HPPSC  HPAS  Combined Competitive Examination 

Organization NameHimachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (HPPSC)

Exam NameHPAS Combined Competitive Exam

Service SectionAdministrative Service, Assistant Registrar, Class I & Other

CategoryHPAS Syllabus

Application ModeOnline

Job CategoryHimachal Pradesh Govt. Jobs

Job LocationHimachal Pradesh

Selection ProcessWritten Examination and Interview

HPAS Test Pattern for Preliminary Exam

 PAPER     SUBJECTS       QUESTIONS       MARKS

  I             General Studies    100                    200

 II            Aptitude Test          100                     200

              TOTAL                     200                   400

Himachal Pradesh HPAS Mains Exam Pattern 

S.NO.  SUBJECTS                                 MARKS

1    Compulsory English

Comprehension of English

Correct Grammatical Expression           100

Usage and vocabulary

English Composition

Précis writing

2    Devanagari 

Hindi Translation English to Hindi

Hindi to English                                       100

Prose and poetry

Composition

3      Essay 

Knowledge of current affairs and subject

Their ability to write a subject in form of easy     100

Socio Political issue

Aspect us of culture and history

4    General Study 1

MCQ type asked from History Geography and socio economic

Knowledge of current national and international incident

Section-2 History

Section-3 geography                       200

Section-4 Society

5     General Study 2

Section-1 MCQ Question based on political, art and culture

Section-1 Governance, Indian Constitution and polity

Section-3: International relation

Section-4 Indian Economy

Section-5 Statics, analysis , Graphs etc.           200

6     General Study 3

Based on science and technology

Section-1 Science and technology

Section-2 Bio-Diversity and Environment

Section-3 Ethics and aptitude including problem solving and decision making            200

7        Optional Paper-I          100

8       Paper-II                100

HPAS Combined Competitive Exam Syllabus Subject Wise

HPPSC Exam Syllabus for General Studies

History, geography, political, art & culture, and socio-economic development of Himachal Pradesh.

•Currents events of national and international importance

•History of India and Indian national movement.

•Economic and social development

•Sustainable development of poverty,

•Inclusion,

•Demographics,

•Social sector initiatives, etc.

•General science.

•Indian and World Geography-physical,

•Social,

•Economic geography of India and the world

•Indian polity and governance

•Constitution,

•Political System,

•Panchayati Raj

•Public Policy

•Rights issues etc.

•General issues on environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate Change – that do not require subject specialization

HPAS Combined Competitive Exam Syllabus  for English

•Sentence Improvement.

•Spotting Errors.

•Fill in the blanks.

•Sentence Arrangement.

•Antonyms.

•Synonyms.

•Idioms and Phrases.

•Error Correction (Phrase in Bold).

•Joining Sentences.

•Prepositions.

•Error Correction (Underlined Part).

•Substitution.

•Active Voice and Passive Voice.

•Sentence Completion.

•Passage Completion

•Para Completion.

Himachal Pradesh Administrative Services Syllabus  for Aptitude Test

•Logical reasoning and analytical ability

•General mental ability

•Comprehension

•Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude etc. (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc. – Class X level)

•Decision making and problem-solving

•English Language comprehension skills (Class X level)

•Interpersonal skills including communication skills

Simple Interest.

•Pipes and Cistern.

•Problems on Ages.

•Surds and Indices.

•Time and Distance.

•Probability.

•Average.

•Volume and Surface Area.

•Boats and Streams.

•Stocks and Share.

•Allegation or Mixture.

•Problems on H.C.F and L.C.M.

•Partnership.

•Races and Games.

•Time and Work.

•Square Root and Cube Root.

•Simplification.

•Chain Rule.

•Numbers.

•Permutation and Combination.

•Area.

•Logarithm.

•Decimal Fraction.

•Ratio and Proportion.

•Compound Interest.

•Banker’s Discount.

•Height and Distance.

Optional Subjects from which the candidates have to choose as per their interest and study according to for HPAS  to new exam pattern:

Indian History

Political Science

Statics

Economics

Commerce

Chemistry

Botany

Zoology

Philosophy

Law

Sociology

Public administration

Agriculture

Electrical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Hindi

Sanskrit

Urdu

English Literature

Physics

Psychology

Geology

Animal husbandry

Forestry

Anthology

 Medical science

Maths