: Comfort zone, body temperature-physical, chemical, neural regulation, acclimatization
Stress and adaptation
Digestive system: Digestion, absorption, energy balance, BMR
Endocrinology and reproduction: Endocrine glands, basic mechanism of hormone action, hormones, and diseases; reproductive processes, gametogenesis, ovulation, neuroendocrine regulation
Life sciences: Unit 09
Inheritance biology
Mendelian principles: Dominance, segregation, independent assortment
Concept of gene: Allele, multiple alleles, pseudoallele, complementation tests
Extensions of mendelian principles: Codominance, incomplete dominance, gene interactions, pleiotropy, genomic imprinting, penetrance, and expressivity, phenocopy, linkage and crossing over, sex linkage, sex limited, and sex influenced characters
Gene mapping methods: Linkage maps, tetrad analysis, mapping with molecular markers, mapping by using somatic cell hybrids, development of mapping population in plants
Extra chromosomal inheritance: Inheritance of mitochondrial and chloroplast genes, maternal inheritance
Microbial genetics: Methods of genetic transfers-transformation, conjugation, transduction, and sex-duction, mapping genes by interrupted mating, fine structure analysis of genes
Human genetics: Pedigree analysis, LOD score for linkage testing, karyotypes, genetic disorders
Quantitative genetics: Polygenic inheritance, heritability and its measurements, QTL mapping
Mutation: Types, causes, and detection, mutant types-lethal, conditional, biochemical, loss of function, gain of function, germinal verses somatic mutants, insertional mutagenesis
Structural and numerical alterations of chromosomes: Deletion, duplication, inversion, translocation, ploidy, and their genetic implications
Recombination: Homologous and non-homologous recombination including transposition
Life sciences: Unit 10
Diversity of life forms
Principles and methods of taxonomy: Concepts of species and hierarchical taxa, biological nomenclature, classical, and quantititative methods of taxonomy of plants, animals, and microorganisms
Levels of structural organization: Unicellular, colonial, and multicellular forms. Levels of organization of tissues, organs, and systems. Comparative anatomy, adaptive radiation, adaptive modifications
Outline classification of plants, animals, and microorganisms: Important criteria used for classification in each taxon. Classification of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Evolutionary relationships among taxa
Natural history of Indian subcontinent: Major habitat types of the subcontinent, geographic origins, and migrations of species. Comman Indian mammals, birds. Seasonality and phenology of the subcontinent
Organisms of health and agricultural importance: Common parasites and pathogens of humans, domestic animals, and crops
Organisms of conservation concern: Rare, endangered species. Conservation strategies
Life sciences: Unit 11
Ecological principles
The Environment: Physical environment; biotic environment; biotic and abiotic interactions
Habitat and niche: Concept of habitat and niche; niche width and overlap; fundamental and realized niche; resource partitioning; character displacement
Population ecology: Characteristics of a population; population growth curves; population regulation; life history strategies (R and K selection); concept of metapopulation-demes and dispersal, interdemic extinctions, age structured populations
Species interactions: Types of interactions, interspecific competition, herbivory, carnivory, pollination, symbiosis
Community ecology: Nature of communities; community structure and attributes; levels of species diversity and its measurement; edges and ecotones
Ecological succession: Types; mechanisms; changes involved in succession; concept of climax
Ecosystem ecology: Ecosystem structure; ecosystem function; energy flow and mineral cycling (CNP); primary production and decomposition
Structure and function of some Indian ecosystems: Terrestrial (forest, grassland) and aquatic (fresh water, marine, eustarine)
Biogeography: Major terrestrial biomes; theory of island biogeography; biogeographical zones of India
Applied ecology: Environmental pollution; global environmental change; biodiversity: Status, monitoring, and documentation; major drivers of biodiversity change; biodiversity management approaches
Conservation biology: Principles of conservation, major approaches to management, Indian case studies on conservation/ management strategy (project tiger, biosphere reserves)
Life sciences: Unit 12
Evolution and behaviour
Emergence of evolutionary thoughts: Lamarck; Darwin-concepts of variation, adaptation, struggle, fitness, and natural selection; Mendelism; spontaneity of mutations; the evolutionary synthesis
Origin of cells and unicellular evolution: Origin of basic biological molecules; abiotic synthesis of organic monomers and polymers; concept of oparin and Haldane; experiement of Miller (1953); the first cell; evolution of prokaryotes
Origin of cells and unicellular evolution: Origin of eukaryotic cells; evolution of unicellular eukaryotes; anaerobic metabolism, photosynthesis, and aerobic metabolism
Paleontology and evolutionary history: The evolutionary time scale; eras, periods and epoch; major events in the evolutionary time scale; origins of unicellular and multi cellular organisms; major groups of plants and animals
Paleontology and evolutionary history: Stages in primate evolution including homo
Molecular evolution: Concepts of neutral evolution, molecular divergence and molecular clocks; molecular tools in phylogeny, classification and identification; protein and nucleotide sequence analysis; origin of new genes and proteins
Molecular evolution: Gene duplication and divergence
The mechanisms: Population genetics-populations, gene pool, gene frequency; Hardy-Weinberg law; concepts and rate of change in gene frequency through natural selection, migration, and random genetic drift; adaptive radiation; isolating mechanisms
The mechanisms: Speciation; allopatricity and sympatricity; convergent evolution; sexual selection; coevolution
Brain, behaviour, and evolution: Approaches and methods in study of behaviour; proximate and ultimate causation; altruism and evolution-group selection, kin selection, reciprocal altruism; neural basis of learning, memory, cognition, sleep, and arousal
Brain, behaviour, and evolution: Biological clocks; development of behaviour; social communication; social dominance; use of space and territoriality; mating systems, parental investment and reproductive success; parental care; aggressive behavior
Brain, behaviour, and evolution: Habitat selection and optimality in foraging; migration, orientation and navigation; domestication and behavioural changes
Life sciences: Unit 13
Applied biology
Microbial fermentation and production of small and macro molecules
Application of immunological principles, vaccines, diagnostics
Tissue and cell culture methods for plants and animals
Transgenic animals and plants, molecular approaches to diagnosis and strain identification
Genomics and its application to health and agriculture, including gene therapy
Bioresource and uses of biodiversity
Breeding in plants and animals, including marker-assisted selection
Bioremediation and phytoremediation
Biosensors
Life sciences: Unit 14
Methods in biology
Molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods: Isolation and purification of RNA, DNA (genomic and plasmid) and proteins, different separation methods. Analysis of RNA, DNA and proteins by one and two dimensional gel electrophoresis
Molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods: Isoelectric focusing gels. Molecular cloning of DNA or RNA fragments in bacterial and eukaryotic systems. Expression of recombinant proteins using bacterial, animal, and plant vectors
Molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods: Isolation of specific nucleic acid sequences. Generation of genomic and cDNA libraries in plasmid, phage, cosmid, BAC and YAC vectors. In vitro mutagenesis and deletion techniques
Molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods: Gene knock out in bacterial and eukaryotic organisms. Protein sequencing methods, detection of post translation modification of proteins. DNA sequencing methods, strategies for genome sequencing
Molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods: Methods for analysis of gene expression at RNA and protein level, large scale expression, such as micro array based techniques, isolation
Molecular biology and recombinant DNA methods: Separation and analysis of carbohydrate and lipid molecules RFLP, RAPD, and AFLP techniques
Histochemical and Immunotechniques: Antibody generation, detection of molecules using ELISA, RIA, western blot, immunoprecipitation, fluocytometry and immunofluorescence microscopy, detection of molecules in living cells
Histochemical and Immunotechniques: In-situ localization by techniques such as FISH and GISH
Biophysical method: Molecular analysis using UV/ visible, fluorescence, circular dichroism, NMR and ESR spectroscopy molecular structure determination using X-ray diffraction and NMR, molecular analysis using light scattering
Biophysical method: Different types of mass spectrometry and surface plasma resonance methods
Statistical methods: Measures of central tendency and dispersal; probability distributions (binomial, Poisson, and normal); sampling distribution; difference between parametric and non-parametric statistics; confidence interval; errors
Statistical methods: Levels of significance; regression and correlation; t-test; analysis of variance; X2 test; basic introduction to muetrovariate statistics, etc
Radiolabeling techniques: Detection and measurement of different types of radioisotopes normally used in biology, incorporation of radioisotopes in biological tissues and cells, molecular imaging of radioactive material, safety guidelines
Microscopic techniques: Visualization of cells and subcellular components by light microscopy, resolving powers of different microscopes, microscopy of living cells, scanning and transmission microscopes, different fixation, and staining techniques for EM
Microscopic techniques: Freeze-etch and freeze fracture methods for EM, image processing methods in microscopy
Electrophysiological methods: Single neuron recording, patch-clamp recording, ECG, brain activity recording, lesion and stimulation of brain, pharmacological testing, PET, MRI, fMRI, CAT
Methods in field biology: Methods of estimating population density of animals and plants, ranging patterns through direct, indirect and remote observations, sampling methods in the study of behavior
Methods in field biology: Habitat characterization-ground and remote sensing methods

