DSSSB PGT Syllabus 2025 (UPDATED), Latest Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme 

Organization

Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board (DSSSB)

Exam Name

DSSSB PGT 2025

Post Name

DSSSB Syllabus 2025 and DSSSB Exam Pattern 2025

Negative Marking

0.25

Duration

3 hours

Total Questions

300

Total Marks

300

Paper Language

Bilingual (Hindi/English)

Selection Process

Written Exam Skill Test (if required for a post)Document Verification Medical Examination

DSSSB Exam Pattern 2025 for PGT 

Subjects 

Number of questions 

Total marks

Duration 

General Awareness 

20

20

3 hours 

General intelligence and reasoning ability 

20

20

Arithmetic and numerical ability 

20

20

English language 

20

20

Hindi language 

20

20

Specific subject 

200

200

Total 

300

300

            DSSSB PGT Syllabus section A

          Subject 

                      Topic name 

General intelligence and Reasoning 

Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning Analogies, Similarities, Differences Space Visualization, Problem-Solving, Analysis Judgment, Decision Making, Visual Memory Discrimination, Observation, Relationship Concepts Arithmetical Reasoning, Classification, Arithmetical Number Series, etc.

Arithmetical & Numerical Ability, Numerical Aptitude & Data Interpretation

Simplification, Decimals, FractionsLCM, HCF, Ratio & ProportionPercentage, Average, Profit & LossDiscount, Simple & Compound InterestMensuration, Time & Work, Time & DistanceTables & Graphs

English Language:

Comprehension Vocabulary, Grammar, Sentence StructureSynonyms, Antonyms, Usage of Words, etc.

Hindi Language:

संज्ञा एवं संज्ञा के भेदसर्वनाम एवं सर्वनाम के भेदविशेषण एवं विशेषण के भेदक्रिया एवं क्रिया के भेदसन्धि, वाक्य निर्माण (सरल, संयुक्त एवं मिश्रित वाक्य)पर्यायवाची, विपरीपार्थक, अनेकार्थक, समानार्थी शब्दमुहावरे एवं लोकोक्तियाँवचन, लिंगउपसर्ग एवं प्रत्ययअलंकारतत्सम, तद्भव, देशज एवं विदेशी शब्दसमास

General Awareness:

Current Events – National & International History, Constitution, Sports, Indian Polity, Art & Culture Geography, EconomicsEveryday Science, Scientific Research, National & International Organizations

DSSSB PGT Syllabus for Biology

Topics/Chapters

• Diversity of the living world
• Structural organization in plants and animals
• Structural and functional organization of cell
• Plant physiology
• Human biology
• Sexual Reproduction
• Genetics
• Biology in Human Welfare
• Principles of Biotechnology
• Ecology

DSSSB 2025 Syllabus for Maths

• Sets
• Relations & Functions
• Principle of Mathematical Induction
• Permutations & Combinations
• Complex Numbers
• Linear Inequalities
• Binomial Theorem
• Sequence and Series
• Elementary Number Theory
• Quadratic Equations
• Matrices and Determinants
• Two-dimensional Geometry

• Trigonometric Functions
• Inverse Trigonometric Functions
• Differential Calculus
• Applications of Derivatives
• Integral Calculus
• Differential Equations
• Vectors
• Three-dimensional
•  Geometry
• Statistics
• Probability
• Linear Algebra
• Analysis

DSSSB PGT Sanskrit Syllabus 2025

• साहित्य परिचय (गद्य, पद्य एवं नाटक)
• संस्कृत वाङ्मय में प्रतिविम्बित भारतीय दर्शन 
• काव्य शास्त्र
• भाषा विज्ञान एवं व्याकरण
• रचना एवं पारिभाषिक पद

• Grammar and Uses – determiners, 
• Tenses, clauses, Modals, Voice
• Study of poetry and medieval poet Chaucher, 
• Renaissance poets -Study of Spencer, 
• The metaphysical poets – Donne, Herbert and Marvell, Milton,
• Neo-classical poets – Dryden and Pope, Australian literature
• Indian Writing in English, New Literature in English
• Writing Ability

