Rajasthan CET (Graduate Level) syllabus

Rajasthan's eligibility test for twelve graduate-level posts: one OMR paper of 150 multiple-choice questions, 300 marks, 3 hours, with one-third of a question's marks taken off for a wrong answer.

History, Art and Culture of India and Rajasthan

23 questions, 46 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • Important events of Indian history; social and religious reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • The Indian freedom movement and freedom fighters from different regions
  • Rajasthan in 1857, tribal and peasant movements, Praja Mandal movements and the integration of Rajasthan
  • Ancient sites (Kalibangan, Ahar, Ganeshwar and others), dynasties, rulers and their administration
  • Forts, paintings, handicrafts, fairs, festivals, folk music and dance, saints and folk deities, Rajasthani literature and dialects

Geography of India and Rajasthan

13 questions, 26 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • India: physical features, monsoon, rivers, dams, lakes, wildlife, crops, minerals, energy, industry, transport, population, disasters and climate change
  • Rajasthan: geological structure, physiographic divisions, climate, drainage, lakes and water conservation, vegetation, wildlife, rabi and kharif crops, population, tribes, minerals, energy and transport

Indian Political System (with special reference to Rajasthan)

12 questions, 24 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • Constituent Assembly and Dr B. R. Ambedkar; Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles, federal structure, amendments, emergency provisions, PIL
  • President, Prime Minister, Parliament, Supreme Court; Election Commission, CAG, Finance Commission, Lokpal, NHRC, NITI Aayog, Information Commission
  • Governor, Chief Minister, Legislative Assembly, High Court, RPSC, district administration, State commissions, Lokayukta, Panchayati Raj

Economy of India and Rajasthan

10 questions, 20 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • Budget, banking, public finance, GST, national income, growth and development, fiscal and monetary policy, subsidies, PDS
  • Green, White and Blue Revolutions, Five Year Plans, reforms and liberalisation
  • Rajasthan: crops, irrigation and river valley projects, industries and handicrafts, poverty and unemployment, welfare schemes, cooperatives, MGNREGA

Science and Technology

12 questions, 24 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • Physical and chemical changes; acids, alkalis and salts; electric current, heat, work and energy
  • Diet and nutrition, blood groups and Rh factor, health care, infectious, non-infectious and zoonotic diseases
  • Biodiversity, conservation, economic importance of plants and animals, agriculture and animal husbandry in Rajasthan
  • ICT, defence and space technology, satellites

Logical Reasoning and Mathematics

30 questions, 60 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • Blood relations, number and alphabet series, mental and analytical ability
  • Squares, roots, factoring, quadratic equations, logarithms, ratio and proportion, percentage, interest, profit and loss
  • Time, speed and distance; work and time
  • Lines and angles, rectilinear figures, congruence; areas of triangle, circle, ellipse, rectangle, sphere and cylinder
  • Trigonometric ratios, heights and distances; mean, median and mode; graphs and charts

Civic Duty and Public Health

10 questions, 20 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

The syllabus heads are Current Events and Civic Duty, and Public Health. Current events change every year, so this site's questions use Fundamental Duties, the 2022 Act and public-health basics only.

  • Fundamental Duties and moral values
  • Salient provisions of the Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022
  • First aid and CPR; drug abuse and its prevention; physical and mental fitness; health risks of social media addiction
  • Current events, programmes and personalities (the syllabus lists them; this site's questions keep to stable facts)

Computer Knowledge

10 questions, 20 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

  • Characteristics and applications of computers
  • Operating system, internet and e-mail
  • Memory (RAM, ROM), file system, input and output devices
  • MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

General Hindi

15 questions, 30 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

In the board's papers this part is set in Hindi for every candidate, so the English screen shows the same Hindi question with an English explanation.

  • संज्ञा, सर्वनाम, विशेषण, क्रिया, क्रिया-विशेषण, कारक, अव्यय
  • संधि, समास, उपसर्ग और प्रत्यय
  • विलोम, पर्यायवाची, अनेकार्थक शब्द, वाक्यांश के लिए एक शब्द, मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियाँ
  • विराम चिह्न, शब्द शुद्धि, वाक्य शुद्धि, पारिभाषिक शब्दावली
  • राजभाषा हिन्दी की संवैधानिक स्थिति; कार्यालयी पत्र: कार्यालय आदेश, परिपत्र, अधिसूचना, अर्धशासकीय पत्र, निविदा, प्रेस विज्ञप्ति

General English

15 questions, 30 marks in this practice test (the board publishes no subject-wise split) · Within the 3 hours

Questions are in English for every candidate; the Hindi screen keeps them in English and explains in Hindi. Translation items ask for the Hindi of an English sentence or term.

  • Articles and determiners, prepositions, active and passive voice, direct and indirect narration
  • Synonyms and antonyms, idioms and phrases, one-word substitution
  • Official and technical terms with their Hindi equivalents; translation between English and Hindi
  • Comprehension of a passage; structure of official letters (objective)