Mathematical sciences+

Mathematical sciences: Unit 01
Analysis
Elementary set theory, finite, countable and uncountable sets, real number system as a complete ordered field, Archimedean property, supremum, infimum
Sequences and series, convergence, lim sup, lim inf
Bolzano Weierstrass theorem, Heine Borel theorem
Continuity, uniform continuity, differentiability, mean value theorem
Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence
Riemann sums and riemann integral, improper integrals
Monotonic functions, types of discontinuity, functions of bounded variation, Lebesgue measure, Lebesgue integral
Functions of several variables, directional derivative, partial derivative, derivative as a linear transformation, inverse and implicit function theorems
Metric spaces, compactness, connectedness
Normed linear spaces
Spaces of continuous functions as examples
Mathematical sciences: Unit 02
Linear algebra
Vector spaces, subspaces, linear dependence, basis, dimension, algebra of linear transformations
Algebra of matrices, rank and determinant of matrices, linear equations
Eigen values and Eigen vectors, Cayley-Hamilton theorem
Matrix representation of linear transformations
Change of basis, canonical forms, diagonal forms, triangular forms, jordan forms
Inner product spaces, orthonormal basis
Quadratic forms, reduction and classification of quadratic forms
Mathematical sciences: Unit 03
Complex analysis
Algebra of complex numbers, the complex plane, polynomials, power series, transcendental functions such as exponential, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations
Contour integral, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, Liouville's theorem, maximum modulus principle, Schwarz lemma, open mapping theorem
Taylor series, Laurent series, calculus of residues
Conformal mappings, Mobius transformations
Mathematical sciences: Unit 04
Algebra
Permutations, combinations, pigeon-hole principle, inclusion-exclusion principle, derangements
Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, divisibility in Z, congruences, Chinese remainder theorem, Euler’s-ø function, primitive roots
Groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms, cyclic groups, permutation groups, cayley’s theorem, class equations, sylow theorems
Rings, ideals, prime and maximal ideals, quotient rings, unique factorization domain, principal ideal domain, Euclidean domain
Polynomial rings and irreducibility criteria
Fields, finite fields, field extensions, galois theory
Mathematical sciences: Unit 05
Topology
Basis, dense sets, subspace, and product topology, separation axioms, connectedness and compactness
Mathematical sciences: Unit 06
Ordinary differential equations (ODEs)
Existence and uniqueness of solutions of initial value problems for first order ordinary differential equations, singular solutions of first order ODEs, system of first order ODEs
General theory of homogenous and non-homogeneous linear ODEs, variation of parameters, Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem, Green’s function
Mathematical sciences: Unit 07
Partial differential equations (PDEs)
Lagrange and Charpit methods for solving first order PDEs, Cauchy problem for first order PDEs
Classification of second order PDEs, general solution of higher order PDEs with constant coefficients, method of separation of variables for Laplace, heat and wave equations
Mathematical sciences: Unit 08
Numerical analysis
Numerical solutions solutions of algebraic equations, method of iteration and Newton-Raphson method, rate of convergence, solution of systems of linear algebraic equations using Gauss elimination and Gauss-Seidel methods, finite differences, Lagrange
Hermite and Spline interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical solutions of ODEs using Picard, Euler, modified Eulerm, and Runge-Kutta methods
Mathematical sciences: Unit 09
Calculus of variations
Variation of a functional, Euler-Lagrange equation, necessary and sufficient conditions for extrema
Variational methods for boundary value problems in ordinary and partial differential equations
Mathematical sciences: Unit 10
Linear integral equations
Linear integral equation of the first and second kind of Fredholm and volterra type, solutions with separable kernels
Characteristic numbers and Eigen functions, resolvent kernel
Mathematical sciences: Unit 11
Classical mechanics
Generalized coordinates, Lagrange’s equations, Hamilton’s canonical equations, Hamilton’s principle and principle of least action
Two-dimensional motion of rigid bodies, Euler’s dynamical equations for the motion of a rigid body about an axis, theory of small oscillations
Mathematical sciences: Unit 12
Descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis
Sample space, discrete probability, independent events, Bayes's theorem, random variables and distribution functions (univariate and multivariate); expectation and moments
Independent random variables, marginal and conditional distributions, characteristic functions
Probability inequalities (Chebyshev's Markov, Jensen)
Modes of convergence, weak and strong laws of large numbers, Central Limit theorems (i.i.d. case)
Markov chains with finite and countable state space, classification of states, limiting behaviour of n-step transition probabilities, stationary distribution, Poisson and birth-and-death processes
Standard discrete and continuous univariate distributions
Sampling distributions, standard errors, and asymptotic distributions, distribution of order statistics and range
Methods of estimation, properties of estimators, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses: most powerful and uniformly most powerful tests, likelihood ratio tests
Analysis of discrete data and chi-square test of goodness of fit
Large sample tests
Simple nonparametric tests for one and two sample problems, rank correlation and test for independence
Elementary bayesian inference
Gauss-Markov models, estimability of parameters, best linear unbiased estimators, confidence intervals, tests for linear hypotheses
Analysis of variance and covariance
Fixed, random and mixed effects models, simple and multiple linear regression
Elementary regression diagnostics
Logistic regression
Multivariate normal distribution, wishart distribution, and their properties
Distribution of quadratic forms
Inference for parameters, partial and multiple correlation coefficients, and related tests
Data reduction techniques: principle component analysis, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, canonical correlation
Simple random sampling, stratified sampling, and systematic sampling
Probability proportional to size sampling
Ratio and regression methods
Completely randomized designs, randomized block designs, and Latin-square designs
Connectedness and orthogonality of block designs, bibd
2k factorial experiments: confounding and construction
Hazard function and failure rates, censoring and life testing, series, and parallel systems
Linear programming problem, simplex methods, duality
Elementary queuing and inventory models
Steady-state solutions of Markovian queuing models: M/M/1, M/M/1 with limited waiting space, M/M/C, M/M/C with limited waiting space, M/G/1

