Educational Qualification

Lower Division Clerk(LDC)/Junior Secretariat Assistant(JSA),DEO(except DEOs in Department / Ministry)

The candidates must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.

Data Entry Operator (DEO) in Department/Ministry

12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.

Category and Age relaxations

Category	Age Relaxation
SC/ ST	5 years
OBC	03 years
PwBD (Unreserved)	10 years
PwBD (OBC)	13 years
PwBD(SC/ ST)	15 years
Ex-Servicemen (ESM)	03 years after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on closing date of receipt of online application.
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (SC/ ST)/td>	08 years
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof.	03 years
Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried.	Up to 35 years of age
Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried (SC/ ST)	Up to 40 years of age
Central Government Civilian Employees: Who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of online applications.	Up to 40 years of age
Central Government Civilian Employees: Who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of online applications. (SC/ ST)	Up to 45 years of age

Exams

Subjects	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Negative Mark
General Intelligence	25	50	0.50 marks
General Awareness	25	50	0.50 marks
Quantitative Aptitude (Basic Arithmetic Skill)	25	50	0.50 marks
English Language (Basic Knowledge)	25	50	0.50 marks

The Tier-I Examination will consist of Objective Type, Multiple choicequestions only.

The questions will be set in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali,Gujarati,Kannada,Konkani,Malayalam,Manipuri ,Marathi,Odiya,Punjabi,Tamil, Telugu and Urdu

There will be negative marking of 0.50 marks for each wrong answer.

Posts - As per pay level

Pay Level-2

Age group	Name of post	Department / Ministries/ Office/ Cadre	Class Fiction
18-27 years	Lower Division Clerk (LDC) / Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA)	Various Department / Ministries	Group D

Pay Level-4 & Pay Level-5

Age group	Name of post	Department / Ministries	Class Fiction
18-27 years	Data Entry Operator (DEO)	Except Department / Ministries	Group D (Pay level-4)
18-27 years	Data Entry Operator (DEO) Grade ‘A’	Various Department / Ministries	Group D (Pay level-5)

Scheme of Tier-II Examination

Tire	Session	Subject	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Time allowed
II	Session-I(2 hour and 15 minutes)	Section-I: Module-I:Mathematical Abilities Module-II:Reasoning and General Intelligence	30 30 Total=60	60*3=180	1 hour(For each section) (1 hours and 20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe as per para-7.1,7.2 and 7.3)
	Session-I(2 hour and 15 minutes)	Section-II: Module-I:English Language and Comprehension Module-II:General Awareness	40 20 Total=60	60*3=180
		Section-III: Module-I: Computer Knowledge Module	15	15*3=45	15 Minutes (20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe as per para-7.1,7.2 and 7.3)
	Session-II	Section-III: Module-II: Skill Test/Typing Test Module	Part A: Skill Test for DEOs in Department/Ministry mentioned at Para 8.1	-	15 Minutes (20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe as per para-7.1,7.2 and 7.3)
			Part B: Skill Test for DEOs in Department/Ministry mentioned at Para 8.1	-	15 Minutes (20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe as per para-7.1,7.2 and 7.3)
			Part c: Typing Test For LDC/JSA	-	10 Minutes (15 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe as per para-7.1,7.2 and 7.3)

Tier-II will include following three sections having two modules each:

Section-I:

Module-I: Mathematical Abilities.
Module-II: Reasoning and General Intelligence.

Section-II:

Module-I: English Language and Comprehension.
Module-II: General Awareness

Section-III:

Module-I: Computer Knowledge Test.
Module-II: Data Entry Speed Test

Tier-II will be conducted in two sessions – Session –I & Session-II, on same day. Session-I will include conducting of Section-I, Section-II and Module-I of Section-III. Session-II will include conducting of Module-II of Section-III.

It will be mandatory for the candidates to qualify all the sections of Tier-II.

Tier-II will consist of Objective Type, Multiple choice questions, except for Module-II of Section-III.

The questions will be set in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali,Gujarati,Kannada,Konkani,Malayalam,Manipuri ,Marathi,Odiya,Punjabi,Tamil, Telugu and Urdu except for Module-II (i.e. English Language and Comprehension module) in Section-II.

There will be negative marking of 1 mark for each wrong answer in Section-I, Section-II and Module-I of Section-III.

Module-I of Section-III i.e. Computer Knowledge Test is mandatory but qualifying in nature.

