Syllabus: Mains

Subject And Syllabus

Main Exam

Paper – I: One Indian Language

Paper – II: English

Paper – III: Essay

Paper – IV & V: General Studies.

Paper – VI, VII, VIII & IX: Two subjects from the following list of optional subjects.

Optional Subjects – Mains

Agriculture	Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science	Anthropology
Botany	Chemistry	Civil Engineering
Commerce and Accountancy	Economics	Electrical Engineering
Geography	Geology	History
Law	Management	Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering	Medical Science	Philosophy
Physics	Political Science & International Relations	Psychology
Public Administration	Sociology	Statistics
Zoology

List of Language Papers (and their Scripts to be used)

To look at the syllabus for each language click on the link

Language	Script		Language	Script
Arabic	Arabic		Malayam	Malayalam
Assamese	Assamese		Manipuri	Devanagari
Bengali	Bengali		Marathi	Devanagari
Bodo	Devanagari		Nepali	Devanagari
Chinese	--		Oriya	Oriya
Dogri	Devanagari		Pali	--
English	--		Persian	--
French	--		Punjabi	Gurmukhi
German	--		Russian	--
Gujarati	Gujarati		Sanskrit	Devanagari
Hindi	Devanagari		Santhali	Devanagari or Olchiki
Kannada	Kannada		Sindhi	Devanagari or Arabic
Kashmiri	Persian		Tamil	Tamil
Konkani	Devanagari		Telugu	Telugu
Maithili	Devanagari		Urdu	Persian