SYLLABUS FOR EXIMANITION TO THE POST OF PANCHAYAT SECRETARY (GRADE– V)

IN A.P. PANCHAYAT RAJ SUBORDINATE SERVICE

PART-A GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY

1. General Mental ability and reasoning.

2. Quantitative aptitude including data interpretation.

3. Comprehension – Telugu & English.

4. General English.

5. Basic Computer Knowledge.

6. Current affairs of regional, national and International importance.

7. General Science and its applications to the day to day life, Contemporary development in science
and Technology and information Technology.

8. Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection.

PART-B

1. History & Culture of India with specific focus on AP.

2. Indian polity and governance: constitutional issues, 73/74th Amendments, public policy, reforms
ad centre – state relations with specific reference to Andhra Pradesh.

3. Economy and Planning in India with emphasis on Andhra Pradesh.

4. Society, Social justice, rights issues.

5. Physical geography of Indian sub-continent and Andhra Pradesh.

6. Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and its Administrative, Economic, Social, Cultural, Political and
legal implications / problems.

7. Key welfare & development schemes of Government of Andhra Pradesh.

8. Women empowerment and economic development through self help grounds / community based
organizations with focus on weaker sections.
Introduction
The Mental Ability test, also known as Mental Aptitude Problems. The main purpose of Mental
Ability is to check aspirants knowledge in reasoning and Data Interpretation. Problem approaching
skills play a very important role in success in mental ability sections. The best part is that the questions
that can be asked in a mental ability test are growing in variety faster than the theory of Science &
Commerce. The article APPSC Panchayat Secretary Mental Ability Important Topics presents the
importnat topics in Mental Ability section wth respect to the APPSC Panchayat Secretray topics.

Mental Ability
Mental Ability – Types:

 Verbal Reasoning

 Jumbled Paragraphs/Para-jumbles

 Assertion & Reason

 Paragraph Summary/Central idea

 Reading Comprehension

 Logical (Non-Verbal) Reasoning

 Data Interpretation

 Puzzles

APPSC Panchayat Secretary – Mental Ability – Topics:

 Logical reasoning

 Analytical ability

 Data interpretation.

Data Analysis:

 Tabulation of data

 Visual representation of data

  Basic data analysis (Summary Statistics such as mean, median, mode, variance and coefficient of
variation) and Interpretation

APPSC Panchayat Secretary – Mental Ability – Importance:

 Mental Ability Section is one of the importnat section in every competetive exams.

 It is no where related to the regular subjects like Physics, Chemistry, and any other academic
Subjects.

 The name itself justifies what is Mental Ability. The ability to understand the facts and
significance of your behavior.

 General Academic Subjects may contain particular theory to score maximum marks in the
exams.

 But, there is no particular fixed syllabus for the Mental Ability topic.

 Year by Year the level of creativeness for the Mental Ability section is increasing.