Kerala PSC 10th Level Syllabus: Topics and Marks
The Kerala PSC 10th Level syllabus gives 60 marks to General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Kerala Renaissance. The remaining 40 marks are distributed equally across Natural Science, Physical Science, Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability and Observation. The Kerala PSC detailed preliminary syllabus PDF gives the topic list and says other topics suited to the prescribed qualification may appear.
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Kerala PSC 10th Level syllabus and marks
Preliminary area | Marks |
|---|---|
General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Kerala Renaissance | 60 |
Natural Science | 10 |
Physical Science | 10 |
Simple Arithmetic | 10 |
Mental Ability and Observation | 10 |
Total | 100 |
This distribution gives you a starting allocation for the week. Then adjust using your own errors. If you recognise most reformers but lose marks on rivers and energy projects, shift a Kerala revision session towards map-based recall.
General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Kerala Renaissance
Syllabus area | Examples of useful revision prompts |
|---|---|
Current events | Which institution or location is connected to the event? |
India’s geography and infrastructure | Which physical feature, transport route, energy project or industry belongs on this map? |
Indian independence and later developments | What happened before and after the event? |
Civic knowledge | Which right, duty, institution or national symbol does the clue describe? |
Kerala geography and society | Which river, backwater, power project, protected area or sector is being described? |
Kerala Renaissance | Which reformer, movement and social change belong together? |
For Kerala Renaissance, make a grid linking people, work and historical context. Reverse the prompts in practice. Given a reformer, name the movement. Given the movement, retrieve the person and why it mattered. For current events, give Kerala news its own column so national headlines do not crowd it out.
Natural Science and Physical Science
Section | Official scope in brief | Practice method |
|---|---|---|
Natural Science | Human body, vitamins, deficiency diseases, pathogens, Kerala public health, crops, forests and environment | Connect each term with a symptom, role, use or example |
Physical Science | Atoms, minerals and ores, elements, hydrogen and oxygen, matter, energy, heat, forces, sound, light and the Solar System | Use a concrete situation to distinguish related concepts |
Try contrast questions. Write one sentence distinguishing mass from weight and another distinguishing heat from temperature. For the environment, group examples by what is protected, where it is found and why it matters.
Simple Arithmetic and Mental Ability
Area | Official topic groups | First exercise |
|---|---|---|
Simple Arithmetic | Operations, LCM and HCF, fractions, decimals, squares, square roots, averages, profit and loss, time and distance | Pick the unit or base quantity before starting the calculation |
Mental Ability and Observation | Symbols, sequences, analogy, classification, word ordering, odd-one-out, age and ranking | Write the rule in a few words and check it against every term |
Solve short timed sets across topics. If you repeatedly misread comparison or ranking language, keep a glossary in the language you will use for the paper and test yourself with the wording from official examples.
Plan revision for prelims and the next stage
Try the official 2026 question paper for examples in context and the Testkart 10th Level exam hub for the related guides. Once you know your post-specific main exam syllabus, make a second list for it. Separate shared topics from department or post-specific topics so you can reuse your common revision without overlooking new content.
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