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BPSC Geography Optional Syllabus 2023 - Download Official Syllabus PDF

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BPSC Geography Optional Syllabus 2023

Find all the topics and subtopics that are asked in the BPSC geography optional syllabus 2023. Go through the syllabus given below properly.

Principles of Geography

Physical Geography

  • Geomorphology – Origin, and evolution of the earth’s crust: earth movements and plate tectonics; volcanism; the cycle of erosion.- Davis and Penck; fluvial, glacial, arid, and karst land-forms; rejuvenated and polycyclic landforms.
  • Climatology – The atmosphere, its structure and composition; air masses and fronts; cyclones and related phenomena; climatic classification; Koeppen and Thornthwait; groundwater and hydrological cycle.
  • Soils & Vegetation – Soil genesis, classification, and distribution: ecological aspects of savanna and monsoon forest biomes.
  • Oceanography – Ocean bottom relief. Relief of the Indian Ocean floor. Salinity. currents and tides; ocean deposits and coral reefs.
  • Ecosystem – Ecosystem concept, Man’s impact on the ecosystem, global ecological imbalances.

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Human & Economic Geography

  • Political Geography – Concepts of nation and state; frontiers, boundaries, and buffer zones; the concept of heartland and rimland; federalism.
  • Development Of Geographical Thought – Contributions of European and British Geographers, determinism and possibilism; Dualism in Geography, quantitative and behavioral revolutions in geography.
  • Human Geography – Emergence of man and races of mankind, the cultural evolution of man; major cultural realms of the world; international migrations, past and present; world population-distribution and growth; demographic transition and world population.
  • Settlement Geography – Concepts of rural and urban settlements, Organs of Urbançation; Rural settlement patterns; city classifications; urban spheres of influence and the rural-urban fringe, the internal structure of cities; problems of urban growth in the world.
  • Economic Geography –  World economic development-measurement and problems; the concept of resources, world resources, their distribution, and global problems; world energy crisis; and limits to growth; world agriculture-typology and world agricultural regions; theory of agricultural location, world industry-theory of the location of industries; world industrial patterns and problems; world trade and world trade patterns.

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Geography Of India

  • Physical Aspects – Geological history, Physiography, and drainage systems; origin and mechanism of the Indian monsoon, soils, and vegetation.
  • Human Aspects – Tribal areas and their problems; population distribution, density, and growth; population problems and policies.
  • Resources – Conservation and utilçation of land mineral water biotic and marine resources; ecological problems and their management.
  • Agriculture – Irrigation intensity of cropping, crop combinations, green revolution, agricultural land use policy.
  • Rural Economy – Animal husbandry, social forestry, and household industry.
  • Industries – History of industrial development; factors of location study of mineral-based, agro-based, and forest-based industries, industrial complexes, and industrial regionalization.
  • Transport & Trade – Study of the network of roadways railways, waterways, intra, and inter-regional trade, and the role of rural market centers.
  • Settlements – Rural Settlement patterns; urban development in India and its problems, the internal structure of Indian cities; town planning, slums, and urban housing; national urbanization policy.
  • Regional Development & Planning – Five-year plan; multi-level planning; state, district, and block-level planning regional disparities in development in India. Political Aspects.- Political problem of India, state reorgançation; the international boundary of India and related issues; India and geopolitics of the Indian Ocean area.

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Geography Of Bihar

  • Physiographic Divisions – soils, forests, climate, the pattern of agriculture, problems of drought-prone and flood-affected regions and their solution.
  • Chief Mineral Resources – iron ore, copper, bauxite mica, and coal.
  • Principal Industries – iron and steel, aluminum, cement, sugar.
  • Principal Industrial Regions
  • Problems Bihar’s Tribal Population & Solutions
  • The Pattern Of Urbanisation In Bihar
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BPSC Geography Optional Syllabus FAQs 2023

You can choose from subjects like physics, sociology, chemistry, agriculture, geography, public administration, commerce & accountancy, Hindi literature & language, English, literature & language, political science & international relations.

You can choose only one subject as your optional subject.

No, there is no such marking in the BPSC CCE.

The optional subject exam will be of a total of 300 marks.

The questions will be of Honors level.

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