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UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Exam Scheme
A pen & paper based Recruitment Test (RT) to short-list the candidates for Interview for recruitment to the posts of Enforcement Officers/Accounts Officers shall be conducted by the Commission on 04.10.2020.
Exam Pattern – Details
1. The test will be of two hours duration.
2. All questions will carry equal marks.
3. The test will be objective type questions with multiple choices of answers.
4. The medium of the test will be both Hindi and English.
5. There will be penalty for wrong answers. Every wrong answer will carry a deduction of one-third of the marks assigned to that question. If no answer is marked for a question, there will be no penalty for that question.
Weightage:
Recruitment Test (RT) and Interview carry weightage in the ratio of 75:25 for the candidates shortlisted based on Recruitment Test (RT) and qualify in the interview.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 For Written Test
Now that we have familiarised you with the exam pattern, let us now have a look at the UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 for the exam;
The syllabus of the Test broadly comprises the following topics:-
- General English- To evaluate a candidate’s understanding of English language & workmanlike use of words
- Indian Freedom Struggle
- Current Events and Developmental Issues
- Indian Polity & Economy
- General Accounting principles
- Industrial Relations & Labour Laws
- General Science & knowledge of Computer applications
- General Mental Ability & Quantitative Aptitude
- Social Security in India
Now we will further look into these broad topics to get a better understanding of the sub-topics to be covered under these.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 For General English:
Cloze Test, Error Spotting, Fill in the Blanks, Para Jumbles, Phrases/ Idioms, Phrase replacement, Reading comprehension, Sentence completion/ para completion, Spellings, Synonyms/Antonyms.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Indian Freedom Struggle:
UPSC EPF Syllabus 2020 for British extension:
The Carnatic Wars, invasion of Bengal. Mysore and its confrontation with British expansion: The three Anglo-Maratha Wars. Regulating and Pitt’s India Acts. Early composition of the British raj.
UPSC EPFO Enforcement Officer Syllabus for Confrontation to British rule:
Early uprisings; The 1857 Revolt-reasons, character, course and result, Indian Freedom struggle the first stage: Growth of national consciousness; creation of Associations; Establishment of the Indian National Congress and its Moderate stage; Swadeshi Movement; Economic Nationalism; The development of Extremism and the split in Congress; The policy of Divide and Rule; Congress-League Pact of 1916.
Gandhian thoughts and techniques of mass mobilization:
Civil Disobedience, the Khilafat movement, Non-Cooperation Movement, and Quit India Movement; another strand in the National Movement-Revolutionaries, Subhash Chandra Bose, and the Indian National Army.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Current Events & Developmental Issues
Current events basically refers to as the daily current affairs that are important from exam point of view. Developmental Issues confine to the schemes and laws made public by the government to maintain the decorum and for the ease of run of the constitution. developmental issues also covers the yojana’s revealed by the government for the betterment of the public.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Indian Polity & Economy
UPSC EPFO Enforcement Officer Syllabus 2020 For Indian Polity:
Indian Constitution, historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these, Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes, Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 For Economy:
Economic growth and development – basic concept and definition of economy and economics, use and transfer of resources, distributive effects, macro and microeconomic policy, micro-macro balance, distributive impact of economic policies, Inclusion – definition, relevance, types, financial inclusion, recent initiatives. Fiscal policy – definition, component, receipts, revenue and capital account, tax revenue, expenditure, budget.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – General Accounting principles
Principles of Accounting, Analyzing & Recording Transactions, Adjustments & Financial Statements, Completion of the accounting cycles, Subsidiary Ledgers and Special Journals.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Industrial Relations & Labour Laws
Enforcement Officer Syllabus 2020 for Labour Laws –
- About,
- Types
- Areas implemented
- sectors applicable
- overview
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Industrial Relations –
- Industrial relations code (IRC) Bill
- Model of labour reforms.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – General Science & Knowledge of Computer Applications
UPSC Enforcement Officer Syllabus 2020 for General Science:
- Physics,
- Chemistry
- Life Science
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 for Computer Applications –
- Computer organisations
- Operating Systems
- Database management
- Data structures
- Data communications
- Computer networks
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – General Mental Ability & Quantitative Aptitude
UPSC EPFO Enforcement Officer Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude:
- Number Systems
- Percentage
- Profit & Loss
- Average
- Ratio
- SI & CI
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 for General Mental Ability:
- Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables)
- Data sufficiency
- Syllogism
- Puzzles & More
All this at Class X level.
UPSC EPFO Syllabus 2020 – Social Security In India:
What is Social Security?, History of Social security, Social Security in India, Social Security: Constitutional Provisions
Concurrent List, Part IV Directive Principles of State Policy, Difference between Organized and Unorganized Sectors
SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS in India, Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act), Employees’ Provident Funds Act, 1952, Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (WC Act), Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (M.B. Act), Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (P.G. Act), Social Security In India: Different From Developed Nations, Provident Fund.