• Reading Comprehension
• Romantic poets – Shelley and Keats, 
• Modernist Poets, 
• British Drama- Doctor Faustus, Hamlet, Pygmalion, murder in Cathedral, 
• British novels – Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, 
• Aspects of English language,  Literary theory and criticism, American literature, 

Business Studies

• Business Environment and Law Business Organization and Management, 
• Business Communication and Management Information Systems, 
• Business Economics and Corporate Governance, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour, 
• Marketing Management and International Business Management

Statistics

• Probability Theory and Distributions, 
• Inferential Statistics and Sampling Methods
• Hypothesis Testing, Regression Analysis, Multivariate Analysis

Commerce

• Business Economics, 
• International Business and E-Commerce, Accounting and Auditing, 
• Business Finance and Banking, 
• Human Resource Development and Management
• Business Statistics and Research Methods, 
• Business and Company Law, 
• Marketing and Consumer Behaviour

Accounting and Financial management

• Cost and Management Accounting, 
• Accounting Principles and Standards, 
• Financial Management, 
• Financial Accounting, 
• International Financial Management, 
• Income Tax Law and Planning, 
• Accounting for liquidation,
• Accounting Process

• Classification of elements and periodicity in properties
• Polymers
• Hydrogen
• Biomolecules (Biochemistry)
• General principles and processes of isolation of elements and block elements
• Chemistry in Everyday Life
• Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry
• Block Elements
• States of Matter:
• The d – and f- Block Elements
• Structure of Atom
• Co-ordination Compounds and organometallics
• Equilibrium
• Organic Chemistry

• Surface Chemistry
• Hydrocarbons
• Chemical Kinetics
• Environmental Chemistry
• Redox Reaction and Electrochemistry
• Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
• Solutions
• Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers
• Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
• Aldehydes, Ketones, and Carboxylic Acids
• Thermodynamics
• Amines (Organic compounds containing nitrogen)

Physical World and Measurement

• Units of measurement
• System of Units
• SI Units
• Fundamental and Derived Units
• Length, mass, and time measurement
• Precision of measuring instrument
• Errors in measurement 
• Dimensional analysis and its application
• Significant figures

Kinematics

• Uniform and non-uniform motion
• average speed and instantaneous velocity. 
• Uniformly accelerated motion
• velocity-time and position-time graphs
• Addition and subtraction of vectors 
• Resolution of a vector in a plane
• projectile motion.

Laws of Motion

• Newton’s first law of motion
• Inertia
• Momentum
• Force
• Impulse
• Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. 
• Static and kinetic friction 
• Laws of friction 
• Uniform circular motion

Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

• Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conversation and center of mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body
• centre of mass of a uniform rod.
• a moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, and conservation of angular momentum with some examples.
• Dynamics of rigid bodies, comparison of linear and rotational motions; The moment of inertia, the radius of gyration.
• Values of moments of inertia for geometrical objects. Parallel and perpendicular axis theorems and their applications.

Gravitation

• Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The universal law of gravitation. Variation of Acceleration due to gravity and with altitude, latitude, and depth.
• Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-stationary satellites.

Properties of Bulk Matter

• Elastic behaviour, Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity,
• Moment of inertia, Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes)
• Stokes’ law, Terminal velocity, Reynold’s No
• Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications. 
• Surface tension: Application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles, and capillary rise. Heat, temperature, Specific heat capacity
• Latent heat capacity. 
• Heat transfer-conduction, Convection, radiation, Thermal conductivity.

Thermodynamics

• Thermal equilibrium, Zeroth thermodynamics, First law of thermodynamics. 
• The second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. 
• Heat engine and refrigerator. 
• Kinetic theory of gases, Degrees of freedom, Law of equipartition of energy, Avogadro’s number.

Oscillations and Waves

• Periodic motion, Oscillations of a spring-restoring force and force constant; 
• Energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies; Free, forced, and damped oscillations, resonance. Wave motion. 
• Transverse and longitudinal waves, Reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, Beats, Doppler effect.

