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UPSC Special Class Railway Apprentices

UPSC is a recruitment examination conducted on a national level to select student for recruitment of Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA) under Indian Railways. The examination is conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on behalf of the Indian Railways every year which witnesses a turnout of more than a few lakh students. UPSC SCRA for the year 2017 is scheduled to be held in the month of July 2017. All the important details about SCRA are given below.

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

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