Philosophy+

Philosophy: Unit 01
Classical Indian: Epistemology and Metaphysics
Vedic and Upaniṣadic: Ṛta-the cosmic order, the divine and the human realms; the centrality of the institution of Yajῆa (sacrifice), theories of creation Atman-self (and not-self), Jāgrat, Svapna, Susupti, and Turiya, Brahmaṇ
Cārvāka: Pratyakṣa as the only Pramāṇa, critique of Anumāna and Sabda, consciousness as epi-phenomenon
Jainism: Concept of reality-Sat, Dravya, Guṇa, Paryāya, Jiva, Ajiva, Anekāntavāda, Syādvāda and Nayavāda; theory of knowledge
Buddhism: Four noble truths, Astangika Mārga, distinction between Brahmiṇic and Sraminic traditions. Pratityasamutpāda, Kṣaṇabhahgavāda, Anātmavāda. Schools of Buddhism: Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika, Yogacāra, Mādhyamika, and Tibetan Buddhism
Nyāya: Pramā and Apramā, theories of Pramāṇa: Pratyakṣa, Anumāna, Upamana, Sabda. Hetvabhāsa. Concept of God. Debate between Buddhism and Nyāya about Pramāṇa-Vyavasthā and Pramāṇa Samplava. Anyathākhyati
Vaiśeṣika: Concept of Padārtha and its kinds, Asatkāryavāda, kinds of Kāraṇa: Samavāyi, Asamavāyi, and Nimitta Kāraṇa, Paramaṇukaraṇavāda
Sāṃkhya: Satkāryavāda, Prakṛti and its evolutes, arguments for the existence of Prakṛti, nature of Puruṣa, arguments for the existence and plurality of Puruṣa, relationship between Puruṣa and Prakṛti, atheism
Yoga: Pataῆjali’s theory of Pramāṇa, concept of Citta and Citta-Vṛtti, stages of Cittbhumi, the role of God in yoga
Purva-Mimāṃsā: Pramāṇyavāda-Svatah-Pramāṇyavāda and Paratah-Pramāṇyavada, Sruti and its importance, classification of Sruti-Vākyas, Vidhi, Niṣedha and Arthavāda, Dharma, Bhāvanā, Sabda-Nityavāda, Jāti, Saktivada
Purva-Mimāṃsā: Kumārila and Prabhākara schools of Mimāṃsa and their major points of difference, Triputi-Samvit, Jῆatatā, Abhāva and Anupalabdhi, Anvitadbhidhanavāda, Abhihitanvayavāda, theories of error: Akhyāti, Viparitakhyāti, atheism
Vedanta
Advaita: Brahmaṇ, relation between Brahmaṇ and Atman, three grades of Sattā, Adhyāsa, Māya, Jiva, Vivartavāda, Anirvachniya-Khyāti
Viśiṣtādvaita: Saguṇa brahmaṇ, refutation of Māya, Aprthaksiddhi Pariṇāmavāda, Jiva, Bhakti and Prapatti, Brahma-Pariṇāmavāda, Sat-Khyāti
Dvaita: Rejection of Nirguṇa brahmaṇ and Māya, Bheda and Sāksi, Bhakti
Dvaitavaita: Concept of Jῆānaswaroop, kinds of inanimate
Sudhadvaita: Concept of Avikrta-Pariṇāmavāda
Philosophy: Unit 02
Classical western: Ancient, medieval, and modern-epistemology and metaphysics
Pre-socratic philosophers: Thales, anaxagoras, anaximenies, ionians, pythagoras, parmenides, heraclitus, and democritus
The Sophists and Socrates
Plato and Aristotle: Plato-theory of knowledge, knowledge and opinion, theory of ideas, the method of dialectic, soul and God. Aristotle-classification of the sciences, the theoretical, the practical and the productive
Plato and Aristotle: Aristotle-logic as an organon, critique of Plato’s theory of ideas, theory of causation, form and matter, potentiality and actuality, soul and God
Medieval philosophy: St. Augustine: Problem of evil. St. Anselm: Ontological argument, St. Thomas Aquinas: Faith and reason, essence and existence, the existence of God
Modern western philosophy: Descartes-conception of method, criteria of truth, doubt and methodological scepticism, cogito ergo sum, innate ideas, cartesian dualism: Mind and matter, proofs for the existence of God, interactionism
Modern western philosophy: Spinoza-substance, attribute and mode, the concept of ‘God or nature’, Intellectual love of God, parallelism, pantheism, three orders of knowing. Leibnitz-monadology, truths of reason and fact, innateness of ideas
Modern western philosophy: Leibnitz-proofs for the existence of God, principles of non-contradiction, sufficient reason and identity of indiscernibles, the doctrine of pre-established harmony, problem of freedom
Modern western philosophy: Locke-ideas and their classification, refutation of innate ideas, theory of substance, distinction between primary and secondary qualities, theory of knowledge, three grades of knowledge
Modern western philosophy: Berkeley-rejection of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, immaterialism, critique of abstract ideas, esse est percipi, the problem of solipcism; God and self
Modern western philosophy: Hume-impressions and ideas, knowledge concerning relations of ideas and knowledge concerning matters of fact, induction and causality, the external world and the self, personal identity, rejection of metaphysics, scepticism
Modern western philosophy: Hume-reason and the passions. Kant: The critical philosophy, classification of judgements, possibility of synthetic a priori judgements, the copernican revolution, forms of sensibility, categories of understanding
Modern western philosophy: Kant-the metaphysical and the transcendental deduction of the categories, phenomenon and noumenon, the ideas of reason-soul, God and world as a whole, rejection of speculative metaphysics. Hegel: The conception of Geist (spirit)
Modern western philosophy: Hegel-the dialectical method, concepts of being, non-bbeing and becoming, absolute idealism, freedom
Philosophy: Unit 03
Indian ethics
Concept of Purusārtha, Sreyas, and Preyas, Varṇāshrama, dharma, Sādhāraṇa dharma, Ṛna and Yajῆa, concept of duty, karma-yoga, Sthitprajῆa, Svadharma, Lokasaṃgraha, Apurva and Adṛṣta, Sādhya-Sādhana, Itikartavyata, law of karma: Ethical implications
Ṛta and satya, yoga-Kśema, Astānga yoga, Jainism: Samvara-Nirjarā, Tri-Ratṇa, Panch-Vrata
Buddhism: Upāya-Kaushal, brahma-Vihāra-Matri, Karuṇā, Muditā, Upeksha, Bodhisattva, Carvaka’s hedonism
Philosophy: Unit 04
Western ethics
Concepts of good, right, justice, duty, obligation, cardinal virtues, eudaemonism, intuition as explained in teleological and deontological theories
Egoism, altruism, universalism, subjectivism, cultural relativism, super-naturalism, ethical realism and intuitionism
Kant’s moral theory: postulates of morality, good-will, categorical imperative, duty, mean and ends, maxims
Utilitarianism: Principle of utility, problem of sanction and justification of morality, kinds of utilitarianism, moral theories of Bentham, J.S. Mill, Sidgwick
Theories of punishment
Ethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism: emotivism, prescriptivism, descriptivism
Philosophy: Unit 05
Contemporary Indian Philosophy
Vivekananda: Practical vedanta, vniversal religion, religious experience, religious rituals
Sri Aurobindo: evolution, mind and supermind, integral yoga
Iqbal: Self, God, man and superman, intellect and intuition
Tagore: religion of man, ideas on education, concept of nationalism
K.C. Bhattacharyya: Swaraj in ideas, concept of philosophy, subject as freedom, the doctrine of Maya
Radhakrishnan: Intellect and intuition, the Idealist view of life, concept of universal religion, Hindu view of life
J. Krishnamurti: conception of thought, freedom from the known, analysis of self, choiceless awareness
Gandhi: truth, non-violence, Satyagraha, Swaraj, critique of modern civilization
Ambedkar: annihilation of caste, philosophy of Hinduism, Neo-Buddhism
D.D. Upadhyaya: Integral Humanism, Advaita Vedanta, Purusartha
Narayana Guru: the spiritual freedom and social equality, one caste, one religion, one God
Tiruvallur: Tirukkural
Jyotiba Phule: Critical understanding of caste-system
M.N. Roy: Radical humanism, materialism
Maulana Azad: humanism
Philosophy: Unit 06
Recent Western Philosophy
Analytic and continental philosophy: Frege-sense and reference, logical positivism: verification theory of meaning, elimination of metaphysics, concept of philosophy, Moore: distinction between sense and reference, refutation of idealism
Analytic and continental philosophy: Defense of commonsense, proof of an external world. Russell: Logical atomism, definite descriptions, refutation of idealism, Wittgenstein: Language and reality, facts and objects, names and propositions
Analytic and continental philosophy: The picture theory, critique of private language, meaning and use, forms of life, notion of philosophy, Wittgensteinian Fideism, on certainty, Gilbert Ryle: Systematically misleading expressions, category mistake
Analytic and continental philosophy: Concept of mind, critique of Cartesian dualism, A.J. Ayer: The problem of knowledge, W.V.O. Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism, H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson: In defense of a dogma, phenomenology and existentialism
Analytic and continental philosophy: Husserl-phenomenological method, philosophy as a rigorous science, intentionality. Phenomenological reduction, inter-subjectivity. Heidegger: The concept of Being (Dasein), man as being in the world
Analytic and continental philosophy: Critique of technological civilization, Kierkegaard: Subjectivity as truth, leap of faith, Sartre: Concept of freedom, bad-faith, humanism, Merleau-Ponty: Perception, embodied consciousness, pragmatism
Analytic and continental philosophy: William James-pragmatic theories of meaning and truth, varieties of religious experience, John Dewey: Concept of truth, common-faith, education, post-modernism, Nietzsche: critique of enlightenment, will to power
Analytic and continental philosophy: Genealogy of moral. Richard Rorty: Critique of representationalism, against epistemological method, edifying philosophy, Immanuel Levinas: Ethics as a first philosophy, philosophy of ‘other’
Philosophy: Unit 07
Social and Political Philosophy: Indian
Mahabharata: Danda-niti, foundations, Rajdharma, law and governance, Narada’s questions to king Yudhisthir, Kautilya: Sovereignty, seven pillars of state-craft, state, society, social-life, state administration, state economy, law, and justice
Kautilya: Internal security, welfare and external affairs, Kamandaki: Social order and state elements constitutional morality, secularism and fundamental rights, constitutionalism, total revolution, terrorism, swadeshi, satyagrah, sarvodaya
Kautilya: Social democracy, state socialism, affirmative action, social justice, social institutions: Family, marriage, property, education, and religion colonialism
Philosophy: Unit 08
Social and Political Philosophy: Western
Plato: Ideal state and justice, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau: Social contract theory, Isaiah Berlin: Conceptions of liberty, Bernard Williams: Idea of equality, Liberalism: Rawls; distributive justice, Nozick; Justice as entitlement, Dworkin
Justice as equality; Amartya Sen: Global justice, freedom and capability
Marxism: dialectical materialism, alienation, critique of capitalism, doctrine of class struggle and classless society
Communitarianism: Communitarian critique of liberal self, universalism vs. particularism, theory of Charles Taylor, MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Multiculturalism: Charles Taylor; politics of recognition, Will Kymlicka; conception of minority rights
Feminism: Basic concepts-patriarchy, misogyny, gender, theories of feminism; liberal, socialist, radical, and ecofeminism
Philosophy: Unit 09
Logic
Truth and validity, denotation, and connotation, nature of propositions, categorical syllogism, laws of thought, classification of propositions, square of opposition, truth-functions and propositional logic, quantification and rules of quantification
Symbolic logic: Use of symbols, decision procedures: Truth table, using truth-tables for testing the validity of arguments, Venn diagram, informal, and formal fallacies, proving validity, argument, and argument-form, axiomatic system, consistency
Completeness, differences between deductive and inductive logic
Philosophy: Unit 10
Applied philosophy
What is applied philosophy?, philosophy of technology; technology, dominance, power, and social inequalities, democratization of technology, public evaluation of science and technology, ethical implication of information technology, biotechnology
Non-technology, environmental ethics: Nature as means or end, Aldo-Leopold; land-ethics, Arne Naess: Deep ecology, Peter Singer; animal rights, medical-ethics: Surrogacy, doctor-patient relationship, abortion, euthanasia, female-infanticide
Professional ethics: Corporate governance and ethical responsibility, media ethics: Ethical issues in privacy, cyber space, pornography, representation and differences-marginalization, legal ethics: Law and morality
Legal ethics: Legal obligation, authority and validity of law, philosophical counseling: Managing everyday problems

