Kerala PSC High School Teacher Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2025: Download PDF

The Kerala Public Service Commission has released a few notifications for High school teacher posts. The selection process for KPSC high school teacher is expected to include an objective-type examination. It is important that every candidate knows the syllabus and exam pattern before they start their preparation. In this article, we will discuss the exam pattern and the syllabus as mentioned by the recruitment board in detail.

Kerala PSC High School Teacher Syllabus 2025

All candidates must be aware of the syllabus of the Kerala PSC High School Teacher Recruitment. This will help the candidates to sort out a preparation strategy for the examination. Questions will be asked on Research Methodology/ Teaching Aptitude, Salient Features of Indian Constitution, Social Welfare Legislations, and Programmes, Renaissance in Kerala, General Knowledge & Current Affairs, and Social Sciences in the examination. The Research Methodology/ Teaching Aptitude, Salient Features of Indian Constitution, Social Welfare Legislations, and Programmes, Renaissance in Kerala, General Knowledge & Current Affairs subjects are common for every candidate while the core subject varies. 

Research Methodology/ Teaching Aptitude

Research Aptitude

• Meaning, Characteristics, and types of research
• Research Ethics
• Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference, and symposium
• Thesis writing: its characteristics and format

Teaching Aptitude

• Nature, objectives, characteristics, and basic requirements of teaching
• Learner’s characteristics
• Factors affecting teaching
• Methods of teaching
• Teaching aids
• Evaluation systems

Salient Features of Indian Constitution, Social Welfare Legislations, and Programmes

• Salient features of the Constitution
• Preamble- Its significance and its place in the interpretation of the Constitution
• Fundamental Rights – Directive Principles of State Policy
• Relation between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
• Fundamental Duties
• Executive – Legislature – Judiciary – Both at Union and State Level
• Other Constitutional Authorities
• Center-state Relations – Legislative – Administrative and Financial
• Services under the Union and the States
• Emergency Provisions
• Amendment Provisions of the Constitution
• Social Service Legislations like the Right to Information Act
• Prevention of atrocities against Women & Children
• Food Security Act
• Environmental Acts
• Social Welfare Programmes like Employment Guarantee Programme
• Organ and Blood Donation etc

Renaissance in Kerala, General Knowledge & Current Affairs

• Towards a New Society
• Efforts to reform the Society
• Various missionary organizations and their functioning
• Socio-Religious reform Movements
• Struggles and Social Revolts
• Role of Press in Renaissance
• Awakening Through Literature
• Women and Social Change
• Leaders of Renaissance
• Literary Figures
• National & International events
• Indian Economy & Polity
• Science & Environment, etc.

Syllabus for core subjects (Social Science):

Geography

• Concepts and Trends in Geography
• Physical Geography
• Geography in India
• Urban Geography and Regional development
• Cartography and Geoinformatics
• Regional and Economic Geography of the world
• Modern trends in Geography

Economics

• Methodology of Microeconomics – Recent developments in consumer behavior
• Theories of production and cost
• Theories of General Equilibrium and Welfare economics
• Consumption and Investment Theories
• Theories of Inflation – Theories of Business Cycle
• Modern Developments in Macroeconomics – Macroeconomic Policy
• Differentiation and Integration in Economics
• Probability Distributions – Theories of Sampling
• Theories of Estimation and Testing of Hypothesis
• Harrod-Domar, neoclassical, Cambridge, and Endogenous growth models
• Trade and Growth
• Growth, Performance and Structural change in the Indian economy since New Economic reforms
• Recent developments in Economics

History

• Historiography & Research Methodology
• World History
• Pre-Modern India
• Modern India
• Social and Religious Reform movements
• Pre-Modern Kerala
• Modern Kerala
• Origin and Development of Malayalam Language
• Recent developments in historical studies

Sociology

• Basic concepts in sociology
• Sociological Theories
• Social Research Methods
• Sociology of Indian Society
• Sociology of Development
• Kerala Society
• Recent trends in Sociology

Political Science

• Modern Political Thought
• Indian Government and Politics
• Comparative Politics
• Theories and concepts of public administration
• International Politics
• Research Methodology
• Modern trends in Political Science

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Kerala PSC High School Teacher Exam Pattern 2025

It is not just enough to know the syllabus for the recruitment process. Candidates must also be aware of the exam pattern. The exam pattern for Kerala PSC High School Teacher recruitment is given in the table below:

Marking scheme:

• 100 questions each of 1 mark will be asked.
• All questions asked will be objective-type questions.
• For every wrong answer, 0.33 marks will be deducted.

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