• Environmental Research
• Types of research
• Research approaches
• Methodology and Data collection, sampling techniques of field questionnaire
• Secondary data, methodology and content of the field survey.
• Social research- Concept, objective and scope, sources of data (documentary and field sources)
• Utility of social research
• Qualities of a good research worker (general and specific)
• Criteria of a good research
• Problems encountered by researchers in India.

• Schedule
• Purpose of schedule, essentials of a good schedule
• Procedure of forming a good schedule
• Questionnaire, Types of questions
• Interviews, types and technique of interviews
• Observation, Types, limitations and importance of Observation.

·Classifications and Tabulation of data

·Frequency Distributions and Cumulative frequency distribution.

· Graphical presentation of data- Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Frequency curve and ogives

• Measure of Central Tendency- Mean, Median, Mode & their properties, merits and demerits.
• Measure of Dispersion- Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation and standard deviation

• Correlation Analysis- Definition and concept, types and measures of studying correlation (Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation, its assumptions, properties, merits and demerits, Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient)
• Regression Analysis- Definition, concept, uses and properties. Least Square Methods, Regression Coefficients, Fitting of Regression lines.

• Sampling Distribution and Standard Error
•  Element of Testing a Statistical Hypothesis- Formulation of the problem, Types of errors. Level of significance, large sample test for single mean, difference in two means, single proportions, difference in two proportions.
• Small sample test- Application of Student’s t- test for small sample for single mean, difference in two means (independent and paired-t).
• Chi-square test for independence of attributes.
• Analysis of Variance- Concept of ANOVA, its assumptions, Basic idea of one-way and two-way classification with simple questions.