Module-II of Section-III i.e. Skill Test/ Typing Test:

Section-I:

Module-II of Section-III will include conducting of Skill Test/ Typing Test in Session-II on the same day.
Skill Test/ Typing Test will be of qualifying nature.
Skill Test/ Typing Test will be evaluated as per the evaluation guidelines available on the website of the Commission.
Errors in the Skill Test will be calculated up to 2 decimal places.

Skill Test/ Typing Test will be conducted as per the following scheme: Skill Test for Data Entry Operator:

Skill Test is mandatory for Data Entry Operators. No candidate is exempted from appearing in the Skill Test.

Part A – Skill Test for the post of DEO/ DEO Grade ‘A’ in Department/ Ministry mentioned :
he ‘speed of 15000 (Fifteen Thousand) Key Depressions per hour on Computer’ will be adjudged on the basis of the correct entry of words/ key depressions as per the given passage. The duration of the Test will be 15 (Fifteen) minutes and printed matter in English containing about 3700-4000 key-depressions would be given to each candidate who would enter the same in the Computer. The passage to be entered in the computer may also be displayed on the computer screen.
Part B – Skill Test for the post of DEO/ DEO Grade ‘A’ except in Department/ Ministry:

‘Data Entry Speed of 8,000 (Eight Thousand) Key Depressions per hour on Computer’ will be adjudged on the basis of the correct entry of words/ key depressions as per the given passage. The duration of the Test will be 15 (Fifteen) minutes and printed matter in English containing about 2000-2200 key-depressions would be given to each candidate who would enter the same in the Computer. The passage to be entered in the Computer may also be displayed on the computer screen.

Candidates eligible for scribe will be given compensatory time of 5 minutes. Therefore, duration of Skill Test for such candidates will be 20 min.

Part C – Typing Test for other posts i.e. LDC/ JSA:

The medium of Typing Test will be Hindi or English. The candidates will have to opt for the medium of Typing Test (i.e. either Hindi or English) in the online Application Form.

Candidates opting for English medium should have typing speed of 35 words per minute (w.p.m.) and those opting for Hindi medium should have typing speed of 30 words per minute (w.p.m.). 35 w.p.m. and 30 w.p.m. correspond to about 10500 key depressions per hour and about 9000 key depressions per hour respectively.

The speed will be adjudged on the accuracy of typing on the Computer of a given text passage in 10 minutes.

Candidates eligible for scribe will be given compensatory time of 5 minutes. Therefore, duration of Typing Test for such candidates will be 15 minutes.

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General Intelligence

English Language (Basic Knowledge)

General Awareness

Quantitative Aptitude

Module-I of Session-I (Mathematical Abilities)

Number Systems

Computation of Whole Number, Decimal and Fractions, Relationship between numbers.

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Fundamental arithmetical operations

Percentages, Ratio and Proportion, Square roots, Averages, Interest (Simple and Compound), Profit and Loss, Discount, Partnership Business, Mixture and Alligation, Time and distance, Time and work.

Algebra

Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra and Elementary surds (simple problems) and Graphs of Linear Equations.

Geometry

Familiarity with elementary geometric figures and facts: Triangle and its various kinds of centres, Congruence and similarity of triangles, Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles.

Mensuration Math

Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped, Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square Base.

Trigonometry

Trigonometry, Trigonometric ratios, Complementary angles, Height and distances (simple problems only) Standard Identities like sin2𝜃 + Cos2𝜃=1 etc.

Module-I of Section-II of Paper-I (Computer Proficiency)

Computer Basics

Organization of a computer, Central Processing Unit (CPU), input/ output devices, computer memory, memory organization, back- up devices, PORTs, Windows Explorer, Keyboard shortcuts.

Software

Windows Operating system including basics of Microsoft Office like MS word, MS Excel and Power Point etc.

Working with Internet and e-mails

Web Browsing & Searching, Downloading & Uploading, Managing an E-mail Account, e-Banking.

Basics of networking and cyber security

Networking devices and protocols, Network and information security threats (like hacking, virus, worms, Trojan etc.) and preventive measures.

For VH candidates

of 40% and above visual disability, there will be no component of Maps/ Graphs/ Diagrams/ Statistical Data in the Mathematical Abilities and Reasoning and General Intelligence module.

Statistics and probability

Use of Tables and Graphs: Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar-diagram, Pie-chart; Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode, standard deviation; calculation of simple probabilities.

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