Kerala PSC Higher Secondary School Teacher 2025 Syllabus & Exam Pattern PDF

The Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) has released the detailed syllabus for the Higher Secondary School Teacher (HSST) recruitment exam. Get ready for Kerala PSC Higher Secondary School Teacher 2025 exams with our comprehensive syllabus and exam pattern. This blog offers detailed subject-wise syllabus PDFs covering key topics, marking schemes, and exam formats. Access these resources now to boost your preparation and stay ahead!

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Kerala PSC HSST 2025 Exam Pattern

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.

• 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.

Kerala PSC Higher Secondary School Teacher 2025 Syllabus – (Common)

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Research Methodology/ Teaching Aptitude

Research Aptitude

• Meaning, Characteristics and types of research
• Research Ethics
• Methods of Research
• Steps of Research
• Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference and symposium
• Thesis writing: its characteristics and format

Teaching Aptitude

• Nature, objectives, characteristics and basic requirements of teaching
• Learner’s characteristics
• Factors affecting teaching
• Methods of teaching
• Teaching aids
• Evaluation systems

Salient Features of Indian Constitution, Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes

• Salient features of the Constitution
• Preamble- Its significance and its place in the interpretation of the Constitution
• Fundamental Rights – Directive Principles of State Policy
• Relation between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
• Fundamental Duties
• Executive – Legislature – Judiciary – Both at Union and State Level
• Other Constitutional Authorities
• Centre-State Relations – Legislative – Administrative and Financial
• Services under the Union and the States
• Emergency Provisions
• Amendment Provisions of the Constitution
• Social Service Legislations like Right to Information Act
• Prevention of atrocities against Women & Children
• Food Security Act
• Environmental Acts
• Social Welfare Programmes like Employment Guarantee Programme
• Organ and Blood Donation etc

Renaissance in Kerala, General Knowledge & Current Affairs

• Towards a New Society
• Efforts to reform the Society
• Various missionary organizations and their functioning
• Socio-Religious reform Movements
• Struggles and Social Revolts
• Role of Press in Renaissance
• Awakening Through Literature
• Women and Social Change
• Leaders of Renaissance
• Literary Figures
• National & International events
• Indian Economy & Polity
• Science & Environment, etc.

Social Welfare Legislations and Programs

Social Service Legislations like Right to Information Act, Prevention of atrocities against Women & Children, Food Security Act, Environmental Acts etc. and Social Welfare Programmes like Employment Guarantee Programme, Organ and Blood Donation etc.

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

Kerala PSC Higher Secondary School Teacher 2025 Syllabus (Subject Wise)

Economics

Module I

• Recent Development in Demand Theory
• Consumer Behavior under Uncertainty and Risk
• Theory of Production and Costs
• Market Structure
• Informatics Economics

Module II

• General Equilibrium
• Welfare Economics
• Marginalist Controversy and Managerial and Behavioural Theories of the Firm
• Aggregate Demand Consumption Function

Module III (Macro Economics)

• Macro Economics in an Open Economy
• Classical versus Keynesian Approach

Module IV

• Current Controversies in Macro Economics

Module V

• Indian Economy

Module VI

• Fiscal, Financial and External Sector/ Issues

Module VII

• Quantitative Methods

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English

Module 1-From Early English Literature to 18th century

Module 2 – Non detailed study

• Beowulf
• Ballads – Sir Patrick Spence, Chevy Chase
• Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
• Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion
• Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
• Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal
• Sir Thomas More – Utopia
• Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
• Samuel Richardson – Pamela
• Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

Module 3 – The Romantic and Victorian Period

Module 4 – Non detailed study

• William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
• Olauda Equiano – The Interesting Narrative (Chapter 4 and 5)
• P.B. Shelley – The Cenci
• Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
• Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
• Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
• Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Ubervilles
• Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
• Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

Module 5 – Twentieth Century British Literature

Module 6 – Non detailed study

• F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition
• Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness
• Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
• James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• George Orwell – 1984
• John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
• Caryll Churchill – Top Girls

