Rajasthan public service commission, Ajmer

SYLLABUS FOR EXAMINATION FOR THE POST OF LECTURER

- COMMERCE, (SCHOOL EDUCATION) Paper - II

1. Knowledge of subject concerned : Senior Secondary Level

 Principles of Book-keeping, Double Entry System.  Subsidiary books, Final Accounts, Adjustment Entries, Opening and closing entries.  Trial balance and rectification of errors.  Depreciation, Provisions and Reserves.  Accounting for bills of exchange transactions .  Partnership accounts.  Company Accounts- Issue of shares, forfeiture and re-issue of shares, redemption of shares and debentures.  Computers in Accounting.  Business Organization- sole - partnership, joint stock company.  Principles of management – concept, nature and significance.  Capital markets and types - Primary and secondary market  Marketing - Meaning, functions and role.  Statistics for economics - Measures of central Tendency, Measures of dispersion and introduction to Index Numbers.  Poverty – absolute and relative, Main programmes for poverty alleviation : A critical assessment.  Rural development – Key issues, credit and marketing.  Role of cooperatives : Agricultural diversification, alternative farming ,organic farming.  Employment - Formal and informal, growth and other issues, Problems and policies.  Economic reform since 1991 – Need and main features – liberalization, globalization and privatization.

2. Knowledge of subject concerned :

Graduation level  Financial statements : Meaning and Analysis.  Tools for financial statement analysis.  Cash flow statement  Cost Accounting – Meaning and Definition  Element of cost – Material, Labour, and overhead.  Auditing – Meaning and Objectives.  Audit of companies – Appointment, Rights, Duties and Liabilities of auditor.  The Indian contract Act 1872( Section 1 to 75).  Consumer protection Act 1986  Functions of Management – Planning , Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling.  Company Secretary - Position, Duties and Qualification.

 Human resource : Meaning, Scope, Role, and Functions.  Meaning and nature of Entrepreneurship – Entrepreneurship in Rajasthan.  Economic Environment – Meaning, Factors affecting economic Environment, Indian Economic Environment and basic feature of Indian economy  New Economic Policies and its effects.  Foreign Trade of India – Volume, Composition and Direction.  Export Promotion – Various measures.  New Export Import policies of Govt. Of India.  Economic modals – Meaning , Purpose and Types.  National Income – Definition, Measurement, Distribution and Economic Welfare.

3. Knowledge of subject concerned : P. G. Level

 Financial Management– Working capital management, Capital budgeting.  Business Statistics – Probability  Consumer Behavior and buying motives.  Marketing Analysis and Research  Role of advertising in marketing and advertise in strategies  Media Management .  Public finance – Central budget, Deficit, Fiscal management.  Problems of Indian banking- Central and Commercial banking, Banking sector reforms.  Monetary and Fiscal Policies.  Finance Commission.

Part – IV (Educational Psychology, Pedagogy, Teaching Learning Material, Use of computers and Information Technology in Teaching Learning)

1. Importance of Psychology in Teaching-Learning :  Learner,  Teacher,  Teaching-learning process,  School effectiveness.

2. Development of Learner :  Cognitive, Physical, Social, Emotional and Moral development patterns and characteristics among adolescent learner.

3. Teaching – Learning :  Concept, Behavioural, Cognitive and constructivist principles of learning and its implication for senior secondary students.  Learning characteristics of adolescent and its implication for teaching.

4. Managing Adolescent Learner :  Concept of mental health and adjustment problems.  Emotional Intelligence and its implication for mental health of adolescent.  Use of guidance techniques for nurturing mental health of adolescent.

5. Instructional Strategies for Adolescent Learner :  Communication skills and its use.  Preparation and use of teaching-learning material during teaching.  Different teaching approaches: Teaching models- Advance organizer, Scientific enquiry, Information, processing, cooperative learning.  Constructivist principles based Teaching.

6. ICT Pedagogy Integration :  Concept of ICT.  Concept of hardware and software.  System approach to instruction.  Computer assisted learning.  Computer aided instruction.  Factors facilitating ICT pedagogy integration.