Kerala PSC LP/UP Assistant 2020 notification is out now. Candidates who wish to be a part of government schools can now apply for this amazing opportunity. Graduates with B.ED and KTET are eligible for these posts. Since a large number of government school teachers are retiring in the upcoming years the number of vacancies would be high. Here we are discussing the Kerala PSC LP/UP Assistant previous year question papers, and detail syllabus.
Kerala PSC LP/ UP Assistant 2020 Important Dates
- Date of Notification: December 31, 2019
- Last Date for Application: February 02, 2020
- Exam Date: Yet to known…
Click here to attempt a free LP Assistant Clerk mock test
Kerala PSC LP/ UP Assistant 2020 Eligibility
The candidates should have these following qualifications:
- A pass in SSLC/ Matriculation or it’s equivalent
OR - A pass in Pre-degree examination conducted by any of the Universities in Kerala or any examination recognized by any such universities in Kerala as equivalent to Pre-Degree examination.
OR - A pass in Higher Secondary Examination (Plus Two) conducted by the Board of Higher Secondary Examination, Kerala or any other examination recognized by Government as equivalent thereto, and
- A pass in T.T.C Examination(D.Ed) conducted by the Commissioner for Government Examinations, Kerala.
OR
- A Degree in any subject and B.Ed/ B.T/ L.T conferred or recognized by the Universities in Kerala, and
- Must have passed the Kerala Teacher Eligibility Test (K-TET) for this post conducted by the Government of Kerala. Candidates who have qualified CTET/ NET/ SET/ M.Phil/Ph.D./ M.Ed. in the respective subjects are exempted from acquiring the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET).
- Candidates should have studied Malayalam in Matriculation level or as a second language in the Graduation level or the candidates should have studied in the Malayalam medium.
For LP Assistant Graduation with B.Ed is not necessary, D.Ed/ T.T.C along with Pre-Degree or Higher Secondary education is enough. M.Com graduates with B.Ed and KTET can apply for UP Assistant.
Click here to attempt a free UP Assistant mock test
Kerala PSC LP/UP Assistant Syllabus
Candidates, please note that the LP/UP Assistant exam language is Malayalam. The questions shall be from the following topics:
- General Knowledge and Current Affairs
- Basic Science
- Numerical Ability and Reasoning Ability
- English Language (Only for UP Assistant)
- Child Development Paedagogy and Psychology
Numerical Ability
- Number Systems and basic mathematical operations
- Fraction and Decimal Numbers
- Percentages, Averages
- Profit and loss, Simple and compound Interests
- Time and Distance, Time and Work
- Ration and Proportion
- Mensuration- Volumes, Area, Total Surface Area
- Law of exponents
- Progressions
- Time and Distance
- Time and Work
Click here to attempt a free UP Assistant mock test
General Knowledge and Current Affairs
- Geography – Kerala, and India
- Basic facts about Kerala- Geography, History, Industries, Economy, etc
- River systems and mountain ranges in India
- Minerals, Mines, Industries
- Road, Railway, Air and Water Transportation System in India
- States and Union Territories- Basic Facts
- Medieval India, First war of Independence- Causes and Results, Indian Independence History
- National level and regional level national and cultural movements and uprisings
- India after Independence
- India’s Foreign Policy
- Five-year plans, Banking & Insurance, Different Schemes(Central & State government-sponsored)
- Human rights act, Human Rights Commissions, SC/ST acts, SC/ST commissions, Women Protection bills, Right to Information Act and Commissions, etc
- Women Empowerment, Laws against domestic abuses
- Cyber Laws
- Polity, Economics, Science, Literature, Art & Culture, Sports – Current Affairs of both national and international importance
- National Parks, Biospheres, etc
Click here to attempt a free UP Assistant mock test
General Science
- Basics of Human Organs
- Vitamins and Diseases
- Disease and carriers
- Important Agricultural Schemes in Kerala
- Important Crops in Kerala
- Forest Resources
- Environment and Pollution
- Atom and its structures
- Ores and Minerals
- Elements and its groups
- Laws of Motions
- Chemistry in everyday life
- Work and Energy, Power, Electricity
- Heat and Temperature
- Solar System and its characteristics
- Sound and Light
Mental Ability
- Series- Alphabetic, Numerical and Alphanumerical
- Problems on Mathematical signs
- Analogy – Word Analogy, Alphabet Analogy, Number Analogy
- Odd man out
- Coding and Decoding
- Family Relation
- Sense of Direction
- Time and Angles
- Time in a clock and its reflection
- Date and Calendar
- Clerical Ability
Click here to attempt a free LP Assistant mock test
Child Development Paedagogy and Psychology
- Methods of studying child behavior – observation, case study, Interview, Psychological tests, etc.