Module 7

• Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali
• Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of Waiting
• Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel Fishers
• Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House, Freaks
• Nissim Ezeliek – Background, Casually
• A.K. Ramanujan – A River, The Striders
• Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
• Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest
• Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man
• S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory of Rasa
• Kunjunni Raja – Theory of Dhwani

Module 8

• Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session
• Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable
• Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope
• Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day
• R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
• Salman Rushdie – Midnighht’s Children
• Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
• Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
• A.K. Ramanujan – Is there an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essa

Module 9 – American Literature

Module 10

• Emerson – Self Reliance
• Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
• Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
• E E Cummings – Buffallo Hills
• Allan Ginsberg – America
• Gertrude Stein – Daughter
• Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
• Herman Melville – Moby Dick
• Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea
• Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye

Module 11– Structure of English Language and Linguistics

Module 12– English Language Teaching

Module 13– Literary Criticism and Theory

Module 14– Culture Studies

Physics

• Mathematical Methods of Physics
• Classical Mechanics
• Quantum Mechanics
• Electro Dynamics & Statistical Physics
• Statistical Physics
• Spectroscopy and Condensed Matter Physics
• Nuclear and Particle Physics & Electronics
• Recent Developments in Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Non Linear Dynamics
• Non Conventional Energy Resources
• Evolution of Universe
• Basis of Quantum Computing

Chemistry

• Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
• Chemical Bonding in Diatomic and Polyatomic Molecules
• Laws of Thermodynamics
• Homogenous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Organic Reactions
• Photoreactions of Carbonyl compound
• Theories of acids and bases
• Synthesis, structure, properties and bonding of organometallic compounds
• Nanostructures – ID, 2D and 3D structures
• Recent Developments in Chemistry

Geology

• Fundamental concepts and scope of Geomorphology
• Morphometric analysis
• Concept of symmetry in crystals
• Isomorphism and polymorphism
• Geochemical cycle and classification
• Application of thermodynamics in Geochemistry
• Formation and evolution of magma
• Bowen’s Reaction Principle and Series, Phase Diagrams
• Structures and textures of sedimentary rocks
• Rock deformation
• Major geological events during different periods of earth’s history
• Classification of Mineral deposits
• Mining terminology, Alluvial, Opencast, underground, coal and deep sea mining methods
• Methods/Guides to Mineral prospecting
• Ground water prospecting, Geophysical methods
• Types of remote sensing
• Geographic Information system—Fundamental concepts, components & applications in Geology

Botany

• Phycology, Mycology
• Plant Pathology
• Bryology, Pteridology
• Gymnosperms, Microbiology
• Palaeobotany
• Angiosperm Anatomy
• Microtechnique
• Embryology, Palynology
• Plant Breeding, Evolution
• Taxonomy, Morphology
• Economic Botany
• Ethonobotany
• Phytogeography
• Forest Botany
• Environmental Biology
• Cell And Molecular Biology
• Genetics, Plant Physiology
• Biochemistry, Biophysics
• Biostatistics, Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics
• Computer Applications
• Recent developments in Botany

Commerce

• Financial Accounting
• Ratio Analysis-Fund flow Analysis – Cash Flow Analysis
• Advanced Cost Accounting
• Marginal Costing and Breakeven Analysis
• Management Principles and Techniques
• Taxation Laws – Direct & Indirect
• Determination of Residential Status and Incidence of Tax
• Research Methodology & Quantitative Techniques
• Applications of Statistical Tools and Techniques in Social Research
• Management Information System
• MIS and Various Levels of Management
• Security Analysis & Portfolio Management
• Indian Financial System-Financial Markets
• Recent Trends in Commerce

