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Defence Career Academy ,My school ,Near Choundeshwari Cotton Mill, Sangli- Kolhapur Highway, A/P Chipri. Tal, Shirol, Dist, Kolhapur, Maharashtra 416101

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UPSC Special Class Railway
Apprentice (SCRA)

Application

  1. Applicants may fill form through official site of Union Public Service Commission that is upsc.gov.in
  2. On home page follow "Online Application for SCRA" link.
  3. Registration will be done in two phases i.e., Part —1 and Part—II "Part — I Registration" consists all your Personal Details, Educational Qualification, and Address, etc.
  4. After that press on to 'Save' button and verify all the details you have enter.
  5. After ensuring all the details, press on 'continue' button.
  6. "Part — II Registration" fill your Registration ID (sentto your mail) and date of birth.
  7. Upload your passport size photograph & scanned copy of your signature. Press on to "Submit" button.
  8. Make the payment of application fee. Select'submit' tab to end up the process
  9. At the end take print out of application form for future reference.

Age Limit

Age should not be less than 17 years & not more than 21 years.

Relaxation in age will be given to reserved category as per Government Rules.

Notification 2018 2019 2020 2021
SCRA Exam 02 Jan 1999 to 01 Jan 2001 02 Jan 1998 to 01 Jan 2002 02 Jan 1999 to 01 Jan 2003 02 Jan 2000 to 01 Jan 2004

Qualifications

  1. Applicants have passed intermediate (10+2 or equivalent) with 1st or 2nd division and also Mathematics as a subject with at least Physics and Chemistry as one of the subjects.
  2. Aspirants should have passed first year exam under three year degree course of University. If the candidate has passed first exam of three year diploma course in Rural Service of National Council for Rural Higher Education or III year can also look upon for exam.
  3. Candidates must have completed their graduation with Mathematics and Physics or Chemistry should be studied as one of their main subject in the examination.

Selection Procedure

Selection will be based on their performance in written examination medical examination followed by personality test or Interview.

Paper Subject Duration Marks
1 General Ability Test 2 Hours 200
2 Physical Sciences (Physical and Chemistry) 2 Hours 200
3 Mathematics 2 Hours 200
Total 600

Part - II

  1. Parts II consist of a personality test which is of 200 marks.
  2. Only those candidates who have qualified their written examination will be called for personality test.

Syllabus

General Ability Test

I) English

The questions are designed to test your understanding and command of the English language.

II) General Knowledge

The questions are designed to test your general awareness of the environment around you and its application to society. The level of answers to questions should be as expected of students of standard XII or equivalent.

  1. Man and His Environment
  2. Evolution of life, plants and animals, heredity and environment-Genetics, cells, chromosomes, genes. Knowledge of the human body, nutrition, balanced diet, substitute foods, public health and sanitation including control of epidemics and common diseases. Environmental pollution and its control. Food adulteration, proper storage and preservation of food grains and finished products, population explosion, population control. Production of food and raw materials. Breeding of animals and plants, artificial insemination, manures and fertilizers, crop protection measures, high yielding varieties and green revolution, main cereal and cash crops of India.

    Solar system and the earth. Seasons, Climate, Weather, Soil - its formation, erosion. Forests and their uses. Natural calamities cyclones, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. Mountains and rivers and their role in irrigation in India. Distribution of natural resources and industries in India. Exploration of underground minerals including Oil. Conservation of natural resources with particular reference to the flora and fauna of India.

    History, Politics and Society in India Vedic, Mahavir, Budhdha, Mauryan, Sunga, Andhra, Kushan. Gupta ages (Mauryan Pillars, Stupa Caves, Sanchi, Mathura and Gandharva Schools, Temple architecture, Ajanta and Ellora). The rise of new social forces with the coming of Islam and establishment of broader contacts. Transition from feudalism to capitalism. Opening of European contacts. Establishment of British rule in India. Rise of nationalism and national struggle for freedom culminating in Independence.

  3. Constitution of India and its Characteristic
    1. Features
    2. Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, equality of opportunity and Parliamentary form of Government. Major political ideologies -Democracy, Socialism, Communism and Gandhian idea of non-violence. Indian political parties, pressure groups, public opinion and the Press, electoral system.

