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Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) recruits eligible candidates for the post of Higher Secondary School Teacher (HSST) as and when the vacancies arise. The Higher Secondary School Teacher (HSST) recruitment is a full time post and the exam for recruitment to this post is a highly competitive one. The Commission has invited applications from eligible candidates for recruitment to Kerala Higher Secondary Education Department. Applications are invited only through online mode by “ONE TIME REGISTRATION” from qualified candidates for appointment in the mentioned posts in State Government of Kerala.
Kerala PSC HSST Exam Pattern 2024
Kerala PSC conducts examination for the selection of candidates to the post of Higher Secondary School Teacher (HSST). Let’s have a look on the exam pattern.
| Sl. no | Subjects | Marks | Duration |
| 1. | Research Methodology/ Teaching Aptitude | 100 | 1 hour 15 minutes |
| 2. | Salient Features of Indian Constitution, Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes | ||
| 3. | Renaissance in Kerala, General Knowledge & Current Affairs | ||
| 4. | Core subject |
- The exam will be conducted with Objective type questions.
- There will be 100 questions, for each correct answer 1 mark will be credited.
- 0.33 marks will be deducted for each wrong answer.
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Kerala PSC HSST Courses
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1. HSST Physics
2. HSST Botany
3. HSST Zoology
4. HSST Malayalam
5. HSST Geography
6. HSST Political Science
7. HSST Computer Science
8. HSST Commerce
9. HSST Economics
10. HSST History
11. HSST Chemistry
12. HSST English
13. HSST Sociology
14. HSST Mathematics
Kerala PSC Higher Secondary School Teacher HSST Syllabus PDF
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Candidates can download Kerala PSC Higher Secondary School Teacher (HSST) subject wise Syllabus in PDF format by clicking on the respective links.
| Subjects | Link |
| Kerala PSC Syllabus of HSST Zoology 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Political Science Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Malayalam Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST History Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST English Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Computer Science Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Geography Exam Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Economics Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Commerce Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Mathematics Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Chemistry Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Sociology Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Botany Syllabus 2023 PDF | |
| Kerala PSC HSST Physics Syllabus 2023 PDF |
Kerala PSC HSST Study Notes 2024
Kerala PSC HSST study notes are given in PDF files so that candidates can download them on smartphones and personal computers as per the requirements. Click below links to download free PDFs prepared by Kerala PSC Subject experts.
History
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| Harappan Civilization Free PDF | |
| Vedic Period | |
| Megalithic Period – c.1000 BCE to 100 BCE | |
| Megalithic Sites and Discoveries | |
| Ancient Tamilakam | |
| Ancient Tamilakam – Part 2 | |
| Ancient Tamilakam – Part 3 | |
| Ancient Tamilakam – Part 4 | |
| Ancient Tamilakam – Part 5 | |
| Jainism | |
| Protestant Movement to Brahmanism | |
| Early states in India | |
| Buddhism | |
| Mauryan Period | |
| Post Mauryan Period | |
| Pre Mauryan Period | |
| Gupta Empire | |
| Gupta Empire – Part 2 | |
| Gupta Empire – Part 3 | |
| World History Part 1 | |
| World History Part 2 | |
| World History Part 3 | |
| Contemporary of Guptas | |
| Aeropalynology and Pollen Allergy | |
| Kerala History Part 1 | |
| Kerala History Part 2 | |
| Kerala History Part 3 | |
| Kerala History Part 4 | |
| Kerala History Part 6 | |
| Modern India Part 1 | |
| Modern India Part 2 | |
| Modern India Part 3 |
Geography
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| Paradigm Shift | |
| Concepts and trends in Geography | |
| Urban geography and regional development | |
| Model Questions PDF | Download PDF |
| Physiography of India | |
| Indian Desert | |
| Cartography and GeoInformatics | |
| Remote sensing types | |
| Drainage System | |
| Regional and Economic Geography of the world | |
| Resources and their classification | |
| Peninsular river | |
| Indian Agriculture | |
| Mineral Resources | |
| Transportation in India | |
| Land Reforms in India | |
