Kerala PSC Company / Board Assistant Mains Syllabus

The Kerala PSC Company / Board Assistant Mains syllabus is an important resource for candidates who have qualified in the Degree Level Preliminary Examination. As the Main Examination is scheduled for December 5, 2026, candidates should understand the syllabus thoroughly and plan their preparation accordingly. This page provides the detailed Company / Board Assistant Mains syllabus, helping aspirants identify the important topics, organise their study plan and prepare effectively for the upcoming examination.

Section	Subject	Marks
I	General Knowledge	50
	(i) History	5
	(ii) Geography	5
	(iii) Economics	5
	(iv) Indian Constitution	5
	(v) Kerala - Governance and System of Administration	10
	(vi) Life Science and Public Health	6
	(vii) Physics	3
	(viii) Chemistry	3
	(ix) Arts, Literature, Culture, Sports	5
	(x) Basics of Computer	3
	(xi) Important Acts	5
II	Current Affairs	15
III	Simple Arithmetic, Mental Ability and Reasoning	10
	(i) Simple Arithmetic	5
	(ii) Mental Ability & Reasoning	5
IV	General English	10
	(i) English Grammar	5
	(ii) Vocabulary	5
V	Regional Language (Malayalam / Kannada / Tamil)	10
Total		100

Detailed Syllabus

I. General Knowledge (50 Marks)

(i) History (5 Marks)

• Kerala: Arrival of Europeans — Contributions of Europeans — History of Travancore from Marthanda Varma to Sree Chithirathirunnal — Social and Religious Reform movement — National movement in Kerala — Literary Sources of Kerala History — United Kerala Movement — Political and Social History of Kerala after 1956.

• India: Political History — Establishment of the British — First War of Independence — Formation of INC — Swadeshi Movement — Social Reform movement — Newspapers — Literature and Arts during the freedom struggle — Independence Movement & Mahatma Gandhi — India's independent post-independent period — State reorganization — Development in Science, Education, and Technology — Foreign policy.

• World: Great Revolution in England — American War of Independence — French Revolution — Russian Revolution — Chinese Revolution — Political History after Second World War — UNO and other International Organizations.

(ii) Geography (5 Marks)

• Basics of Geography: Earth Structure, Atmosphere, Rocks, Landforms, Pressure Belt and Winds, Temperature and Seasons — Global Issues: Global Warming, Various forms of Pollution — Maps: Topographic Maps and Signs, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System — Oceans and its various movements — Continents, Nations and their specific features.

• India: Physiography — States and its features — Northern Mountain Region, Rivers, Northern Great Plain, Peninsular Plateau, Coastal Plain — Climate, Natural Vegetation, Agriculture — Minerals and Industries — Energy Sources — Transport system: Road, Water, Railways, Air.

• Kerala: Physiography — Districts and its features — Rivers, Climate, Natural Vegetation, Wildlife — Agriculture and research centers — Minerals and Industries — Energy Sources — Transport system: Road, Water, Railway, Air.

(iii) Economics (5 Marks)

• India: Economy, Five Year Plans, New Economic Reforms, Planning Commission and Niti Aayog, Financial Institutions.

• Agriculture: Major Crops, Green Revolution, Minerals.

• Direct and indirect taxes in India, GST in India — rationale and structure of GST, benefits of GST.

(iv) Indian Constitution (5 Marks)

• Constituent Assembly — Preamble — Citizenship — Fundamental Rights, Writs (Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Prohibition, Certiorari, Quo warranto).

• Directive Principles of State Policy — Fundamental Duties.

• Structure of Governments: Union Executive, Parliament, and Judiciary — State Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary — Local Self Government Institutions (LSGIs).

• Important Constitutional Amendments (42, 44, 52, 73, 74, 86, 91, 97, 101, 102, 103, 104).

• Constitutional Authorities and their functions: Comptroller and Auditor General, Attorney General, Advocate General, Election Commission of India, State Election Commission, Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service Commission, Finance Commission, State Finance Commission, GST Council.

• Distribution of legislative powers: Union List, State List, Concurrent List — Services under the Union and the States — Tribunals — National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Backward Classes.

• Official Language — Regional Languages — Language of the Supreme Court, High Courts, etc. — Special directives relating to languages.

(v) Kerala Governance and System of Administration (10 Marks)

• Kerala State Civil Service — Quasi-judicial bodies, various Commissions.

• Basic facts of socio-economic development — Planning Board — Commercial Planning and Policies.

• Disaster Management — Watershed Management — Employment and Labour — National Rural Employment Programmes — Land Reforms — Social Welfare and Security — Protection of Women, Children and Senior Citizens — Population, Literacy.