Sanskrit

• General Study o Mahakvyas Khandakavyas and Storakavyas
• Drama and Dramaturgy
• General Study of the drama of Kalidasa, Bhasa, Sudraka
• Vedanta and Nyaya
• General Study of Six Systems of Indian Philosophy
• General Study of Dhamaastra an Arthsastra
• Poetics, Vyakarana
• General Study of Linguitics
• Prose , Campu and History of Sanskrit Literature
• Advanced areas of sanskrit studies
• General study of contemporary Sanskrit Composition
• Contribution of Malayalam writers to Sanskrit

Zoology

• Systematics and Evolutionary Biology
• Formation of scientific names of various taxa
• Physiology and Biochemistry
• Nutrition and Digestion
• Microbiology and Immunology
• Industrial Microbiology
• Immunogens, Immunoglobulins, Antigen Antibody interaction
• Transplantation
• Cell, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
• Gene cloning
• BGenetic engineering techniques
• Genetics and Developmental Biology
• Ecology, Ethology
• Biodiversity Conservation and Bio-statistics
• Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Computer Application
• Recent developments in Zoology

Hindi

• History of Hindi Literature up to 2005
• Origin and Development of Hindi Language
• Indian Languages and Classifications
• Classification of Indo-European languages
• Linguistics
• Grammar and Structure of Hindi
• Theory of Literature, Eastern, Western and Post Modern
• Journalism and Functional Hindi
• History of Hindi Journalism in Kerala
• Hindi as an Official Language and National Language
• Contemporary Literary Movements in Hindi
• Human right Issues in contemporary Hindi literature

Computer Science

• Digital Systems, Microprocessors & Computer Organization
• Data Structures of Algorithms
• Operating Systems
• Database Management Systems
• Software Engineering
• Programming Languages
• Recent developments in Computer Science

Political Science

• Modern Political Thought
• Indian Government and Politics
• Comparative Politics
• Theories and concepts of public administration
• International Politics
• Research Methodology
• Modern trends in Political Science

Mathematics

• History of Development of Mathematics
• Fundamentals of number theory
• System of Linear Equations
• Polynomial Equations, Trigonometry
• Calculus, applications of differentiation and integration
• Real numbers, rational, irrational number
• Functions, Complex numbers
• First, Second order ordinary differential equations
• Laplace transform, Fourier series
• Fundamentals of differential geometry
• Fundamentals of Mechanics and Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics

Geography

• Concepts and Trends in Geography
• Physical Geography
• Geography in India
• Urban Geography and Regional development
• Cartography and Geoinformatics
• Regional and Economic Geography of the world
• Modern trends in Geography

History

• Historiography & Research Methodology
• World History
• Pre-Modern India
• Modern India
• Social and Religious reform movements
• Pre-Modern Kerala
• Modern Kerala
• Origin and Development of Malayalam Language
• Recent developments in historical studies

Statistics

• Mathematical methods for statistics
• Probability Theory
• Distribution theory
• Sampling theory and design of experiments
• Statistical Inference
• Stochastic Processes , Multivariate Analysis
• Recent developments in Statistics

Sociology

• Basic concepts in sociology
• Sociological Theories
• Social Research Methods
• Sociology of Indian Society
• Sociology of Development
• Kerala Society
• Recent trends in Sociology

Home Science

• Kinds of Micro Organisms in different foods
• Quality Control in food industry
• House Plans for different economic groups
• Intervention programmes for children with challenges
• Importance of parental feeding
• Rural development
• Morbidity and mortality rates of vulnerable sessions of the population
• Recent Developments in Home Science
• Emerging trends of Bio Technology on food cultivation industries, etc

Urdu

• Urdu Zaban Ka Aghaz-O-Irtiqa
• Urdu Shairi Ke Mukhtalif Dabisthan Unki Khusoosiat Aur Unke Chand Qadeem Aur
• Jadeed Numaindashoara
• Urdu Shairi Ke Chand Aham Asnaaf
• Urdu Shairi Ke Asnaf
• Urdu Nasr Ka Irtiqa
• Urdu Fiction Aur Drama
• Urdu Ke Deegar Asnaf-E-Nasr Aur Amali Qawaid etc

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