Paper I and Paper II ready in Medha AI. Paper I: APPSC Paper I: General Studies & Mental Ability · Paper II: Economics, accounting, computers & statistics: practise it
Full numbered syllabus: every topic, chapter and micro-topic (printable)
The common 10-item GS & MA syllabus at degree standard. In 2022 and 2025, reasoning plus data analysis gave about 27 questions; current events, history and geography about 20 each.
1. Current events
- Major international, national and Andhra Pradesh events and issues
2. General science
- Science in day-to-day life
- Contemporary developments in science and technology
- Information technology
3. History of India
- Social, economic, cultural and political aspects
- Focus on Andhra Pradesh
- Indian National Movement
4. Geography
- Geography of India with focus on Andhra Pradesh
5. Polity and governance
- Constitutional issues
- Public policy and reforms
- e-Governance initiatives
6. Indian economy
- Indian economy and planning
7. Environment
- Sustainable development
- Environmental protection
8. Disaster management
- Vulnerability profile
- Prevention and mitigation strategies
- Remote sensing and GIS in disaster assessment
9. Reasoning
- Logical reasoning
- Analytical ability
- Logical interpretation
10. Data analysis
- Tabulation of data
- Visual representation of data
- Mean, median, mode and variance
- Interpretation
Ten items: three on economics, one each on accounting and computers, five on statistics. Calculators are banned, so statistics needs hand calculation.
1. Economic concepts
- Production, consumption and demand
- Elasticity
- Market structures, equilibrium and price determination
- National income: concepts and determinants; employment, consumption, savings, investment
- Rate of interest and profit
- Money, measures of money supply, velocity
- Banks and credit creation; banks and portfolio management
- Central bank and control of money supply
- Price level; inflation: meaning, measurement, control
- Public finance: budgets, taxes and non-tax revenue, budget deficits
2. International economics
- Free trade and protection
- Balance of payments accounts and adjustment
- Exchange rates
- International monetary system, world trading order, Bretton Woods system
- IMF, World Bank and their associates
- Sources of growth: capital, human capital, productivity, trade and aid, non-economic factors
3. Indian economics
- Population: size, composition, quality, growth trend, occupational distribution, births and deaths
- Mass poverty; unemployment and its types; inequality; rural-urban disparities
- Foreign trade, balance of payments, external debt
- Inflation, parallel economy, fiscal deficit
- Sectoral trends and regional disparities
- Planning in India: major controversies, NITI Aayog
- Fiscal, monetary, industrial, trade and agricultural policies
4. Financial accounting
- Accounting concepts and conventions
- Journal, ledger posting, subsidiary books including cash book
- Bank reconciliation statement
- Trial balance and final accounts
- Errors and rectification
- Depreciation and reserves
- Single entry and non-trading concerns
5. Basics of computers
- Binary, octal and hexadecimal systems and conversion to and from decimal
- Codes, bits, bytes and words; computer memory
- Arithmetic and logical operations on numbers
- Algorithms and flow charts
- Spreadsheets: cells, formulas and functions, editing, printing
6. Introduction to statistics
- Primary and secondary data
- Random and non-random sampling
- Definition of probability
- Census; schedule and questionnaire
- Frequency distribution and tabulation
- Diagrams and graphs
7. Central tendency
- Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic mean
- Median, mode
- Quartiles, deciles, percentiles
- Properties and uses of averages
8. Dispersion and skewness
- Range, quartile deviation, mean deviation, standard deviation
- Coefficient of variation
- Karl Pearson's and Bowley's skewness
- Kurtosis; normal distribution
9. Correlation
- Meaning, types and uses of correlation
- Karl Pearson's coefficient
- Spearman's rank correlation
- Probable error
10. Time series and index numbers
- Components of time series
- Measuring trend and seasonal variation
- Decomposition of time series
- Price and quantity index numbers and their construction
- Tests of adequacy
- Base shifting and deflation
- Cost of living index numbers and limitations
1/3 of the marks for a question is deducted for each wrong answer, in both papers.
Each wrong answer costs 1/3 of the marks for that question.
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