One of Kerala’s most common and highly competitive recruiting assessments is the Lower Division Clerk (LD Clerk) examination. The Kerala Public Service Commission usually invites applications from deserving candidates to fill the Lower Division Clerk (LDC) role through multiple departments across a three-year term. Here we offer you the Kerala PSC LDC syllabus and exam pattern 2020.

Kerala PSC LDC Qualification

Education: Matriculation/SSLC by any board or university in India

Age limit: 21-35 years old. Relaxations are applicable depending on government requirements

Kerala PSC LDC Clerk Exam Pattern & Syllabus 2020

Number of questions – 100 questions

Exam duration – 1 hrs 15 mins

Kerala PSC LDC Syllabus 2020

Applicants can expect questions from the following topics in Kerala PSC LDC Exam 2020:

Simple arithmetic

• Number Systems and basic mathematical operations
• Percentages, Averages
• Profit and loss, 
• Simple and compound Interests
• Time and Distance 
• Time and Work
• Ration and Proportion
• Mensuration- Volumes, Area, Total Surface Area
• Law of exponents
• Progressions

Mental Ability

• Series
• Problems on Mathematical signs
• Analogy – Word Analogy, Alphabet Analogy, Number Analogy
• Odd man out
• Coding and Decoding
• Family Relation
• Sense of Direction
• Time and Angles
• Time in a clock and its reflection
• Date and Calendar
• Clerical Ability

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

• Geography – Kerala, and India
• Basic facts about Kerala- Geography, History, Industries, etc
• River systems and mountain ranges in India
• States and Union Territories
• Medieval India, First war of Independence, Indian Independence History
• Five-year plans, Banking & Insurance, Different Schemes(Central & State government-sponsored)
• Human rights act, Human Rights Commissions, SC/ST acts, SC/ST commissions, Women Protection bills, commissions, etc
• Polity, Economics, Science, Literature, Art & Culture, Sports – Current Affairs
• National Parks, Biospheres, etc

General Science

• Basics of Human Organs
• Vitamins and Diseases
• Disease and carriers
• Important Agricultural Schemes in Kerala
• Important Crops in Kerala
• Forest Resources
• Environment and Pollution
• Atom and its structures
• Ores and Minerals
• Elements and its groups
• Chemistry in everyday life
• Work and Energy, Power, Electricity
• Heat and Temperature
• Solar System
• Sound and Light

General English

• Types of Sentences and Interchange of Sentences
• Different Parts of Speech, Agreement of Verb and Subject
• Confusion of Adjectives and Adverbs, Comparison of Adjectives
• Articles – The Definite and the Indefinite Articles, Uses of Primary and Model Auxiliary Verbs
• Tag Questions, Infinitive, and Gerunds
• Tenses, Tenses in Conditional Tenses
• Adverbs and Position of adverbs, Prepositions
•  The Use of Correlatives
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Active and Passive voice, Correction of Sentences
• 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

Malayalam/ Tamil

• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives
• Sentence and Word Correction
• Idioms, One Word Substitution
• Synonyms, Antonyms
• Use of Punctuation marks
• Literature
• Translation

We, at Direction, wish you all the best for your upcoming Kerala PSC LDC exam 2020. Also, if you need guidance for preparation, contact us here.