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SYLLABUS FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF DEPUTY EDUCATIONAL OFFICER/GAZETTED HEAD MASTERS GRADE-1 IN A.P. EDUCATIONAL SERVICE.

SYLLABUS
GENERAL STUDIES :
I. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
(a) General Science and Technology
(b) Role and impact of Science and Technology on India’s development.
(Questions will cover general appreciation and understanding of matters of everyday observation and experience as may be expected of a well-educated person who has not made a special study of Science and Technology disciplines.)

II. INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE:
(a) Modern Indian History from 19th century to the present.
(b) Nationalist Movement and Constitutional development.
(c) Indian culture and Heritage including Architecture., Fine Arts, Dance forms, Music, Paintings, Folk Arts and Performing Arts.
(d) History of Andhradesa Society, culture, Geography and Economic Development.

III. INDIAN POLITY:
General and broad understanding of the structural (institutions) and functional (Processes) aspects of Indian Political system

IV. INDIA ECONOMY AND GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA:
(a) Structure of National Economy.
(b) Economic development (including planning) since Independence.
(c) Economic Reforms.
(d) Physical, Economic and Social Geography of India.

V. CURRENT EVENTS:
Current Events of Regional, National and International importance

VI. GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY (reasoning and analytical abilities)

1. ENGLISH LITERATURE
I. TOPICS AND MOVEMENTS:
The Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic Restoration Drama; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age. Modernism: Poets of the Thirties; The Stream of Consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post- Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post Modernism.

II. POETRY: SELECTED POETS AND POEMS:
John Donne
Canonization
Death be not proud
The Good Morrow
On his Mistress going to be
The Relic;
I wonder by my troth
John Milton; Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX Alexander Pope; The Rope of the Lock; William Wordsworth
– Ode on Intimations of Immortality
– Tintern Abbey
– Three years she grew
– She dwelt among untrodden ways
– Michael
– Resolution and Independence
– The world is too much with us
– Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour
– Upon Westminister Bridge
Alfred Tennyson; In Memoriam.
William Butler Yeats
– Ester 1916
– The Second coming
– A prayer for my daughter
– Sailing to Byzantium
– The Tower
– Among School Children
– Leda and the Swan
– Meru
– Lapis Lazuli
– The Second Coming
– Byzantium
T.S. ELLIOT:
The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Journey of the Magi
Burnt Norton
W.H. AUDEN:
Partition
Museedes Beaux Arts
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Lay your sleeping head, my love
The Unknown Citizen
Consider
Mundus Etinfans
The Shield of Achilles
September 1, 1939
Petition
PHILIP LARKIN:
Next
Please
Deceptions
Afternoons
Days
Mr. Bleaney
A.K. RAMANUJAN, The following Poems:
Looking for a Causim on a swing
A River
Of Mother’s among other things
Love Poem for a Wife 1
Small Scale Reflections on a Great House
Obituary
(All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).

III. FICTION:
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
Charles Dickens – Hard Times
George Elliot – The Mill on the Floss
Thomos Hardy – Tess of the d ‘ Urbervilles
Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D.H.Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
Raja Rao – Kanthapura
V.S. Naipal – A House for Mr. Biswas

IV. DRAMA :
William Shakespeare: King Lear and the Tempest
Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

ECONOMICS :
1) Market Structure – Types of markets and price determination under different markets – Theories of distribution – Criteria for welfare.
2) Money – Functions of money – Quantity theory of money – Demand for and supply of money – Real balance effects – Money multiplier – Budget deficit and money supply – High powered money – Theories of inflation – control of inflation.
3) Modern monetary system – Banks – Non-Bank financial intermediaries – Central Bank – Credit creation and control of credit under closed and open economics – Money markets in India and their role.
4) Full Employment – Classical theory and Say’s Law – Under employment equilibrium – Keynes’s theory of employment and income determination – critiques of Keynesian theory.
5) Public Finance and Fiscal Policy – Forms of Taxes and Subsidies – Incidence of Taxation – Public expenditure and its growth – Recent fiscal policies and their effects stabilization policies in India.

6) Theories of international trade – Terms of Trade Balance of payments adjustments – Import substitution India’s external borrowings – IMF-IBRD-WTO-Exchange rate – Devaluation Rupee convertibility – Impact of liberalization on pattern of Trade in India.

7) Theories of Growth – Classical and neo-classical theories – The Harrod model – Wage goods strategy – Contributions of Vakil, Gadgil and Rao – Factors determining savings to income ratio and the capital – Output ratio. Poverty in India – Urban – Rural and its measurement. Employment and policies of unemployment adopted by the Government.

8) Indian economy since Independence – Land systems – Agriculture Land holdings – Green Revolution and technological changes – Regional disparities in agricultural growth – Changes in occupational distribution – Role of agriculture in export.
9) Industrialization in India – Role of public and private sectors – Role of Small Scale and Cottage Industries in the post – Liberalization period – Economic planning in India – Plans and Social Justice – Self-reliance in growth and development.
10) State Level planning in Andhra Pradesh – Sources of Revenues and Income – Expenditure pattern of Govt. in A.P. Micro level planning – Effect of Janma Bhoomi in over all development of A.P.