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Key Facts: BCS Written Post-Related Psychology Exam

Subject 171 / 200 marks

Official BPSC written syllabus identity for Psychology (Post Related)

BPSC BCS written syllabus PDF

100 + 100

Part I General and Developmental; Part II Social and Abnormal

BPSC BCS written syllabus PDF

50% aggregate

Written-stage pass on the 900-mark examination (per-paper minima also apply)

BPSC BCS examination page (updated 13 May 2025)

4 hours

Duration used for BPSC 200-mark written papers; confirm the routine

Longstanding BPSC sitting practice; confirm current routine

Tk. 200 / Tk. 50

50th BCS application fee (general / reduced categories); no separate written fee

50th BCS circular reporting citing PSC; confirm live circular

26 cadres

Cadres listed on the BPSC BCS examination page

BPSC BCS examination page

Descriptive paper

Official format; this bank is an English MCQ study adaptation

BPSC written examination structure

Psychology 171 is a 200-mark, 4-hour BPSC descriptive written paper (Part I 100 + Part II 100) inside the 900-mark written stage (50% aggregate; per-paper minima also apply). Application fee is Tk. 200 general / Tk. 50 reduced categories for the 50th BCS, with no separate written fee. This page offers English MCQs as a study aid, not an official-paper simulation.

Sample BCS Written Post-Related Psychology Practice Questions

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1In the BPSC Psychology syllabus sense, psychology is best defined as the scientific study of:
A.Only unconscious wishes inferred from dreams
B.Behaviour and mental processes
C.Only the voting patterns of large nations
D.Only glandular secretions without reference to experience
Explanation: Modern general psychology treats the field as the scientific study of behaviour and of mental processes such as sensing, perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, feeling, and motivating. That definition covers the syllabus topics from biological bases through personality. Restricting the field to dreams, elections, or glands alone drops most of its subject matter.
2Which field of psychology is primarily concerned with applying psychological knowledge to selection, training, and efficiency at work?
A.Industrial (organizational) psychology
B.Physiological psychology
C.Clinical psychology
D.Developmental psychology
Explanation: Industrial or organizational psychology applies methods of the field to the workplace: personnel selection, training, job design, and efficiency. Physiological psychology studies brain and endocrine bases of behaviour; clinical work assesses and treats psychological disorder; developmental psychology studies change across the life span.
3In a true experiment, the independent variable is the one the investigator:
A.Measures as the outcome after the fact
B.Leaves entirely to the participant to invent
C.Manipulates or systematically varies
D.Treats as an uncontrolled biographical accident
Explanation: The experimental method, listed in the official syllabus, manipulates an independent variable, measures a dependent variable, and controls other conditions so cause can be inferred. Random assignment helps equate groups. Surveys and case studies do not give the same control over an independent variable.
4Which comparison best distinguishes a laboratory experiment from a survey or a case study?
A.Only experiments can ever use numbers
B.Experiments manipulate an independent variable and typically use random assignment; surveys and case studies do not
C.Surveys always prove causation more strongly than experiments
D.Case studies are the only method that can study one variable at a time
Explanation: The syllabus lists observation, survey, experimental method, and case study as distinct tools. Experiments uniquely manipulate an independent variable under controlled conditions, often with random assignment, which supports causal inference. Surveys sample reported attitudes or facts; case studies examine one person or event in depth. Both can be valuable but are weaker for isolating causes.
5The central nervous system consists of the:
A.Brain and spinal cord
B.Cranial and spinal nerves only
C.Sympathetic chain ganglia only
D.Endocrine glands of the neck and abdomen
Explanation: Anatomically the central nervous system (CNS) is the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is the network of cranial and spinal nerves that connect the CNS with receptors and effectors, including the somatic and autonomic divisions. Endocrine glands are a chemical communication system, not CNS tissue.
6The autonomic division of the peripheral nervous system primarily:
A.Moves skeletal muscles in skilled sport
B.Carries only visual information from the retina
C.Is identical with the cerebral cortex
D.Regulates glands and smooth and cardiac muscle, including sympathetic and parasympathetic effects
Explanation: The PNS splits into somatic (skeletal muscle, mainly voluntary) and autonomic (glands, smooth muscle, heart) branches. The autonomic system itself has sympathetic (fight-or-flight) and parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) divisions that often act in opposition. Those divisions are a standard link between biology and emotion, motivation, and stress.
7Which endocrine gland is classically called the “master gland” because its tropic hormones regulate several other glands?
A.Sweat glands of the skin
B.Pituitary gland
C.Pancreatic islets as the only source of growth hormone
D.Adrenal medulla as the source of thyroxine
Explanation: The pituitary, under hypothalamic control, releases tropic hormones (for example TSH, ACTH, FSH, LH, GH, prolactin) that regulate thyroid, adrenal cortex, gonads, and growth. That is why textbooks still call it the master gland. Sweat glands are exocrine; GH comes from the anterior pituitary, not the pancreatic islets; thyroxine comes from the thyroid, not the adrenal medulla.
8Severe thyroid hormone deficiency in early childhood is classically associated with:
A.Gigantism after the epiphyses have closed
B.Parkinsonian tremor from dopamine excess
C.Stunted growth and marked intellectual impairment (congenital hypothyroidism / cretinism)
D.Sudden onset of formal operational thought
Explanation: Thyroxine regulates metabolic rate and is essential for early brain and body growth. Untreated congenital hypothyroidism produces dwarfism of a hypothyroid type and severe intellectual disability—the picture older texts call cretinism. Excess growth hormone after epiphyseal closure produces acromegaly, not gigantism; dopamine depletion, not excess, is the classic Parkinson story.
9Sensation, as distinct from perception, is best described as:
A.The detection of physical energy by receptor organs
B.The interpretation of receptor input as meaningful objects and events
C.A perception in the complete absence of any stimulus
D.The long-term storage of a childhood episode
Explanation: Sensation is the process by which sense organs register physical energy (light, sound, pressure, chemicals). Perception is the organization and interpretation of that input. Hallucination is perception without an adequate external stimulus; memory storage is a later cognitive process. The syllabus asks you to keep those terms distinct.
10The absolute threshold is conventionally the stimulus intensity detected on about:
A.Every trial without exception
B.50 percent of the trials
C.Only those trials that also involve a comparison stimulus
D.None of the trials if the observer is trained
Explanation: Thresholds are statistical, not all-or-none. The absolute threshold is the intensity detected about 50 percent of the time under specified conditions. The difference threshold (just noticeable difference) is the smallest change that is detected about 50 percent of the time. Weber’s law relates that JND to the intensity of the standard stimulus.