      India's foreign policy and non - alignment, Arms race, balance of power. World organisation - political, social, economic and cultural. Important events (including sports and cultural activities) in India and abroad during the past two years.

    3. Broad Features of Indian social system
    4. The caste system, hierarchy, recent changes and trends. Minority social institution - marriage, family, religion and acculturation. Division of labour, co-operation, conflict and competition, Social control - reward and punishment, art, law, customs, propaganda, public opinion, agencies of social control - family, religion, State educational institutions; factors of social change - economic, technological, demographic, cultural; the concept of revolution.

    5. Social Disorganisation in India
    6. Casteism, communalism, corruption in public life, youth unrest, beggary, drugs, delinquency and crime, poverty and unemployment. Social planning and welfare in India, community development and labour welfare; welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes.

    7. Money
    8. Taxation, price, demographic trends, national income, economic growth. Private and Public Sectors; economic and non-economic factors in planning, balanced versus imbalanced growth, agricultural versus industrial development; inflation and price stabilization, problem of resource mobilisation. India's Five Year Plans.

III) Psychological Test

The questions are designed to assess your basic intelligence and mechanical aptitude.

A) Physics

  1. Length measurements using vernier, screw gauge, spherometer and optical lever. Measurement of time and mass.
  2. Straight line motion and relationships among displacement, velocity and acceleration.
  3. Newton's Laws of Motion, Momentum, impulse, work, energy and power.
  4. Coefficient of friction.
  5. Equilibrium of bodies under action of forces. Moment of a force couple. Newton's Law of Gravitation. Escape velocity. Acceleration due to gravity.
  6. Mass and Weight; Centre of gravity, Uniform circular motion, centripetal force, Simple Harmonic motion. Simple pendulum.
  7. Pressure in a fluid and its variation with depth. Pascal's Law. Principle of Archimedes.
  8. Floating bodies, Atmospheric pressure and its measurement.
  9. Temperature and its measurement. Thermal expansion, Gas laws and absolute temperature. Specific heat, latent heats and their measurement. Specific heat of gases.
  10. Mechanical equivalent of heat. Internal energy and First law of thermodynamics, Isothermal and adiabatic changes. Transmission of heat; thermal conductivity.
  11. Wave Motion; Longitudinal and transverse waves. Progressive and stationary waves.
  12. Velocity of sound in gas and its dependance on various factors. Resonance phenomenqa (air columns and strings).
  13. Reflection and refraction of light. Image formation by curved mirrors and lenses, Microscopes and telescopes. Defects of vision.
  14. Prisms, deviation and dispersion, Minimum deviation. Visible spectrum.
  15. Field due to a bar magnet, Magnetic moment, Elements of Earth's magnetic field. Magnetometers. Dia, para and ferromagnetism.
  16. Electric charge, electric field and potential, Coulomb's Law
  17. Electric current; electric cells, e.m.f. resistance, ammeters and voltmeters, Ohm's law; resistance in series and parallel. special resistance and conductivity. Heating effect of current.
  18. Wheatstone's bridge, Potentiometer
  19. Magnetic effect of current; straight wire, coil and solenoid electromagnet; electric bell
  20. Force on a current - carrying conductor in magnetic field; moving coil galvanometers; conversion to ammeter or voltmeter.
  21. Chemical effects of current; Primary and storage cells and theirfunctioning, Laws of electrolysis.
  22. Electromagnetic induction; Simple A.C. and D.C. generators. Transformers, Induction coil,
  23. Cathode rays, discovery of the electron, Bohr model of the atom. Diode and its use as a rectifier.
  24. Production, properties and uses of X-rays.
  25. Radioactivity; Alpha, Beta and Gamma rays.
  26. Nuclear energy; fission and fusion, conversion of mass into energy, chain reaction