Physical sciences-Part-A (Core)+

Physical sciences-Part-A (Core): Unit 01
Mathematical methods of physics
Dimensional analysis
Vector algebra and vector calculus
Linear algebra, matrices, Cayley-Hamilton theorem
Eigen values and Eigen vectors
Linear ordinary differential equations of first and second order, special functions (Hermite, Bessel, Laguerre, and Legendre functions)
Fourier series, Fourier and Laplace transforms
Elements of complex analysis, analytic functions; Taylor and Laurent series; poles, residues, and evaluation of integrals
Elementary probability theory, random variables, binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions
Central limit theorem
Physical sciences-Part-A (Core): Unit 02
Classical mechanics
Newton’s laws
Dynamical systems, phase space dynamics, stability analysis
Central force motions
Two body collisions-scattering in laboratory and centre of mass frames
Rigid body dynamics moment of inertia tensor
Non-inertial frames and pseudo forces
Variational principle
Generalized coordinates
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism, and equations of motion
Conservation laws and cyclic coordinates
Periodic motion: small oscillations, normal modes
Special theory of relativity Lorentz transformations, relativistic kinematics and mass-energy equivalence
Physical sciences-Part-A (Core): Unit 03
Electromagnetic theory
Electrostatics: Gauss’s law and its applications, Laplace and Poisson equations, boundary value problems
Magneto-statics: Biot-Savart law, Ampere's theorem
Electromagnetic induction
Maxwell's equations in free space and linear isotropic media; boundary conditions on the fields at interfaces
Scalar and vector potentials, gauge invariance
Electromagnetic waves in free space
Dielectrics and conductors
Reflection and refraction, polarization, Fresnel’s law, interference, coherence, and diffraction
Dynamics of charged particles in static and uniform electromagnetic fields
Physical sciences-Part-A (Core): Unit 04
Quantum mechanics
Wave-particle duality
Schrödinger equation (time-dependent and time-independent)
Eigen value problems (particle in a box, harmonic oscillator, etc)
Tunneling through a barrier
Wave-function in coordinate and momentum representations
Commutators and heisenberg uncertainty principle
Dirac notation for state vectors
Motion in a central potential: Orbital angular momentum, angular momentum algebra, spin, addition of angular momenta; hydrogen atom
Stern-gerlach experiment
Time independent perturbation theory and applications
Variational method
Time dependent perturbation theory and Fermi's golden rule, selection rules
Identical particles, Pauli exclusion principle, spin-statistics connection
Physical sciences-Part-A (Core): Unit 05
Thermodynamic and statistical physics
Laws of thermodynamics and their consequences
Thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell relations, chemical potential, phase equilibrium
Phase space, micro-and macro-states
Micro-canonical, canonical and grand-canonical ensembles, and partition functions
Free energy and its connection with thermodynamic quantities
Classical and quantum statistics
Ideal bose and fermi gases
Principle of detailed balance
Blackbody radiation and planck's distribution law
Physical sciences-Part-A (Core): Unit 06
Electronics and experimental methods
Semiconductor devices (diodes, junctions, transistors, field effect devices, homo-and hetero-junction devices), device structure, device characteristics, frequency dependence and applications
Opto-electronic devices (solar cells, photo-detectors, LEDs)
Operational amplifiers and their applications
Digital techniques and applications (registers, counters, comparators, and similar circuits)
A/D and D/A converters
Microprocessor and microcontroller basics
Data interpretation and analysis
Precision and accuracy
Error analysis, propagation of errors
Least squares fitting

Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced)+

Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 01
Mathematical methods of physics
Green’s function
Partial differential equations (Laplace, wave and heat equations in two and three dimensions)
Elements of computational techniques: Root of functions, interpolation, extrapolation, integration by trapezoid and Simpson’s rule, solution of first order differential equation using Runge-Kutta method
Finite difference methods
Tensors
Introductory group theory: SU(2), O(3)
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 02
Classical mechanics
Dynamical systems, phase space dynamics, stability analysis
Poisson brackets and canonical transformations
Symmetry, invariance, and Noether’s theorem
Hamilton-jacobi theory
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 03
Electromagnetic theory
Dispersion relations in plasma
Lorentz invariance of maxwell’s equation
Transmission lines and wave guides
Radiation from moving charges and dipoles and retarded potentials
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 04
Quantum mechanics
Spin-orbit coupling, fine structure
Wkb approximation
Elementary theory of scattering: phase shifts, partial waves, Born approximation
Relativistic quantum mechanics: Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations
Semi-classical theory of radiation
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 05
Thermodynamic and statistical physics
First-and second-order phase transitions
Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, and ferromagnetism
Ising model
Bose-einstein condensation
Diffusion equation
Random walk and brownian motion
Introduction to non-equilibrium processes
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 06
Electronics and experimental methods
Linear and nonlinear curve fitting, chi-square test
Transducers (temperature, pressure/ vacuum, magnetic fields, vibration, optical, and particle detectors)
Measurement and control
Signal conditioning and recovery
Impedance matching, amplification (Op-amp based, instrumentation amp, feedback), filtering and noise reduction, shielding and grounding
Fourier transforms, lock-in detector, box-car integrator, modulation techniques
High frequency devices (including generators and detectors)
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 07
Atomic and molecular physics
Quantum states of an electron in an atom
Electron spin
Spectrum of helium and alkali atom
Relativistic corrections for energy levels of hydrogen atom, hyperfine structure and isotopic shift, width of spectrum lines, LS and JJ couplings
Zeeman, Paschen-Back, and Stark effects
Electron spin resonance
Nuclear magnetic resonance, chemical shift
Frank-condon principle
Born-oppenheimer approximation
Electronic, rotational, vibrational, and Raman spectra of diatomic molecules, selection rules
Lasers: Spontaneous and stimulated emission, Einstein A and B coefficients
Optical pumping, population inversion, rate equation
Modes of resonators and coherence length
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 08
Condensed matter physics
Bravais lattices
Reciprocal lattice
Diffraction and the structure factor
Bonding of solids
Elastic properties, phonons, lattice specific heat
Free electron theory and electronic specific heat
Response and relaxation phenomena
Drude model of electrical and thermal conductivity
Hall effect and thermoelectric power
Electron motion in a periodic potential, band theory of solids: Metals, insulators, and semiconductors
Superconductivity: type-I and type-II superconductors
Josephson junctions
Super fluidity
Defects and dislocations
Ordered phases of matter: translational and orientational order, kinds of liquid crystalline order
Quasi crystals
Physical sciences-Part-B (Advanced): Unit 09
Nuclear and particle physics
Basic nuclear properties: Size, shape, and charge distribution, spin and parity
Binding energy, semi empirical mass formula, liquid drop model
Nature of the nuclear force, form of nucleon-nucleon potential, charge-independence and charge-symmetry of nuclear forces
Deuteron problem
Evidence of shell structure, single-particle shell model, its validity, and limitations
Rotational spectra
Elementary ideas of alpha, beta, and gamma decays, and their selection rules, fission and fusion
Nuclear reactions, reaction mechanism, compound nuclei and direct reactions
Classification of fundamental forces
Elementary particles and their quantum numbers (charge, spin, parity, isospin, strangeness, etc)
Gell-mann-Nishijima formula
Quark model, baryons, and mesons
C, p, and t invariance
Application of symmetry arguments to particle reactions
Parity non-conservation in weak interaction
Relativistic kinematics

