Kerala PSC Syllabus 2025: Check Topic-Wise Prelims & Mains Syllabus

Kerala PSC KAS Prelims Syllabus 2025

The detailed syllabus for Kerala PSC KAS Prelims 2025 is given below:

Paper 1: General Studies 1

(A) History (India and Kerala):

Topics include:

1. Ancient and Medieval Period:
   • Salient features and major landmarks of ancient and medieval India
   • Art, culture, literature and Architecture
   • Major dynasties, their administrative system, social, religious and economic conditions, prominent movements
2. Modern Period:
   • Modern Indian History (from the 18th century up to the present): significant events, personalities and issues
   • India’s struggle for independence
   • Social and religious reform movements in the 19th and 20th century
   • India after Independence: post-independent consolidation and reorganisation
   • Independent India and her neighbours
3. Kerala History (from 18th century):
   • Pre-Independence socio-political movements
   • Formation of Kerala State
   • Political parties, movements, governments, landmark legislations and policies

(B) History of the World (from the mid-18th century):

• Industrial revolution
• World wars
• Redrawal of national boundaries
• Colonialisation and decolonialisation
• Globalisation
• Communism, Capitalism, Socialism – their forms and effects in society

(C) Cultural Heritage of Kerala:

1. Cultural heritage of Kerala: art forms, literature, sculpture, architecture, salient features of society
2. Kerala tribal culture, pilgrimage, tourist places, folk culture, cinema, theatre
3. History and evolution of the Malayalam language and literature

(D) Indian Constitution, Public Administration, Political System, Governance, Social Justice and International Relations:

1. Indian Constitution and its salient features
2. Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, Parliament and State Legislatures: structure, function, power and privileges. Issues and challenges of Federal Structure, devolution of power and finances up to local levels and challenges therein
3. Constitutional Authorities: Powers, Functions and Responsibilities
4. Panchayati Raj, Public Policy and Governance, Impact of LPG on Governance
5. Statutory, Regulatory and Quasi judicial bodies
6. Rights Issues (Human rights, Women rights, SC/ST rights, Child rights, etc.), Important Acts
7. India’s Foreign Policy, International Organisations, International Treaties and Forums, their structure and mandate
8. Judiciary in India: structure and functions, important provisions relating to Emergency and Constitutional amendments, Judicial review, Public Interest Litigation, Land Revenue Laws
9. Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles
10. Principles of Administrative Law

(E) Reasoning, Mental Ability & Simple Arithmetic:

• Logical reasoning and analytical ability
• Number series
• Coding–decoding
• Problems related to relations, shapes and their sub-sections, Venn Diagram
• Problems based on clock, calendar and age
• Simple arithmetic

(F) Geography:

1. General Geography
   • Solar system, Motion of Earth, Concept of time, Seasons
   • Internal structure of the Earth, Major landforms and their features
   • Atmosphere – structure and composition, elements and factors of climate, airmasses and fronts, atmospheric disturbances
   • Oceans: physical, chemical and biological characteristics, hydrological disasters, marine and continental resources
2. Physical, Social, Economic Geography: World, India, Kerala
3. Geophysical Phenomena: Earthquake, Tsunami, Volcanoes, Cyclone, Flood, Landslides

Paper 2: General Studies 2

(A) Economy and Planning:

1. Indian economy on the eve of independence; Indian economy in post-reform period – new economic reforms, NITI Aayog, National Income and Per Capita Income, Sectoral Composition (output and employment) – primary, secondary and tertiary. Development under different policy regimes (including Five Year Plans) – goals, constraints, institutions and policy framework.
2. Agriculture sector: Land reforms in India, Technological change in agriculture, major crops and cropping patterns in various parts of the country, irrigation, pricing of agriculture inputs and outputs, agricultural finance policy and marketing, issues in food security and PDS, Green Revolution, policies for sustainable agriculture and organic farming.
3. Industrial policy, public sector enterprises and their performance, growth and pattern of industrialization, small-scale sector, productivity in industrial sector, SEZ and industrialization, foreign investment and competition policy, e-Commerce, effects of liberalisation on the economy.
4. Infrastructure in Indian economy: water supply and sanitation, energy and power, science and technology, rural and urban infrastructure, ports, roads, airports, railways, telecommunication, dams, inland waterways. Social impact assessment.
5. Trends and patterns in population structure: growth rate, gender, rural-urban migration, literacy, regional structure, poverty and inequality, unemployment – trends, structure, National Rural Employment policies. Indicators of development – Physical Quality of Life Index, HDI, HPI, GDI, National Happiness Index.
6. Indian public finance: Government budgeting, Indian tax system, public expenditure, public debt, deficit and subsidies, Centre-State financial relations. Recent fiscal and monetary policy issues, banking and non-banking financial institutions and reforms, GST: concept and implications, stock exchange and share market.
7. Trend, composition, structure and direction of India’s foreign trade. Balance of payments situation in post-reforms period.
8. Economy of Kerala State – overview: population, agriculture, industry, service sector issues, infrastructure and resources, major developmental projects, programmes and schemes. Co-operative sector. History and policies in traditional industries, IT sector, Pravasi and foreign remittance.
9. Kerala model development: land reforms, social security, devolution of power, decentralised planning, housing, tourism, women empowerment, social welfare schemes, disaster management, role and function of Kerala Planning Board, achievements of Kerala in health and education sector – policies, programmes, initiatives and impacts.

(B) Science and Technology:

1. Nature and scope of Science and Technology, relevance, National policy, basics of everyday science, human body, public health and community medicine, food and nutrition, healthcare. Institutes and organisations in India promoting integration of S&T and innovation, activities and contributions, contributions of prominent Indian scientists.
2. ICT: Nature and scope, role in daily life, industry and governance. Government schemes promoting ICT, e-Governance programmes, Netiquettes, Cyber Security, National Cyber Crime Policy, MIS, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics.
3. Technology in Space and Defence: evolution of Indian Space Programme, ISRO achievements, satellite programmes, DRDO vision, mission and activities.
4. Energy requirement and efficiency: India’s energy needs and deficit, energy resources, renewable and non-renewable, energy policy, energy security, nuclear policy.
5. Environmental Science: legal aspects, policies, treaties, sustainable development, biodiversity, climate change, international initiatives, Western Ghats features and issues, forest and wildlife conservation laws, environmental hazards, pollution, carbon emission, global warming, national action plans, disaster management, biotechnology, green technology, and nanotechnology.

(C) Current Events

(D) Language Proficiency: English:

• Tenses, Synonyms, Phrasal Verbs, Antonyms, Error correction, Adjectives, Adverbs, Reported Speech, Active and Passive Voice, Auxiliary Verb, Question Tag, Degrees of Comparison, Punctuation, Idioms and Phrases, Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences, Connectives, Prepositional Verbs, Prepositions, Concord, Pronouns (9 types), Word order and sentence order.

(E I) Language Proficiency: Malayalam:

• പദശുദ്ധി, വാക്യശുദ്ധി, പരിഭാഷ, ഒറ്റപദം, പരയായം, വിപരീത പദം, ശൈലികൾ, പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ, സമാനപദം, ചേർത്തെഴുതുക, സ്ത്രീലിംഗം–പുല്ലിംഗം, വചനങ്ങൾ, പിരിച്ചെഴുത്ത്, ഘടകപദം (വാക്യം ചേർത്തെഴുതുക), ഭരണഭാഷയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ഖണ്ഡിക നൽകി അതിന്റെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ, ഔദ്യോഗിക ഭാഷാപദാവലി, വിപുലനം, സംഗ്രഹം.

(E II) Language Proficiency: Kannada:

• Word purity/correct word, correct sentence, translation, one word substitution, synonyms, antonyms, idioms and proverbs, equivalent word, join the word, gender (feminine/masculine), number, sort and write, add phrases, comprehension.

(E III) Language Proficiency: Tamil:

• Correct word, correct sentence structure, translation, single word, synonyms, antonyms, phrases and proverbs, equal word, join the word, gender classification, singular/plural, separation, add phrases, comprehension.

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