UPSC CDS 2 Syllabus 2022, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2022,
Detail Information about CDS has published notification 2022 for the recruitment of Entrance vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
UPSC CDS 2 Exam Syllabus 2022
English
1. Fill in the blanks
2. Reading Comprehension
3. Vocabulary (Synonyms/ Antonyms/ Phrases)
4. Sentence Rearrangement (Jumbled sentences)
5. Spotting Error
6. Sentence Improvement/ Correction
General Knowledge
Current Affairs
1. Cover news of important international and national summits/ conferences,
2. awards, sports-related news,
3. books, and authors etc.
Political Science
1. Important facts of the Indian constitution,
2. fundamental rights, and directive principles,
3. powers of the president and prime minister,
4. constitutional bodies, Indian judiciary etc.
Indian Histroy
Questions may be asked from Ancient, Medieval and Modern India.
Indian Polity
Prepare important facts of Indian as well as world geography.
Economics
Prepare topics like Budget, Five-year plan, foreign trade etc.
General Science
1. In Physics, focus on topics like optics, motion, force, units, heat, electricity, temperature etc.
2. In Chemistry, prepare important topics of organic, inorganic, physical and general chemistry.
3. In Biology, focus on the topics of important diseases, botany, zoology as well as human biology.
Defence Related News
Questions in this section may be asked from important defence related topics like Army Day, Navy Day, recent developments etc.
Elementary Mathematics
Arithmetic
1. Number System (natural, integers, rational & real numbers)
2. Fundamental operations (subtraction, addition, division, multiplication)
3. Unitary method
4. Percentages
5. Time & Work
6. Simple & Compound Interest
7. Time & distance
8. Ratio & proportion
9. Profit & loss
10. Elementary number theory
11. Composite & prime numbers
12. Divisibility tests
13. Theorem of factorisation
14. Factors & Multiples
15. Euclidean algorithm
16. laws of algorithm & algorithmic tables
Algebra
1. Basic operations
2. Remainder theorem
3. L.C.M. & H.C.F.
4. Polynomial theories
5. Quadratic equations (relation between roots & its coefficients)
6. Linear equations in 2 variables
7. Set language and set notation
8. Laws of indices
9. Conditional identities
10. Rational Expressions
Trigonometry
1. All about Sine a, Cos a, Tan a when 0° < a < 90°, Sin, Cos and Tan values of important angles like 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°
2. Simple trigonometric identities
3. Trigonometric tables
4. Heights and distance
Geometry
1. Plane & plane figures
2. Lines, and angles
3. Important theorems (like angle property based)
4. Parallel lines
5. Congruency of triangles
6. Medians & Altitudes
7. Similar triangles
8. Parallelogram
9. Circles
10. Rectangle
11. Square
Mensuration
1. Areas of circles, Triangles
2. Rectangles, Squares
3. Parallelograms, Volume
4. Surface area of cuboids
5. Cones, Cylinders, Spheres
Statistics
1. Tabulation of statistical data
2. Graphical representation of frequency polygons
3. Bar graphs, Histograms, Pie charts
4. Measures of central tendency
UPSC CDS 2 Exam Pattern 2022
(For INA, IMA, and AFA )
Negative Mark : 0.33
| PAPER | Subject | No. of Question | Marks | Duration |
| PAPER I | English | 120 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| PAPER II | General Knowledge | 120 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| PAPER III | Elementary Mathematics | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Total | 340 | 300 | 360 Minutes |
CDS Exam Pattern for OTA
Negative Marking : 0.33
| S.No | Subject | No.of Question | Marks | Duration |
| 1 | English | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| 2 | General Knowledge | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Total | 200 | 200 | 240 Minutes |
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