Paper I ready · Paper II coming soon in Medha AI. Paper I: APPSC Paper I: General Studies & Mental Ability · Paper II: Industrial Safety, Health & Environment Coming soon
Full numbered syllabus: every topic, chapter and micro-topic (printable)
The common APPSC Paper I, in English and Telugu. Mostly general-awareness recall on history, geography, economy and current events, with about a fifth on reasoning and data analysis.
1. Current events
- Major current events and issues: international, national and Andhra Pradesh
2. General science
- General science and its applications to daily life
- Contemporary developments in science and 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
- 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 and planning
7. Sustainable development and environmental protection
- Sustainable development
- Environmental protection
8. Disaster management
- Vulnerability profile
- Prevention and mitigation strategies
- Remote sensing and GIS in assessing disasters
9. Logical reasoning
- Logical reasoning
- Analytical ability and logical interpretation
10. Data analysis
- Tabulation and visual representation of data
- Summary statistics: mean, median, mode and variance
- Interpretation
A degree-standard safety-engineering paper in English only, 2 marks a question. Ten units, the same for all branches: law, risk tools, HAZOP, safe design, reliability, ergonomics, occupational health, welfare and effluents.
1. Safety, health and environment: concepts and law
- Evolution of industrial safety, occupational health and environment concepts
- Policies
- Legal framework
2. Quantitative risk assessment
- Consequence analysis and damage modelling
- Fault tree analysis (FTA) and event tree analysis (ETA)
- Uncertainty in risk assessment
- Dispersion models and source models
- Software applications
3. Process safety and system safety analysis
- Preliminary hazard analysis (PHA)
- Hazard analysis (HAZAN)
- Hazard and operability study (HAZOP)
- System life cycle and safety
4. Engineering design
- Design for safety; structural design safety
- Plant layout
- Pressure system design; control system design including relief design
- Process design and change control; fail-safe conditions
- Electrical safety; fire safety
5. System reliability, maintenance and safety
- Reliability prediction; system reliability; reliability of complex systems
- Fault diagnosis; software applications
- Maintainability; maintenance activities and policies
- Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM), risk-based maintenance (RBM)
- Life cycle costing
6. Ergonomics and system safety
- Anthropometry; working posture analysis; workstation design
- Human error quantification; cognitive modelling; safety-critical systems and human reliability
- Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs): measurement, evaluation and prevention
- Workplace and job stress; effect of technology and design
- Task and job analysis for job control
7. Safety management and work environment
- Incident investigation procedure and accident analysis
- Engineering and administrative controls
- Behavioural safety; man-machine-environment interaction
- Safety performance analysis and monitoring
- Organisation for safety; system safety integration software
8. Occupational health
- Fitness for the job
- Risks to workers' occupational health
- Health surveillance programmes and their effectiveness
- Records
9. Labour welfare
- Welfare amenities and their maintenance
10. Waste and effluent management
- Types of industrial effluents and wastes
- Methods of treatment and disposal
A wrong answer loses 1/3 of the question's marks: 0.33 in Paper I, 0.67 in Paper II.
Each wrong answer costs 1/3 of the marks for that question.
APPSC Paper I syllabus · APPSC Paper I study notes