Statistical Sciences

Agronomy, Agro-Climatic Zones, Cropping Systems, Tillage and Soil Fertility Management

All PYQs 13 questions 3.61% weightage 1.67%

Major Plant Diseases, Insect Pests, Weeds and Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

All PYQs 8 questions 2.22% weightage 1.66%

Plant Physiology, Mineral Nutrition, Genetics and Plant Breeding Fundamentals

All PYQs 6 questions 1.67% weightage

Historical Milestones, Agricultural Research Infrastructure and ICAR Institutes

All PYQs 2 questions 0.56% weightage 0.83%

Micro & Macro Economics: Demand, Supply, Production Costs and Market Structures

All PYQs 2 questions 0.56% weightage 0.41%

Agricultural Marketing, Market Intermediaries, Price Policy, MSP and Buffer Stocking

All PYQs 2 questions 0.56% weightage 0.41%

Agricultural Finance, Credit Institutions (NABARD, RRBs, Commercial Banks) and KCC

All PYQs 2 questions 0.56% weightage 0.83%

Extension Education Principles, Rural Development Programs and Community Reconstruction

All PYQs 1 questions 0.28% weightage 0.83%

Differential Calculus: Limits, Continuity, Differentiability, Successive Differentiation and Expansion of Functions

All PYQs 26 questions 7.22% weightage 1.66%

Sequences and Series: Arithmetic, Geometric, Harmonic Progressions and Infinite Series Convergence

All PYQs 25 questions 6.94% weightage 2.08%

Matrices and Determinants: Matrix Operations, Rank, Inverse, Systems of Linear Equations and Eigenvalues

All PYQs 22 questions 6.11% weightage 2.91%

Sets, Relations, Functions, Mathematical Induction and Theory of Equations

All PYQs 18 questions 5.00% weightage 1.25%

Integral Calculus: Definite and Indefinite Integrals, Reduction Formulas and Areas Under Curves

All PYQs 16 questions 4.44% weightage 0.41%

Differential Equations: First Order Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients

All PYQs 11 questions 3.06% weightage 0.41%

Applications of Derivatives: Tangents, Normals, Maxima-Minima, Mean Value Theorems and Indeterminate Forms

All PYQs 10 questions 2.78% weightage 0.42%

Numerical Methods: Interpolation, Numerical Differentiation, Integration (Trapezoidal, Simpson) and Root Finding

All PYQs 9 questions 2.50% weightage

Coordinate Geometry: Straight Lines, Circles, Parabola, Ellipse and Hyperbola in Two Dimensions

All PYQs 7 questions 1.94% weightage 0.83%

Theoretical Discrete Probability Distributions: Bernoulli, Binomial, Poisson, Geometric and Hypergeometric

All PYQs 21 questions 5.83% weightage 1.25%

Design of Experiments: Principles of Experimentation, CRD, RBD, Latin Square Design (LSD) and Factorial Experiments

All PYQs 18 questions 5.00% weightage 3.75%

Probability Theory: Classical, Axiomatic Definitions, Addition, Multiplication Theorems and Bayes Theorem

All PYQs 15 questions 4.17% weightage 5%

Small Sample Tests: Students t-test, Snedecors F-test, Chi-Square Test of Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables

All PYQs 13 questions 3.61% weightage 0.84%

Measures of Central Tendency: Arithmetic Mean, Geometric Mean, Harmonic Mean, Median and Mode

All PYQs 12 questions 3.33% weightage 3.75%

Theoretical Continuous Probability Distributions: Uniform, Normal, Exponential, Beta and Gamma Distributions

All PYQs 12 questions 3.33% weightage 1.25%

Sampling Theory: Census vs Sample Survey, Sampling Errors, SRSWOR, SRSWR, Stratified, Systematic and Cluster Sampling

All PYQs 10 questions 2.78% weightage 1.66%

Measures of Dispersion: Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation, Standard Deviation and Coefficient of Variation

All PYQs 8 questions 2.22% weightage 0.83%

Testing of Hypotheses: Null and Alternative Hypotheses, Type I and II Errors, Significance Level, Large Sample Tests (Z-test)

All PYQs 8 questions 2.22% weightage 0.83%

Collection, Classification and Tabulation of Data, Frequency Distributions and Graphical Representations

All PYQs 7 questions 1.94% weightage 2.08%

Regression Analysis: Simple and Multiple Linear Regression, Least Squares Principle, Properties and R-Squared

All PYQs 6 questions 1.67% weightage 1.25%

Random Variables, Probability Mass and Density Functions, Expectation and Moment Generating Functions

All PYQs 4 questions 1.11% weightage 1.67%

Correlation Analysis: Simple, Partial, Multiple Correlation, Pearson Coefficient and Rank Correlation

All PYQs 4 questions 1.11% weightage 0.42%

Moments, Skewness (Karl Pearson, Bowley) and Kurtosis

All PYQs 2 questions 0.56% weightage 0.41%

Computer Networks and Internet: Topologies (LAN, WAN, MAN), OSI Model, TCP/IP, Protocols (HTTP, FTP) and Web

All PYQs 10 questions 2.78% weightage 1.66%

Computer Architecture and Hardware: Generations of Computers, CPU, Memory Hierarchy (RAM, ROM, Cache), Input-Output

All PYQs 7 questions 1.94% weightage 1.67%

System Software and Operating Systems: Functions of OS, DOS Commands, Windows OS, Linux/Unix Architecture

All PYQs 5 questions 1.39% weightage 0.42%

Application Software: Word Processing, Spreadsheets (MS Excel Formulas, Functions, Charts), DBMS Basics

All PYQs 5 questions 1.39% weightage 0.84%

Number Systems and Boolean Algebra: Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal Conversions, Logic Gates and Truth Tables

All PYQs 4 questions 1.11% weightage 0.42%

Sequence Alignment and Computational Genomics: Pairwise and Multiple Alignment (BLAST, FASTA, Clustal), Scoring Matrices

All PYQs 4 questions 1.11% weightage 3.33%

Cyber Security and Data Protection: Computer Viruses, Malware, Firewalls, Cryptography Basics and IPR

All PYQs 2 questions 0.56% weightage 0.41%

Programming Fundamentals: Algorithms, Flowcharts, Control Structures, Loops, Functions, Arrays and Pointers in C/C++

All PYQs 1 questions 0.28% weightage 0.83%

Object-Oriented Programming and Modern Languages: Concepts of OOP (Classes, Objects, Inheritance), Python and R

All PYQs 1 questions 0.28% weightage 0.83%

Introduction to Bioinformatics: Scope, Biological Databases (NCBI, GenBank, EMBL, UniProt, PDB) and Data Retrieval

All PYQs 1 questions 0.28% weightage 0.42%