OFDC Dum Dum Syllabus for Primary Teacher Exam

Core Language Competency

• The candidate should have the adequate understanding of English and Hindi to deal with students of Elementary Classes.
• The ability to comprehend texts and express them effectively in writing/orally will be measured through Written Test and Teaching Skill Test.

English & Hindi:

• Articles/Determines
• Prepositions
• Verb forms
• Adjectives
• Tense
• Modal Auxiliaries
• Active/Passive
• Reported speech
• Punctuations
• Letter Writing-formal & informal
• Essay on current issues
• Speech
• Vocabulary
• Idioms and phrases
• Antonym & Synonyms
• Methods of teaching English at Elementary level.

OFDC Dum Dum Syllabus for Part 2

OFDC DUM DUM Syllabus for Current Affairs:

• In this objective of questions about general knowledge of surrounding society of the candidates to test the awareness about surrounding activities.
• Questions will also be included towards a scientist sight and thinking which expected from an educated person.
• So, candidates should must focus on affairs about India and its adjacent countries too.
• Scientific Progress/Development, National/International Awards, Indian Languages, Books, Script, Capital, Currency, Sports-Athlete such as essential knowledge.

OFDC DUM DUM Syllabus for General Science:

• Living the world, Human Body,  Plant Life,  Natural Vegetation and Wild Life,  Food.
• The Universe: Natural phenomenon, planets, Indian Space Research programme
• Our country: Its surface, natural resources, food & crop.
• Matter: Concept of elements, molecule and atom.
• The basic structure of an atom, Radioactivity, gases and liquids, classification of Hydrocarbons. Chemical and physical changes.
• Green house effect, photo synthesis
• Motion: Displacement, velocity; uniform and non-uniform motion along a straight line; acceleration, distance -time and velocity, idea’ of uniform circular motion.
• Force and motion, inertia, momentum, force and acceleration action and reaction forces. Elementary idea of conservation of momentum, conservation of energy, simple machine.

OFDC DUM DUM Syllabus for Reasoning Ability:

• Questions will be asked from analogies
• Similarities and differences
• Spatial Visualization
• Spatial Orientation
• Problem solving
• Analysis
• Judgment
• Decision making
• Visual memory
• Discrimination
• Observation
• Relationship concepts
• Arithmetic Reasoning
• Verbal and figure classification
• Arithmetical number series
• Non-verbal series
• Coding and decoding
• Statement conclusion
• Syllogistic reasoning.

OFDC DUM DUM Syllabus for General Maths:

• Number System, estimation of’ numbers, Place value, use of symbols, word problems on number operations involving large numbers, conversions of units of length & mass, Multiples and factors, even, odd and prime/composite numbers, prime factorization, HCF and LCM, Rationale numbers.

Whole numbers, Seeing patterns:

• Identifying and formulating.
• Rules, Integers, Properties of Integers, Fractions, Ratio and Proportion, percentages, profit & loss, work & time, velocity & distance, simple and compound interest, binomials, polynomials, basic of algebra, linear equation, quadratic equation & word related problems.
• Basic geometrical ideas: Line, line segment, ray. Open and closed figures. Angle -Vertex, arm, interior and exterior, Triangle, vertices, sides, angles, interior, Quadrilateral-Sides, vertices, angles, Circle-Center, radius, diameter, arc, Concept of a perimeter. Data handling.
• Pictograph-scaling in pictographs and its interpretation. General understanding of perimeter using regular shapes. Shapes of different kinds with the same perimeter.
• Area of various regular geometric shapes.
• Measuring areas of different shapes with the help of graph.
• The concept of volume, measurement of volume using a basic unit, a volume of a cube.
• Cuboids and cylinder, Volume and capacity (measurement of capacity).
• Surface area of a cube, cuboids and cylinder.

Environmental Science:

Primary Institutions of democracy, Local bodies, State bodies, National bodies, citizen’s rights in the democracy, Role of Panchayat and Nagarpalikas in education, health and other social services.

Population growth in India:

• Distribution, density & growth, sex ratio, rural-urban composition, education, Human development indicators.
• Common Diseases, Deficiency diseases & Communicable diseases and their prevention. First Aid and Our Health Services at Village and District Level, Natural Calamities -their causes, impact and steps to reduce the effect, Transport and Communication -their impact, Natural Resources-Air, Water, Soil and Land (Minerals, Metals, non-metals), Resources and Development.
• Natural resources: Forest and minerals, Water resources, rivers, irrigation system and crop pattern.
• Map of India-Location of identification, understanding of globe with special reference to Latitude, Longitude & time, Five Years Plans, National freedom movement, cultural renaissance, social reformers of India.