General English

Syllabus

English Reader
1. Monday Morning 2. Swami and his Father 3. All about a Dog 4. Treasure
from the Deep 5. Maori Villages 6. The Penguins 7. Alfred Nobel 8. The
Easter Egg
9. On Patrol 10. Columbus Sails 11. Fighting the Invisible 12. Operation
Indian Ocean
13. Nehru's Will and Testament 14. The Death of Socrates
Supplementary Reader
1. The Diamond Necklace 2. The Lost Child 3. The Doctor's Word
4. The School for Sympathy 5. Tolstoy's Home 6. On Saying Please
7. Forgetting 8. The Never-Never Nest 9. Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture
10. Reconciliation 11. Fasting as Penance 12. The Tank
13. The Variety and Unity of India
Poems
i. Where the Mind is Without Fear
ii. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
iii. Leisure
iv. Say Not, the Struggle Naught Availeth
v. The Daffodils
vi. Indian Weavers
vii. No Men are Foreign
Grammar
1. Determiners and Prepositions
2. Use of same words as a Noun and as a Verb
3. Change the Tenses
4. Voice
5. Narration
6. Transformation of Sentences
Composition
1. Letter-Writing
2. Paragraph-Writing
3. Precis Writing

SYLLABUS
PART-A (INTRODUCTORY MICRO ECONOMICS)
Unit1 INTRODUCTION
Micro Economics: Meaning; Difference between Micro and Macro Economics,
Central
Problems of an Economy, Production Possibility Curve and Opportunity Cost.
Unit-2 CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND DEMAND
i. Consumers Equilibrium:- Meaning, Attainment of equilibrium through
Utility
Approach (one and two commodity case).
- 42 ii. Theory of Demand: Meaning of Demand, Types of Demand: Individual and
Market
Demand, Determinants of Demand, Demand Schedule, Demand Curve,
Movement
along and shift in Demand Curve.
iii. Price Elasticity of Demand: Measurement of Price Elasticity of DemandPercentage, Total expenditure and Geometric method.
Unit-3 PRODUCER BEHAVIOUR AND SUPPLY
i. Production-Meaning, Concept of Production, Function: Returns to Factor and
Returns to Scale.
ii. Theory of Supply: Meaning of Supply, Types of Supply: Individual and
Market
Supply, Determinants of Supply, Supply Schedule, Supply Curve, Law of
Supply,
Movement along and shifts in supply curve, Price Elasticity of Supply,
Measurement of Price Elasticity of Supply; Percentage and geometric
method.
iii. Concepts of Costs: Short Run Cost Curves; Fixed and Variable Costs, Total,
Average and Marginal Costs.
Concepts of Revenue: Total, Average and Marginal Revenue and their
relationship.
iv. Producers Equilibrium with the help of MC and MR.
Unit-4 FORMS OF MARKET AND PRICE DETERMINATION
i. Forms of Market: Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Monopolistic CompetitionTheir
Meaning and Features.
ii. Price Determination under Perfect Competition- Equilibrium Price, Effect of
shifts
in Demand and Supply.

PART-B (INTRODUCTORY MACRO ECONOMICS)

Unit-5 NATIONAL INCOME AND RELATED AGGREGATE

i. Basic Concept and Measurement of National Income (introduction only)

ii. Macro Economics: Meaning, Circular flow of Income,
Concepts of GDP, GNP, NDP, NNP (at market price and factor cost), National
Disposable Income (Gross & Net); Private Income, Personal Income and
Personal
Disposable Income.
iii. Measurement of National Income-Value Added Method, Income Method &
Expenditure Method
Unit-6 DETERMINATION OF INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT.
i. Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply and their Components.
ii. Propensity to Consume and Propensity to Save (Average and marginal).
iii. Meaning of Involuntary-Unemployment, Concept of Full Employment.
iv. Determination of Equilibrium level of Income and Employment-Two sector
model.
v. Concept of Investment Multiplier and its working.
vi. Problems of excess and deficient Demand. Measures to correct excess and
deficient
Demand, Availability of Credit, Change in Government Spending.
Unit-7 MONEY AND BANKING
i. Money: Meaning, Evolution and Functions.
ii. Central Bank: Meaning and Functions.
iii. Commercial Banks: Meaning and Functions.
iv. Recent significant reforms and issues in Indian Banking System;
Privatisation and
Modernization.
Unit-8 GOVERNMENT BUDGET AND THE ECONOMY
i. Government Budget. Meaning and its Components, Objectives of
Government
Budget.
ii. Budget Receipts Revenue Receipts and Capital Receipts.
- 43 iii. Budget Expenditure-Revenue and Ca pital Expenditure, Plan and Non-Plan
Expenditure and Development and Non-Development Expenditure.
iv. Balance Budget, Surplus Budget and Deficit Budget: Their Meaning and
Implications; Types of Deficit Budget-Revenue Deficit, Fiscal Deficit and
Primary
Deficit(meaning and implications); Measures to contain different Deficits.
Downsizing the role of Government: Meaning and Implications.
Unit-9 BALANCE OF TRADE AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS.
i. Foreign Exchange Rate: Meaning, Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rate
SystemMeaning, Merits and Demerits.
ii. Determination of Flexible Exchange Rate System through Demand and
Supply.
iii. Balance of Payment Accounts; Meaning and Components.
iv. A brief analysis about recent exchange rate issue.