Electrostatics

• Electric Charges: Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law and its application, force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges, superposition principle, and continuous charge distribution. Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field.
• Gauss’s theorem and its applications
• Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a dipole system of charges; equipotential surfaces, the electrical potential energy of a system of two-point charges and of electric dipole in an electrostatic field.
• Conductors and insulators, free charges, and bound charges inside a conductor. Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitance, the combination of capacitors, the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without a dielectric medium
• between the plates, and energy stored in a capacitor. Van de Graaff generator.

Current Electricity

• Drift velocity, V-1 characteristics, Electrical energy and power, Electrical resistivity and conductivity.
• Series and parallel combinations of resistors;
• Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, Kirchhoff’s laws, and simple applications. Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge.

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

• Biot – Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop.
•  Ampere’s law and its applications to an infinitely long straight wire. 
• Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. 
• Cyclotron. 
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. 
• Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter. 
• The magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. 
• Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; 
• Magnetic field lines; 
• Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances, with examples. 
• Electromagnets and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.

Electromagnetic Inductions and Alternating Currents

• Electromagnetic induction
• Faraday’s laws, induced emf and current
• Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents. 
• Self and mutual induction.

Optics

• Reflection of light, Refraction at spherical surfaces, Lenses, Thin lens formula, Lensmaker’s formula. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
• Scattering of light–blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset. Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers. Interference Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width, Coherent sources, and sustained interference of light.
• Polarisation, plane polarised light, Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarised light, and Polaroids.

Modern Physics

• Dual Nature of Radiation
• PhotoElectric Effect
• Hertz and Lenard’s Observations
• Compton Effect
• Bragg’s Law
• Hall effect
• Davision Germer Experiment
• Rutherford’s model
• Composition and size of the nucleus
• Radioactive Law
• Mass-energy relation

Electronic Devices

• Energy bands in conductors, semiconductors, and insulators
• Semiconductor diode-1-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier
• Special purpose p-1 junction diodes: LED, photodiode, solar cell, and Zener diode and their characteristics, Zener diode as a voltage regulator.

Chapter

Topic

The Mauryas 

• Causes for its rise
• Chandragupta Maurya Administration
• Contribution of Ashoka the Great (all aspects)
• Decline and fall of Mauryan Empire 

Magadh

• Rise of Magadh in relation to 16 Mahajanpadas

Harappan Civilization 

• Town Planning
• Religion
• Economic & Social Life
• Script Writing

Buddhism, Jainism

Rise of Heterodox sects with special reference to Buddhism, Jainism – 

• Rise 
• Teaching
• Comparison
• Effect on society, trade & commerce 

The Guptas 

• Golden Period
• Samudra Gupta
• Chandragupta Vikramaditya etc
• Administration, Religion, Trade & Commerce 

Society & Economy 

• From Vedic till 7th century 

Sultanate Era

• The Defeat of the Hindu kingdom and establishment of the Delhi Sultanate 

Mughal Period – 1526 to 1707

• Polity
• Administration
• Society
• Economy

Medieval Period 

• Society and Culture with Special Reference to Bhakti Movement and Sufism

Medieval Architecture

• Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Period 

European and British Rule

• The Advent of Europeans and the establishment of 5 British rule.
• British rule and its impact on the Indian economy 

Revolt 1857 

• Nature
• Causes
• Leadership
• Events
• Consequences
• Causes of defeat
• Impact

Constitution 

• Framing
• Features
• Working of the Constitution
• Adoption of the Constitution 

Miscellaneous

• The socio–religious reform movements and the rise of nationalism.
• The Indian freedom movement – 1885 to 1947 

History of the World

Rise of Islam

• Teachings
• Culture
• Crusades 

Roman and Greek civilization 

• Rise of the empire
• Administration
• Society

Rise of Ancient Civilizations with Special Reference to Mesopotamia 

• Urbanization
• Script
• Trade
• Calendar

Nomadic people of Central Asia

–

China and Japan 

• Since 1840 to 1949

The Dark Age – Feudalism in Europe 

• Manor State
• Decline 

Capitalism and Mercantilism

• Industrial Revolution
• Imperialism and colonialism 

Renaissance and Reformation period in Europe