- Concept of development
- Principles of growth and development
- Influence of heredity and environment on human development
- Concept of learning
- Basic theories of learning: Conditioning (Pavlov, Skinner); Insight learning (Gestalt); cognitive learning (Piaget, Bruner, and Vygotsky)
- The relation between development and learning: learner readiness of maturation
- Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: Constructs and critical perspectives.
- Concept of child-centered and progressive education – Activity-based method of Teaching and Learning, Problem Based Learning
- Critical perspectives of the construct of intelligence (Theories of Spearman, Guilford, Thurstone, and Gardner).
- Language and Thought (Basic perspectives of Piaget, Chomsky, and Vygotsky).
- Gender as a social construct: Gender roles, gender bias, and educational practice
- Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.,
- The distinction between – Assessment for learning and Assessment of learning – school-based Assessment (Internal assessment)
- Continuous and comprehensive evaluation: Perspectives and practice
- Assessing learner achievement – grading
- Personality development – the concept of personality and basic approaches to personality (Psychoanalytic and Trait) – Adjustment mechanisms
- How children think and learn: how and why children fail to achieve success in school performance • Different factors influencing learning and achievement
- The basic process of teaching and learning: Children’s strategies of learning – Learning as a social activity – social context of learning
- Child as a problem solver and ‘scientific investigator’ (the concept of the nature of child by Piaget, Bruner, and Vygotsky)
- Alternative concepts of Learning in children: Understanding children’s’ ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process (Self – corrective nature of the child)
- Cognition and Emotions – Emotion – Basic Emotions – characteristics of childhood emotionality. Emotional Development (Bridge’s)- cognition (Thinking, Reasoning, Problems solving and Investigation)
- Motivation and learning – How does motivation influence learning – Maslow’s theory of motivation
- Factors contributing to learning – Personal and environmental
Click here to attempt a free LP Assistant mock test
General English
This part of the syllabus is applicable only for UP Assistant posts. The English language is not a part of the LP Assistant exam.
- Types of Sentences and Interchange of Sentences
- Different Parts of Speech
- Agreement of Verb and Subject
- Confusion of Adjectives and Adverbs
- Comparison of Adjectives
- Articles – The Definite and the Indefinite Articles
- Uses of Primary and Model Auxiliary Verbs
- Tag Questions
- Infinitive and Gerunds
- Tenses
- Tenses in Conditional Tenses
- Adverbs and Position of adverbs
- Prepositions
- The Use of Correlatives
- Direct and Indirect Speech
- Active and Passive voice
- Correction of Sentences
- Singular & Plural, Change of Gender, Collective Nouns
- Word Formation from other words and the use of prefix or suffix
- Compound words
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Phrasal Verbs
- Foreign Words and Phrases
- One Word Substitutes
- Words often confused
- Spelling Test
- Idioms and their Meaning
Kerala PSC LP/UP Assistant Previous Year Question Papers
Kerala PSC LP Assistant Previous Year Question Papers
Click here to download Kerala PSC LP Assistant previous year question papers free pdf:
Click here to download Kerala PSC LP Assistant notification free pdf
Kerala PSC LP ASSISTANT 2020 OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION
Kerala PSC UP Assistant Previous Year Question Papers
Click here to download Kerala PSC UP Assistant previous year question papers free pdf:
- Kerala PSC UP Assistant 2016 Kannada Medium
- Kerala PSC UP Assistant 2016
- Kerala PSC UP Assistant Malayalam
Click here to download Kerala PSC UP Assistant notification free pdf
KERALA PSC UP ASSISTANT 2020 OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION
Entri wishes you all the best for your upcoming examinations. Start your Preparation today itself. Entri will help you with thousands of questions. Attempt mock tests, analyze yourselves to improve your success rate.
