Any graduation from a recognized institute makes u eligible to apply in IFS
the syllabus is as follows:
Syllabus of IFS ExaminationThe syllabus of Indian Forest Service Examination is as follows:General English
- Sentence Formation
- Adverbs
- Passages and essays
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Nouns,
- Vocabulary
- Verbs and Proverbs
- Direct& Indirect speech
General KnowledgeThis paper includes
- Socio- economic related topics
- Indian History and Social Development
One must update current affairs to score good marks in General Knowledge.Agriculture
- Marketing of Agricultural Products
- Soil Properties
- Natural Resources
- Ecology
- Agricultural extension
- Water-use efficiency and Farm Management.
Agricultural EngineeringThis paper includes
- Soil and Water Conservation
- Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing
- Irrigation and Drainage
- Agricultural Structures
- Farm Power and machinery
- Instrumentation and Computer Applications in Agricultural Engineering
- Agro-energy and Agricultural Process Engineering
BotanyBotany subject includes
- Cryptogams
- Phanerogams
- Microbiology and Plant Pathology
- Plant Utility and Exploitation
- Morphogenesis
- Cell Biology
- Evolution
- Plant Breeding
- Physiology and Biochemistry
- Ecology and Plant Geography
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary ScienceIt includes
- Animal Nutrition
- Animal Physiology
- Livestock Production and Management
- Genetics and Animal Breeding
- Health and Hygiene
- Animal Diseases and Veterinary Public Health
ChemistryThis paper includes
- Electrochemistry
- Chemical Kinetics
- Photochemistry
- Surface Phenomena and Catalysis
- Bio-inorganic Chemistry
- Reactive Intermediates
- Polymeric Systems
- Synthetic uses of reagents
- Chemical Bonding
- Atomic Structure
- Thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics
- Principles of Spectroscopy and Applications in Structure Elucidation.
Chemical EngineeringThis paper includes
- Mass Transfer
- Process Equipment Design
- Process Dynamics and Control
- Material and Energy Balances
- Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
- Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Chemical Technology and Process Engineering Economics.
ForestryThis paper includes
- Silviculture
- its principles
- Silviculture of trees
- Silviculture - systems
- Silviculture - Mangrove and Cold desert
- Agroforestry
- Social Forestry
- Joint Forest Management and Tribology
- Forest Soils
- Soil Conservation and Watershed Management
- Environmental Conservation and Biodiversity
- Tree Improvement and Seed Technology
- Forest Management and Management Systems
- Forest Ecology and Ethnobotany
- Forest Protection & Wildlife Biology
- Forest Economics and Legislation.
Geology
- Geomorphology and Remote Sensing
- Structural geology
- Igneous ad Metamorphic Petrology
- Sedimentology
- Economic Geology
- Mining Geology
- Geochemistry and Environmental Geology.
- Paleontology
- Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
- General Geology
- Stratigraphy and Geology of India
- Mineralogy
Physics
- Special Relativity
- Waves & Geometrical Optics
- Physical Optics
- Electromagnetic Theory & Black Body Radiation
- Thermal and Statistical Physics
- Quantum Mechanics I
- Quantum Mechanics II & Atomic Physics
- Electronics.
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Classical Mechanics
- Nuclear Physics
- Particle Physics & Solid State Physics
Mathematics
- Basic concepts of Linear Algebra
- Calculus
- Analytic Geometry
- Ordinary Differential Equations
- Dynamics
- Statics and Hydrostatics
- Vector Analysis
- Algebra
- Real Analysis
- Complex Analysis
- Linear Programming
- Partial differential equations
- Numerical Analysis and Computer programming
- Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
Zoology
- Non-chordata and chordata
- Economic
- Zoology
- Instrumental methods
- Cell Biology
- Systematics
- Biochemistry
- Physiology
- Developmental Biology
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Biostatistics
- Ecology
- Ethology
Mechanical Engineering
- Theory of Machines
- Manufacturing Science
- Thermodynamics
- Fuels and Combustion
- Heat Transfer
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Turbo-Machines and Power Plants
- I.C. Engines
- Mechanics of Solids
- Engineering Materials
- Manufacturing management
- Elements of Computation
Statistics
- Probability
- Statistical Inference
- Industrial Statistics
- Optimization Techniques
- Demography and Psychometry
- Linear Inference and Multivariate Analysis
- Sample Quantitative Economics and Official Statistics
- Sampling Theory and Design of Experiments