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Kerala PSC LD Clerk Exam Pattern & Syllabus 2020

No. 08/2017(Item No.15, 23&28)

 LOWER DIVISION CLERK VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS

 PART I   ( DIRECT RECRUITMENT) 

(SL. No.23&28 - CATEGORY No.414/16) 

PART II  ( BY TRANSFER) 

(SL. No.23 - CATEGORY No.415/16)

 Exam Pattern

• Total Number of Questions: 100
• Duration of the exam: 01 hours 15 minutes

Syllabus

Candidates can expect the questions from the following topics:

Simple arithmetic and Mental Ability

• Number Systems and basic mathematical operations
• Percentages, Averages
• Profit and loss, Simple and compound Interests
• Time and Distance, Time and Work
• Ration and Proportion
• Mensuration- Volumes, Area, Total Surface Area
• Law of exponents
• Progressions

Mental Ability

• Series
• Problems on Mathematical signs
• Analogy – Word Analogy, Alphabet Analogy, Number Analogy
• Odd man out
• Coding and Decoding
• Family Relation
• Sense of Direction
• Time and Angles
• Time in a clock and its reflection
• Date and Calendar
• Clerical Ability

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

• Geography – Kerala, and India
• Basic facts about Kerala- Geography, History, Industries, etc
• River systems and mountain ranges in India
• States and Union Territories
• Medieval India, First war of Independence, Indian Independence History
• Five-year plans, Banking & Insurance, Different Schemes(Central & State government-sponsored)
• Human rights act, Human Rights Commissions, SC/ST acts, SC/ST commissions, Women Protection bills, commissions, etc
• Polity, Economics, Science, Literature, Art & Culture, Sports – Current Affairs
• National Parks, Biospheres, etc

General Science

• Basics of Human Organs
• Vitamins and Diseases
• Disease and carriers
• Important Agricultural Schemes in Kerala
• Important Crops in Kerala
• Forest Resources
• Environment and Pollution
• Atom and its structures
• Ores and Minerals
• Elements and its groups
• Chemistry in everyday life
• Work and Energy, Power, Electricity
• Heat and Temperature
• Solar System
• Sound and Light

General English

• Types of Sentences and Interchange of Sentences
• Different Parts of Speech, Agreement of Verb and Subject
• Confusion of Adjectives and Adverbs, Comparison of Adjectives
• Articles – The Definite and the Indefinite Articles, Uses of Primary and Model Auxiliary Verbs
• Tag Questions, Infinitive, and Gerunds
• Tenses, Tenses in Conditional Tenses
• Adverbs and Position of adverbs, Prepositions
•  The Use of Correlatives
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Active and Passive voice, Correction of Sentences
• Singular & Plural, Change of Gender, Collective Nouns
• Word Formation from other words and use of prefix or suffix, Compound words
• Synonyms, Antonyms, Phrasal Verbs
• Foreign Words and Phrases, One Word Substitutes
• Words often confused, Spelling Test
• Idioms and their Meanings

Malayalam/ Tamil

• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives
• Sentence and Word Correction
• Idioms, One Word Substitution
• Synonyms, Antonyms
• Use of Punctuation marks
• Literature
• Translation, etc.