About the BCS Written Post-Related Psychology Exam

BCS Written Post-Related Psychology (subject code 171) is the 200-mark job-related paper in the Bangladesh Civil Service written stage for technical/professional cadre candidates whose post-related subject is Psychology, and an extra 200-mark paper for dual-cadre applicants. The official BPSC syllabus splits 100 marks on general and developmental psychology and 100 marks on social and abnormal psychology. The official paper is descriptive. This free bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation of that syllabus—not an official translation, format simulation, or substitute for writing practice.

Assessment

Official BPSC written syllabus, subject code 171, 200 marks in two parts of 100. Part I General and Developmental Psychology: A General Psychology 50 marks (definition and methods, biological basis, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, learning and memory, cognition and intelligence, personality); B Developmental Psychology 50 marks (life cycle and methods, prenatal development, birth, neonate, infancy, childhood, adolescence). Part II Social and Abnormal Psychology: A Social Psychology 50 marks (definition and methods, socialization, attitudes, groups, leadership, mass communication and collective behaviour); B Abnormal Psychology 50 marks (normality and relations to neighbouring fields, causal factors, anxiety-based disorders, somatoform and dissociative disorders, schizophrenia, psychoanalytic / client-centered / behaviour therapy). Official answers are descriptive. This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation, not an official translation or format simulation.

Time Limit

4 hours (duration used for BPSC 200-mark written papers; confirm the current routine)

Passing Score

50% aggregate on the 900-mark written examination (BPSC page); per-paper minima also apply as set by BPSC

Exam Fee

Tk. 200 general (50th BCS); Tk. 50 for ethnic minority, persons with disabilities, and third-gender applicants; no separate written-paper fee. Confirm the live circular. (Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC))

BCS Written Post-Related Psychology Exam Content Outline

50/200 marks

Part I-A General Psychology

Definition, fields, and research methods (observation, survey, experiment, case study); central and peripheral nervous system and endocrine effects on behaviour; sensation and perception including thresholds, organization, depth, illusion, and hallucination; motivation and emotion; learning and memory; thinking, intelligence measurement (Stanford-Binet and Wechsler); personality development and assessment.

50/200 marks

Part I-B Developmental Psychology

Definition, life-cycle divisions, principles, and methods; conception and prenatal stages and risk factors; birth process and types; neonate physiology and reflexes; physical, language, social, and emotional development in infancy and childhood; adolescent physical change and problems of delinquency, drug addiction, and suicide.