Political science+

Political science: Unit 01
Political theory
Concepts: Liberty, equality, justice, rights, democracy, power, citizenship, political traditions: Liberalism, conservatism, socialism, Marxism, feminism, ecologism, multiculturalism, postmodernism
Political science: Unit 02
Political thought
Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, Mao Zedong, John Rawls
Political science: Unit 03
Indian political thought
Dharamshastra, Kautilya, Aggañña Sutta, Barani, Kabir, Pandita Ramabai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, M.K Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, Muhammad Iqbal, M.N. Roy, VD Savarkar, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, J L Nehru
Ram Manohar Lohia, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Deendayal Upadhyaya
Political science: Unit 04
Comparative political analysis
Approaches: Institutional, political culture, political economy, and new institutionalism; comparative methods
Colonialism, and decolonization: Forms of colonialism, anti-colonial struggles and decolonization, nationalism: European and non-European, state theory: Debate over the nature of state in capitalist and socialist societies; post-colonial state
State theory: Globalization and nations-states
Political regimes: Democratic (electoral, liberal, majoritarian, and participatory) and non-democratic regimes (patrimonialism, bureaucratic authoritarianism, military dictatorship, totalitarianism, and fascist)
Constitutions and Constitutionalism: forms of constitutions, rule of law, judicial independence and liberal constitutionalism; emergency powers and crisis of constitutionalism
Democratization: Democratic transition and consolidation
Development: Underdevelopment, dependency, modernization, world systems theory, development, and democracy
Structures of power: Ruling class, power elites, democratic elitism, actor and processes: Electoral systems, political parties and party system, interest groups, social movements, new social movements
Actor and processes: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society campaigns; revolutions
Political science: Unit 05
International relations
Approaches to the study of international relations: idealism, realism, structural Marxism, neoliberalism, neorealism, social constructivism, critical international theory, feminism, postmodernism
Concepts: State, state system, and non-state actors, power, sovereignty, security: Traditional and non-traditional
Conflict and peace: Changing nature of warfare; weapons of mass destruction; deterrence; conflict resolution, conflict transformation
United nations: Aims, objectives, structure, and evaluation of the working of UN; peace and development perspectives; humanitarian intervention. International law; international criminal court, political economy of IR; globalization
United nations: Global governance and Bretton Woods system, north-south dialogue, WTO, G-20, BRICS
Regional organizations: European union, African union, Shanghai cooperation organization, ASEAN
Contemporary challenges: International terrorism, climate change, and environmental concerns, human rights, migration, and refugees; poverty and development; role of religion, culture, and identity politics
Political science: Unit 06
India’s foreign policy
Perspectives on India’s foreign policy: India’s identity as postcolonial, development, rising power and as emerging political economy
Continuity and change in India’s foreign policy: Principles and determinants; non-alignment movement: Historical background and relevance of non aligned movement; India’s nuclear policy, India’s relations with major powers: USA, USSR/ Russia
India’s relations with major powers: People’s republic of China, India’s engagement with multipolar world: India’s relations with European union, BRICS, ASEAN, Shanghai cooperation organisation, African union, Southern African development community
India’s engagement with multipolar world: Gulf cooperation council
India’s relations with neighborhood: SAARC, Gujaral doctrine, look east/ act east, look west
India’s negotiation strategies in international regimes: The united nations, world trade organization, international monetary fund, intergovernmental panel on climate change
Contemporary challenges: Maritime security, energy security, environmental security, migrants, and refugees, water resources, international terrorism, cyber security
Political science: Unit 07
Political institutions in India
Making of the Indian constitution: Colonialism heritage and the contribution Indian national movement to the making of the Indian constitution, constituent assembly: Composition, ideological moorings, constitutional debates
Philosophy of the constitution: Preamble, fundamental rights, directive principles, constitutionalism in India: Democracy, social change, national unity, checks and balances, basic structure debate, constitutional amendments
Union executive: President, prime minister, and council of ministers, union parliament: Structure, role and functioning, parliamentary committees, judiciary: Supreme court, high court, judicial review, judicial activism, judicial reform
Executive and legislature in the states: Governor, chief minister, state legislature, federalism in India: Strong centre framework, asymmetrical federal provisions and adaption, role of intergovernmental coordination mechanisms, inter-state council
Federalism in India: Emerging trends
Electoral process and election commission of India: Conduct of elections, rules, electoral reforms
Local government institutions: Functioning and reforms
Constitutional and statutory bodies: Comptroller and auditor general, national commission for scheduled castes, national commission for scheduled tribes, national commission for human rights, national commission for women
Constitutional and statutory bodies: National commission for minorities
Political science: Unit 08
Political processes in India
State, economy, and development: Nature of Indian state, development planning model, new economic policy, growth and human development
Process of globalization: Social and economic implications
Identity politics: religion, tribe, caste, region, language
Social movements: Dalit, tribal, women, farmers, labour
Civil society groups: Non-party social formations, non-governmental organizations, social action groups
Regionalization of Indian politics: Reorganization of Indian states, states as political and economic units, sub-state regions, regional disparities, demand for new states
Gender and politics in India: issues of equality and representation
Ideology and social basis of political parties: National parties, state parties
Electoral politics: Participation, contestation, representation, emerging trends
Political science: Unit 09
Public administration
Public Administration: meaning and evolution; public and private administration Approaches: System Theory, Decision Making, Ecological Approach
Public administration theories and concepts: Scientific Management Theory, Rational Choice theory, New Public Administration, Development Administration, Comparative Public Administration, New Public Management
Public administration theories and concepts: Changing nature of public administration in the era of liberalization and globalization
Theories and principles of organization: Scientific management theory, bureaucratic theory, human relations theory, managing the organization: Theories of leadership and motivation
Organizational communication: Theories and principles, Chester Barnard principles of communication, information management in the organization
Managing conflict in the organization: Mary Parker Follett, management by objectives-Peter Drucker
Political science: Unit 10
Governance and public policy in India
Governance, good governance and democratic governance, role of state, civil society, and individuals
Accountability and control: Institutional mechanism for checks and balances, legislative control over executive, administrative, and budgetary control, control through parliamentary committees, judicial control over legislature and executive
Accountability and control: Administrative culture, corruption, and administrative reforms
Institutional mechanisms for good governance: Right to Information, Consumer Protection Act, Citizen Charter; Grievance redress system: Ombudsman, Lokpal, Lokayukta
Grassroots governance: Panchayati Raj Institutions and their functioning
Planning and development: Decentralized planning, planning for development, sustainable development, participatory development, e-governance; NITI aayog
Public policy as an instrument of socioeconomic development: Public policies with special reference to housing, health, drinking water, food security, MNREGA, NHRM, RTE, monitoring and evaluation of public policy
Mechanisms of making governance process accountable: Jansunwai, social audit

