Hindi syllabus

General knowledge (detailed breakdown not specified in notification — indicative)

• Indian history and freedom movement
• Geography of India and Uttar Pradesh
• Indian constitution and polity
• Basic Indian economy
• General science and everyday science
• Environment and ecology
• Uttar Pradesh special — geography history culture and administration
• Current national and international events
• Current affairs of the education sector
• Sports awards and books-authors

Hindi grammar

• Sounds letters and spelling
• Sandhi
• Samas
• Gender number and case
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Idioms and proverbs
• Sentence correction
• Punctuation marks
• One-word substitution
• Unseen prose
• Unseen poetry
• Spelling correction
• One-word phrase substitution
• Polysemous words
• Words of different meanings
• Tense
• Noun
• Pronoun
• Verb
• Adjective

Hindi literary history

• Adikal
• Bhaktikal Sant kavya
• Bhaktikal Sufi kavya
• Bhaktikal Ram kavya
• Bhaktikal Krishna kavya
• Ritikal streams
• Bharatendu yug
• Dwivedi yug
• Chhayavad
• Pragativad
• Prayogvad and Nayi Kavita
• Hindi prose genres
• Short prose genres
• Historiographical tradition of Hindi literature
• Periodisation of Hindi literature
• Adikal — naming and tendencies
• Bhaktikal — features and tendencies
• Ritikal — features
• Geet and Navgeet
• Authors of famous poetic lines and suktis

Major poets and writers

• Kabir
• Jayasi
• Tulsidas
• Surdas
• Meerabai
• Bihari
• Jaishankar Prasad
• Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
• Sumitranandan Pant
• Mahadevi Verma
• Premchand
• Keshavdas
• Ghananand
• Bharatendu Harishchandra
• Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi
• Ramchandra Shukla
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
• Agyeya
• Muktibodh

Poetics

• Rasa
• Alankar
• Chhand
• Shabd shakti
• Definition of poetry
• Types of poetry
• Kavya-guna
• Kavya-dosha

Major Sanskrit authors and works

• Bhasa
• Kalidasa
• Bhavabhuti
• Bharavi
• Magha
• Dandi
• Sriharsha
• Bana
• Mammata
• Bharatamuni
• Vishvanatha
• Rajashekhara
• Jayadeva

Major prose genres

• Essay — origin and development
• Novel — origin and development
• Short story — origin and development
• Drama — origin and development
• Criticism — origin and development

Other genres

• Biography
• Autobiography
• Memoir
• Sketch (rekhachitra)
• Reportage
• Travel literature
• Diary writing
• Satire
• Interview
• Children's literature

Epoch-making writers and works

• Epoch-making writers
• Epoch-making works

Hindi newspapers and magazines

• Major Hindi newspapers and magazines
• Publication places of newspapers and magazines
• Publication years of newspapers and magazines
• Editors of newspapers and magazines

Hindi language and linguistics

• Upbhashas of Hindi
• Vibhashas of Hindi
• Dialects of Hindi
• Sounds of Hindi
• Hindi vocabulary stock

Sanskrit grammar

• Sandhi — vowel consonant and visarga
• Samasa
• Upasarga and pratyaya
• Vibhakti markers
• Shabdarupa — atmane jagat sarit balak hari asmad yushmad
• Dhaturupa — stha pa gam pad has (parasmaipadi)
• Tense (kala)
• Sanskrit translation of Hindi sentences