JKSSB Kitabat Instructor Syllabus & Exam Pattern

Official 120-mark recruitment examination syllabus for the post of Kitabat Instructor in the Skill Development Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. The curriculum comprehensively evaluates technical and aesthetic proficiency across History and Lineage of Islamic & Kashmiri Calligraphy (Evolution of Kufi, Naskh, Thuluth, Nastaliq, Shikasta, Reehan, Muhaqqaq, Tauqi, Riqa, Ghubar, Tawa'am, Gulzar; Master Calligraphers Ibn Muqla, Mir Ali Tabrizi, Yaqut al-Musta'simi, Ibn al-Bawwab, Hafiz Usman; Prominent Kashmiri Calligraphers Muhammad Manzoor Kashmiri, Agha Ghulam Rasool, Shabir Ahmad Rizvi, Muhammad Abbas Shopyani, and institutions like Taleemgah-e-Khushnaveesi Jammu and J&K Cultural Academy Srinagar); Classical Rules and Orthography (Principles of Qat measurement, Nuqat classification - Mudawwar, Murabba, Musallas; Proportions of Alif, Chhoti Ba, Badi Ba; Baseline Kursi, Su'ood, Nazool, Safa, Shaan, Daur, Hamza forms, and Urdu orthography); Traditional Calligraphy Tools & Materials (Reed and bamboo pens, pen knives/Qat-zan, traditional ink formulations from soot and oil, handmade papers); and Urdu Desktop Publishing & Digital Graphic Design (InPage Urdu typesetting, keyboard shortcuts, CorelDRAW vector graphics and logo design, Adobe Photoshop image editing and Magic Wand, digital scanners, and printer hardware).

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