The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) is set to release the UPPSC GDC Assistant Professor recruitment 2024 notification soon. Candidates are searching for the GDC Assistant Professor syllabus PDF, and the official syllabus for the exam is now available. Here, we provide detailed information on the syllabus and exam pattern for the UPPSC Assistant Professor 2024.
Written Examination
The Assistant Professor screening test will be conducted for a total of 19 subjects. The exam pattern is as follows:
- Mathematics Subject: 100 questions (70 from Maths and 30 from General Studies)
- Other 18 Subjects: 120 questions (90 from the concerned subject and 30 from General Studies)
Exam Type
| Exam Type | Subject | No. of Questions | Marks | Time Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screening Exam | General Studies | 30 | 150 | 2 Hours (11.00-01.00 PM) |
| Related Subject | 90 | |||
| Total (Except Maths) | 120 | 150 | ||
| Screening Exam | General Studies | 30 | 150 | 2 Hours (11.00-01.00 PM) |
| (Only for Maths) | Mathematics | 70 | ||
| Total (Maths) | 100 | 150 |
Interview
- The weightage of the interview will be specified later.
- The final merit list will be prepared after the interview.
- The number of candidates called for an interview will be three times the number of posts specified in each category.
UPPSC GDC Assistant Professor Syllabus
Geography Syllabus
- Geomorphology
- Basic concepts
- Geomorphic theories
- Climatic geomorphology
- Structural geomorphology
- Plate tectonics and mountain building
- Slope development
- Weathering and mass movement
- Rejuvenation and polycyclic reliefs
- Karst geomorphology
- Coastal geomorphology
- Arid geomorphology
- Periglacial geomorphology
- Morphometry
- Applied geomorphology
- Climatology
- Heat budget of the earth and atmosphere
- Tricellular meridional circulation of atmosphere
- Coriolis force
- Jet streams
- Monsoon
- El Nino and southern oscillation
- Atmospheric stability & instability
- Atmospheric humidity and precipitation
- Cyclones and tornadoes
- Air masses
- Classification of world climates
- Climate change
- Oceanography
- Historical development of oceanography
- Origin and evolution of ocean basins
- Morphology of ocean basins
- Marine deposits
- Coral reefs and coral bleaching
- Ocean currents
- Ocean tides
- Marine biozones
- Environment
- Biosphere as ecosystem
- Ecosystems and ecology
- Circulation of matter and energy in the biospheric ecosystem
- Ecological productivity and production
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Environmental degradation and pollution
- Natural disaster types, causes, and management
- Soil erosion and conservation
- Global warming
- Environmental management and sustainable development
- Biogeography
- Meaning and types of biogeography
- Development of biogeography
- Approaches
- Plant system: evolution, biotic succession, and distribution
- Animal system: evolution, dispersal, and distribution of animals
- Biodiversity
- Wildlife conservation
- Major world biomes and biogenic
- Forest conservation in India
Botany Syllabus
- Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants
- Structural organization of plant cell
- Specialized plant cell types
- Chemical foundation of plant cells
- Molecule of life
- Covalent and noncovalent bonds and their importance
- Biochemical energetics
- Plasma membrane, plant vacuole, chloroplast, mitochondria
- Nucleus, ribosomes, cell shape, and motility
- Cell cycle and apoptosis
- Other cell organelles: structure and functions of microtubules, Golgi bodies, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum
- Techniques used in cell biology
- Cytology, Genetics, and Cytogenetics
- Chromatin organization
- Structural and numerical alterations in chromosomes
- Genetics: gene structure and expression
- Genetic recombination and mapping
- Plasmids
- Mutations
- Molecular cytogenetics
- Alien gene transfer through chromosomal manipulations
Chemistry Syllabus
- Atomic Structure
- Bohr’s theory and its limitations
- De Broglie equation
- Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty
- Pauli’s exclusion principle
- Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity
- Aufbau principle
- Planck’s quantum theory
- Wave-particle duality
- Schrödinger wave equation
- Angular momentum
- Quantization of electronic energies (qualitative treatment of hydrogen atom)
- Periodicity in Properties of Atoms
- Atomic and ionic radii
- Ionization potential
- Electron affinity
- Electronegativity
- Hydration energy
- Lattice energy
- Chemical Bonding
- Valence bond theory
- Hybridization
- Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (VSEPR)
- Molecular orbital (MO) theory: molecular orbital diagrams of homo- and heteronuclear diatomic molecules
- General properties of s- and p-block elements
- Chemical effects of nuclear transformation
- Nuclear fission and fusion
- Radioactive isotopes and their applications
- Electronic Displacement
- Inductive effect
- Electromeric effect
- Mesomeric effect
- Resonance and its application to organic chemistry
Subject wise syllabus is given in detail below.