UPSC Special Class Railway Apprentices 2021 Exam Syllabus

SCRA Syllabus 2017:

General Knowledge:

General awareness and Current affairs
Expected of students of standard 12 or equivalent

Important topics:

1. Man & Environment
2. Evolution of Life
3. Plants & Animals
4. Solar System & the Earth
5. History
6. Politics & Society in India
7. Constitution of India and its feature
8. Money and Taxation Price

Psychological test:

Basic intelligence and mechanical aptitude of the students

Physics:

1. Length measurements using vernier, screw gauge and optical lever
2. Measurements of time and Mass
3. Newton’s Law of Motion
4. Moment of a Force
5. Newton’s Law of Gravitation
6. Principle of Archimedes
7. Wave Motion
8. Reflection and Refraction of Light
9. Electric Charge
10. Electric Field
11. Coulomb’s Law
12. Ohm’s Law
13. Magnetic effect of Current
14. Chemical effects of Current
15. Electromagnetic Induction
16. Cathode Rays
17. Discovery of the electron and many more

Chemistry:

Physical Chemistry:

1. Atomic Structure
2. Chemical Bonding
3. Electrovalent
4. Covalent
5. Coordinate Covalent Bonds
6. Energy Changes in a Chemical Reaction
7. Chemical Equilibrium and rates of reactions
8. Solutions
9. Electrochemistry
10. Oxidation
11. Natural & Artificial Radioactivity

Inorganic Chemistry:

1. Hydrogen
2. Group I elements
3. Group II elements
4. Group III elements
5. Group IV elements
6. Group V elements
7. Group VI elements
8. Group VII elements
9. Group O
10. Metallurgical Process

Organic Chemistry:

1. Tetrahedral Nature of Carbon
2. General methods of preparation
3. Properties and reaction of alkanes, alkenes and alkynes
4. Halogen derivatives
5. Hydroxy Compounds
6. Ethers, Aldehydes and ketones
7. Nitro compounds amines
8. Carboxylic acid
9. Ester
10. Polymers
11. Non structural treatment of Carbohydrates
12. Fats and Lipids
13. amino acids and proteins

Mathematics:

1. Algebra
2. Trigonometry
3. Analytic Geometry (two dimensions)
4. Differential Calculus
5. Integral Calculus & Differential equations
6. Vectors & its application
7. Statistics & Probability