B) Chemistry

a) Physical Chemistry

  1. Atomic structure; Earlier models in brief. Atom as at three dimensional model. Orbital concept. Quantum numbers and their significance, only elementary treatment. Pauli's Exclusion Principle. Electronic configuration. Aufbau Principle, s.p.d. and f. block elements. Periodic classification only long form. Periodicity and electronic configuration. Atomic radii, Electro-negativity in period and groups.
  2. Chemical Bonding, electro-valent, co-valent, coordinate covalent bonds. Bond Properties, sigma and Pie bonds, Shapes of simple molecules like water, hydrogen sulphide, methane and ammonium chloride. Molecular association and hydrogen bonding.
  3. Energy changes in a chemical reaction. Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions. Application of First Law of Thermodynamics, Hess's Law of constant heat summation.
  4. Chemical Equilibria and rates of reactions. Law of Mass action. Effect of pressure, Temperature and concentration on the rates of reaction.(Qualitative treatment based ion Le Chatelier's Principle).
    Molecularity; First and Second order reaction. Concept of energy of activation. Application to manufacture of Ammonia and Sulphur trioxide.
  5. Solutions : True solutions, collidal solutions and suspensions. Colligative properties of dillute solutions and setemination of molecular weights of dissolved substances. Elevation of boiling points. Depressions of freezing point, osmotic pressure. Raoult's Law (non - thermodynamic treatment only).
  6. Electro - Chemistry : Solution of Electrolytes, Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis, ionic wquilibria, Solubility product. Strong and weak electrolytes. Acids & Bases(Lewis and Bronstead concept). pH and Buffer solutions.
  7. Oxidation : Reduction; Modern, electronics concept and oxidation number.
  8. Natural and Artificial Radiosctivity : Nuclear fission and Fusion. Uses of Radioactive isotopes.

b) Inorganic Chemistry

Brief treatment of Elements and their industrially important compounds

  1. Hydrogen : Position in the peroidic table. Isotopes of hydrogen. Electronegative and electropositive character. Water, hard and soft water, use of water in industries, Heavy water and its uses.
  2. Group I Elements : Manufacture of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride.
  3. Group II Elements : Quick and slaked lime. Gypsum, Plaster of Paris. Magnesium sulphate and Magnesia.
  4. Group III Elements : Borax, Alumina and Alum.
  5. Group IV Elements : Coals, Coke and solid Fuels, Silicates, Zolitis semi-conductors. Glass (Elementary treatment).
  6. Group V Elements : Manufacture of ammonia and nitric acid. Rock Phosphates and safety matches
  7. Group VI Elements : Hydrogen peroxide, allotropy of sulphur, sulphuric acid. Oxides of sulphur.
  8. Group VII Elements : Manufacture and uses of Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine, Hydrochloric acid. Bleaching powder.
  9. Group O : (Noble gases) Helium and its uses.
  10. Metallurgical Processes : General Methods of extraction of metals with specific reference to copper, iron, aluminium, silver, gold, zinc and lead. Common alloys of these metals; Nickel and manganese steels.

c) Organic Chemistry

  1. Tetrahedral nature of carbon, Hybridisation and sigma pie bonds and their relative strength. Single and multiple bonds. Shapes of molecules. Geometrical and optical isomerism.
  2. General methods of preparation, properties and reaction of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes, Petroleum and its refining. Its uses as fuel. Aromatic hydrocarbons: Resonance and aromaticity. Benzene and Napthalene and their analogues. Aromatic substitution reactions.
  3. Halogen Derivatives : Chloroform, Carbon Tetrachloride, Chlorobenzene, D.D.T. and Gammexane.
  4. Hydroxy Compounds : Preparation , properties and uses of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary alcohols, Methanol, Ethanol, Glycerol and Phenol, Substitution reaction at aliphatic carbon atom.
  5. Ethers : Diethyl ether
  6. Aldehydes and ketones : Formaldehyde, Acetaldehyde, Benzaldehyde, acetone, acetophenone.
  7. Nitro compounds amines : Nitrobenzene TNT, Aniline, Diazonium Compounds, Azodyes.
  8. Carboxylic acid : Formic, acetic, denezoic and salicylic acids, acetyl salicylic acid.
  9. Esters : Ethylacerate, Methyl salicylates, ethylbenzoate.
  10. Polymers : Polythene, Teflon, Perpex, Artificial Rubber, Nylon and Polyester fibers.
  11. Nonstructural treatment of Carbohydrates, Fats and Lipids, amino acids and proteins - Vitamins and hormones.

C) Mathematics

  1. Algebra
  2. Algebra Concept of a set, Union and Intersection of sets, Complement of a set, Null set, Universal set and Power set, Venn diagrams and simple applications. Cartesian product of two sets, relation and mapping - examples, Binary operation on a set - examples. Representation of real numbers on a line.