Sanskrit+

Sanskrit: Unit 01
Vedic-literature
General introduction of Vedic literature: Main theories regarding the Vedās-Maxmüller; A. Weber; Jacobi; Balgangadhar Tilak; M. Winternitz; Indian traditional views. Saṁhitā literature, dialogue hymns: Pururavā-Urvaśī; Yama-Yamī; Saramā-Paṇi
General introduction of Vedic literature: Viśvāmitra-Nadī, Brāhamaṇa-literature, Araṇyaka literature, Vedāṅgas: Sikșā; Kalpa; Vyākaraṇa; Nirukta; Chandas; Jyotișa
Sanskrit: Unit 02
Specific study of Vedic literature
Study of the following hymns: (a) Ŗgveda-Agni (1.1); Varuṇa (1.25); Sūrya (1.125); Indra (2.12); Uṣas (3.61); Parjanya (5.83); Kitava (10.34); Jñāna (10.71); Puruṣa (10.90); Hiraṇyagarbha (10.121); Vāk (10.125); Nāsadīya (10.129)
Study of the following hymns: (b) Śuklayajurveda-Sivasaṁkalpa, chapter-34 (1-6), (c) Prajāpati-chapter-23 (1-5), (d) Atharvaveda: Rāṣṭrābhivardhanam (1.29); Kāla (10.53); Prithivī (12.1)
Brāhmaṇa literature: Subject-matter; Vidhi and its types; Agnihotra; Agniṣṭoma; Darśapūrṇamāsa; Yajña; Pañcamahāyajña; Akhyāna (Sunahśepa, Vāṅmanas)
Upaniṣad literature: (a) Subject-matter and main concepts with special reference to the following Upaniṣads; (b) Iśa; Kaṭha; Kena; Bṛhadārṇyaka; Taittirīya; Svetāśvatara
Vedic grammar; Nirukta and Vedic interpretation
Ṛkprātiśākhya: Definitions of Samānākṣara; Sandhyakṣara; Aghoṣa; Soṣman; Svarabhakti; Yama; Rakta; Saṁyoga; Pragṛhya; Riphita
Nirukta (chapters-I and 2)
Four-fold division of padas-concept of Nāma; concept of Akhyāta; meaning of Upasargas; categories of Nipātas
Purposes of the study of Nirukta
Principles of etymology
Etymology of the following words: Āchārya; Vīra; Hrada; Go; Samudra; Vṛtra; Aditya; Uṣas; Megha; Vāk; Udak; Nadī; Aśva; Agni; Jātavedas; Vaiśvānara; Nighaṇtu, Nirukta; Daivatakāṇḍa), Vedic accent-Udātta, Anudātta, and Svarita
Sanskrit: Unit 03
Darsana
General introduction of major schools of Darśana with special reference to the following: Pramāṇamīmānsā; Tattvamīmānsā; Acāramīmānsā (Cārvāka, Jaina, Bauddha) Nyāya, Sāṁkhya, Yoga, Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Mīmānsā
Sanskrit: Unit 04
Darśana Literature: Special Study
Īśvarakṛṣna: Sāṁkhyakārikā-Satkāryavāda, Puruṣasvarūpa, Prakṛtisvarūpa, Sṛștikrama, Pratyaysarga, Kaivalya
Sadānanda: Vedāntasāra-Anubandha-Catuṣṭaya, Ajñāna, Adhyāropa-Apavāda, Lingaśarīrotpatti, Pañcīkaraṇa, Vivarta, Jīvanmukti, Annambhaṭṭa, Tarkasaṁgraha/ Keśavamiśra; Tarkabhāṣā: Padārtha; Kāraṇa; Pramāṇa; (Pratyakṣa; Anumāna; Upamāna; Sabda)
Sadānanda: Prāmāṇyavāda, Prameya
Laugākṣibhāskara; Arthasaṁgraha
Patañjali; Yogasūtra-(Vyāsabhāṣya): Cittabhūmi, Cittavṛttis; concept of Iśvara; Yogāṅgas; Samādhi; Kaivalya, Bādarāyaṇa; Brahmasūtra 1.1 (Sānkarabhāṣya), Viśvanāthapañcānana; Nyāyasidhāntamuktāvalī (Anumāna Khaṇḍa), Sarvadarśana-Saṁgraha; Jainism
Buddhism
Sanskrit: Unit 05
Grammar and linguistics
General introduction of the following grammarians: Pāṇini, Kātyāyana, Patañjali, Bhartṛhari, Vāmanajayāditya, Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita, Nageśabhaṭṭa, Kaiyyaṭa, Jainendra, Sākaṭāyana, Hemacandrasūri, Sārasvatavyākaraṇakāra, Pāṇinīya Sikṣā
Linguistics: Definition of Language, Geneological and Morphological classification of Languages, Speech Mechanism and classification of sounds: Stops, Fricatives, Semi-Vowels and vowels (with special reference to Sanskrit sounds)
Phonetic laws (Grimm, Grassman, Verner)
Directions of semantic change and reasons of change
Definition of Vākya and its types, general introduction of indo-european family of languages, difference between Vedic Sanskrit and classical Sanskrit, difference between Bhāșā and Vāk, difference between language and dialect
Sanskrit: Unit 06
Specific study of grammar
Definition: Saṁhitā, Saṁyoga Guṇa, Vṛddhi, Prātipadika, Nadī, Ghi, Upadhā, Apṛkta, Gati, Pada, Vibhāṣā, Savarṇa, Ti, Pragṛhya, Sarvanāmasthāna, Bha, Sarvanāma, Niṣthā
Sandhi: AC Sandhi, Hal Sandhi, Visarga Sandh (according to Laghusiddhāntakaumudī), Subanta-Ajanta-Rāma, Sarva (in all genders), Viśvapā, Hari, Tri (in all genders), Sakhi, Sudhī, Guru, Pitṛ, Gau, Ramā, Mati, Nadī, Dhenu, Mātṛ, Jñāna, Vāri, Madhu
Halanta: Lih, Viśvavāh, Catur (in all genders), Idam, Kim, Tad (in all genders), Rājan, Maghavan, Pathin, Vidvas, Asmad, Yuṣmad
Samāsa: Avyayībhāva, Tatpuruṣa, Bahuvrīhi, Dvandva (according to Laghusiddhāntakaumudī), Taddhita-Apatyārthaka and Matvarthīya (according to Siddāntakaumudī ), Tiṅanta-Bhū, Edh, Ad, Us, Hu, Div, Suñ, Tud, Tan, Kṛ, Rudh, Krīñ, Cur
Prayayānta: Nijant, Sannanta, Yańanta, Yańluganta, Nāmdhātu
Kṛdanta: Tavya/ Tavyat , Anīyar, Yat, Nyat, Lyap, Satṛ, Sānac, Ktvā, Kta, Ktavatu, Tumun, Namul
Strīpratyaya: According to Laghusiddhāntakaumudī
Kāraka Prakarana: According to Siddāntakaumudī
Parasmaipada and Atmanepada Vidhāna: According to Siddāntakaumudī
Mahābhāșya (Paspaśāhnika): Definition of Sabda, relation between Sabda and Artha, purposes of the study of grammar, definition of Vyākaraṇa, result of the proper use of word, method of grammar
Vākyapadīyam (Brahmakāṇḍa): Nature of Sphoṭa, nature of Sabda-Brahma, powers of Sabda-Brahma, relation between Sphoṭa and Dhvani, relation between Sabda and Artha, types of Dhvani, levels of language
Sanskrit: Unit 07
Sanskrit literature, poetics, and prosody
General introduction of following: Bhāsa, Aśvaghośa, Kālidāsa, Sūdraka, Viśākhadatta, Bhāravi, Māgha, Harṣa, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Daṇḍin, Bhavabhūti, Bhaṭṭanārāyaṇa, Bhilhaṇa, Shrῑharṣa, Ambikādatta Vyāsa, Panditā Kṣamārao, V. Raghavan, Shri Dhar Bhaskar Varnekar
General introduction of following: Schools of sanskrit poetics-Rasa, Alaṅkāra, Rīti, Dhwani, Vakrokti, Aucitya, western poetics-Aristotle, Longinus, Croche
Sanskrit: Unit 08
Specific study of the following
Poetry: Buddhacaritam (First Canto), Raghuvaṁśam (First Canto), Kirātārjunīyam (First Canto), Śiśupālavadham (First Canto), Naiṣadhīyacaritam (First Canto)
Drama: Svapnavāsavadattām, Abhijñānaśākuntalam, Mṛcchakaṭikam, Uttararāmacaritam, Mudrārākṣasam, Uttararāmacaritam, Ratnāvalī
Prose: Daśakumāracaritam (viii Ucchvāsa), Harṣacaritam (V Ucchvāsa), Kādambarī (Sukanāsopadeśa)
Campū Kāvya-Nala Campū (I Ucchvāsa)
Sāhityadarpaṇaḥ: Definition of Kāvya, refutation of other definitions of Kāvya, Sabdaśakti-Saṅketagraha; Abhidhā; Lakṣanā; Vyanjanā, Kāvyabheda (chapter fourth), Sravyakāvya (prose poetry and mix
Kāvyaprakaśa: Kāvyalakṣhṇa, Kāvyaprayojana, Kāvyahetu, Kāvyabheda, Sabdaśakti, Abhihitānvayavāda, Anvitābhidhānvayavāda, concept of Rasa, discussion of Rasasūtra, Rasadoṣa, Kāvyaguṇa, Vyanjanāvriti (fifth chapter)
Alaṁkāras: Vakrokti; Anuprāsa, Yamaka, Sleṣa, Upamā, Rūpaka, Utprekṣā, Samāsokti, Apahnuti, Nidarśanā, Arthāntaranyāsa, Dṛṣṭānta, Vibhāvanā, Viśeṣokti, Svabhāvokti, Virodhābhāsa, Saṅkara, Sansṛṣṭi
Dhvanyāloka (I Udyota)
Vakroktijīvitam (I Unmeṣa)
Bharata-nāṭyaśāstram (first and sixth chapter)
Daśarūpakam (first and third Prakāśa)
Chanda: Aryā, Anuṣṭup, Indravajrā, Upendravajrā, Vasantatilakā, Upajāti, Vaṁśastha, Drutavilambita, Sālinī, Mālinī, Sikharṇī, Mandākrāntā, Hariṇī, Sārdūlavikrῑḍita, Sragdharā
Kauṭilīya Arthaśātra (first-Vinayadikarika), Manusmṛti (I, II and VII Adhyāyas), Yājñavalkyasmṛti (Vyavahārādhyaya only)
Paleography and inscriptions: (a) Brahmi script of Mauryan and Gupta periods, (b) inscription of Ashoka-major rock edicts, major pillar edicts, (c) post-Mauryan inscriptions-Sāranātha Buddhist image inscription of Kaniṣka’s regal-year, 3
Paleography and inscriptions: (c) post-Mauryan inscriptions-Girnār rock inscription of Rudradāman, Hāthīgumphā inscription of Khāravela, (d) Gupta and post-Gupta inscriptions-Allahabad pillar inscriptions of Samudragupta
Paleography and inscriptions: (d) Gupta and post-Gupta inscriptions-Mandasor pillar inscription of Yasodharman, Banāskherā copper plate inscription of Harṣa, paleography and inscriptions-Aihole stone inscription of Pulakeśīn II
Sanskrit: Unit 09
Purāṇetihāsa, Dharmaśāstra, and epigraphy
General introduction of the followings: (a) Rāmāyaṇa-subject matter, age, society in the Rāmāyaṇa, Rāmāyaṇa as a source of later Sanskrit works and literal value of the Rāmāyaṇa, legends in the Rāmāyaṇa
General introduction of the followings: (b) Mahābhārata-subject matter, age, society in the Mahābhārata, Mahābhārata as a source of later Sanskrit works and literal value of the Mahābhārata, legends in the Mahābhārata
General introduction of the followings: (c) Purāṇa-definition of Purāṇa, Maha Purāṇa and Upa Purāṇas, Purāṇic cosmology and Purāṇic legends, (d) general introduction of main Smṛitis, (e) general introduction of Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra
General introduction of the followings: (f) Paleography-history of the decipherment of Brāhmī script, theories of the origin of Brāhmī script, inscriptions-general introduction

