Syllabus of SCRA Exam
 

I am final year student of Polytech Diploma and want to get select in UPSC Special Class of Railway Apprentice (SCRA) exam or Railways. Can you please give me its syllabus?

Re: Syllabus of SCRA Exam
 

Following is the UPSC SCRA syllabus:
1. Atomic structure; Earlier models in brief. Atom as at three dimensional model. Orbital
concept. Quantum numbers and their significance, only elementary treatment. Pauli’s Exclusion Principle. Electronic configuration. Aufbau Principle, s.p.d. and f. block elements. Periodic classification only long form. Periodicity and electronic configuration. Atomic radii, Electro-negativity in period and groups.
2. Chemical Bonding, electro-valent, co-valent, coordinate covalent bonds. Bond Properties, sigma and Pie bonds, Shapes of simple molecules like water, hydrogen sulphide, methane and ammonium chloride. Molecular association and hydrogen bonding.
3. Energy changes in a chemical reaction. Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions. Application of First Law of Thermodynamics, Hess’s Law of constant heat summation.
4. Chemical Equilibria and rates of reactions. Law of Mass action. Effect of Pressure, Temperature and concentration on the rates of reaction. (Qualitative treatment basedon Le Chatelier’s Principle). Molecularity; First and Second order reaction. Concept ofEnergy of activation. Application to manufacture of Ammonia and Sulphur trioxide.

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