Subject Index

How to use this index

• Pick a subject, open its 00-index hub, and sweep the owner notes in importance order.
• The concept cards that distil each subject are listed in concept index; the last-minute sheets are in Index.
• A topic you expect but do not find is a coverage flag; check the per-subject coverage maps under README.

Polity

The constitutional spine, the bodies, federalism, and the security and human-rights lens that is the CAPF-distinctive demand. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage polity.

• making of the constitution, preamble and features of the constitution, the schedules of the constitution.
• fundamental rights, directive principles and fundamental duties.
• union executive, parliament, judiciary, state government.
• federalism and centre state relations, local government, special provisions articles 370 and 371.
• constitutional and statutory bodies, tribunals and quasi judicial bodies.
• amendments and basic structure, anti defection and tenth schedule, citizenship and emergency provisions.
• electoral system and reforms, political parties and pressure groups, rti and transparency laws, official language and the eighth schedule.
• The CAPF-distinctive note: human rights and internal security.

High-yield within polity: Fundamental Rights and the writs, the emergency provisions (Art 352, 356, 360), the constitutional and statutory bodies, and the human-rights and internal-security note.

Economy

The macro spine, money and banking, the fiscal and external sectors, planning, and the schemes that double as Paper II material. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage economy.

• basics national income and growth, inflation and prices, poverty unemployment and inclusive growth.
• money and banking and the rbi, banking and financial sector reforms, capital markets and sebi.
• budget and fiscal policy, taxation and gst, planning and niti aayog.
• external sector trade and bop, international economic institutions.
• agriculture and rural economy, industry infrastructure and energy.
• major economic schemes, key economic indicators and reports.

High-yield within economy: money and banking and the RBI, the Budget and fiscal terms, GST, NITI Aayog, and the flagship schemes (also catalogued in scheme index).

History

Ancient, medieval and modern India, with the freedom struggle as the highest-yield slice and a Paper II essay theme. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage history.

• Ancient: indus valley civilisation, vedic age, mahajanapadas jainism and buddhism, mauryan empire, post mauryan and gupta age, south india and sangam age.
• Medieval: delhi sultanate, mughal empire, bhakti and sufi movements.
• Modern and the freedom struggle: advent of europeans and british conquest, revolt of 1857, socio religious reform movements, rise of nationalism moderates and extremists, gandhian era and mass movements, personalities of the freedom struggle, towards independence acts and partition, post independence consolidation.
• Culture: art and architecture of india, indian music dance and painting.

High-yield within history: the Gandhian-era mass movements, the personalities of the freedom struggle, the Government of India Acts and Partition, and the 1857 revolt.

Geography

Physical and human geography of India and the world, plus the strategic geography (borders, straits and chokepoints) that connects to the security lens. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage geography.

• Physical: geomorphology earth interior and plate tectonics, climatology atmosphere and winds, oceanography, world physical geography.
• India: india physiography, indian drainage system and rivers, indian monsoon and climate, climatic regions of india, soils and natural vegetation of india, indian agriculture and cropping, minerals and energy resources of india, indian industries transport and population, protected areas of india, states uts and capitals.
• World and strategic: world political geography, important features of the world, india borders neighbours and strategic geography, straits chokepoints and strategic waterways, map work essentials.

High-yield within geography: the monsoon and climate, the drainage system, the borders-and-neighbours note (the security bridge), and map work.

General Science

Physics, chemistry, biology and the applied and defence technology slice, all calibrated to everyday and recall level. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage general science.

• physics everyday, chemistry everyday, biology cell and classification, human body and systems.
• nutrition diseases and health, diseases and public health, biotechnology and genetics, agriculture and food technology.
• environment and ecology, information technology and computing, emerging technologies ai nanotech robotics.
• The defence slice (the CAPF bridge): space and defence technology, strategic and defence technology.
• Quick recall: science everyday phenomena and quick facts.

High-yield within general science: the human body and systems, vitamins and deficiency diseases, everyday physics and chemistry, and the space and defence technology slice.

General Mental Ability

Reasoning and quantitative aptitude, the most scoring and most time-pressured sub-area. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage gma.

• Reasoning: logical reasoning, verbal reasoning, non verbal reasoning, alphanumeric series and input output, data sufficiency.
• Quantitative: number system and simplification, percentage ratio and average, profit loss and interest, time speed distance and time and work, mensuration and geometry, permutation combination and probability, clocks and calendars, data interpretation.
• Method: exam strategy and shortcuts, full practice set 50 questions.

High-yield within general mental ability: number system and simplification, percentage-ratio-average, time-speed-distance and time-and-work, and the reasoning sets. Speed matters more than coverage here.

Current Events

The durable layer of current affairs: institutional facts, mandates, the static spine of schemes, organisations and indices, the kind that stays true for years. Hub: Index. Coverage map: coverage current events.

• government schemes framework, international organisations and india, reports indices and their publishers.
• defence and internal security in news, science tech and environment current themes, sports awards and culture static.
• Method: how to prepare current affairs for capf.
• Live and thematic layers: Index (monthly digests) and Index (durable theme pages).

High-yield within current events: the schemes framework, the reports-and-their-publishers list, and the defence and internal-security slice. Dated headlines are tracked in the monthly digests, never invented (see sources and honesty policy).

Paper II (essay and comprehension)

Paper II is descriptive (200 marks). It is built in two parts and lives outside the seven Paper I subjects.

• Part A, the essay (80 marks): Index, the themes (freedom struggle, geography and environment, polity and governance, economy and development, internal security, human rights, analytical and ethics) and how to write the capf essay.
• Part B, comprehension and precis (120 marks, English only): Index, comprehension technique, precis writing, grammar and vocabulary.
• Coverage map for Paper II: coverage paper2.

Related

• master index (the catalogue of the whole vault)
• syllabus index (syllabus clause to page mapping)
• topic frequency (topic frequency and importance scoring)
• concept index (the concept cards that distil each subject)
• deep notes index (the long-form security and human-rights synthesis layer)
• README (the per-subject coverage maps)