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कंप्यूटर विज्ञान — Higher Secondary (Class 11–12)
| Part | Paper | Questions / marks | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part I | Language (qualifying) | 30 | Practical knowledge of English and Hindi/Urdu/Bangla. At least 30% to qualify; not added to merit. |
| Part II | General Studies | 40 | Elementary mathematics, general awareness, general science, Indian National Movement and geography. |
| Part III | Computer Science (subject) | 80 | Related to the SCERT/NCERT syllabus, at the level of the minimum qualification for the post. |
80 questions
80 questions out of 150. The subject paper is related to the SCERT/NCERT syllabus, but its level follows the minimum qualification for the post (B.E./B.Tech, MCA, M.Sc. Computer Science, DOEACC).
40 questions
Elementary mathematics, general awareness, general science, Indian National Movement and geography. Related to the SCERT higher-secondary curriculum.
30 questions
Practical knowledge of English and Hindi/Urdu/Bangla. Minimum 30% to qualify; marks are not added to the merit list.
Components of a computer, CPU, memory (primary, cache, secondary), units of memory, data transfer between memory and CPU, microprocessors, data and information, software: system, application, operating system, language translators.
ASCII, ISCII, Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-32); binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal number systems; conversion between them.
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, NLP, immersive experiences (AR/VR), robotics, big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, blockchain.
Steps of problem solving, algorithms, flowcharts, pseudocode, decomposition, verifying and comparing algorithms.
Features, execution modes, keywords, identifiers, variables, data types, mutable and immutable types, operators and precedence, expressions, input/output, type conversion, debugging.
if, if-else, if-elif-else, indentation, for and while loops, range(), break and continue, nested loops.
User-defined functions, arguments and parameters, default parameters, return values, scope (local, global), flow of execution, built-in functions, modules (math, random, statistics).
Indexing, slicing, concatenation, repetition, membership, traversal, built-in string methods.
List operations, traversal, list methods, nested lists, copying lists, lists as function arguments.
Tuple operations and methods, tuple assignment, nested tuples; dictionary creation, access, update, traversal and methods.
Digital footprints, netiquette, data protection, intellectual property (copyright, patent, trademark), plagiarism, licensing, cyber crime, IT Act, e-waste, health concerns.
Syntax errors and exceptions, built-in exceptions, raise and assert, try–except–else–finally.
Text and binary files, open/close, file modes, read/readline/readlines, write/writelines, seek and tell, pickle (dump, load).
LIFO, PUSH and POP, implementation with a list, string reversal, parenthesis matching, infix–postfix conversion and postfix evaluation.
FIFO, enqueue and dequeue, implementation with a list, deque (double-ended queue).
Bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort and their time complexity.
Linear search, binary search, hashing (hash functions, collisions).
Collecting, storing and processing data; mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation.
File system vs DBMS, relational model, relation, attribute, tuple, domain, degree, cardinality; candidate, primary, alternate and foreign keys.
DDL and DML, data types, constraints, CREATE, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ALTER, DROP, SELECT with WHERE/IN/BETWEEN/LIKE/ORDER BY/NULL, aggregate functions, GROUP BY, HAVING, joins, Python–MySQL connectivity.
Evolution of networking, PAN/LAN/MAN/WAN, network devices (modem, hub, switch, repeater, router, gateway), topologies, IP and MAC address, Internet, web, DNS, URL.
Components, bandwidth and data rate, wired and wireless media, mobile generations (1G–5G), protocols (HTTP, FTP, PPP, SMTP, TCP/IP, POP3, HTTPS, Telnet, VoIP).
Malware (virus, worm, ransomware, Trojan, spyware, adware, keylogger), antivirus, spam, HTTP vs HTTPS, firewall, cookies, hackers and crackers, DoS, intrusion, snooping, eavesdropping.
Number systems and codes, Boolean algebra, logic gates, K-maps, combinational circuits (adders, multiplexers, decoders), sequential circuits (flip-flops, registers, counters).
CPU organisation, registers, instruction cycle, addressing modes, memory hierarchy and cache, I/O (interrupts, DMA), pipelining basics.
Data types, operators, control statements, arrays, strings, pointers, functions, structures, files; OOP in C++: classes, constructors, inheritance, polymorphism.
Arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees (BST, AVL, heaps), graphs (BFS, DFS, shortest paths, MST), hashing, sorting and searching, Big-O complexity.
Processes and threads, CPU scheduling, synchronisation, deadlocks, memory management (paging, segmentation, virtual memory), file systems, disk scheduling.
ER model, relational model, keys, normalisation (1NF–BCNF), SQL, transactions and ACID, concurrency control, indexing.
OSI and TCP/IP models, switching, IP addressing and subnetting, routing, TCP and UDP, application protocols, network security and cryptography basics.
SDLC models, requirement analysis, design, testing (black-box, white-box), maintenance, software quality.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics, client–server model, HTTP, web servers.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning basics, cloud computing, IoT, big data, cyber security.
Tags: Official = from BPSC Advt. 15/2026; SCERT/NCERT = textbook topics, as the advertisement directs; Expected = graduation-level topics implied by the minimum qualification (BPSC has not published a separate topic list).