25 optional subjects available: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Anthropology, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Commerce, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geology, History, Law, Management, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology, and Literature in 24 Indian languages plus English. Candidates can write in Eighth Schedule languages or English, with technical terms allowed in English within brackets.