    Complex numbers: Modulus, Argument, Algebraic operations on complex numbers. Cube roots of unity.

    Binary system of numbers, Conversion of a decimal number to a binary number and vice-versa.

  3. Quadratic equations with real co-efficients. Quadratic expressions
  4. Extreme values. Permutation and Combination Binomial theorem and its applications. Matrices and Determinants: Types of matrices, equality, matrix addition and scalar multiplication -properties. Matrix multiplication - non-commutative and distributive property over addition. Transpose of a matrix, Determinant of a matrix. Minors and Cofactors. Properties of determinants. Singular and non-singular matrices. Adjoint and Inverse of a square-matrix, Solution of a system of linear equations in two and three variables-elimination method, Cramers rule and Matrix inversion method (Matrices with m rows and n columns where m, n < to 3 are to be considered). Idea of a Group, Order of a Group, Abelian Group. Identitiy and inverse elements

  5. Trigonometry
  6. Addition and subtraction formulae, multiple and sub-multiple angles. Product and factoring formulae. Inverse trigonometric functions -Domains, Ranges and Graphs. DeMoivre's theorem, expansion of Sin nO and Cos nO in a series of multiples of Sines and Cosines. Solution of simple trigonometric equations. Applications: Heights and Distance.

  7. Analytic Geometry (Two Dimensions)
  8. Rectangular Cartesian. Coordinate system, distance between two points, equation of a straight line in various forms, angle between two lines, distance of a point from a line. Transformation of axes. Pair of straight lines, general equation of second degree in x and y -condition to represent a pair of straight lines, point of intersection, angle between two lines. Equation of a circle in standard and in general form, equations of tangent and normal at a point, orthogonality of two cricles. Standard equations of parabola, ellipse and hyperbola - parametric equations, equations of tangent and normal at a point in both cartesian and parametric forms.

  9. Differential Calculus
  10. Concept of a real valued function - domain, range and graph. Composite functions, one to one, onto and inverse functions, algebra of real functions, examples of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions. Notion of limit, Standard limits - examples. Continuity of functions - examples, algebraic operations on continuous functions. Derivative of a function at a point, geometrical and physical interpretation of a derivative - applications. Derivative of sum, product and quotient of functions, derivative of a function with respect to another function, derivative of a composite function, chain rule. Second order derivatives. Rolle's theorem (statement only), increasing and decreasing functions. Application of derivatives in problems of maxima, minima, greatest and least values of a function.

  11. Integral Calculus and Differential equations
  12. Integral Calculus: Integration as inverse of differential, integration by substitution and by parts, standard integrals involving algebraic expression, trigonometric, exponential and hyperbolic functions. Evaluation of definite integrals-determination of areas of plane regions bounded by curves- applications.

  13. Differential equations
  14. Definition of order and degree of a differential equation, formation of a differential equation by examples. General and particular solution of a differential equation, solution of first order and first degree differential equation of various types - examples. Solution of second order homogeneous differential equation with constant coefficients.

  15. Vectors and its Applications
  16. Magnitude and direction of a vector, equal vectors, unit vector, zero vector, vectors in two and three dimensions, position vector. Multiplication of a vector by a scalar, sum and difference of two vectors, Parallelogram law and triangle law of addition. Multiplication of vectors — scalar product or dot product of two vectors, perpendicularity, commutative and distributive properties. Vector product or cross product of two vectors. Scalar and vector triple products. Equations of a line, plane and sphere in vector form - simple problems. Area of a triangle, parallelogram and problems of plane geometry and trigonometry using vector methods. Work done by a force and moment of a force.

  17. Statistics and Probability
  18. Statistics: Frequency distribution, cumulative frequency distribution - examples. Graphical representation - Histogram, frequency polygon -examples. Measure of central tendency - mean, median and mode. Variance and standard deviation - determination and comparison.

  19. Correlation and regression
  20. Random experiment, outcomes and associated sample space, events, mutually exclusive and exhaustive events, impossible and certain events. Union and Intersection of events. Complementary, elementary and composite events. Definition of probability : classical and statistical -examples. Elementary theorems on probability -simple problems. Conditional probability, Bayes' theorem - simple problems. Random variable as function on a sample space. Binomial distribution, examples of random experiments giving rise to Binomial distribution.