GUIDE - SYLLABUS

DETAILED GUIDE SYLLABUS.  

Sulekha Rani.R,PGT Chemistry,KV NTPC Kayamkulam 

Pravesh Requirements

1) Have brief information of the origin of guiding.

2) Guide  Law and Promise.

3) Guide  Motto, Sign, Salute and left hand shake.

4) Daily Good-turn at home and maintain a diary at least for a month.

5) Know the parts of Guide uniform and how to wear it.

6) Know the composition and significance of the National flag, The Bharat Scouts & Guides Flag and the World Scout Flag.

7) Sing correctly Scout prayer and Scout Flag Song.

8) Attend at least four Troop Meetings.

Pratham Sopan Requirements

1) Learn about your Patrol its Flag, yell or song and corner.

2) Know general rules of health, Practice B.P's six exercises or Six Asanas or Surya Namaskar.

3) Learn and practice Hand signals and whistle Signals,

4) Lean wood craft signs and follow a track.

5) Whip the ends of a rope.

6) Tie and show uses of reef knot, sheet bend, clove hitch, sheep shank, bowline, fisherman's knot and round turn and two half hitches.

7) Participate in Troop Games.

8) Practice orderly movements and simple drill for smartness.

9) Know the contents of the First-Aid Box. Demonstrate the use of roller bandages and triangular bandages collar and cuff sling and triangular suspension sling. Render first aid for cuts and scratches.

10) Participate in two patrol outdoor meetings or a patrol day-hike.

11) Make a gadget or handicraft useful at home.

12) Adopt for purpose of keeping clean a park or a water-point or a bus stop or any other public spot or a Building for a week. Or observe for at least a month breeding places of mosquitoes and flies and look to its cleanliness.

13) Participate in any two of the following activities. 

(i) Undertake a nature study project in consultation with your Patrol leader.
(ii) Discuss with your Scoutmaster and render some service involving any one of the points of Scout Law and submit a report to your Scout Master.

Dwitiya Sopan Requirements

1) Tie and show the uses of Timber hitch, Rolling hitch, Marlyn Spike/Lever hitch, figure of eight Knot, Sheer, Square and diagonal lashings, Demonstrate the uses of four camp tools.

2) Fire

(i) Lay and light a wood fire in the open with not more than two match sticks and clean and light a kerosene / gas stove.
(ii) Demonstrate any three of the following
(a) Safety precautions with regard to fire.
(b) Bucket Chain method of putting out fire.
(c) How to tackle dry grass fire.
(d) Precautions in case of Gas leak

3) Cooking: Cook in the open, two simple dishes, enough for two persons and make tea/coffee for one Patrol over wood fire or stove.
 
4) Compass:

(i) Demonstrate practical use of a compass and know the sixteen points.
(ii) Be able to find North by at least two constellations.
(iii) Have knowledge of paces, bearing and map sketches.

5) First Aid:

(i) Demonstrate St.John's sling and
(ii) improvised stretcher
(iii) Throw a lifeline for 10 mtrs
(iv) Render First Aid for

a) Burns and Scalds           b) Sprains              c) Stings and Bites            4) Bleeding from Nose.

6) Satisfy your Scoutmaster that your behavior at home and at school is good.

7) Estimation: With the help of improvised apparatus, estimate two distances / width of not more than  100 mtrs.

8) Participate in a Troop Wide Game.

9) Know and demonstrate-Morse Signaling by any one of the methods, Flas/disc/buzzer, or demonstrate semaphore signaling by Flag.

10) Qualify for one of the following Proficiency Badges.

1) Cook    2) Debater    3) Friend to Animals    4) Gardener      5) Handyman     6) Cyclist       7) Launder

11) Participate in Troop/Patrol sustained activity organized by the Scout Master for a month in your community making use of Scout skills.

12) Complete any two of the following

(a) Collect information on our heritage and culture and prepare a log.
(b) Undertake a development project in your school with your patrol in consultation with the head of the institution.
(c) Participate in a social service camp.
(d) Serve in a community fair or mela.
(e) Discuss with your parents and neighbors about a pollution problem in your locality and make a report of it.

13) Serve as Pratham Sopan Scout for at least nine months.

Tritiya Sopan Requirements

1) Camp Craft:

Demonstrate:
(i) Whipping other method than by the one done in Pratham Sopan.
(ii) Draw hitch, Fireman's chair knot, Man harness knot and splicing-eye, back, short.
(iii) Pitching, striking and packing a tent or improvise shelter enough for two persons to sleep in.
(iv) Make a Trestle and a rope ladder with the help of another Scout.

2) Swimming:

(i) Swim 50 meters.
(ii) Know the safety rules of swimming and
(ii) Know hoe to prevent, minimize and deal with muscle cramps.

OR

Earn one of the following Proficiency Badges:

(i) Athlete (ii) Camel Man (iii) Climber (iv) Gymnast (v) Hiker (vi) Games Leader

3) Estimation

(i) Estimate any given two heights/depths not more than 30 mtrs.
(ii) Two weights not more than 2 kg.
(iii) Two different types of things in number. (Items such as coins, marbles, biscuits, etc.

