GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS (15 MARKS)
(i) Indian History with special reference to Freedom struggle
(ii) Languages & Culture
(iii) International Organisations- UNO, WHO, WTO, IMF, UNESCO, UNCTAD etc.
(iv) Important Regional Organizations and Blocs- BRICS, OPEC, ASEAN, SAARC, BIMSTEC, G-20, G-7 etc.
(v) Sustainable Development Goals
(vi) Communicable Diseases- cure and prevention
(vii) NCDC- COVID-19 - SOPs, Advisories, Guidelines etc
(viii) World famous Awards
(ix) The world of Sports
(x) Climate & Crops in India
(xi) Political & Physical divisions of world & India
(xii) Important Rivers & Lakes in India
(xiii) Current Events of National and International importance
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UT of J&K (10 Marks)
(i) Popular names of personalities and their achievements/ Contribution (National and International).
(ii) Weather, Climate, Crops, Means of Transport.
(iii) J&K History, Economy and Culture
(iv) Flora and Fauna of J&K
(v) Rivers and Lakes.
(vi) Important Tourist Destinations.
(vii) J&K Panchayati Raj Act, 1989 (as ameneded upto December, 2020), 73rd & 74th Constitutional amendments.
(viii) J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019
STATISTICAL METHODS & APPLIED STATISTICS (25 MARKS)
(i) Primary and secondary data.
(ii) Methods of collecting Primary and Secondary Data
(iii) Preparation of questionaires
(iv) Tabulation and compilation of Data
(v) Measures of central Tendency
(vi) Theory of Probability
(vii) Correlation and regression- Concept and simple applications.
(viii) Theory of Attributes- Basic concepts and their applications.
(ix) Theory of Index Numbers: Tests of Index numbers- Wholesale and consumer price Index numbers.
(x) Demography-Census, its features and functions.
(xi) Vital Statistics- Measures of fertility, Crude fertility rates, specific fertility rates, gross and net reproduction rates., Measures of Mortality
(xii) Interpolation & Extrapolation.
GENERAL ECONOMICS (25 MARKS)
(i) Meaning and scope of Economics; Methodology of Economic Analysis.
(ii) Utility, Supply, Demand and Elasticity of Demand, Commodity Value, Market.
(iii) Theory of Consumer Demand and Demand Analysis.
(iv) Factors of Production and Laws of Production.
(v) Pricing and Market Structures.
(vi) Production Theory and Costs.
(vii) Concept of Economic Growth of Development; Theories of Growth of Development.
(viii) Determination of National Income.
(ix) Public Finance; Revenue, Public Expenditure, Public Debt, Deficit Financing.
(x) Foreign Trade & Balance of payments.
(xi) Money & Inflation.
(xii) Banking and Monetary Policy.
(xiii) Money & Capital Markets.
(xiv) Agriculture & economic development; Industrialization and economic development.
(xv) Planning versus Market Economy. (xvi) Green Revolution in India, Poverty/ Unemployment, Role of Agriculture.
(xvii) Economic Reforms in India.
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (15 MARKS)
(i) Fundamentals of computer sciences,
(ii) Hardware & Software, Concept of Open Source Technologies
(iii) Input & Output Devices,
(iv) Flow Charts and Algorithms
(v) Operating System:- MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power-Pont ,PDF
(vi) Internet & E-mail
(vii) Concept of Computer Virus & latest Anti-Virus.
(viii) Data Communication and Networking
(ix) Introduction to Database Management
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (15 MARKS)
(i) Information concept & Processing
(ii) Computer Appreciation
(iii) Elements of Computers Processing System Hardware CPU, Peripherals, Storage Media, Software Definition, Role and Categories Firmware and Human-ware.
(iv) Computer & Communication.
(v) Programming Language Classification
(vi) Information Technology Applications of India
(vii) Representation of Information.
(viii) Basic Electronics- Semiconductor Diodes, Operational Amplifiers, Bipolar Junction Transistor etc
MATHEMATICS (15 MARKS)
(i) Set Theory - Basic Concepts & Applications.
(ii) Matrices & Determinants, Simultaneous Linear Equations- Cramer’s Rule.
(iii) Analytical Geometry.
(iv) Differentiation- Basic Concepts (Addition, Product & Chain Rule)
(v) Integration-Reduction & Substitution Method.
(vi) Differential Equations.
