University Assistant Syllabus

1. 1.KERALA
2. 2.Arrival of Europeans
3. 3.Contributions of Europeans
4. 4.History of Travancore from Marthanda Varma to Sree Chithirathirunnal
5. 5.Social and Religious Reform movement
6. 6.National movement in Kerala
7. 7.Literary Sources of Kerala History
8. 8.United Kerala Movement
9. 9.Political and Social History of Kerala after 1956
10. 10.INDIA:
11. 11.Political History
12. 12.Establishment of the British
13. 13.First War of Independence
14. 14.Formation of INC
15. 15.Swadeshi Movement
16. 16.Social Reform movement
17. 17.Newspapers, Literature and Arts during the freedom struggle
18. 18.Independence Movement & Mahatma Gandhi
19. 19.India's independent
20. 20.Post independent period
21. 21.State reorganization
22. 22.Development in Science, Education, and Technology
23. 23.Foreign policy
24. 24.WORLD:
25. 25.Great Revolution in England
26. 26.American War of Independence
27. 27.French Revolution
28. 28.Russian Revolution
29. 29.Chinese Revolution
30. 30.Political History after Second World War
31. 31.UNO and other International Organizations

1. 1.Basics of Geography:
2. 2.- Earth Structure
3. 3.- Atmosphere, Rocks, Landforms, Pressure Belt and Winds, Temperature and Seasons
4. 4.- Global Issues: Global Warming, Various forms of Pollution
5. 5.- Maps: Topographic Maps and Signs
6. 6.- Remote Sensing
7. 7.- Geographic Information System
8. 8.- Oceans and its various movements
9. 9.- Continents, Nations and their specific features
10. 10.INDIA:
11. 11.- Physiography: States and its features, Northern Mountain Region, Rivers, Northern Great Plain, Peninsular Plateau, Coastal Plain
12. 12.- Climate
13. 13.- Natural Vegetation
14. 14.- Agriculture
15. 15.- Minerals and Industries
16. 16.- Energy Sources
17. 17.- Transport system: Road, Water, Railways, Air
18. 18.Kerala:
19. 19.- Physiography: Districts and its features
20. 20.- Rivers
21. 21.- Climate
22. 22.- Natural Vegetation
23. 23.- Wildlife
24. 24.- Agriculture and research centers
25. 25.- Minerals and Industries
26. 26.- Energy Sources
27. 27.- Transport system: Road, Water, Railway, Air

1. 1.- India: Economy, Five Year Plans, New Economic Reforms, Planning Commission and Niti Aayog
2. 2.- Financial Institutions
3. 3.- Agriculture, Major Crops, Green Revolution
4. 4.- Minerals
5. 5.- Direct and indirect taxes in India
6. 6.- GST in India: Rationale and structure of GST, benefits of GST

1. 1.- Constituent Assembly
2. 2.- Preamble
3. 3.- Citizenship
4. 4.- Fundamental Rights, Writs (Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Prohibition, Certiorari, Quo warranto)
5. 5.- Directive Principles of State Policy
6. 6.- Fundamental Duties
7. 7.- Structure of Governments: Union Executive, Parliament and Judiciary; State Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
8. 8.- Local Self Government Institutions (LSGIs)
9. 9.- Important Constitutional Amendments (42, 44, 52, 73, 74, 86, 91, 97, 101, 102, 103, 104)
10. 10.- Constitutional Authorities and their functions: Comptroller and Auditor General, Attorney General, Advocate General, Election Commission of India, State Election Commission, Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service Commission, Finance Commission, State Finance Commission, GST Council
11. 11.- Distribution of legislative powers: Union List, State List, Concurrent List
12. 12.- Services under the Union and the States
13. 13.- Tribunals
14. 14.- National Commission for Scheduled Castes
15. 15.- National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
16. 16.- National Commission for Backward Classes
17. 17.- Official Language
18. 18.- Regional Languages
19. 19.- Language of the Supreme Court, High Courts, etc.
20. 20.- Special directives relating to languages

1. 1.- Kerala State Civil Service
2. 2.- Quasi-judicial bodies, various Commissions
3. 3.- Basic facts of socio-economic development
4. 4.- Planning Board
5. 5.- Commercial Planning and Policies
6. 6.- Disaster Management
7. 7.- Watershed Management
8. 8.- Employment and Labour
9. 9.- National Rural Employment Programmes
10. 10.- Land Reforms
11. 11.- Social Welfare and Security
12. 12.- Protection of Women, Children and Senior Citizens
13. 13.- Population, Literacy, E-governance
14. 14.- Delegated Legislation and its controls
15. 15.- Legislative and Judicial controls
16. 16.- Constitutional law remedies against Administrative Arbitrariness
17. 17.- Administrative Discretion and its Controls
18. 18.- Administrative Adjudication
19. 19.- Principles of Natural Justice

