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PhD Entrance Examination: Syllabus and Exam Pattern

PhD means Doctor of Philosophy. PhD entrance exam has duration of 3 hours. The student who wants to pursue this course should have Master’s degree with minimum 55% marks from recognized university. The popular entrance exams for this course are UGC NET, IIT JAM, CSIR UGC NET, and NPAT, etc.  The average annual salary after the course is 6-9 lakh per annum.

Why study PhD

·         If you want to research any specific topics.

·         If you want to become University Lecturer.

·         It can unlock many career opportunities.

·         If you want to get highest degree in any related field.

Entrance Exams Syllabus

The syllabus of PhD is depending on the subject you choose.

Politics Syllabus

·         Negotiating the Sources

·         Pastoralism and Food production

·         Indus/Harappa Civilization

·         Vedic and later Vedic periods

·         Expansion of State system

·         From State to Empire

·         Dissolution of Empire & Emergence of Regional Powers

·         Gupta Vakataka age

·         Harsha and his Times

·         Emergence of Regional Kingdoms

·         Kingdoms in South India

·         Kingdoms in Eastern India

·         Kingdoms in Western India

·         Kingdoms in North India

·         Characteristics of Early Medieval India

·         Agrarian economy

·         Trade and urbanization

·         Growth of Brahminical religions

·         Society

·         Education and Educational Institutions

·         Source of Medieval Indian History

·         Political Developments

·         Foundation of the Mughal Empire

·         The Vijayanagara and the Bahmanis

·         Rise of the Marathas & the Base of Swaraj by Shivaji

·         Administration & Economy

·         Sher Shah’s Administrative Reforms

·         Administrative System in the Deccan –

·         Agricultural Production and Irrigation System

·         Industries

·         Trade and Commerce

·         Hundi (Bills of Exchange) and Insurance

·         Society and Culture

·         The Sufis – Their Orders, Beliefs & Practices

·         Bhakti Movement

·         The Saints of the Medieval Period

·         The Sikh Movement

·         Social Classification

·         Rural society

·         Position of Women

·         Development of Education

·         Fine Arts

·         Art and Architecture

·         Indo-Arabic Architecture

·         Sources of Modern Indian History

·         Rise of British Power

·         British Dominion in India.

·         British Relations with Principal Indian States

·         Revolt of 1857, Causes, Nature & Impact of it.

·         Local Self-Government

·         Constitutional Changes, 1909 – 1935.

·         Colonial Economy

·         Expansion and Commercialization of Agriculture

·         Decline of Industries

·         British Industrial Policy

·         Monetary Policy, Banking, Currency and Exchange

·         Growth of New Urban Centres

·         Famines, Epidemics & the Government Policy.

·         Indian Society in Transition

·         The New Education

·         Indian Renaissance

·         Rise of Indian Nationalism

·         Birth of Indian National Congress;

·         Swadeshi and Swaraj.

·         Gandhian Mass Movements;

·         Left Wing Politics.

·         Depressed Class Movement.

·         Communal Politics; Muslim League and Genesis of Pakistan.

·         The Structure of Bureaucracy

·         Economic Policies & the Planning process; Development, Displacement & Tribal Issues.

·         Foreign Policy Initiatives

·         Linguistic Reorganisation of States; Centre-State Relations.

·         Scope and Importance of History

·         Objectivity and Bias in History

·         Heuristics Operation,

·         Criticism in History,

·         Synthesis, Presentation History & its Auxiliary Sciences

·         History a Science, Arts or a Social Sciene

·         Imagination in History Significance of Regional History

·         Recent Trends of Indian History

·         Research Methodology

·         Hypothesis in History

Psychology Syllabus

·         Emergence of Psychology   

·         Psychological thought in some major Eastern Systems

·         Western

·         Essential aspects of knowledge paradigms

·         Research Methodology & Statistics 

·         Research: Meaning, Purpose, and Dimensions

·         Paradigms of research

·         Statistics in Psychology

·         Correlational Analysis

·         Special Correlation Methods

·         Regression

·         Factor analysis

·         Experimental Designs

·         Psychological testing             

·         Types of tests

·         Test construction

·         Test standardization

·         Areas of testing

·         Attitude scales

·         Applications of psychological testing in various settings

·         Biological basis of behavior 

·         Sensory systems

·         Neurons

·         The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

·         Methods of Physiological Psychology

·         Muscular and Glandular system

·         Biological basis of Motivation

·         Biological basis of emotion

·         Biological basis of emotion

·         Attention, Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting    

·         Forms of attention, Models of attention

·         Approaches to the Study of Perception:

·         Perceptual Organization

·         Signal detection theory

·         Fundamental theories

·         Classical Conditioning

·         Instrumental learning

·         Reinforcement

·         Cognitive approaches in learning

·         Recent trends in learning

·         Memory processes

·         Stages of memory

Ph.D Entrance Exam Pattern

Mode of Examination

·         The exam is conducted in Computer Test Mode.

·         It enhances the efficiency of examination process.

Medium of Question Papers

·         The PhD Entrance Exam is conducted in English Language.

·         This standardization in the medium of instruction ensures uniformity & fairness in evaluating candidates.

Structure of Question Papers

·         It has two sections:- Section 1: Research Methodology, Section 2: Subject-specific

·         All questions in question paper is in English Language except Language papers.

·         The candidate should answer all questions.

·         All questions are compulsory.

·         It has duration of 180 minutes.

·         Candidates get +4 marks for every correct answer.

·         There is no negative marking for so you can attempt all questions risk free.