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HSEE 2022 Syllabus: Subject wise Syllabus PDF

Updated On - March 09 2022 by Vikash Jha

HSEE 2022 Syllabus is available here in pdf format. Humanities and Social Science Entrance Examination 2022 (HSEE) 2022 will be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). HSEE is a national-level entrance test conducted once in a year to offer admission to the Master's Programme in the Department of Humanities and Social Science (HSS). The test is conducted annually. This is the only test of its kind, which admits candidates to a five-year integrated Masters Programme in Humanities and Social Sciences subjects offered by an IIT. 

HSEE 2022 Syllabus

Candidates must check the subject wise HSEE syllabus 2022 which is mentioned below:

English and Comprehension skill

This section tests the candidate’s ability to understand and use standard English, and to appreciate literary language. Questions are related to the following areas:

Reading skills: Candidates will be required to read the given passage(s) that aim(s) to test their comprehension skills and answer the comprehension questions.
Grammar: This section tests the candidate’s knowledge of English grammar including sentence structure and usage, the use of tenses, verb patterns, articles, and active and passive constructions etc.
Vocabulary: This section is a test of vocabulary and the ability to understand meaning, structure and collocation of words.

Analytical and Quantitative Ability

  • Numbers, Algebra,
  • Highest Common Factor (HCF) and Lowest Common Multiple (LCM),
  • Calendar, Basic Statistics – Average,
  • Ratio and Proportion, Profit and Loss,
  • Percentages, Simple and Compound Interest,
  • Work and time,
  • Discount, Age sums,
  • linear equations,
  • elementary trigonometry.
  • Data interpretation,
  • Analytical reasoning,
  • Logical reasoning, Brainteasers, and Patterns

Indian Economy

  • Understanding the Economy: Scarcity, opportunity cost, resource allocation, economic systems and their characteristics, features of market economies, forces of demand and supply, the elasticity of demand and supply.
  • Main Features of Indian Economy: Natural resources; human resources -population size and composition, literacy and education, occupational distribution.
  • Major Economic problems: Poverty, Unemployment and Inequality - concepts, measurement, trends, sectoral distribution and policies, inflation - trends, causes and remedies.
  • Economic Growth and Development: Meaning and measurement of economic growth, stages of development, national income concepts and trends, trends in savings and investment; human development index, national policy on education, health and health care policies.
  • Planning in India: Five-Year Plans - objectives, priorities and problems.
  • Sectoral Development: agriculture – Green Revolution and technological changes, current issues and policies; industry-evolution of industrial policies in India (from 1948), strategies for industrial development, public and private sectors, small and medium industries, infrastructure, transport and communication, service sector etc.
  • Foreign Trade and International Economy: balance of payments, foreign exchange reserves and trade policy, I.M.F., W.T.O., international aid.
  • Money, Banking and Public Finance: Concepts of money and measures of the money supply.

Indian Society and Culture

  • Structure of Indian Society: Caste, Class and Tribe, Institutions of Marriage, Family and Kinship, Political institutions, Demographic Indicators and Trends.
  • Social Change in India: Sanskritization, Modernisation, Westernization and Secularization, Social Movements and Regionalism, Panchayati Raj Institutions & Governance, Affirmative Action Programme of the Government, Commissions and Policy Interventions.
  • Medieval and Modern Indian History: Delhi Sultanate and Mughal era; British Raj; Uprising of 1857; (Social) Reform, and Resistance Movements; Indian National
    Movement and the Emergence of the Indian nation.
  • Indian Philosophy and Thinkers: Jainism, Buddhism, Orthodox Systems, Sikhism, Sufism, Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
  • Indian Traditions and Knowledge Systems: Classical dance forms, Architecture, Education, Ethics, Language and Grammar, Painting, Music, Theatre, Textiles Indian
    Literature, Mathematical and Medical systems.

World Affairs

  • The emergence of the US and USSR;
  • The emergence of the UN system;
  • The Cold War and nuclear race;
  • The disintegration of the Soviet Union, a decline of Communism and rise of nationalism;
  • Arab-Israel conflict;
  • India and the World;
  • NAM and role of India;
  • India-China and India-Pakistan relations, China and the World, conflict and wars.
  • Democracy and Development;
  • Challenges to democracy;
  • North-South divide on issues of development;
  • UN and its various developmental and peacekeeping operations;
  • Nuclearisation and Non-proliferation;
  • India in SAARC and ASEAN;
  • International terrorism, fundamentalism and the War on Terror; Indo-US relations;
  • New centres of power in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
  • Hunger and Poverty;
  • Human Rights, Democracy and Development;
  • Environmental degradation and green politics;
  • Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Gender;
  • Deprived Classes and minority politics;
  • Religion in the contemporary world; Culture and Civilization;
  • Globalization and changing economic, cultural and political landscape;
  • Mass media and cultural change;
  • The emergence of various popular mass movements. 

Environment and Ecology

Global Environmental Picture: Population Growth, Degradation of Soils, Global Atmospheric Changes, Loss of Biodiversity.
Ecosystems: Structure of Ecosystems, Biotic Structure, Categories of Organisms, Feeding and non-feeding Relationships, Ecosystems and how they Work, Elements in Living and Non-living Systems, Energy Laws, Nutrient Cycling.
Pollution: Major forms of Pollution and their Impact, Primary and Secondary Pollutants, Control Strategies, Indoor Pollutants, Global Warming, International Treaties. Principles of Solar Energy, Hydropower, Wind Power, Biomass Energy, Ocean Thermal Energy, Geothermal Energy, and Tidal power.

 

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