Sociology+

Sociology: Unit 01
Sociological theory
Classical sociological traditions: Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx
Structure-functionalism and structuralism: Bronisław Malinowski, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Hermeneutic and interpretative traditions: G.H. Mead, Karl Manheim, Alfred Schutz, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz
Post modernism, post structuralism, and post colonialism: Edward Said, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Anthony Giddens, Manuel Castells
Indian thinkers: M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Radha Kamal Mukherjee, G.S. Ghurye, M.N. Srinivas, Irawati Karve
Sociology: Unit 02
Research methodology and methods
Conceptualizing social reality: Philosophy of science, scientific method, and epistemology in social science, hermeneutic traditions, objectivity and reflexivity in social science, ethics, and politics
Formulating research design: Reading social science research, data and documents, induction and deduction, fact, concept, and theory, hypotheses, research questions, objectives
Quantitative and qualitative methods: Ethnography, survey method, historical method, comparative method
Techniques: Sampling, questionnaire and schedule, statistical analysis, observation, interview, and case study, interpretation, data analysis, and report writing
Sociology: Unit 03
Basic concepts and institutions
Sociological concepts: Social structure, culture, network, status and role, identity, community, Diaspora, values, norms, and rules, personhood, habitus and agency, bureaucracy, power, and authority
Social institutions: Marriage, family, and kinship, economy, polity, religion, education, law and customs
Social stratification: Social difference, hierarchy, inequality, and marginalization, caste and class, gender, sexuality, and disability, race, tribe, and ethnicity
Social change and processes: Evolution and diffusion, modernization and development, social transformations and globalization, social mobility
Sociology: Unit 04
Rural and urban transformations
Rural and peasant society: Caste-tribe settlements, agrarian social structure and emergent class relations, land ownership and agrarian relations, decline of agrarian economy, depeasantization and migration, agrarian unrest and peasant movements
Rural and peasant society: Changing inter-community relations and violence, urbanism, urbanity, and urbanization, towns, cities, and mega-cities, industry, service, and business, neighbourhood, slums, and ethnic enclaves
Rural and peasant society: Middle class and gated communities, urban movements and violence
Sociology: Unit 05
State, politics, and development
Political processes in India: Tribe, nation state, and border, bureaucracy, governance and development, public policy: Health, education and livelihoods, political culture, grass-root democracy, law and society, gender and development, corruption
Political processes in India: Role of international development organizations
Social movements and protests: Political factions, pressure groups, movements based on caste, ethnicity, ideology, gender, disability, religion and region, civil society and citizenship, NGOs, activism and leadership, reservations, and politics
Sociology: Unit 06
Economy and society
Exchange, gift, capital, labour, and market, mode of production debates, property and property relations, state and market: Welfarism and neoliberalism, models of economic development, poverty and exclusion, factory and industry systems
Changing nature of labour relations, gender and labour process, business and family, digital economy, e-commerce, global business and corporates, tourism, consumption
Sociology: Unit 07
Environment and society
Social and cultural ecology: Diverse forms, technological change, agriculture, and biodiversity, indigenous knowledge systems and ethno-medicine, gender and environment, forest policies, adivasis, and exclusion, ecological degradation and migration
Development, displacement, and rehabilitation, water and social exclusion, disasters and community responses, environmental pollution, public health, and disability, climate change and international policies, environmental movements
Sociology: Unit 08
Family, marriage, and kinship
Theoretical approaches: Structure-functionalist, alliance, and cultural
Gender relations and power dynamics, inheritance, succession, and authority, gender, sexuality, and reproduction, children, youth, and elderly, emotions and family, emergent forms of family, changing marriage practices, changing care and support systems
Family laws, domestic violence and crime against women, honor killing
Sociology: Unit 09
Science, technology, and society
History of Technological Development, Changing notions of Time and Space, Flows and Boundaries, Virtual Community, Media: Print and Electronic, Visual and Social Media, E-Governance and Surveillance Society, Technology and Emerging Political Processes
State policy, digital divide, and inclusion, technology and changing family relations, technology and changing health systems, food and technology, cyber crime
Sociology: Unit 10
Culture and symbolic transformations
Signs and symbols, rituals, beliefs, and practices, changing material culture, moral economy, education: Formal and informal, religious organizations, piety, and spirituality, commodification of rituals, communalism and secularism
Cultural identity and mobilization, culture and politics, gender, body, and culture, art and aesthetics, ethics and morality, sports and culture, pilgrimage and religious tourism, religion and economy, culture and environment, new religious movements

NESLET 2024 Preparation Tips

SET (SLET) Preparation Tips 2024

• Know the exam pattern and the syllabus of SET (SLET).

• Make a study plan accordingly

• Get your hands on the best books for SET.

Divide the entire syllabus according to the days and month left for preparation.

• Take as many mock tests as possible and solve ample previous years question papers/sample papers.

