Gujarat Public Service Commission(GPSC) 2018 – Detailed Syllabus

Aspirants may check their GPSC Syllabus for Class 1-2-3 from the below given details:

1. Grammar and Usage

• Article
• Pronoun,
• Adjective,
• Preposition,
• Conjunction
• Verb and Tense
• Participle
• Modal Auxiliaries
• Usage of Can, May, Could, Should,
• Active and Passive Voice
• Degrees of Adjectives
• Common Errors of Usage

2. Verbal Skills and Word Power

• Vocabulary
• Idioms and common phrases
• Spellings
• Homonyms,
• Synonyms and antonyms,
• Commonly confused words

3. Comprehension

Reading Comprehension of Standard English passages of general interest is tested by means of main idea, factual, exceptions, assumption, inference and further application questions – just to mention some familiar types.

1. Pictorial Reasoning

• Mirror and Water Images
• Selection of Figures
• Analogy Questions

2. Geometric Perception

• Counting Of Figures
• Folding Of Papers
• Interpretation of Non – Quantitative Charts
• Interpretation of Slope
• Cube Cutting etc.
• Coding & Decoding

3. Introduction to Logic

• Assumptions,
• Premises
• Conclusions

4. Venn Diagram & Syllogism Problems

• Rules of Syllogism
• Concept of Contradiction

5. Truth Table

• Interpretation of Condition and Conjunctions etc

6. Degree of Truth & Courses of Action

7. Games Involving Selection of Group, Sitting Arrangement, Scheduling

8. Attribute Search Problems

9. Critical Reasoning

• Cause and Effect As Foundation Of Critical Reasoning
• Fallacies: Avoiding Invalid Arguments
• Solving Critical Reasoning Questions

10. Logical Decision Making

• Decision Making Under Specific Conditions
• Decision Making In Government Services
• Decision Making For Good Governance
• Number system
• Square, square root and cube
• Prime numbers, factorization and HCF & LCM
• Decimal fraction
• Ratio, proportion and variation
• Rule of three & chain rule
• Partnership
• Percentage – problems involving product of variables
• Introduction to algebra – BODMAS, simplification of weird symbols
• Linear equations
• Problems on ages
• Power and exponent
• Profit and loss
• Mixture and Alligation
• Simple and compound interest
• Time and work
• Time and distance
• Counting, permutation & combination
• Probability theory
• Inequalities
• Quadratic equation
• Sequences and progressions
• Circles
• Area and perimeter
• Volume and surface area
• Quantitative comparison
• Number series
• Races
• Data interpretation
• Speed
• Data sufficiency

1. Geography of Gujarat
2. The Government policies, welfare schemes and the problems and issues
3. Education system in Gujarat
4. Human Resource Development

• Human Resource Development in India
• Education
• Vocational Education
• Health

5. The Constitution of India
6. Disaster Management
7. Development and Environmental issues and mitigation measures
8. National and International events
9. Sports and Games
10. General science
11. Current events
12. Important events before and after the independence of India

Candidates must select one subject from the given below list:

• Psychology
• Sociology
• Public Administration
• Commerce and Accountancy
• Law
• Agriculture
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Geology
• Geography
• History
• Management
• Economics
• Political Science & International Relation
• Philosophy
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science
• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
• Gujarati Literature
• Hindi Literature
• English Literature
• Sanskrit Literature

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