APPSC Group 4 Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2020

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• Events of national and international importance
• Current affairs- international, national and regional
• General Science and its applications to the day to day life Contemporary developments in Science & Technology and Information Technology.
• The social- economic and political history of modern India with emphasis on Andhra Pradesh.
• Indian polity and governance: constitutional issues, public policy, reforms and e-governance initiatives with specific reference to Andhra Pradesh.
• Economic development in India since independence with emphasis on Andhra Pradesh.
• The physical geography of Indian sub-continent and Andhra Pradesh.
• Disaster management: vulnerability profile, prevention, and mitigation strategies, Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in the assessment of Disaster.
• Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
• Logical reasoning, analytical ability, and data interpretation.
• Data Analysis:
  a) Tabulation of data
  b) Visual representation of data
  c) Basic data analysis (Summary Statistics such as mean, median, mode, variance and coefficient of variation) and Interpretation
• Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and its Administrative, Economic, Social, Cultural, Political, and Legal Implications/ problems

·       Usage and idioms

·       Vocabulary and punctuation

·       Logical re-arrangement of sentences

·       Grammar

·       Grammar

·       Telugu to English meanings

·       English to Telugu meanings

·       Usage and idiom

General Studies- Syllabus

·       Geography

·       Civics

·       Economics

·       Physics

·       Chemistry

·       Botany

·       Zoology

·       Current Affairs

·       Disaster Management

•  Concepts in disaster management and vulnerability profile of India / State of A.P.
•  Earth quakes / Cyclones / Tsunami / Floods / Drought – causes and effects.
•  Manmade disasters – Prevention strategies.
• Mitigation strategies / Mitigation measures. 

Secretarial Abilities- Intermediate Standard- Syllabus

·       Grouping Identical Figures

·       Figure Matrix Questions

·       Problem on Age Calculation

·       Decision Making

·       Inference

·       Analogy

·       Nonverbal Series

·       Test of Direction Sense

·       Number Series

·       Alphabet Series

·       Arguments

·       Venn Diagram

·       Blood Relations

·       Coding and Decoding

·       Number Ranking

·       Arithmetical Reasoning

·       Quadratic Equations

·       Indices and Surds

·       Mensuration

·       Percentages

·       Areas

·       Time and Distance

·       Problems on Trains

·       Odd Man Out

·       Numbers and Ages

·       Pipes and Cisterns

·       Time and Work Partnership

·       Ratio and Proportion

·       Simple Interest

·       Probability

·       Averages

·       Problems on L.C.M and H.C.F

·       Problems on Numbers

·       Compound Interest

·       Volumes Profit and Loss

·       Races and Games

·       Mixtures and Allegations

·       Boats and Streams

·       Permutations and Combinations

·       Simplification and Approximation

Secretarial Abilities- Intermediate Standard- Syllabus

·       Series Completion

·       Verification of truth of the Statement

·       Situation Reaction Test

·       Direction Sense Test

·       Classification

·       Data Sufficiency

·       Alpha-Numeric Sequence Puzzle

·       Puzzle Test

·       Blood Relations

·       Coding-Decoding

·       Assertion and Reasoning

·       Arithmetical Reasoning

·       Operations of Mathematics

·       Venn Diagrams

·       Word Sequence

·       Missing Characters

·       Sequential Output training

·       Directions

·       Test on Alphabets

·       Eligibility Test

·       Identical figure groupings

·       Forming figures and analysis

·       Construction of Squares and Triangles

·       Series

·       Analytical Reasoning

·       Paper Folding

·       Paper Cutting

·       Cubes and Dice

·       Water Images

·       Mirror Images

·       Figure Matrix

·       Completion Incomplete Pattern

·       Spotting embedded figures

·       Classification

·       Rules Detection

Concerned Subject- SSC Standard- Syllabus

• Nature and Scope of Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education.
• Gandhi; Tagore; Aurobindo; Vivekananda; Jiddu Krishna Murthy.
• Socialization and Education; Social change and Education; Culture and Education; Modernization and Education; Equality of Educational opportunities.
• Idealism; Naturalism; Pragmatism; Realism; Existentialism.
• Education of Weaker Sections.

• Universalization of Education
• Medium of instruction
• Adult Education and Functional literacy
• School and Community Relationships
• Lifelong Education
• Wastage and stagnation in Education
• Family life and population Education
• Moral Education
• Education of the socially and culturally disadvantaged
• National and Emotional integration
• Non-Formal Education
• International understanding
• Teacher Education
• Common Entrance Examinations and Centralised admissions into the basic courses in Andhra Pradesh.
• Recommendations of various Education Commissions and Committees.
• Vocational Education and vocationalization of Education.

Concerned Subject –SSC Standard -Educational Psychology-Syllabus

• Relationship between Educational Psychology
• Nature and Scope of Educational Psychology
• Methods of Educational Psychology

• Principles of Growth and Development.
• Stages of Development-Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence and aspects of development – Physical, Mental, Social and Emotional and its Educational implications to classroom teaching and education.

• Nature of Learning
• Theories of Learning(Behavioral, Cognitive and Social)
• Relevance to classroom teaching, learning and Motivation
• Various methods of motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic) and its applications for classroom teaching.

• Meaning and significance of the study of individual differences. Inter and Intra Individual difference and its assessment
• Concept of Personality and its assessment (Projective and Non-Projective methods)
• Understanding and helping learners with special needs – poor achievers, underachievers, low-level of intellectual functioning
• Giftedness and creativity
• Need and significance of guidance and counselling in schools.

• Statistics-Concept and its need for understanding the behaviour of learners and teachers
• Measures of Central tendency
• Measures of Variability
• Correlation and various methods of computing correlation.