50/200 marks

Part II-A Social Psychology

Definition, subject matter, relations to other social sciences, and methods; socialization processes, products, and agents; attitude components, formation, and cognitive change; group types and cohesiveness; trait, type, and situational leadership; public opinion, propaganda, rumour, and prejudice.

50/200 marks

Part II-B Abnormal Psychology

Normality versus abnormality and relations with clinical psychology, psychiatry, and mental health; biological, psychological, and socio-cultural causes; generalized anxiety, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder; conversion and hypochondriasis; schizophrenia types and causal factors; psychoanalytic, client-centered, and behaviour therapy.

How to Pass the BCS Written Post-Related Psychology Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: 50% aggregate on the 900-mark written examination (BPSC page); per-paper minima also apply as set by BPSC
  • Assessment: Official BPSC written syllabus, subject code 171, 200 marks in two parts of 100. Part I General and Developmental Psychology: A General Psychology 50 marks (definition and methods, biological basis, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, learning and memory, cognition and intelligence, personality); B Developmental Psychology 50 marks (life cycle and methods, prenatal development, birth, neonate, infancy, childhood, adolescence). Part II Social and Abnormal Psychology: A Social Psychology 50 marks (definition and methods, socialization, attitudes, groups, leadership, mass communication and collective behaviour); B Abnormal Psychology 50 marks (normality and relations to neighbouring fields, causal factors, anxiety-based disorders, somatoform and dissociative disorders, schizophrenia, psychoanalytic / client-centered / behaviour therapy). Official answers are descriptive. This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation, not an official translation or format simulation.
  • Time limit: 4 hours (duration used for BPSC 200-mark written papers; confirm the current routine)
  • Exam fee: Tk. 200 general (50th BCS); Tk. 50 for ethnic minority, persons with disabilities, and third-gender applicants; no separate written-paper fee. Confirm the live circular.

Keys to Passing

  • Work through all 100 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
  • Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

BCS Written Post-Related Psychology Study Tips from Top Performers

1Outline Part I and Part II as two 100-mark essays-plus-shorts papers; practise writing definitions and named theories, then use these MCQs to check factual accuracy.
2For intelligence, be able to contrast Stanford-Binet ratio IQ with Wechsler deviation scales (WAIS/WISC)—both are named on the syllabus.
3For development, memorize prenatal periods, birth types, and neonatal reflexes; BCS answers often want named sequences (cephalocaudal, proximodistal).
4For social psychology, keep attitude ABC components, Festinger/Heider change theories, Lewin leadership types, and Allport–Postman rumor processes distinct.
5For abnormal psychology, stay on the listed disorders and the three therapies (psychoanalytic, client-centered, behaviour). Do not spend revision time on unlisted DSM chapters.
6After MCQ drill, write timed descriptive answers in the language you will use in the hall; this bank cannot replace that practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is BCS Written Post-Related Psychology (subject code 171)?

It is the 200-mark job-related written paper in the BCS written stage. The official BPSC syllabus is titled Psychology (Post Related), subject code 171, total marks 200, split into Part I General and Developmental Psychology (100 marks) and Part II Social and Abnormal Psychology (100 marks).

Is the official Psychology paper multiple choice?

No. BPSC sets a descriptive written paper. This site’s questions are a free English-language MCQ study adaptation of the official syllabus, not an official translation, format simulation, or substitute for writing answers under timed conditions.

Who sits the Psychology post-related paper?

Technical/professional cadre candidates whose job-related subject is Psychology sit it as their 200-mark post-related paper (with Bangla 100 rather than 200). Candidates who apply for both general and technical/professional cadres sit this 200-mark paper in addition to the general-cadre 900-mark set.

What is the written-stage pass standard?

The BPSC BCS examination page states a 50% aggregate pass on the 900-mark written examination. Per-paper minima also apply as set by BPSC. Confirm the circular for the cycle you are sitting.

How long is the Psychology written paper?

Four hours is the duration used for BPSC 200-mark written papers in longstanding sitting practice. Always confirm the published routine for your cycle.

Is there a separate fee for the written Psychology paper?

No. The 50th BCS application fee reported from the PSC circular is Tk. 200 for general candidates and Tk. 50 for ethnic minority, persons with disabilities, and third-gender applicants, paid via Teletalk. It covers the cycle’s stages; confirm the live circular.

Does this bank follow DSM-5 disorder lists?

No. Items stay inside the official BPSC headings: GAD, phobias, OCD, conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, schizophrenia types and causes, and the three named therapies. Random diagnostic trivia outside that outline is not the target.

In what language is this practice bank?

User-facing items are in English. Official names and essential technical terms are kept. The bank is not an official English sitting or a simulation of BPSC’s written-language environment.