SwaPrep
Sign in
Exams›Tripura Civil Services

Tripura · exam corner

TCS/TPS Grade-II Combined Competitive Examination (TPSC)

Live

Mains

24 topics · 7 sections — from the official TPSC syllabus. Study material lands topic by topic.

Language Paper I · English Essay/Report/Precis (Qualifying)

  1. 1
    English Essay, Report Writing and Precis (Qualifying)

Language Paper II · English Composition + Bengali/Kokborok or Alternative English (Qualifying)

  1. 1
    English Composition, Bengali/Kokborok Composition and Translation, or Alternative English (Qualifying)

General Studies Paper I

  1. 1
    General Knowledge and Current Affairs of National and International Importance
  2. 2
    Everyday Science and Technology
    1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Science and Technology Policy, Achievements and Indigenization197 min
    2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Space Technology and Digital/IT Technologies249 min
    3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies252 min
    4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Intellectual Property Rights247 min
  3. 3
    Numerical Ability
  4. 4
    Test of Reasoning / Mental Ability
  5. 5
    Environmental Conservation and Degradation
    1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biodiversity and Conservation241 min
    2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Environmental Pollution, Degradation and Impact Assessment200 min
    3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Climate Change and International Environmental Governance204 min
  6. 6
    Security and Disaster Management (incl. Hazards and Disaster in Tripura)
    1. 1.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile10 min
    2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Disaster Management Framework and Institutions252 min
    3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Types of Disasters and Mitigation Strategies254 min
    4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Development and Extremism — Left-Wing Extremism/Naxalism199 min
    5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External State and Non-State Actors — Cross-Border Terrorism Linkages193 min

General Studies Paper II

  1. 1
    Modern History of India
    1. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire24 min min
    2. 2.Rise of Regional States14 min
    3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy28 min
    4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal17 min
    5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)14 min
    6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)8 min
    + 23 more chapters
    1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars23 min
    2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems14 min
    3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 185717 min
    4. 10.The Revolt of 185765 min
    5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)17 min
    6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India15 min
    7. 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)11 min
    8. 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)16 min min
    9. 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)24 min
    10. 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)18 min
    11. 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)18 min
    12. 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)26 min min
    13. 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)19 min
    14. 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)20 min
    15. 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)16 min
    16. 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)32 min
    17. 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)34 min
    18. 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)26 min
    19. 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)36 min
    20. 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)10 min
    21. 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)9 min
    22. 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture9 min
    23. 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)26 min
  2. 2
    History of Tripura
    1. 1.Tripura: History and Political Development16 min
  3. 3
    Indian Socio-Cultural Heritage with Special Reference to Tripura
    1. 1.Tripura: Culture, Heritage and Geography13 min
    2. 2.15. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Ancient India)16 min
    3. 3.25. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Medieval India)20 min
    4. 4.History Optional Paper I — Item 1: Sources22 min
    5. 5.GS Paper I — Indian Society: Salient Features of Indian Society and the Diversity of India69 min
  4. 4
    Geography of India
    1. 1.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down92 min
    2. 2.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is90 min
    3. 3.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason103 min
    4. 4.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them78 min
    5. 5.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth113 min
    6. 6.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts109 min
    + 12 more chapters
    1. 7.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island96 min
    2. 8.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do67 min
    3. 9.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It49 min
    4. 10.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them68 min
    5. 11.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them64 min
    6. 12.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People42 min
    7. 13.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went97 min
    8. 14.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is79 min
    9. 15.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired69 min
    10. 16.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is127 min
    11. 17.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide101 min
    12. 18.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number79 min
  5. 5
    Geography of Tripura
    1. 1.Tripura: Culture, Heritage and Geography13 min

General Studies Paper III

  1. 1
    Constitution of India and Human Rights
    1. 1.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic15 min
    2. 2.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter15 min
    3. 3.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution14 min
    4. 4.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States16 min
    5. 5.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project14 min
    6. 6.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India15 min
    + 4 more chapters
    1. 7.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution15 min
    2. 8.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived15 min
    3. 9.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution16 min
    4. 10.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy20 min
  2. 2
    Indian Political System, Governance, and Ethical/Moral Values in Governance
    1. 1.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism16 min
    2. 2.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power18 min
    3. 3.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation14 min
    4. 4.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself17 min
    5. 5.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA24 min
    6. 6.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment20 min
    + 12 more chapters
    1. 7.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution22 min
    2. 8.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 32417 min
    3. 9.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-32314 min
    4. 10.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-32315 min
    5. 11.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism14 min
    6. 12.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-15115 min
    7. 13.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times11 min
    8. 14.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation9 min
    9. 15.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template14 min
    10. 16.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes13 min
    11. 17.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Governance, Transparency, and Accountability: E-Governance, RTI, and Citizens' Charters106 min
    12. 18.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Role of Civil Services in a Democracy110 min
  3. 3
    Political and Administrative System of Tripura
    1. 1.Tripura: History and Political Development16 min
  4. 4
    Indian Foreign Policy
    1. 1.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Pakistan Relations178 min
    2. 2.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-China Relations172 min
    3. 3.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India's Immediate Neighbourhood — Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and the Maldives107 min
    4. 4.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Afghanistan Relations and Central Asia34 min
    5. 5.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-United States Relations64 min
    6. 6.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Russia Relations105 min
    + 3 more chapters
    1. 7.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India, the European Union, and Other Major Powers127 min
    2. 8.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Regional Groupings — SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN and SCO53 min
    3. 9.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Global Groupings: G20, BRICS, QUAD, IBSA55 min
  5. 5
    International Institutions and Their Role in Maintaining World Peace and Order
    1. 1.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: International Institutions: the UN, UNSC Reform, and Global Governance Bodies (WTO, IMF, World Bank, WHO)109 min

General Studies Paper IV

  1. 1
    Indian Economy, Poverty, Unemployment and Inflation
    1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment186 min
    2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates157 min
    3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking110 min
    4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation89 min
    5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector102 min
    6. 6.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets102 min
  2. 2
    Budget, Fiscal and Monetary Policy
    1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy146 min
    2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth167 min
  3. 3
    Banking, Money Supply and Share Market
    1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment186 min
    2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates157 min
    3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking110 min
    4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation89 min
    5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector102 min
    6. 6.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets102 min
  4. 4
    Social Security Measures with Special Reference to Tripura
    1. 1.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile10 min
    2. 2.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Social Sector Development: Health and Education89 min
    3. 3.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Poverty, Hunger, and Human Resource Development105 min
  5. 5
    Economy of Tripura: Agriculture, Industry and Commerce
    1. 1.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile10 min

Optional Papers (Choice of One Subject, ~50 Subjects)

  1. 1
    Optional Subject (Candidate's Choice)

← Back to the full syllabus