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Updated on: 08 Oct 2026

Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Syllabus 2026 – Complete Syllabus and Exam Pattern

The Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Syllabus 2026 helps candidates understand the subjects, topics and marks distribution for the upcoming examination. Candidates preparing for Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Category No. 054/2026 should review the complete syllabus before starting their preparation.

The examination syllabus covers General Knowledge and Current Affairs, Computer Application, Typewriting Theory, General English, Regional Language, and Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability. Understanding the subject-wise marks distribution helps candidates prepare a study plan, prioritise important topics and focus on the areas covered in the examination.Candidates can also check the exam details in our Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Notification 2026 and Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Exam date 2026 page

Download the notification PDF to review the official instructions and confirm your eligibility before preparing for the examination.

Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Notification 2026 – Category No. 054/2026

Kerala PSC Confidential Assistant Exam Pattern 2026

Part

Subject

Marks

I

General Knowledge & Current Affairs

10

II

Computer Application

40

III

Typewriting (Theory)

10

IV

General English

10

V

Regional Language (Malayalam/Kannada/Tamil)

20

VI

Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability

10

Total

100

PART I: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE & CURRENT AFFAIRS (10 Marks)

General Knowledge

  • Facts about India:

    • Geography of India: Physical features, Climate, Soils, Rivers, Famous sites, etc.

    • Demography: Economic and social development, Poverty alleviation, Economy and planning, Five Year Plans, etc.

    • History of India: Period from 1857 to 1947, National movement.

  • Facts about Kerala:

    • Geographical Facts: Physical features, Climate, Soils, Rivers, Famous sites, Economic and Social development, Historical importance, etc.

    • Renaissance in Kerala: Important Events, Movements, and Leaders (Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi, Chattampi Swami, Sree Narayana Guru, Vagbhatananda, Thycaud Ayya, Ayya Vaikundar, Poikayil Yohannan (Kumara Guru), Ayyankali, Pandit Karuppan, Mannathu Padmanabhan, V. T. Bhattathirippad, Dr. Palpu, Kumaranasan, Vakkom Moulavi, Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, etc.).

Current Affairs

  • Important world, national, and regional events related to political and scientific fields, sports, cinema, literature, etc.

PART II: COMPUTER APPLICATION (40 Marks)

MODULE I: COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS & INFORMATICS (10 Marks Total)

  1. Components of a Computer System (6 marks):

    • Hardware Components: Hardware Definition; Control Unit, ALU, I/O devices, Memory, Motherboard and their functions.

    • Types of PCs: Desktop, Laptop, Notebook, PDA, Special Purpose computers, Supercomputers (Characteristics and area of use).

    • Memory Comparison: Primary vs. Secondary memory; RAM and ROM variations; Magnetic and Optical Storage Devices with examples.

    • Input Devices: Keyboard, Mouse, Trackball, Joystick, Scanners, Digital camera, OCR, OMR, MICR, Light pen, Barcode readers, QR code, Voice recognition, Touchscreen (Characteristics).

    • Output Devices: Monitors, Printers, Plotters, Sound cards, Speakers (Characteristics).

  2. Software Concepts & Number Systems (4 marks):

    • Software Concepts: Types of software (System software and Application software); System software definition and examples; Functions of OS; Application software definition and examples.

    • Number Systems & Coding: Decimal, Octal, Hexadecimal, Binary (Representation concepts only); Computer coding systems (EBCDIC, ASCII, Unicode definitions).

MODULE II: OFFICE AUTOMATION (10 Marks Total)

  1. Introduction to MS-Office:

    • a. MS-Word (4 marks): Introduction to Word Processing, MS Word features; Creating, Saving, and Opening documents; Interface, Toolbars, Ruler, Menus, Keyboard Shortcuts; Editing Text (Selecting, Inserting, Deleting, Moving text); Opening Multi-document windows; Previewing and Printing documents; Formatting Documents (Paragraph formats, Aligning Text and Paragraph, Borders and Shading, Headers and Footers, Multiple Columns).

    • b. MS-Excel (4 marks): Worksheet basics (Creating worksheet, Cell, Columns, Rows); Saving & protecting worksheet; Opening and moving in an existing worksheet; Toolbars and Menus, Functions, Keyboard shortcuts; Cell formatting (Alignment, Character styles, Column width, Date format, Borders & colors); Formulas & Cell Referencing; Functions; Previewing & Printing (Page setting, Print titles, Adjusting margins, Page break, Headers and Footers).

    • c. MS-PowerPoint (2 marks): Purpose of PowerPoint; Views and Menus; Working with slides (Make new slide, Move, Copy, Delete, Duplicate, Designing and Laying out); Editing and formatting text; Printing presentation (Print slides, Notes, Handouts, Outlines); Inserting Objects (Clip Art, Pictures, Charts); Adding graphics, Multimedia, Special effects; Custom Animation (Slide transition effects and other animations).

