SYLLABUS FOR OPTIONAL SUBJECTS TEST - 27/4/19

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

ANTHROPOLOGY-

PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY, CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES, ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

HUMAN GENETICS – METHODS OF HUMAN GENETICS, INHERITANCE AUTOSOMAL AND LINKED, DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE, DEVIATIONS OF MENDEL.  SEX LIMITED AND CONTROLLED CHARACTERS, CHROMOSOMAL ABBERATIONS, SYNDROMES LETHAL, SELECTION ETC.

GEOGRAPHY –

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION CYCLES, INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY, ATMOSPHERIC LAYER, LATITUDINAL HEAT BALANCE, GENERAL CIRCULATION, JET STREAM, FRONTS AND AIR MANES, CLOUD FORMATION.

HISTORY –      

SOCIAL IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION – WITH REVIEW OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA, ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1861-1905, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 1905-17, FEBRUARY RESOLUTION AND OCTOBER RESOLUTION.

WEST ASIA AND THE ARABS – ARAB –ISRAELI CONFLICT; OIL-MIDDLE EAST AND COLD WAR POLITICS; ARAB NATIONALISM.

BENGALI LITERATURE –

RAKTAKARABI, MORPHOLOGY AND PHONOLOGY, ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BENGALI LANGUAGE, VOCABULARY, DIALECT.

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTL. RELATIONS-  

THOMAS HOBBES,

ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION.

COMPARATIVE POLITICS –NATURE AND MAJOR APPROACHES, STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND SOCIALIST ECONOMICS, DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED SOCIETIES.

SOCIOLOGY-

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, FAMILY, MARRIAGE AND KINSHIP, POLITICS AND SOCIETY.

IT IS EXPECTED THAT SOME QUESTIONS WILL COME FROM THE EARLIER SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS FOR TEST - VI 13.04.19

GENERAL STUDIES -

HERITAGE AND CULTURE

Colonial Architecture, Indian Coinage, Paintings, Music, Dance in reference to ancient India.

HISTORY
Growth of Political Consciousness, Bengal Renaissance – Rammohan Roy.

ECONOMICS

Money, Banking and Capital Market.

Beginning of Reforms in 1980- Industrial Delicensing and Trade Reforms, Reforms since 1985- Trade, Fiscal Telecom, BOP Crisis in 1991. Stabilization and Structural Reforms, Exchange Rate Reforms in 1991, FDI Reforms.  Reforms Since 1995: WTO, Tax Reforms, Post Reform Performance.

CURRENT EVENTS

BRI, Forest Rights Act and relevant Controversies, South China Sea and East China Sea.

Geo Politics of Indian Ocean, Indian Diaspora.

GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT

Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, India-Regional Geography-Physiographic Divisions and Locational Attributes,  India-Climate, Monsoon Characteristics, Soils, Vegetation, World Regional Geography, Regionalization,  Physiography of Asia, Geography of North America.

INDIAN POLITY

Emergency provisions, Elections,  Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties. 

GOVERNANCE
Issues of Poverty, Hunger and Health, Education in India.

C S A T  -
ENGLISH COMPREHENSION
Comprehension

GMAT, LOGICAL REASONING ETC

General Mental Ability

Problems : Time and Work, Time and Distance, Probability  and Statistics, Pipes and Cisterns, Allegation, Profit.

Events as reported by national dailies over the period  March 28  to April 11 , 2019 must be thoroughly read.

It is expected that some questions will be set from the previous syllabus.