• E-governance, Delegated Legislation and its controls — Legislative and Judicial controls.

• Constitutional law remedies against Administrative Arbitrariness — Administrative Discretion and its Controls — Administrative Adjudication — Principles of Natural Justice.

(vi) Life Science and Public Health (6 Marks)

1. Basic facts of Human Body

2. Vitamins and Minerals and their Deficiency Diseases

3. Communicable Diseases and Causative Organisms, Preventive and Remedial Measures

4. Kerala Welfare activities in Health Sector

5. Lifestyle Diseases

6. Basic Health Facts

7. Environment and Environmental Hazards

(vii) Physics (3 Marks)

1. Branches of Physics — Matter — Units, Measurements — Physical Quantities.

2. Motion — Newton's Laws of Motion — Third law — Momentum — Projectile Motion — Uses of Third Law — Achievements in space missions in India — ISRO.

3. Light — Lens, Mirrors — Problems based on $r=2f$ — Different phenomena of Light — Rainbow — Colours of different materials — Electromagnetic Spectrum — IR rays, UV rays, X-rays — Photoelectric Effect.

4. Sound — Different types of Waves — Velocity of Sound in different media — Resonance — Reverberation.

5. Force — Different types of Forces — Friction (Advantages and disadvantages) — Liquid Pressure — Buoyant Force — Archimedes Principle — Pascal's law — Density — Relative density — Adhesive and Cohesive forces — Capillarity — Viscous force — Surface tension.

6. Gravitation — Centripetal Force, Centrifugal Force — Escape Velocity, Satellites — Weight, Mass — Value of 'g', 'g' in different places.

7. Heat — Temperature — Different types of thermometers — Humidity — Relative Humidity.

8. Work, Energy, Power — Simple problems relating to Work, Energy, Power — Levers, Different types of Levers.

(viii) Chemistry (3 Marks)

1. Atom — Molecule — States of Matter — Allotropy — Gas laws — Aqua regia.

2. Elements — Periodic Table — Metals & Non-metals — Chemical & Physical changes — Chemical reactions — Solutions, Mixtures, Compounds.

3. Metals, Non-metals — Alloys — Acids, Bases — pH value — Alkaloids.

(ix) Arts, Sports, Literature and Culture (5 Marks)

• Arts: Important Audio Visual Art Forms of Kerala — Famous Places, Institutions, Personalities, Artistes, and Writers related to origin, development, extension, and practice.

• Sports:

  1. Famous Sports personalities of Kerala, India, and the World; their events, achievements, and awards.

  2. Important Awards — Corresponding Fields, Winners.

  3. Famous Trophies — Related Events and Sports Items.

  4. Number of Players in Important Sports Items.

  5. Important Terms associated with various Sports and Games.

  6. Olympics — Basic Facts, Venues/Countries, Famous Performances, Personalities — India in Olympics — Winter Olympics & Para Olympics.

  7. Asian Games, Afro-Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, SAF Games — Venues, Countries, Performance of India, other facts.

  8. National Games.

  9. Games — Events, Players, Achievements.

  10. National Sports / Games, Events of various Countries.

• Literature:

  1. Malayalam — Important Literary Movements — Icons and their first works.

  2. Main works of Literature related to each movement and their authors.

  3. Writers' Pen name and Nickname.

  4. Famous Works and Characters.

  5. Famous Quotes — Books and Authors.

  6. Beginning of Journalism in Kerala — Pioneers, Journals, and Publications.

  7. Famous Awards/Honours — Writers and their works.

  8. Malayalam Writers who won the Jnanpith Award and related facts.

  9. Malayalam Cinema — Origin, Development, Milestones, Pioneers, National Awards.

• Culture:

  1. Kerala — Important Celebrations, Places associated with such Celebrations, Important Festivals.

  2. Kerala — Cultural Centres, Worship Places, Cultural Leaders and their Contributions.

(x) Basics of Computer (3 Marks)

1. Hardware:

   • Input Devices (Names and uses)

   • Output Devices (Names, uses, features)

   • Memory devices — Primary and Secondary (Examples, Features)

2. Software:

   • Classification — System software and Application software

   • Operating System — Functions and examples

   • Popular Application software packages — Word processors, Spreadsheets, Database packages, Presentation, Image editors (Uses, features, fundamental concepts)

   • Basics of programming — Types of instructions (Input, Output, Store, Control, Transfer)

3. Computer Networks:

   • Types of networks — LAN, WAN, MAN (Features and application area)

   • Network Devices — Media, Switch, Hub, Router, Bridge, Gateway (Uses of each)

4. Internet:

   • Services — WWW, E-mail, Search engines (Examples and purposes)

   • Social Media (Examples and features)

   • Web Designing — Browser, HTML (Basics only)

5. Cyber Wrongs (Awareness Level):

   • Types of Cyber Wrongs

   • Information Technology Act, 2000

(xi) Important Acts (5 Marks)

1. Right to Information: Right to Information Act, 2005 — Information exempted — Third party information — Constitution of Information Commissions — Powers and functions.