| Mountain ranges and waterfalls | |
| Climate of India | |
| Geography of Kerala | |
| Geomorphology | |
| Concepts in Geomorphology | |
| Composition and structure of atmosphere | |
| Cyclones | |
| Oceans in the world | |
| Ecosystem and their functioning | |
| Soils and lakes in India | |
| Modern Trends in Geography | |
| Natural Vegetation |
Political Science
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| New Trends in Public Administration – Part A | |
| New Trends in Public Administration – Part B | |
| New Trends in Public Administration – Part C | |
| Approaches to Public Administration | |
| Approaches to Public Administration 2 | |
| Perspectives in Public Administration | |
| Bureaucracy | |
| Comparative Public Administration | |
| International Politics | |
| Limitations of national power | |
| Political Science Part 1 | |
| International Politics | |
| Foreign Policy | |
| Limitation of National Power |
Economics
| Production | |
| Risk and Uncertainty | |
| Recent development in demand theory | |
| Interdependence in the Economy | |
| Macro Macroeconomics | |
| Macroeconomics in an open Economy | |
| Current Controversies in Macroeconomics | |
| Budget and Budgetary control | |
| Fiscal, financial and external sector/issues | |
| Economic planning in India | |
| Kerala Economy | |
| Linear Functions | |
| Analysis of Variance | |
| Population and Sample sampling |
Commerce
| Company Accounts | |
| Accounts of Holding Company | |
| Liquidation of Companies | |
| Analysis and interpretation of financial statements | |
| Amalgamation Absorption and Reconstruction | |
| Accounting principles and accounting standards | |
| Financial Accounting – Working Capital | |
| Double Account System | |
| Valuation of Shares and Good will | |
| Insurance Claims | |
| Advanced Cost Accounting | |
| Marginal costing | |
| Management Principles and Techniques | |
| Human Resource Management | |
| Total Quality Management | |
| Organisational Development and Behaviour | |
| School of Management Thought | |
| Clubbing of Income-Set Off and Carry Forward | |
| Assessment of Individual | |
| Standard Costing | |
| Reconciliation of cost and financial accounts | |
| Management Information System |
Sociology
| Basic concepts of sociology | |
| Sociological Theories | |
| Social Research Methods | |
| Sociology of Indian Society | |
| Sociology of development | |
| Recent trends in sociology | |
| Kerala society |
Physics
Click below links to download HSST important Physics study notes
| Particle Properties of Waves | |
| Quantum Mechanics | |
| Blackbody and Photoelectric effect Questions | |
| Electrodynamics – Vector Analysis | |
| Photoelectric Effect | |
| Photoelectric effect problems & Compton Effect | |
| Problems on Crompton Effect | |
| Problems on Crompton effect and Pair Production | |
| de Broglie waves – Intro | |
| de Broglie Waves – Problems | |
| de Broglie Waves – Part 2 | |
| Pair Production & Pair Annihilation | |
| Group velocity and phase velocity | |
| Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle | |
| Wave Function | |
| Wave Function, Operators and Quantum Commutators | |
| Postulates of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Cariolis and Centrifugal Forces | |
| Lagrange equations and D’Alembert’s Principle | |
| Inertia | |
| Kepler’s problem | |
| Hamilton Jacobi Equation | |
| Hamilton’s Principle | |
| Derivation of Lagranges equations | |
| Expectation value and Eigen Value | |
| Velocity Dependent Potential | |
| Harmonic Oscillator | |
| Nuclear Forces | |
| Nucleus | |
| Non linear oscillation | |
| Radioactivity | |
| Soddy Fajan Laws | |
| General Properties of nuclei | |
| Logistic Map and Analysis | |
| Central Forces | |
| Phase – Space Dynamics | |
| Hamilton-Jacobi Equation | |
| Dirac’s notation | |
| Derivation of Lagrange’s equations | |
| Application of Schrödinger equation | |
| Orbital Angular Momentum | |
| Two Dimensional Collision | |
| Hydrogen Atom | |
| Stern-Gerlach Experiment | |
| Elementary theory of scattering | |
| Quantum mechanical tunneling | |
| Selection Rules | |
| Spin statistics theorem | |
| Time independent perturbation theory | |
| Variation method | |
| WKB Approximation | |
| Time dependent perturbation theory | |
| Pauli’s exclusion principle and identical particles | |
| Current application of xray powder diffraction | |
| Debye scherrer camera at synchrotron sources | |
| Internal conversion | |
| Magic numbers and shell model | |
| Parity violation | |
| Quarks and Gluons (QCD) | |
| Electric Quadrupole moment | |
| Quark model | |
| Scherrer equation and dynamical theory of xray diffraction | |
| Eightfold way | |
