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Subjects and Syllabus

Main Exam

Paper – I: One Indian Language

Paper – II: English

Paper – III: Essay

Paper – IV & V: General Studies.

Paper – VI, VII, VIII & IX: Two subjects from the following list of optional subjects.

Optional Subjects – Mains

List of Language Papers (and their Scripts to be used)

To look at the syllabus for each language click on the link

Language
Script
Language
Script

Arabic

Arabic

Malayam

Malayalam

Assamese

Assamese

Manipuri

Devanagari

Bengali

Bengali

Marathi

Devanagari

Bodo

Devanagari

Nepali

Devanagari

Chinese

--

Oriya

Oriya

Dogri

Devanagari

Pali

--

English

--

Persian

--

French

--

Punjabi

Gurmukhi

German

--

Russian

--

Gujarati

Gujarati

Sanskrit

Devanagari

Hindi

Devanagari

Santhali

Devanagari or Olchiki

Kannada

Kannada

Sindhi

Devanagari or Arabic

Kashmiri

Persian

Tamil

Tamil

Konkani

Devanagari

Telegu

Telegu

Maithili

Devanagari

Urdu

Persian