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The Kerala Public Service Commission conducts Kerala PSC LDC Exam to recruit eligible and interested candidates for the post of Lower Division Clerk.
Candidates aspiring to appear for this exam must know all the details related to the exam such as eligibility criteria, exam pattern, syllabus and so on.
Kerala PSC LDC syllabus highlights the important topics from which questions are asked in the exam.
Knowing the syllabus and exam pattern is essential before you start preparing for the exam.
Read this article to know complete Kerala PSC LDC syllabus and other details.
Kerala PSC LDC Syllabus
Questions in Kerala PSC LDC Exam are asked from the following subjects:
- Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability
- Mental Ability
- General Knowledge and Current Affairs
- General Science
- General English
- Malayalam
The detailed subject-wise syllabus is as given below.
| Simple Arithmetic |
- Number systems and basic mathematical operations
- Percentages, Averages
- Profit and loss, Simple and Compound Interests
- Time and Distance, Time and Work
- Ratio and Proportion
- Mensuration- Volumes, Area, Total Surface Area
- Law of exponents
- Progressions
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| Mental Ability |
- Series
- Problems on Mathematical sign
- 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
|
| General Knowledge and Current Affairs |
- Geography - Kerala and India
- Basic facts about Kerala - Geography, History, Industries, etc.
- River systems and mountain ranges in India
- States and Union Territories
- Medieval India, First war of Independence, Indian Independence History
- Five-year plans, Banking and Insurance, Different Schemes (Central and State government-sponsored)
- Human Rights Act, Human Rights Commissions, SC/ ST acts, SC/ ST commissions, Women Protection bills, commissions, etc.
- Polity, Economics, Science, Literature, Art and Culture, Sports - Current Affairs
- National Parks, Biospheres, etc.
|
| 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
- Chemistry in everyday life
- Work and Energy, Power, Electricity
- Heat and Temperature
- Solar System
- Sound and Light
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| General English |
- 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 - Definite and Indefinite Articles, Uses of Primary and Modal 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 and Plural, Change of Gender, Collective Nouns
- Word Formation from other words and use of prefix or suffix, Compound words
- Synonyms, Antonyms, Phrasal Verbs
- Foreign Words and Phrases, One Word Substitutes
- Words often confused, Spelling Test
- Idioms and their Meanings
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| Malayalam |
- Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives
- Sentence and Word Correction
- Idioms, One Word Substitution
- Synonyms, Antonyms
- Use of Punctuation marks
- Literature
- Translation, etc.
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Kerala PSC LDC Exam Pattern
The pattern of Kerala PSC LDC Exam is as follows:
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Topic
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No.
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of Questions
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Total Marks
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Time Duration
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Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability
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20
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20
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1 hour 15 minutes
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|
General English
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20
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20
|
|
General Knowledge (Regional Language)
|
10
|
10
|
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General Knowledge and Current Affairs
|
50
|
50
|
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Total
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100
|
100
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Note: There is no negative marking in the exam.
A total of 100 questions are asked in Kerala PSC LDC Exam.
The duration of Kerala PSC LDC Exam is 1 hour 15 minutes.
No there is no negative marking in Kerala PSC LDC Exam.
