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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Statistics ” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Statistics ”  Paper -1 1. Probability: Sample space and events, probability measure and probability space, random variable as a measurable function, distribution function of a random variable, discrete and continuous-type random variable, probability mass function, probability density function, vector-valued random variable, marginal and conditional distributions, stochastic independence of events and of random variables, expectation and moments of a random variable, conditional expectation, convergence of a sequence of random...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Sociology” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Sociology “ Paper – 1 Fundamentals of Sociology 1. Sociology – The Discipline: (a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology. (b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences. (c) Sociology and common sense. 2. Sociology as Science: (a) Science, scientific method and critique. (b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology. (c) Positivism and its critique. (d) Fact value and objectivity. (e)...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Public Administration” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Public Administration “ Paper – 1 Administrative Theory 1. Introduction: Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration; Wilson’s vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice approach; Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance: concept and application; New Public Management. 2. Administrative Thought: Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model — its critique and post-Weberian...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Psychology” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of  ”  Psychology “ Paper – 1 Foundations of Psychology 1. Introduction: Definition of Psychology; Historical antecedents of Psychology and trends in the 21st century; Psychology and scientific methods; Psychology in relation to other social sciences and natural sciences; Application of Psychology to societal prob-lems. 2. Methods of Psychology: Types of research: Descriptive, evaluative, diagnostic and prognostic; Methods of Research: Survey, observation, case-study and experiments; Characteristics of experimental design and...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Political Science” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Political Science and International Relations ”  Paper – 1 Political Theory and Indian Politics: 1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches. 2. Theories of the State: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist. 3. Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques. 4. Equality: Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action. 5. Rights: Meaning and theories; different...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Physics” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Physics “ Paper – 1 1. (a) Mechanics of Particles: Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, applications to rotating frames, centripetal and Coriolis accelerations; Motion under a central force; Con-servation of angular momentum, Kepler’s laws; Fields and potentials; Gravitational field and potential due to spherical bodies, Gauss and Poisson equations, gravitational self-energy; Two-body problem; Re-duced mass; Rutherford scattering; Centre of mass and laboratory reference frames. (b)...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Philosophy ” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Philosophy “ Paper-1 History and Problems of Philosophy: 1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality. 2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom. 3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism. 4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time; Categories, Ideas of Reason;...
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UPSC Civil Services Examination Syllabus of “Medical Science ” Preliminary and Mains Exam.

Syllabus of ” Medical Science ”  Paper – 1 1. Human Anatomy: Applied anatomy including blood and nerve supply of upper and lower limbs and joints of shoulder, hip and knee. Gross anatomy, blood supply and lymphatic drainage of tongue, thyroid, mammary gland, stomach, liver, prostate, gonads and uterus. Applied anatomy of diaphragm, perineum and inguinal region. Clinical anatomy of kidney, urinary bladder, uterine tubes, vas deferens. Embryology: Placenta and placental...
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