OSSC Investigator Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2022 pdf

If you are searching for the latest OSSC Investigator Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2022, then this post is for you. The Odisha Staff Selection Commission has released the Odisha Investigator Syllabus for Odisha Investigator Written Test 2022. Candidates who are preparing for the Odisha Investigator Exam can download the syllabus in PDF format from this post.

The Syllabus is extremely important for all OSSC Investigator job aspirants. Candidates need to be acquainted with the OSSC Investigator Exam Pattern and syllabus to score high marks in the examination. So download the OSSC Investigator syllabus PDF and Prepare well by strictly following the exam syllabus and pattern. You can take your Investigator Exam preparation to the next level by practicing the OSSC Previous question papers.

OSSC Investigator Recruitment 2022 Overview

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1. OSSC Investigator Previous Question Paper PDF
2. OSSC Investigator Recruitment Notification PDF

Odisha Investigator Exam Pattern 2022

Candidates for the post of Investigator will be selected on the basis of a Written Test and a Computer Skill Test. The detailed OSSC Investigator exam pattern is as follows.

The OSSC Will conduct an offline Written test to shortlist the candidates for the Odisha Investigator Posts.

• The written test consists of one paper only.
• The exam will be conducted for 100 marks.
• Each Question carries a mark.
• The questions will be Objective MCQ type.
• There will be a 0.25 negative marking for each wrong answer.
• The duration of the exam is of 2 hours

The detailed subjectwise distribution of marks is as follows

Odisha Investigator Syllabus 2022

Economics (40 Questions / 40 Marks):

Module-1: Economics Concepts: Law of Demand and Supply, Concept of elasticity, Price determination under different markets, National Income, Economic Growth and Planning, Inflation, Money, Banking and Financial Inclusion. Fundamental idea on the public budget.

Module-2: Human Capital in Indian Economy: Profile of Human Resources – Population and Economic Development, Demographic Profile of India, Nature of Population Problem – Poverty, Inequality, Unemployment Problem, Labour Problem, Population Control and Government Policy.

Module-3: Time Series and Index Numbers: Definition and components of a Time Series, Various Models, Measurement of Secular trend and Seasonal Variations, Uses of a time series. Index numbers-criteria of a good index number. Problems in data collection and construction. Price and cost of living index numbers. Base shifting and splicing, deflating of index numbers.
Module- 4: Indian Economy and Planning: Sectorial composition of Indian Economy, Planning in India, Fiscal federalism in India, Poverty and Inequality.

Statistics (40 Questions / 40 marks):

Module-1: Basic Statistics: Collection, Classification, Tabulation and Diagrammatic Presentation of data. Frequency Distribution, Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis.

Module-2: Correlation and Regression: Scatter Diagram, Simple Correlation, Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient and its properties, Linear Regression: Definition and assumptions, regression coefficients and their properties, regression equations (limited to two variables only)

Module-3: Design of Sample Survey: Sample and Population, Sampling Unit, sampling frame, Sampling fraction, errors in a survey, sampling with and without replacement, Simple random sampling, Stratified random sampling, Systematic sampling, Cluster sampling, Multistage sampling.

Module-4: Probability and Testing of Hypothesis: Concepts of probability, addition and multiplication rules, independence of events, Testing of Hypothesis: Concept of Hypothesis, Types of errors in Testing, Critical Region and level of Significance.

 Elementary Mathematics (20 Questions/20 Marks):

Number System, Polynomials, Logarithms, Percentage, Rates& Ratio, average, simple and compound interest, Time & distance, Time & Work, Mensuration, Line & angles and Logarithms.

Computer Skill Test: -25 Marks:

• Computer Fundamentals

• MS Windows
• Office Software:
  Word Processing (MS Word), Spread Sheet (MS Excel), Presentation/Slide ware (MS PowerPoint), Database (MS Access), Usage of the Internet, Services available on the Internet Basic Networking Concepts, Communication Technology