2. Right to Public Services: The Kerala State Right to Service Act, 2012.

3. Protection of Consumers: Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Rights of consumers.

4. Protection of Vulnerable Sections:

   • Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955

   • SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

   • The Kerala State Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act, 2007 — Kerala State SC/ST Commission

   • Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 — National Human Rights Commission and State Human Rights Commission

   • Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007

   • The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016

   • The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019

5. Protection and Safeguarding of Women:

   • Offences against women under IPC, 1860

   • Offences affecting public decency and morality under IPC

   • Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961

   • National Commission for Women Act, 1990

   • Kerala Women's Commission Act, 1991 — National and State Commission for Women

   • Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

   • The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013

6. Protection and Safeguarding of Children:

   • Offences against children under IPC

   • Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO)

   • Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015

7. Prevention of Corruption and Mal-administration:

   • The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988

   • The Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003

   • The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013

   • The Kerala Lok Ayukta Act, 1999

8. Public Servant: Definition under IPC — Offences by/against public servants under IPC.

9. Administrative Tribunals: The Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 — Central Administrative Tribunal — Kerala Administrative Tribunal (Composition & Powers).

II. Current Affairs (15 Marks)

III. Simple Arithmetic, Mental Ability and Reasoning (10 Marks)

(i) Simple Arithmetic (5 Marks)

1. Numbers and Basic Operations

2. Fraction and Decimal Numbers

3. Percentage

4. Profit and Loss

5. Simple and Compound Interest

6. Ratio and Proportion

7. Time and Distance

8. Time and Work

9. Average

10. Laws of Exponents

11. Mensuration

12. Progressions

(ii) Mental Ability & Reasoning (5 Marks)

1. Series

2. Problems on Mathematical Signs

3. Verifying Positions

4. Analogy — Word Analogy, Alphabet Analogy, Number Analogy

5. Odd man out

6. Numerical Ability

7. Coding and Decoding

8. Family Relations

9. Sense of Direction

10. Time and Angles

11. Time in a clock and its reflection

12. Date and Calendar

13. Clerical Ability

IV. General English (10 Marks)

(i) English Grammar (5 Marks)

• Types of Sentences and Interchange of Sentences

• Different Parts of Speech

• Agreement of Subject and Verb

• Articles — Definite and Indefinite Articles

• Uses of Primary and Modal Auxiliary Verbs

• Question Tags

• Infinitive and Gerunds

• Tenses & Tenses in Conditional Sentences

• Prepositions

• The Use of Correlatives

• Direct and Indirect Speech

• Active and Passive voice

• Correction of Sentences

• Degrees of Comparison

(ii) Vocabulary (5 Marks)

• Singular & Plural, Change of Gender, Collective Nouns

• Word formation from other words and use of prefix or suffix

• Compound words

• Synonyms & Antonyms

• Phrasal Verbs

• Foreign Words and Phrases

• One Word Substitutes

• Words often confused

• Spelling Test

• Idioms and their Meanings

• Expansion and meaning of Common Abbreviations

V. Regional Language (10 Marks)

Malayalam

1. പദശുദ്ധി

2. വാക്യശുദ്ധി

3. പരിഭാഷ

4. ഒറ്റപ്പദം

5. പര്യായം

6. വിപരീത പദം

7. ശൈലികൾ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ

8. സമാനപദം

9. ചേർത്തെഴുതുക

10. സ്ത്രീലിംഗം പുല്ലിംഗം

11. വചനം

12. പിരിച്ചെഴുതൽ

13. ഘടക പദം (വാക്യം ചേർത്തെഴുതുക)

Kannada

1. Word Purity / Correct Word

2. Correct Sentence

3. Translation

4. One Word / Single Word / One Word Substitution

5. Synonyms

6. Antonyms

7. Idioms and Proverbs

8. Equivalent Word

9. Join the Word

10. Feminine Gender, Masculine Gender

11. Number

12. Sort and Write

Tamil

1. Correct Word

2. Correct Structure of Sentence

3. Translation

4. Single Word

5. Synonyms

6. Antonyms / Opposite

7. Phrases and Proverbs

8. Equal Word

9. Join the Word

10. Gender Classification (Feminine, Masculine)

11. Singular, Plural

12. Separate

13. Adding Phrases