(MATH SYLLABUS)
Relations and Functions:
Types of relations: Reflexive, symmetric, transitive and equivalence relations.
One to
one and onto functions, composite functions, inverse of a function. Binary
operations.
2 Inverse Trigonometric Functions:
Definition, Range, Domain, Principal value branches. Graphs of inverse
trigonometric functions. Elementary properties of inverse trigonometric
functions.
3 Matrices:
Concept, notation, order, equality, types of matrices, zero matrix, transpose
of a
matrix, symmetric and skew symmetric matrices. Addition, multiplication and
scalar multiplication of matrices, simple properties of addition, multiplication
and
scalar multiplication. Non-commutativity of multiplication of matrices and
existence
of non-zero matrices whose product is the zero matrix (restrict to square
matrices of
order 2). Concept of elementary row and column operations. Invertible
matrices and
proof of the uniqueness of inverse, if it exists; (Here all matrices will have
real
entries).
Sr.
No
Topic Q. Carrying
1-Marks
Q. Carrying
3-Marks
Q. Carrying
5-Marks
Total
Marks
1. Relations & Functions - 1 - 03
2.
Inverse Trigonometric Functions 1
1
04

3.
4.
Matrices
Determinants
1
1
1
09
5. Continuity & Differentiability 1 2 - 07
6.
Applications of Derivatives - 1 1 08
7. Integrals 2 2 - 08
8. Applications of the Integrals - 1 - 03
9. Differential Equations 1 2 - 07
10. Vectors 1 1 - 04
11. Three-dimensional Geometry 1 - 1 06
12. Linear Programming - - 1 05
13. Probability - 2 - 06
Total 8 14 4 70
- 45 4 Determinants:
Determinant of a square matrix (up to 33matrices), properties of
determinants,
minors, cofactors and applications of determinants in finding the area of a
triangle.
Adjoint and inverse of a square matrix. Consistency, inconsistency and
number of
solutions of system of linear equation by examples, solving system of linear
equations in two or three variables (having unique solution) using inverse of
a
matrix.
5 Continuity and Differentiability:
Continuity and Differentiability, derivative of composite functions, chain rule,
derivative of inverse trigonometric functions, derivative of implicit function.
Concepts of exponential and logarithmic functions. Derivatives of log ex and
ex .
Logarithmic differentiation. Derivative of functions expressed in parametric
forms.
Second order derivatives. Rolles and Lagranges Mean Value Theorems
(without
proof) and their geometric interpretations.
6 Applications of Derivatives
Applications of derivatives: rate of change, increasing/decreasing functions,
tangents and normal, approximation, maxima and minima (first derivative
test

motivated geometrically and second derivative test given as a provable tool).

Simple
problems (that illustrate basic principles and understanding of the subject as
well
as real life situations).
7 Integrals:
Integration as inverse process of differentiation. Integration of a variety of
functions
by substitution, by partial fractions and by parts, only simple integrals of the
type:

_____

ax bx c

dx
ax bx c
dx
ax
dx
xa
dx
xa
dx
22222222

___

,,,,

dx a x dx
ax bx c
px q
dx
ax bx c
px q 2 2
22,
()
,
()
and

x2 a2 dx

ax bx c 2 dx and _ px q ax bx c 2 ( ) dx
to be evaluated.
Definite integrals as a limit of a sum. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
(without
proof).Basic properties of definite integrals and evaluation of definite
integrals. .

8 Applications of the Integrals:

Applications in finding the area under simple curves, especially lines, areas
of
circles/parabolas/ellipses (in standard form only), area between the two
above said
curves (the region should be clearly identifiable).
9 Differential Equations:
Definition, order and degree, general and particular solutions of a differential
equation. Formation of differential equation whose general solution is given.
Solution of differential equations by method of separation of variables,
homogeneous differential equations of first order and first degree. Solutions
of
linear differential equation of the type:
Px Q
dy
dx
Py Q
dx
dy

where P and Q are functions of x or constant.

where P and Q are functions of y or constant
- 46 10 Vectors:
Vectors and scalars, magnitude and direction of a vector. Direction
cosines/ratios of
vectors. Types of vectors (equal, unit, zero, parallel and collinear vectors),
position
vector of a point, negative of a vector, components of a vector, addition of
vectors,
multiplication of a vector by a scalar, position vector of a point dividing a line
segment in a given ratio. Scalar (dot) product of vectors, projection of a
vector on a
line. Vector (cross) product of vectors, scalar triple product.
11 Three-dimensional Geometry:
Direction cosines/ ratios of a line joining two points. Cartesian and vector
equation
of a line, coplanar and skew lines, shortest distance between two lines.
Cartesian
and vector equation of a plane. Angle between (i) two lines, (ii) two planes,
(iii) a line
and a plane. Distance of a point from a plane.
12 Linear Programming:
Introduction, definition of related terminology such as constraints, objectives
function, optimization, different types of linear programming (L.P.) problems,

mathematical formulation of L.P problems, graphical method of solution for

problems in two variables, feasible and infeasible regions, feasible and
infeasible
solutions, optimal feasible solutions (up to three non-trivial constrains)
13 Probability:
Multiplication theorem on probability. Conditional probability, independent
events,
total probability, Bayes theorem, Random variable and its probability
distribution,
mean and variance of haphazard variable. Repeated independent (Bernoulli)
trials
and Binomial distribution.