Geography Syllabus for WBPSC Assistant Master Mistress Recruitment 2025
WBPSC ASSISTANT MASTER MISTRESS GEOGRAPHY SYLLABUS 2025
Geography Syllabus
SYLLABUS FOR SCREENING TEST FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF ASSISTANT MASTER/MISTRESS IN GEOGRAPHY
Full Marks: 100
Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
SECTION-I
(A) PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
(1) Origin of Continents and Ocean Basins; Continental Drifts and Plate Tectonics; Epeirogenic and Orogenic movements; Different kinds of Landforms and their origin; Volcanoes and Volcanic features; Earthquakes.
(2) Earth’s Crust general properties; Modes and origin of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
(3) Weathering and Mass wasting.
(4) Evolution of Landforms under different Cycles of Erosion fluvial, glacial, Aeolian, marine and karst; Evolution of drainage system and its adjustment to structure.
(5) Elements and factors of climate; Distribution of temperature and pressure belts over the Earth.
(6) Airmass, Planetary Winds and Local Winds.
(7) Precipitation origin and types; Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones.
(8) Classification of World Climates.
(B) ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY
(9) Concepts of Environment, Ecology and Ecosystem; Natural and Man-made Ecosystems; Concepts of Bio- Diversity; Environmental Pollution, Degradation and Conservation; greenhouse effects and global Warming; Man-Environment relationships.
SECTION-II
(C) ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
(10) Geographical factors favourable for the localization of the following major economic activities:
(a) Lumbering.
(b) Agriculture (Intensive Subsistence farming, Extensive Commercial farming and Plantation agriculture),
(c) Fishing,
(d) Mining (Coal, Petroleum and Iron ore their distribution and utilization).
(e) Power resources (conventional and Non-conventional),
(f) Manufacturing (Iron & Steel, Aluminium, Cotton Textile and Jute industries).
(D) HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
(11) Concepts of Geographical Environment, Natural Regions of the Earth; their characteristics; Role of Climate, Drainage and Relief in localizing human activities with particular reference to food gathering. pastoralism and subsistence agriculture.
(12) Settlement Patterns Rural and Urban; Hierarchy of Urban Settlements; Growth and distribution of World Population.
(E) GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA
(13) Structure, Relief, Drainage, Climate, Soils and Natural Vegetation.
(14)Irrigation and River Valley Projects; Agriculture and Green Revolution.
(15) Mineral Resources and industrial Regions.
(16) Population growth and distribution, age-sex composition, migration, urbanization and regional disparities.
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