Paper I ready · Paper II coming soon in Medha AI. Paper I: APPSC Paper I: General Studies & Mental Ability · Paper II: Social Anthropology, Sociology or Social Work Coming soon
Full numbered syllabus: every topic, chapter and micro-topic (printable)
The common APPSC Paper I, with the same 10-item syllabus as 25 APPSC 2026 notifications: AP and India awareness plus reasoning and data analysis. Each question carries 1 mark.
1. Current events
- Major current events and issues: international, national and Andhra Pradesh
2. General science
- General science in day-to-day life
- Contemporary developments in science & technology and information technology
3. History of India
- Social, economic, cultural and political aspects
- Focus on Andhra Pradesh and the Indian National Movement
4. Geography of India
- Geography of India with focus on Andhra Pradesh
5. Indian polity and governance
- Constitutional issues
- Public policy and reforms
- e-Governance initiatives
6. Indian economy
- Indian economy and planning
7. Environment
- Sustainable development and environmental protection
8. Disaster management
- Vulnerability profile
- Prevention and mitigation strategies
- Remote sensing and GIS in assessing disasters
9. Reasoning
- Logical reasoning, analytical ability and logical interpretation
10. Data analysis
- Tabulation and visual representation of data
- Summary statistics: mean, median, mode, variance
- Interpretation of data
One postgraduate paper in Social Anthropology, Sociology or Social Work, 2 marks a question, so two-thirds of your total. Each option has an India part, e.g. tribes of India and AP.
Social Anthropology: concepts and theory
- Scope of anthropology and its branches (social-cultural, physical-biological, archaeological)
- Family, household; kinship, descent, incest, exogamy and endogamy; kinship terminology; alliance and descent
- Marriage: types, preferential and prescriptive rules, dowry and bride-price
- Social and cultural change; social structure; stratification (status, class, power, gender) and mobility
- Religion, magic, witchcraft, shaman, ethnomedicine
- Economic anthropology: hunting-gathering to market; gifts, barter, ceremonial exchange
- Band, tribe, chiefdom, state; social control and law in tribal societies; planned and participatory development
- Research methods: participant observation, case study, genealogical method, life histories, PLA and PRA
Social Anthropology: human variation and India
- Racial classification; adaptation; growth, nutrition, inbreeding and fertility
- Ethnic and linguistic elements of India's population
- Varnashrama, purushartha, karma, rina and rebirth; theories of caste; jajmani system
- Growth of anthropology in India; Indian anthropologists on tribe and caste; the Indian village
Social Anthropology: tribes and tribal development
- Definition of tribe and Scheduled Tribe; tribal distribution in India
- Land alienation, shifting cultivation, indebtedness, low literacy, health and nutrition
- Forest policy; displacement and rehabilitation; tribal movements and identity
- Committees and commissions on tribals; Fifth and Sixth Schedules; ITDP, MADA, PTG; role of NGOs
- AP tribes and primitive tribal groups; industries, irrigation projects and sanctuaries
- Tribal unrest in East Godavari, Adilabad and Srikakulam
- Land Transfer Regulations, PESA 1996, Forest Rights Act 2006, NREGA, Girijan Cooperative Corporation, TRICOR, Ashram and residential schools, Joint and Community Forest Management; welfare programmes for women and children
Sociology A: General Sociology
- Sociology as a science; research design; observation, schedules, questionnaires; sampling, reliability and validity
- Durkheim (division of labour, social fact, religion); Weber (social action, authority, bureaucracy, Protestant ethic, ideal types); Marx (historical materialism, alienation, class struggle); Parsons (social system, pattern variables); Merton (latent and manifest functions, anomie, reference groups); Radcliffe-Brown, Malinowski
- Status and role, socialisation, social control; stratification and mobility
- Family, marriage, kinship; formal organisations; economic, political and educational systems
- Religion: sacred and profane, secularisation; social change, social movements and development
Sociology B: Society of India
- Traditional Hindu social organisation; impact of Buddhism, Islam and the modern West
- Caste and its change; Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes; untouchability
- Joint family; changing status of women; jajmani system
- Panchayat Raj, Nagarpalikas, 73rd and 74th Amendments
- Educational problems of women, BCs, SCs and STs; tribal societies, tribe and caste
- Rural society, land reforms, Community Development, Green Revolution; urbanisation and slums
- Population dynamics; sanskritisation, westernisation, modernisation; corruption and black money
Social Work
- Definition, values and ethics; origin in the UK and USA; growth in India
- Field work: placement, supervision, recording
- Fields: rural, urban and tribal community development; medical and psychiatric; correctional; family and child; labour; school; geriatric; HIV/AIDS
- Case work: principles, interview, psycho-social, functional and problem-solving models, crisis intervention
- Group work: principles, programme planning, leadership
- Community organisation: models in UK, USA and India; people's participation; micro-level planning
- Social action: forms, principles and strategies
- Social work research; PRA; communication, conflict and team skills
- Social policy: constitutional basis; residual, achievement-performance and institutional-redistributive models; human development indicators
A wrong answer loses 1/3 of that question's marks (G.O.Ms. No.235, Finance, 06/12/2016): 1/3 mark in Paper I, 2/3 mark in Paper II.
Each wrong answer costs 1/3 of the marks for that question.
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