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General Awareness

• India and its neighbouring countries
• History, Geography, and Polity of India and the World
• Art and Culture of India
• Current Affairs
• Science and Technology
• Sports and Sportspersons
• Awards and Honours
• Books and Writers
• Economic Science
• Basic Science

General Intelligence and Reasoning

• Analogies, similarities, and differences,
• Space visualization, spatial orientation,
• Problem-solving, analysis, judgment, decision making,
• Visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts,
• Arithmetical reasoning and figural classification,
• Arithmetic number series, non-verbal series,
• Coding and decoding,
• Statement conclusion, syllogistic reasoning-Semantic Analogy, Symbolic/ Number Analogy,
  Figural Analogy, Semantic Classification, Symbolic/ Number Classification, Figural Classification, Semantic Series,
• Number Series,
• Figural Series,
• Word Building, Coding and de-coding,
• Numerical Operations, symbolic Operations,
• Trends,
• Venn Diagrams, Drawing inferences,
• Punched hole/ pattern- folding and unfolding,
• Figural Pattern- folding and completion,
• Indexing, Address matching,
• Date and city matching,
• Classification of centre codes/ roll numbers, Small and Capital letters/ numbers coding,
  decoding and classification,
• Embedded Figures,
• Critical thinking,
• Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence

Quantitative Aptitude

• Computation of whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and relationships between numbers,
• Percentage
• Ratio and Proportion,
• Square roots,
• Averages,
• Interest, Profit and Loss, Discount,
• Partnership Business, Mixture, and Alligation,
• Time and distance, Time and Work,
• Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra and Elementary surds,
• Graphs of Linear Equations,
• Triangle and its various kinds of centres,
• Congruence and similarity of triangles,
• Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles,
• Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circle, Right Prism,
• Right- Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder,
• Sphere, Hemispheres,
• Rectangular Parallelepiped,
• Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base,
• Trigonometric ratio, Degree and Radian Measures, Standard Identities,
• Complementary angles, Heights and Distances,
• Histogram,
• Frequency polygon, Bar diagram and Pie chart.

English Comprehension

• Antonyms and Synonyms
• SPelling Test
• Sentence Correction
• Para jumbles
• Cloze Test
• Reading Comprehension

Quantitative Ability

Computation of whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and relationships between numbers,

• Percentage
• Ratio and Proportion,
• Square roots,
• Averages,
• Interest, Profit and Loss, Discount,
• Partnership Business, Mixture, and Alligation,
• Time and distance, Time and Work,
• Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circle, Right Prism,
• Right- Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder,
• Sphere, Hemispheres,
• Rectangular Parallelepiped,

• Spot the error,
• Fill in the blanks,
• Synonyms, antonyms,
• Spelling/ detecting misspelt words,
• Idioms and phrases,
• One word substitution,
• Improvement of sentences,
• The active and passive voice of verbs,
• Cloze passage and comprehension passage.

Indian Economy and Banking

• National Income of India-Concepts of national income, Different methods of measuring national income.
• Population-Its size, rate of growth and its implication on economic growth.
• Poverty and unemployment- Absolute and relative poverty, types, causes and incidence of unemployment.
• Infrastructure-Energy, Transportation, Communication.
  Economic reforms since 1991; Liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation, and Disinvestment.
• Monetary Policy and Fiscal policy- Role and functions of Reserve Bank of India; functions of commercial Banks, RRB, and Payment Banks.
• Budget and Fiscal deficits and Balance of payments.
• Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003.

Statistics

• Measures of Central Tendency- Common measures of central tendency
• Measures of Dispersion- Common measures dispersion
• Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis –
• Correlation and Regression –
• Probability Theory
• Random Variable and Probability Distributions
• Sampling Theory
• Statistical Inference
• Analysis of Variance
• Time Series Analysis.
• Index Numbers

Finance and Accounts

• Basic concepts of accounting: Single and double entry, Books of Original Entry, Bank Reconciliation, Journal, Ledgers, Trial Balance, Rectification of Errors, Manufacturing,
• Trading, Profit and Loss Appropriation Accounts, Balance Sheet Distinction between Capital and Revenue Expenditure, Depreciation Accounting,
•  Valuation of Inventories, Non-profit organizations Accounts, Receipts and Payments and Income and expenditure Accounts,
• Bills of Exchange, Self Balancing Ledgers

• Comptroller and Auditor General of India- Constitutional provisions, Role, and responsibility.
• Finance Commission-Role and functions.
• Basic Concept of Economics economy and Production possibilities curve.
• Theory of Demand and Supply: Meaning and determinants of demand, Law of demand and Elasticity of demand, Price, income and cross elasticity; Theory of consumer‟s behaviour
• Marshallian approach and Indifference curve approach, Meaning and determinants of supply, Law of supply and
  the elasticity of Supply.
• Theory of Production and cost
• Meaning and Factors of production; Laws of production
• Law of variable proportions and Laws of returns to scale.
•  Forms of Market and price determination in different markets: Various forms of markets