| Semi empirical mass formula | |
| Symmetries and conservation laws | |
| X-ray single crystal and powder diffraction: possibilities and applications | |
| Solid State Physics Part 1 | |
| Solid State Physics Part 2 | |
| Solid State Physics Part 3 | |
| Entropy of mixing and Gibbs paradox | |
| Virial theorem | |
| Phase space of classical system | |
| Equipartition theorem | |
| Diamagnetism | |
| Antiferro Magnets | |
| Liouville’s theorem and its consequences | |
| Superconductivity | |
| Density of matrix | |
| Thermodynamic behavior of an ideal Bose gas | |
| Thermodynamic behavior of an ideal Fermi gas | |
| Semiconductor lasers | |
| Second Harmonic Generation | |
| Solid state laser | |
| Optical ,Step-index fibers, Graded index | |
| Radiation induced optical fiber | |
| Mode locking | |
| Microprocessor | |
| Losses in Optical Fibers | |
| Line broadening | |
| Laser | |
| Dye Laser | |
| CO2-Lasers | |
| Op-Amp based multivibrators | |
| Electronics | |
| Electronics Part 1 | |
| Electronics Part 2 | |
| Electronics Part 4 | |
| Operators and its properties | |
| The Hilbert Space | |
| Vector space | |
| Cauchy’s integral theorem and Cauchy’s integral formula | |
| Orbital Angular Momentum Angular Momentum Operators | |
| Bessel Functions of the First and Second Kind | |
| Bessel Functions of the First | |
| Bessel Functions of the Second Kind | |
| Beta Function | |
| Cauchy Riemann | |
| Delta Function | |
| Fourier Series and Integrals | |
| Fourier Series and Transform Properties | |
| Gamma Function | |
| Generating Function | |
| Hermite Polynomials | |
| Laguerre Polynomials | |
| Laurent Expansion | |
| Legendre Polynomials and Functions | |
| Orthogonality | |
| Recurrence Relations | |
| Rodrigues’ formula for the Legendre polynomials | |
| Singularity | |
| Spherical Bessel | |
| Spherical Harmonics | |
| Tables of Fourier Series and Transform Properties | |
| The Calculus of Residues | |
| Thermal methods of analysis | |
| Harmonic Perturbation | |
| Klein Gordon equation |
Biology
| Cell Biology – Intro | |
| Cell Biology | |
| Cell Biology – Part 3 | |
| Evidences of Evolution | |
| Structure of Bacterial Cell | |
| Types of Immunity | |
| Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cell | |
| Mitochondria | |
| Plasma membrane | |
| Ecology | |
| DNA Replication | |
| Numerical and structural variations of chromosomes | |
| Systematics and Evolutionary Biology | |
| Human Genome Project | |
| Population genetics | |
| Linkage and crossing over | |
| Cell molecular biology and biotechnology | |
| Cell division | |
| Extrachromosomal Inheritance | |
| Polygenetic Inheritance | |
| Human blood group | |
| Genetic code | |
| Techniques of DNA Analysis | |
| Metal Ions in the biological system |
Zoology
| Different Classes of Immunoglobulins | |
| Structure of Immunoglobulins | |
| Antigens | |
| Cells of immune system | |
| Organs of immune system | |
| Dimensions of speciation | |
| Evolutionary Biology | |
| Biotechnology |
Botany
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| Plant Pathology | |
| Phycology | |
| Pteridology | |
| Bryology | |
| Embryology | |
| Classification of Gymnosperms | |
| Coniferopsida | |
| Gymnosperms – General Characteristics | |
| Forest Botany | |
| Gymnology | |
| Paleobotany | |
| Mycology – part 2 | |
| Mycology – part 3 | |
| Translation | |
| Morphology of Bacteria | |
| Polymerase Chain Reaction | |
| Classification of fungi | |
| Basidiomycotina | |
| Fungal association | |
| Zygomycota | |
| Palynology | |
| P.K. K Nair, Father of Palynology | |
| Palynology in relation to Taxonomy | |
| Microbial Genetics | |
| Economic importance of fungi | |
| Natural Products |
Mathematics
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| Mensuration | |
| Sets and Binary Operations | |
| System of linear equations | |
| Linear Algebra | |
| Sets and Functions | |
| Differentiability | |
| Sets and Binary Operations | |
| Lebesgue measure | |
| Complex Numbers | |
| Metric spaces | |
| Ordinary differential equations | |
| Functional Analysis | |
| Number theory |
English
| From Early English Literature to 18th century | |
| Module 2 | |
| Module 2 – Part 2 |
Computer Science
| Microprocessor Part 1 | |
| Microprocessor Part 2 | |
| Computer Organization | |
| Computer Organization Part 2 | |
| Digital Systems | |
| Data Structure Part 1 | |
| Data Structure Part 2 |
Chemistry
| Organometallic Chemistry | |
| Polymer Chemistry | |
| Organometallic Catalysis | |
| Photo reactions of Carbonyl Compounds | |
| Nanomaterials | |
| Chromatographic Techniques | |
| Substitution Reactions |
Malayalam
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