MODULE III: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (6 Marks Total)

  1. OOP Concepts & C++ (4 marks):

    • a. Principles of Object-Oriented Programming (2 marks): Paradigm, Basic Concepts, Benefits, OOP Languages; Essentials of OOP (Objects, Class, Encapsulation, Data Abstraction, Inheritance, Reusability, Polymorphism, Delegation, Message Communication); Structure of C++ Program, Creating Source File, Compiling and Linking.

    • b. C++ Basics (2 marks): Preprocessors, Comments, Data types, Operators, Expressions, Identifiers, Keywords, Symbolic constants, Variable declaration and dynamic initialization, C++ statements, Control structures, Arrays, String handling, Specifying a Class, Defining Member Functions & Scope.

  2. Visual Basic .NET (4 marks):

    • a. Introduction to .NET (2 marks): .NET Framework features & architecture, CLR, Common Type System, MSIL, Assemblies, Class libraries; Visual Studio IDE (Menu bar, Toolbar, Solution Explorer, Toolbox, Properties Window, Form Designer, Output Window, Object Browser); Visual development & Event-driven Programming (Methods and events).

    • b. The VB.NET Language (2 marks): Variables (Declaring, Data Types, Forcing declaration, Scope & lifetime), Constants, Arrays (Types of array, Control array), Collections; Subroutines, Functions (Passing variables, Number of arguments, Optional arguments, Returning values); Control flow statements (Conditional, Loop); GUI programming with Windows Forms (Msgbox, Inputbox, TextBox, Label, Button, Listbox, Combobox, Checkbox, Radio button, etc.).

MODULE IV: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (6 Marks Total)

  1. Introduction to Database Concepts (2 marks): Need of database, Flat database, DBMS characteristics, Relational Database, Entity and Referential Integrity, Primary key, Foreign key; Database elements (Tables, Records, Query, Form, Report); Client-server paradigm.

  2. Database Query Commands (4 marks): DDL, DML, DCL commands; Creating, deleting, updating, and manipulating tables using SQL commands; Applying constraints; Filtering using WHERE, LIKE, etc.; Joining tables; Grouping data using GROUP BY; Data aggregation functions.

MODULE V: WEB DESIGNING (6 Marks Total)

  1. World Wide Web (WWW) (2 marks): History, Working, Web Browsers and functions, Search Engines, Searching the Web, HTTP, URLs, Web Servers, Web Protocols, HTML design tools, HTML editors, Image editors.

  2. HTML Concepts (2 marks): Hypertext concepts, Versions, Elements, Syntax, Head & Body sections, Building HTML documents; Inserting text, Images, Hyperlinks, Backgrounds, Color controls; HTML tags, Table layout, Font size & attributes, List types & tags, Frames and Forms in web pages.

  3. JavaScript (2 marks): Overview, Syntax & conventions, Variables, Expressions, Branching & Looping statements, Functions, Arrays, Objects, Events & Document Object Model (onClick, onMouseOver, onSubmit, onFocus, onChange, onBlur, onLoad, onUnload), Alerts, Prompts, Confirms.

PART III: TYPEWRITING (10 Marks)

  • History of Typewriter

  • Keys of Typewriter

  • Parts of Typewriter

  • Cleaning a Typewriter

  • Rocker Mechanism & Dog block

  • Movements of Typewriter

  • Official abbreviations

  • Functions of Typewriter

  • Symbols

PART IV: GENERAL ENGLISH (10 Marks)

  • Module 1: Comprehension Passage: Synonyms & Antonyms from passage, Past tense/Past participle of verbs, Grammatical usages, One-word answers.

  • Module 2: Editing: Capitalization, Punctuation (exclamation marks, colon), Sentence Correction, Subject-Verb Agreement.

  • Module 3: English Usage in Day-to-Day Affairs: Question tags, Usages (had better, not only... but also, if clause, conditional clauses like 'unless').

  • Module 4: Idioms and Phrases: Commonly used idioms with options.

  • Module 5: Word Order and Sentence Order: Jumbled sentences and inverted sentence options.

  • Module 6: Basic Grammar: Articles, Prepositions, Tenses, Clauses, Phrasal Verbs.

  • Module 7: Voice: Change of Voice (Active and Passive).

  • Module 8: Reported Speech

  • Module 9: Spell Check: Commonly misspelled words (e.g., Hat-trick, Vacuum, Accommodation, Queue, Tuition, Enmity).

PART V: REGIONAL LANGUAGE (20 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

PART VI: SIMPLE ARITHMETIC, MENTAL ABILITY AND REASONING (10 Marks Total)

(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, Alphabet, Number)

  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

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