1. 1.1. Basic facts of Human Body
2. 2.2. Vitamins and Minerals and their Deficiency Diseases
3. 3.3. Communicable Diseases and Causative Organisms, Preventive and Remedial Measures
4. 4.4. Lifestyle Diseases

1. 1.1. Branches of Physics - Matter - Units, Measurements - Physical Quantities
2. 2.2. Motion - Newton's Laws of Motion - Third law - Momentum - Projectile Motion - Uses of Third Law - Achievements in space missions in India - ISRO
3. 3.3. Light - Lens, Mirrors - Problems based on r=2f - Different phenomena of Light - Rainbow - Colours of different materials - Electromagnetic Spectrum - IR rays - UV rays - X rays - Photoelectric Effect
4. 4.4. Sound - Different types of Waves - Velocity of Sound in different media - Resonance - Reverberation
5. 5.5. Force - Different types of Forces - Friction - Advantages and disadvantages of Friction - Liquid Pressure - Buoyant Force - Archimedes Principle - Pascal's law - Density - Relative density - Adhesive Cohesive forces - Capillarity - Viscous force - Surface tension
6. 6.6. Gravitation - Centripetal Force - Centrifugal Force - Escape Velocity, Satellites - Escape Velocity - Weight - Mass - value of 'g' - 'g' in different places
7. 7.7. Heat - Temperature - Different types of thermometers - Humidity - Relative Humidity
8. 8.8. Work - Energy - Power - Simple problems relating to Work, Energy, Power - Levers - Different types of Levers

1. 1.1. Atom - Molecule - States of Matter - Allotropy - Gas laws - Aqua regia
2. 2.2. Elements - Periodic Table - Metals & Non metals - Chemical & Physical changes - Chemical reactions - Solutions, Mixtures, Compounds
3. 3.3. Metals - Non metals - Alloys - Acids, Bases - pH value - Alkaloids

1. 1.Arts:
2. 2.- Important Audio Visual Art Forms of Kerala: Famous Places, Institutions, Personalities, Artistes and Writers related to origin, development, extension, and practice of these Art Forms
3. 3.Sports:
4. 4.1. Famous Sports personalities of Kerala, India and World - their Sports Events, achievements and awards
5. 5.2. Important Awards - Corresponding Fields, Winners
6. 6.3. Famous Trophies - Related Events and Sports Items
7. 7.4. Number of Players in Important Sports Items
8. 8.5. Important Terms associated with various Sports and Games
9. 9.6. Olympics: Basic Facts, Venues / Countries, Famous Performances and Personalities - India in Olympics - Winter Olympics & Para Olympics
10. 10.7. Asian Games, Afro-Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, SAF Games: Venues, Countries, Performance of India, other facts
11. 11.8. National Games
12. 12.9. Games - Events, Players, Achievements
13. 13.10. National Sports / Games, Events of various Countries
14. 14.Literature:
15. 15.1. Malayalam: Important Literary Movements - Icons and their first works
16. 16.2. Main works of Literature related to each movement and their authors
17. 17.3. Writers: Pen name and Nick name
18. 18.4. Famous Works and Characters
19. 19.5. Famous Quotes: Books and Authors
20. 20.6. Beginning of Journalism in Kerala: Pioneers, Journals and Publications
21. 21.7. Famous Awards/ Honours: Writers and their works
22. 22.8. Malayalam Writers who won the Jnanpith Award and related facts
23. 23.9. Malayalam Cinema: Origin, Development, Milestones, Pioneers, National Awards
24. 24.Culture:
25. 25.1. Kerala: Important Celebrations - Places associated with such Celebrations, Important Festivals
26. 26.2. Kerala: Cultural Centres, Worship Places, Cultural Leaders and their Contributions

1. 1.1. Hardware:
2. 2.- Input Devices (Names and uses)
3. 3.- Output Devices (Names and uses/features)
4. 4.- Memory devices: Primary and Secondary (Examples, Features)
5. 5.2. Software:
6. 6.- Classification: System software and Application software
7. 7.- Operating System: Functions and examples
8. 8.- Popular Application software packages: Word processors, Spreadsheets, Database packages, Presentation, Image editors (Uses, features and fundamental concepts of each)
9. 9.- Basics of programming: Types of instructions (Input, Output, Store, Control, Transfer) (Languages need not be considered)
10. 10.3. Computer Networks:
11. 11.- Types of networks: LAN, WAN, MAN (Features and application area)
12. 12.- Network Devices: Media, Switch, Hub, Router, Bridge, Gateway (Uses of each)
13. 13.4. Internet:
14. 14.- Services: WWW, E-mail, Search engines (Examples and purposes)
15. 15.- Social Media (Examples and features)
16. 16.- Web Designing: Browser, HTML (Basics only)
17. 17.5. Cyber Wrongs (Awareness Level):
18. 18.- Types of Cyber Wrongs (Awareness level)
19. 19.- Information Technology Act, 2000 (Awareness level)

