Paper II: Statistics: practise it
TGPSC Paper I: both syllabus wordings and the topic mix of past papers
Thirteen syllabus items. Five are about Telangana itself: its economy, geography, society and culture, state policies, and history with the statehood movement. Basic English is also included.
1. Current affairs
- Regional (Telangana), national and international
2. International relations
- International relations and events
3. General science
- General science
- India's achievements in science and technology
4. Environment
- Environmental issues
- Disaster management
5. Economy
- Economy of India
- Economy of Telangana
6. Geography
- Geography of India, with a focus on Telangana
7. Polity
- Indian Constitution and polity
- Focus on local self-government
8. Telangana society and culture
- Society, culture, heritage, arts and literature of Telangana
9. Telangana policies
- Policies of Telangana State
10. Modern Indian history
- History of modern India
- Focus on the Indian National Movement
11. Telangana history
- History of Telangana
- Special emphasis on the movement for Telangana statehood
12. Reasoning
- Logical reasoning
- Analytical ability
- Data interpretation
13. Basic English
Eight degree-level units, from collecting and presenting data to probability, distributions, testing of hypotheses, sampling and computer basics. Expect short numericals as well as definitions.
I. Introduction to statistics
- Meaning, importance and limitations
- Primary and secondary data
- Random and non-random sampling, census
- Schedule and questionnaire
- Frequency distribution and tabulation
- Diagrams and graphs
II. Central tendency, dispersion, skewness, kurtosis
- Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic mean, median, mode
- Deciles and percentiles
- Range, quartile deviation, mean deviation, standard deviation
- Coefficient of variation
- Karl Pearson's and Bowley's skewness, kurtosis
III. Probability
- Random experiment, sample space, events, algebra of events
- Basic theorems of probability
- Conditional probability and independent events
- Bayes' theorem and its applications
IV. Random variables and inference
- Discrete and continuous random variables
- Bernoulli, binomial and Poisson distributions
- Normal distribution and its uses
- Unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, sufficiency
- Large and small sample tests
- Null and alternative hypotheses
V. Correlation and regression
- Types and uses of correlation
- Karl Pearson's coefficient, Spearman's rank correlation
- Probable error
- Regression equations and regression coefficients
- Correlation versus regression
VI. Time series and index numbers
- Components of a time series
- Measuring trend and seasonal variation
- Price and quantity index numbers
- Tests of adequacy, deflating
- Cost of living index numbers and limitations
VII. Sampling techniques
- Complete enumeration versus sampling
- Estimating sample size
- Simple, stratified and systematic random sampling
VIII. Basics of computers
- Binary, octal and hexadecimal systems and conversions
- Codes, bits, bytes and words; memory
- Arithmetic and logical operations, precision
- AND, OR, XOR, NOT, shift and rotate
- Algorithms and flow charts
- MS-Office
The 2026 notification does not mention negative marking; in the 2018 exam every score was a multiple of 300/292, so none was applied.
Objective test, OMR or computer-based (CBRT), to be decided by TGPSC. Selection is on the written test alone (300 marks). The notification does not mention negative marking.
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