Education and Career Forum

Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission Combined Competitive Examination (Mains)- Agriculture-II Papers are aimed at providing students with the opportunity of answering questions that will test their understanding of the subject itself. Questions can be expected from topics like Mendel’s law of inheritance, how it can be used in specific breeding programs, what is meant by seed replacement ratio, the mechanism of respiration and photosynthesis in plants and how it can be controlled by various factors, explication of key scientific terms like crop growth rates, net assimilation rate and so on. The paper can be divided into two sections, one for objective questions and the other for longer and more in-depth questions. The latter section can contain questions from topics like storage pests and management, scientific cultivation of apples, food contamination, value addition of food, ornamental horticulture and so on.