1. 1.Unit 1: Education Commissions and Acts after independence (6 Marks)
2. 2.- University Education Commission (1948-1949): Major recommendations on Higher education
3. 3.- The Secondary Education Commission (1952-1953): Major recommendations
4. 4.- University Grants Commission 1953, UGC Act in 1956: University Grants Commission - Grant-giving agency & determination and maintenance of standards in institutions of higher education
5. 5.- Indian Education Commission or The Kothari Commission (1964-66): Major recommendations & reforms
6. 6.- National Knowledge Commission 2005, 2006 & 2009: Major recommendations
7. 7.Unit 2: National Policies on Education (7 Marks)
8. 8.- National Policy on Education 1968: Key highlights - covers elementary education to colleges in both rural and urban India equivalent opportunity for all including Women, ST and SC communities to study
9. 9.- The National Policy on Education 1986: Key highlights
10. 10.- Common Minimum Programme (2005)
11. 11.- National Policy on Education (Programme of Action) 1992: Key highlights, Revised Policy Formulations (RPF) 1992, Reforms
12. 12.- Report of Yashpal Committee 1993: Learning Without Burden - Major Recommendations
13. 13.- National Education Policy (NEP) 2020: Main features

Sub-topics will be added soon.

1. 1.(i) Simple Arithmetic (5 Marks)
2. 2.1. Numbers and Basic Operations
3. 3.2. Fraction and Decimal Numbers
4. 4.3. Percentage
5. 5.4. Profit and Loss
6. 6.5. Simple and Compound Interest
7. 7.6. Ratio and Proportion
8. 8.7. Time and Distance
9. 9.8. Time and Work
10. 10.9. Average
11. 11.10. Laws of Exponents
12. 12.11. Mensuration
13. 13.12. Progressions

1. 1.1. Series
2. 2.2. Problems on Mathematical Signs
3. 3.3. Verifying Positions
4. 4.4. Analogy: Word Analogy, Alphabet Analogy, Number Analogy
5. 5.5. Odd man out
6. 6.6. Numerical Ability
7. 7.7. Coding and Decoding
8. 8.8. Family Relations
9. 9.9. Sense of Direction
10. 10.10. Time and Angles
11. 11.11. Time in a clock and its reflection
12. 12.12. Date and Calendar
13. 13.13. Clerical Ability

1. 1.(i) English Grammar (5 Marks)
2. 2.- Types of Sentences and Interchange of Sentences
3. 3.- Different Parts of Speech
4. 4.- Agreement of Subject and Verb
5. 5.- Articles: Definite and Indefinite Articles
6. 6.- Uses of Primary and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
7. 7.- Question Tags
8. 8.- Infinitive and Gerunds
9. 9.- Tenses
10. 10.- Tenses in Conditional Sentences
11. 11.- Prepositions
12. 12.- The Use of Correlatives
13. 13.- Direct and Indirect Speech
14. 14.- Active and Passive voice
15. 15.- Correction of Sentences
16. 16.- Degrees of Comparison
17. 17.(ii) Vocabulary (5 Marks)
18. 18.- Singular & Plural, Change of Gender, Collective Nouns
19. 19.- Word formation from other words and use of prefix or suffix
20. 20.- Compound words
21. 21.- Synonyms
22. 22.- Antonyms
23. 23.- Phrasal Verbs
24. 24.- Foreign Words and Phrases
25. 25.- One Word Substitutes
26. 26.- Words often confused
27. 27.- Spelling Test
28. 28.- Idioms and their Meanings
29. 29.- Expansion and meaning of Common Abbreviations

1. 1.1. പദശുദ്ധി
2. 2.2. വാക്യശുദ്ധി
3. 3.3. പരിഭാഷ
4. 4.4. ഒറ്റപ്പദം
5. 5.5. പര്യായപദം
6. 6.6. വിപരീതപദം
7. 7.7. ശൈലികൾ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ
8. 8.8. സമാനപദം
9. 9.9. ചേർത്തെഴുതുക
10. 10.10. സ്ത്രീലിംഗം പുല്ലിംഗം
11. 11.11. വചനം
12. 12.12. പിരിച്ചെഴുതുക
13. 13.13. ഘടകപദം (വാക്യം ചേർത്തെഴുതുക)