4) First Aid

(i) Treat for shock, fainting, chocking.
(ii) Deal with simple fracture of arm, collarbone and jaw fracture.
(iii) First Aid for cases of drawing and electric shock.
(iv) Demonstrate mouth to mouth resuscitation.

5) Mapping

(i) Map Reading, knowledge of scale, conventional signs, contours and grid references. Be able to read a tourist map or Survey of India map and follow a given route or lead a person.
(ii) Map Making: Triangulation, Plane Table and Road Traverse methods.

6) Pioneering:

(i) Demonstrate use of knife and axe and their safety rules.
(ii) Build two Patrol Pioneering Projects and demonstrate their uses.

7) Participate in an overnight Troop camp.

8) Hike: Undertake with another Scout a cycle hike for 30 kms. And submit report to the Scout Master within 10 days. A Hike on foot with another Scout for 10 kms, and submit a report to Scout Master within 10 days.

OR

A Hike on foot with another Scout for 10 kms, and submit a report to Scout Master within 10 days.

9) Cooking: Cook in the open, meals enough for four persons.
10) Plan and participate in Patrol Expedition.
11) Participate in a night game.
12) Signaling: Send and receive a message through Semaphore code-containing at least 25 words.
13) Quality for any two of the following Proficiency Badges one from each group:
Group A

i) Civil Defense ii) Community Worker iii) Pioneer iv) World Conservation

Group B

i) Citizen ii) Book Binder iii) Naturalist iv) Path finder

14) Complete any one of the following and prepare a logbook.

(i) Talk on National Integration to your Group.
(ii) Talk in a Troop Campfire or tell the story of a Prophet.
(iii) Discuss in your Patrol-in-Council how Scouting develops National Integration.
(iv) Lead your Patrol to a nearby place of historical/social/religious or industrial importance and discuss about, what it speaks of.

15) Show the knowledge of Scouting in India.
16) Serve as Dwitiya Sopan Scout for at least 9 months.

Rajya Puraskar Requirements

1) Should ensure proficiency of knowledge and skill up to Tritiya Sopan Badge.

2) Hold Tritiya Sopan Badge and earn any three of the Proficiency Badges not earned earlier from among the given below: 

1) Literacy 2) Community Worker 3) Ecologist 4) Leprosy Control 5) Sanitation 6) Soil Conservator 7) Rural Worker

3) Earn any one of the Proficiency Badges from each of the two groups:

Group-A

(i) Camper (ii) Signaler (iii) Electrician (iv) Tailor (v) Dairy Man

Group-B

(i) Public Healthy man (ii) Hospital Man (iii) Healthy Man (iv) Nutrition Educator (v) Farmer

Note:
 (i) Rajya Puraskar is awarded by the Governor / Patron of the Association.
(ii) The Proficiency Badges are issued on the basis of certificates issued by independent examiners  arranged by Training Counselor and appointed by Local or District Badge Committee.
(iii) Scouts who have already earned the qualifying Badges will have to attend a Rajya Puraskar Testing Camp organized by the State Association under the supervision of the State Organizing Commissioner (S) where the knowledge and skills of the Scouts will be retested. After being qualified in the State Training Camp, the scout will be eligible for the award of Rajya Puraskar Badge and Certificate. 
iv) The State Chief Commissioner who is the final authority to grant Rajya Praskar Award shall issue from time to time suitable directives in respect of badge, tests etc. and ensure proficiency of knowledge and skills upto Tritiya Sopan Badge and Proficiency Badges.
v) This award including the Badge shall be the property of the State Association and has to be surrendered on demand by appropriate authority.

    

Rastrapati Puraskar Requirements

1) Hold Rajya Puraskar
2) Camping:

i) Camp at least three nights consecutively with his Troop/Patrol or with another Scout in the open. Organization gatherings like rallies, Jamborees, etc. are not to be counted for this.ii) Know the use of the following:

iii) Be able to improvise either a shelter or a hut or a machan with available natural material for two persons to sleep.

3) Hold Ambulance man Badge.
4) Quality for any two of the following Proficiency Badges not earned earlier.

a) Camper b) Secretary c) Rural Worker d) Electronics e) Fireman f) Forester g) Journalist h) Leprosy Control.

5) Participate in a service project to Community for not less than 36 Hours spread over a period of at least two months and must work at least one day in a week. Prepare a diary for work done and submit it to the Court-of-honour week after week.

6) Undertake a night hike for 10 kms. Along with another Scout and submit report to the Scout Master within 10 days.

OR

An over night cycle hike for 50 kms. with another Scout and submit report to the Scout Master within 10 days.

7) Plan and participate in a sustained community development project on Health or Conservation or Literacy or small savings.

8) Work as a Badge Instructor of a Pack or a Troop in the vicinity. Or Teach games for younger children for fifteen days.
9) Serve as Rajya Puraskar Scout at least for one year.

Note:
1) Rastrapati Scout Award is warded by the President of India.
2) This award including the badge will be the property of the National Association and shall be surrounded on demand by appropriate authority.
3) A Rajya Puraskar Scout who has earned all the required Proficiency Badges and had fulfilled all the required conditions mentioned herein before will have to attend Rashtrapati Scout Award Test Camp organized by the National Association under the supervision of the concerned Asst. Director.