KERALA PSC LDC DETAILED SYLLABUS 2013
1.Part I : General Knowledge and Current Affairs – 50 Marks
2.Part II : Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability – 20 Marks
3.Part III: General English - 20 Marks
4.Part IV: Regional Language (Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada) – 10 Marks
I) General Knowledge and Current Affairs : Topics to cover
1. History- World History, Indian History, Kerala History
2. Geography-Physical Geography,World Geography ,Indian Geography
3. Economics
4. Facts about kerala
5. Indian Constitution
6. Science- Physics, Chemistry,Biology,Astronomy
7. Computers
8. Basic GK
- International days
- Largest, Biggest, smallest etc…
- Countries and capitals, currencies, heads
- Parliaments
- International organisations, Head Quarters, Heads
- Religions
- Instruments, scales, basic units
- Inventions and discovery
- Aliases
- Firsts in India
- Firsts in kerala
- World leaders
9. Awards and Honours
10. Books and autthors – Literature
11. Sports
II). Simple Arithmetic and Mental ablity
- Simplification
- Squares and square roots
- LCM AND HCF
- Fractions
- Law of exponents
- Profit and Loss
- Percentages
- Time and work
- Ratio and Proportion
- Averages
- Time and distance
- Problems on ages
- Simple and compound interest
Mental ability
- Analogy
- Series completion
- Classification – Odd man out
- Coding and de-coding
- Puzzle
- Direction test
- Ranking test
- Mathematical operations
- Blood Relation
III). General English
- Tenses
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Use of articles
- Idioms
- One word substitutes
- Active and Passive voice
- Prepositions
- Conjuctions
- Clauses
- Direct and indirect speech
- Spelling mistakes
- Sentence correction
- Comprehension
IV) Regional Language (Malayalam/ Tamil/ Kannada) :
