RPSC 2nd Grade Syllabus 2026: Paper 1 and Paper 2

The RPSC 2nd Grade syllabus covers two papers for the Senior Teacher (Grade II) Competitive Exam conducted by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission. Paper 1 tests general knowledge of Rajasthan, India and the world along with educational psychology. Paper 2 tests your teaching subject at school and graduation level, plus the methods of teaching it.

This page gives the topic list for Paper 1 and for the main Paper 2 subjects in the current cycle (Advertisement No. 07/2025-26), with notes on where to start. The topic lists are summarised from the RPSC syllabus documents for the Secondary Education Department. Use them as a working checklist and confirm exact wording in the official syllabus on the RPSC website.

Table of Contents

• RPSC 2nd Grade Syllabus at a Glance

• Key Changes to Know

• Paper 1 Syllabus

• Paper 2 Syllabus by Subject

• Overlap Between Paper 1 and Paper 2

• Is There an Interview Syllabus?

• How to Cover the Syllabus

RPSC 2nd Grade Syllabus at a Glance

Key Changes to Know

• Same structure as the last cycle: The section-wise weightage of both papers is unchanged from the Senior Teacher Exam 2024.

• Paper 1 by group: Paper 1 is held separately for subject groups (Group A to D), but the syllabus is the same for every group.

• Ten subjects: Paper 2 is held for Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Gujarati.

• Watch for old topic lists: Some pages still show syllabus lists from older cycles, so follow the RPSC syllabus issued for this advertisement.

Paper 1 Syllabus

Rajasthan GK carries 80 marks, so history, geography and culture of the state deserve the largest share of your Paper 1 time. Educational psychology carries 40 marks from a fairly compact list of theories and is usually the quickest section to make scoring.

Paper 2 Syllabus by Subject

Each subject paper has the same three parts: secondary and senior secondary standard (180 marks), graduation standard (80 marks) and teaching methods (40 marks).

Hindi

• School level: Sound and letter formation, word types (tatsam, tadbhav, deshaj, videshi), parts of speech, sentence structure, idioms and proverbs, one-word substitution, synonyms and antonyms, error correction, origin of Hindi and its dialects, and prescribed poets and prose from Rajasthan Board textbooks.

• Graduation level: Shabd shakti, poetic qualities and forms, chhand, alankar, ras and the history of Hindi literature with major writers and works.

• Teaching methods: Methods of teaching Hindi, lesson planning, teaching aids, language skills and evaluation.

English

• School level: Parts of speech, determiners, tenses, subject-verb agreement, prepositions, voice, narration, modals, conditionals, phrasal verbs, transformation, degrees of comparison, phonetic transcription and word stress, idioms and phrases.

• Graduation level: Sentence patterns, phrase and clause analysis, comprehension and vocabulary, literary forms and movements, and major Indian writers in English.

• Teaching methods: Grammar-translation, direct, structural, audio-lingual and communicative approaches; teaching prose, poetry, grammar and composition; principles of second language teaching.

Sanskrit

• School level: Sandhi, samas, pratyay and upsarg, shabd roop and dhatu roop, avyay, history of Sanskrit literature with major authors and works, and Indian culture (varna, ashram, sanskar).

• Graduation level: Grammar and usage, chhand, alankar, and prescribed texts such as selected Rigveda hymns, Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 and Ishopanishad.

• Teaching methods: Teaching skills and methods for prose, poetry, grammar, translation and drama, with lesson planning.

Mathematics

Science

Social Science

• History: Indus Valley, Vedic age, Buddhism and Jainism, Mauryas and Guptas, Bhakti and Sufi movements, Mughal period, freedom movement, world revolutions and the UN.

• Geography: Earth's motions, interior, atmosphere, ocean currents and the physical and economic geography of India and Rajasthan.

• Economics: National income, demand and supply, money and banking, foreign trade, liberalisation, planning, poverty and unemployment.

• Political Science and others: Indian Constitution and government, local self-government, foreign policy, and basic sociology, public administration and philosophy topics.

• Teaching methods: Nature of social studies, project and problem-solving methods, field trips, teaching aids, NCF 2005, lesson planning and evaluation.

Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Gujarati papers follow the same three-part structure. Download their topic lists from the official website.

Overlap Between Paper 1 and Paper 2

Is There an Interview Syllabus?

No. RPSC 2nd Grade has no interview. Selection is based on the written score, followed by document verification, so the two papers are the whole syllabus.

How to Cover the Syllabus

1. Weeks 1 to 8: Cover school-level content of your Paper 2 subject from Class 9 to 12 textbooks and start a daily Rajasthan GK slot.

2. From week 3: Add Rajasthan current affairs for 30 to 40 minutes a day and keep monthly notes.

3. From week 6: Start graduation-level topics, educational psychology and teaching methods, with topic tests every week.

4. From week 10: Solve previous Senior Teacher papers and sectional tests on Testkart to find weak areas.

5. Final phase: Take full-length mocks for both papers, analyse them the same day and revise from your error log.

The official syllabus files for Paper 1 and every Paper 2 subject are on the RPSC website. Check the exact wording there before you finalise your plan, because summaries like this one can miss sub-topics.