• Make short notes during the preparation.

• Keep ample amount of time for revision. Use the short notes to cover the syllabus again during revision.

• Avoid taking any fresh topic during the last phase of the preparation

NESLET 2024 Exam Pattern

NESLET Paper 1 Exam Pattern

SET (SLET) Exam Pattern – Paper I

The paper will be held in offline mode wherein candidates have to attempt 50 questions out of 60 in 1 hour. The questions in paper I are of general nature, intended to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidates. Paper I is designed to test reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidates. Each correct answer in this paper will be given 2 marks with no negative marking. This means that the paper will be held for total 100 marks.

NESLET Paper 2 Exam Pattern

SET (SLET) Exam Pattern – Paper II

Paper II will also be held offline for 2 hours and will be specific as per the subject opted by the candidates. Candidates have to answer all 50 questions for a total of 100 marks. There is no negative marking for incorrect answers, while for each correct answer, candidates will get 2 marks.

NESLET 2024 Admit Card

SET (SLET) Admit Card 2024

The admit card of SET is released for SLET exam in online mode. Candidates can download it online by entering their application number and date of birth in the login window. SET (SLET) admit card 2024 will not be sent to candidates through any other means.

Candidates must download the admit card and check whether all the information reflected on the admit card is correct. In case of incorrect details on the admit card, candidates must reach out to the authorities for rectification. After downloading, candidates must take a printout of SET admit card 2024. The admit card needs to be carried to the exam centre on the exam day along with the prescribed photo ID proofs.

How to download SET (SLET) Admit Card 2024

  • Click on the SET (SLET) admit card link

  • Enter your application number and date of birth

  • Click on the download button

  • Take a print out of the admit card

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NESLET 2024 Exam Centers

State City
Assam Guwahati
Dibrugarh
Tezpur
Silchar
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar
Manipur Imphal
Tripura Bikramnagar
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Mizoram Aizawl

Documents Required at Exam

  • Passport
  • Admit card
  • Passport size photograph (same as used for filling the application)
  • Voter ID
  • Driving license
  • Aadhaar card
  • PAN card

NESLET 2024 Answer Key

SET (SLET) Answer Key 2024

The answer key of SET (SLET) will be released by the authority after the SLET 2024 examination. The answer key is available on the official website, separately for Paper I and II. Candidates must cross verify the correctness of their answers and calculate their scores. In case of discrepancies, candidates can submit their objections to Member Secretary SLET Commission (N. E. Region) within 15 days of the publishing of the answer key, along with the proof of correctness. Objections sent after the deadline will not be entertained. After verifying the objections, the exam authority will release the final answer key. The result of SET (SLET) 2024 will be determined by the final answer key. The decision on the final answer key of SET will be final and binding.

NESLET 2024 Result

SET (SLET) Result 2024

The result of SLET 2024 will be announced by SLET Commission wherein the roll numbers of the qualified candidates as per the papers they have appeared in. Candidates can check their roll numbers as per the category and subject of the paper they have appeared in. As per the qualifying criteria of SET 2024, top 6% appearing candidates in all the three papers will be shortlisted as qualified candidates. However, these top 6% candidates have to secure minimum 40% marks (General) and 35% marks (for reserved category) to be declared qualified for Eligibility for Assistant Professors. Candidates securing the qualifying marks can get their marks through SET Commission’s website after 7 working days from the date of declaration of result.

How to check SET Result 2024?

Click on the result window

Download the Result PDF

Check your roll number in it

SET Result – Pass Certificate

Pass Certificate to the candidates will be issued after 45 working days from the date of announcement of SET result.

Candidates can collect the Pass Certificate individually or through any messenger (duly authorized by the candidate with his/her signature). However, the following documents must be produced at the time of collecting the pass certificate. To obtain the pass certificate, candidates have to pay Rs. 250 as application fee through a Bank Draft in favour of Member Secretary SLET Commission, N. E. Region drawn on SBI Guwahati University Branch (2060) only.

Documents needed to collect the pass certificate:

  • Mark-sheet of P.G. Final/3rd and 4th Semester (in original)
  • Caste Certificate/Special Category Certificate (in original)
  • Admit Card of SET (in original)

Candidates, who find any discrepancy in their SET result can send a written request pertaining to the same to the Member Secretary SLET Commission (N. E. Region) for result rechecking. A Demand Draft (DD) of Rs. 5000 in favour of Member Secretary, SLET Commission, drawn on SBI, Guwahati University Branch (2060) within one month from the date of declaration of the result must be submitted for the same. An expert committee will recheck the result and rectify it.

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NESLET 2024 Cutoff

SET (SLET) Cut off 2024

SLET Commission will release the cut off of SET 2024. There are two kinds of cut off for SET (SLET) 2024. First is the minimum qualifying marks and second is the subject-wise, category-wise, paper-wise and overall cut off marks. Candidates need to secure both the cut off marks to be considered eligible for the recruitment. The examination authority also releases a list of the successful candidates with their roll numbers and the cut off marks according to the two papers and their category. As per the eligibility of SET, top 6% of the candidates appeared in Paper I and II with 40% marks (General) and 35% marks (reserved category) will be considered qualified for Eligibility for Assistant Professors.

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NESLET 2024 Selection Process

SET (SLET) Selection Procedur e 2024

Selection process of SET (SLET) 2024 includes appearing in Paper I and II and obtaining the pass certificate/eligibility certificate. To be considered eligible as Assistant Professor across the colleges/institutes and universities of the 7 northeastern states, candidates need to secure the minimum qualifying cut off marks.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Question: What is the passing marks for SLET?

Answer:

Candidates belonging to General category must score above 40 % and candidates belonging to the reserved category must score 35%.


Question: How many times is the SLET exam conducted in a year?

Answer:

The SLET exam is conducted once a year.

Question: Who is eligible for SLET exam 2024?

Answer:

candidates who have secured atleast 55% marks in Master Degree or equivalent examination from universities are eligible to appear in the SLET exam.

Question: Is SLET compulsory for PhD?

Answer:

No, SLET is not compulsary for PhD.

Question: What is the validity of SLET certificate?

Answer:

The validity of the SLET certificate is lifetime.

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when NESLET exam 2021 results will be declared? plz...provide information if any thanks
Souhrid Sarkar 4th May, 2021
Hello Aspirant,

State Eligibility Test (SET) , formerly known as North East State Level Eligibility Test (NESLET) is conducted by SLET Commission, Assam in offline mode for the recruitment of Assistant Lecturers at institutes/colleges/universities.

The official date for release of the results have not been notified yet, though it is expected to release within June,2021 .
In the meantime you can check the official website : sletne.org for latest updates.

To know more about NE SLET Results 2021 visit :
https://competition.careers360.com/articles/set-slet-result

Hope it helps
Thank you !!!
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what is slet and what is its eligibility
Koustav Dey 10th Mar, 2021

Hello,

The full form of SLET is the State Level Eligibility Test. It is conducted by UGC, NTA. The exam determines candidates eligibility for Colleges and Universities. The candidates who qualify in the test are eligible to apply for the post of lecturer within the jurisdiction of the Member-States of this SLET Commission.

The eligibility criteria for the exam is:

  • The candidate should be Indian.
  • The candidate need to have Master Degree with at least 55% marks. The minimum required marks for SC/ST/PwD candidates is 50%
  • Candidates appearing in the final year of their Master Degree Exam are also eligible to apply for the test.
  • There is no age limit for the exam.

Hope it helps!

Good luck!

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Thsoe who ahve completed MBA are allowed to do set exma or not as management subject is not given in the form
Deblina Maity 20th Feb, 2020

Yes, you are eligible to apply for both NTA UGC-NET exam conducted by NTA and SET exam conducted by different states. Any one who has completed his/her  Masters with minimum of 55% for general category and 50% for SC/ST category are eligible to apply for NET/SET exam. As an MBA student you will be able to give NET/SET exam in Management subject.

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NESLET 2019 result was declared in the month of july 2019 but we have not recieved any information regarding the certificate yet...it is not even updated in its official website...can i have any other links through which i can update myself
Dali 23rd Jan, 2020
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hi! i cant find any link to register and apply for neslet 2020.....could you help me on this please!?
L RESHMASREE 10th Jan, 2020

The below given links will guide you about the information regarding NESLET (this is official site).

http://sletne.org/

By contacting the team through the contact details given in the link, you will get information about 2020 application.

Hope this information helps you.

(http://sletne.org/)

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