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Full numbered syllabus: every topic, chapter and micro-topic (printable)
The common APPSC Paper I with 10 syllabus items: current events, AP-focused history and geography, polity, economy, environment, disaster management, reasoning and data analysis. Half of your total.
1. Current events
- International, national and Andhra Pradesh events and issues
2. General science
- Science in daily life
- Contemporary developments in Science & Technology and IT
3. History of India
- Social, economic, cultural and political aspects
- Focus on AP and the 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. 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 and logical interpretation
10. Data analysis
- Tabulation and visual representation of data
- Mean, median, mode and variance
- Interpretation
Degree standard, 28 items in three sections: A Inorganic, B Organic, C Physical. Watch named items like HSAB, carboranes, pseudohalogens, 1,3-dipolar addition and Michaelis-Menten. No section split given.
Section A: Inorganic chemistry (items 1.1-1.5)
- 1.1 Atomic structure: Schrodinger wave equation, quantum numbers, radial and angular probability, shapes of orbitals; Aufbau, Hund's rule, Pauli principle
- 1.2 Periodicity: s, p, d, f blocks; trends in atomic and ionic radii, ionisation potential, electron affinity, electronegativity
- 1.3 Bonding: sigma and pi bonds, hydrogen and metallic bonds, bond order and length, VSEPR, hybridisation and shapes
- 1.4 Oxidation number, redox reactions, balancing ionic equations
- 1.5 Acids and bases: Bronsted, Lewis, HSAB principle, substituent and solvent effects
Section A: Inorganic chemistry (items 1.6-1.10)
- 1.6 Hydrogen (ortho/para, heavy water); s- and p-block: inert pair effect, alkali metals in liquid ammonia, boric acid, borates, boron nitride, diborane, carboranes, oxyacids of N, P, S and Cl, interhalogens, pseudohalogens, noble gas compounds
- 1.6 d-block and lanthanides: oxidation states, magnetism, colour, first-row oxides, halides and sulphides, lanthanide contraction
- 1.7 Extraction of Na, Mg, Al, Fe, Ni, Cu, Ag and Au
- 1.8 Nuclear chemistry: mass defect, binding energy, fission, fusion, reactors, radioisotopes
- 1.9 Coordination compounds: nomenclature, isomerism, theories, role in nature and medicine
- 1.10 Air, water and radioactive pollution and their control
Section B: Organic chemistry
- 2.1 Inductive, mesomeric and hyperconjugative effects; dipole moments; carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes; nucleophiles and electrophiles
- 2.2 Aliphatic compounds: free radical halogenation, Baeyer strain theory, Markownikoff's rule and peroxide effect, 1,3-dipolar addition, polymerisation; alkyl halides, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, esters, amides, nitriles, amines, ethers, nitro compounds
- 2.3 Stereochemistry: chirality, Fischer, Newman and sawhorse projections, R/S and D/L, meso, erythro/threo, cyclohexane conformations, E/Z, stereochemistry of SN1, SN2, E1, E2
- 2.4 Grignard reagents and alkyl lithium; 2.5 diethyl malonate, ethyl acetoacetate, ethyl cyanoacetate, keto-enol tautomerism
- 2.6 Aromaticity, Huckel's rule, electrophilic substitution, Friedel-Crafts, phenols, diazonium salts, benzyne
- 2.7 Carbohydrates (glucose structure, osazones, step-up/step-down), amino acids (zwitterion, isoelectric point), oils, fats, soaps, detergents
- 2.8 UV, visible, IR and NMR spectroscopy of simple organic molecules
Section C: Physical chemistry
- 3.1 Real gases: van der Waals and virial equations, critical constants, reduced equation, liquefaction, molecular speeds, mean free path
- 3.2 Thermodynamics: first law, thermochemistry, Joule-Thomson effect, inversion temperature; second law, entropy, free energy, K and thermodynamic quantities
- 3.3 Phase rule: water, sulphur, lead-silver, salt hydrates; Clausius-Clapeyron; distribution law
- 3.4 Solutions: Raoult's and Henry's laws, critical solution temperatures, fractional and steam distillation; 3.5 colligative properties and molecular weights
- 3.6 Electrochemistry: pH, buffers, indicators, titrations, Ostwald dilution law, Kohlrausch law, transport number, Faraday's laws, Nernst equation, fuel cells, potentiometric titrations
- 3.7 Kinetics: order, first and second order rate equations, half-life, Arrhenius, collision and transition state theory
- 3.8 Photochemistry: laws, quantum yield; 3.9 catalysis including Michaelis-Menten; 3.10 colloids, gels, emulsions, micelles
Yes: each wrong answer loses 1/3 of the question's marks (G.O.Ms.No.235, 06/12/2016), so 0.33 marks in both papers.
Each wrong answer costs 1/3 of the marks for that question.
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