The syllabus for Combined Defence Services or CDS Syllabus will be containing the topics from which the questions will be asked in the exam. Candidates must need to prepare these topics so that they can qualify the exam. The syllabus of the exam contains questions basically from 03 subjects:
- English
- General Knowledge
- Mathematics
As per the details available, the candidates those who have applied for IMA, AFA and INA will have to appear in written test of Mathematics, English and General Knowledge. On the other hands, the candidates those who opted for OTA will have to appear in English and Mathematics exam only.
Candidates must be well aware of the CDS Syllabus so that they can prepare accordingly. It is obvious that without the knowledge of syllabus they will always be confused about what to study.
We, in this blog, are providing the complete details for the syllabus so that candidates can easily prepare a defined strategy which will help them to qualify in the exam.
Below we have provided the UPSC CDS Syllabus categorized on the basis of subject. Have a look at these topics:
English Syllabus
Though there is no defined syllabus for English subject but still we are providing the main topics that are quite important from the exam point of view.
- Reading comprehension
- Jumbled sentences
- Fill in the blanks
- Correction in sentence
- Find and correct the errors
- Mathematics Syllabus
The syllabus for mathematics are given below:
- Arithmetic: Number System, Unitary Methods, Fundamental Operations and Elementary Number Theorems, time and distance, Unitary method, application to simple and compound interest.
- Geometry: Lines and angles, parallel lines, plane and plane figures, sides and triangles of a triangle, Concurrence of medians and altitudes, Congruency of triangles, circles and its properties, tangents and Normals.
- Algebra: Remainder Theorem, Linear equations, Quadratic Equations, Theory of Polynomials, set language,
- Relationship between coefficients and roots set notation
- Trigonometry: Sine x, tangent x, cosine x, simple Trigonometric identities, simple cases of height and distances
- Menstruation: Areas of squares, triangles, rectangles, circles and parallelograms, volume and surface area of spheres
- Statistics: Data tabulation, histograms, graphical representation, pie and bar charts, frequency polygons.
General Knowledge Syllabus
The CDS Syllabus for general knowledge contains all the recent topics and events. These includes all the news related to national and international issues as well. It must be noted that candidates must be aware of the basic knowledge.
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