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Exam Pattern for Assistant/UDC (Annexure-II)

Part	Subject	No. of Questions	Marks	Time
A	General English	50	50	150 minutes
B	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50
C	General Intelligence & Reasoning ability	50	50
D	General Knowledge	50	50

Details & Indicative Syllabus
Details	Objective type, +1 & -0.25 pattern of marking.
General English	Questions to test the candidate's understanding of language and ability to write correctly, precisely & effectively, correct phrases, idioms & phrases, etc.
Quantitative Aptitude	Questions on Number System, Percentages, Profit & Loss, Discount, Ratio & Proportion, Mixer & Allegation, Averages, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Distance, Time & Work, Pipe & Cistern, Boat & Stream, Partnership, Surds & Indices, LCM & HCF, Simplification, Geometry (Triangles, Circles, Quadrilateral, Lines & Angles etc.), Mensuration (Area, Perimeter, Volume etc.), Trigonometry (Trigonometric Identities, Trigonometric Ratios, Circular measures of Angles, Heights & Distance etc.), Algebra (Factorisation, Coordinate Geometry, Polynomials, Sequence & Series, Algebraic identities, Linear equations etc.), Statistics & Data Interpretation, etc.
General Intelligence & Reasoning ability	Verbal & non-verbal type questions on Missing Number, Repeated Series, Analogy, Venn diagram, Logical arrangement of Words, Coding & decoding, Sitting arrangement, Ranking arrangement, Dice, Cube & Cuboid, Calendar, Number Series, Coded equation, Clock, Directions, Counting figures, Problems based on Alphabets, Sequence, Mirror and Water Image etc.
General Knowledge	Questions to test the candidate's awareness of the environment around him and its applications to the society, current affairs of National & International importance etc. The test will also include questions on History, Culture, Geography, Science, Polity, Economy etc.

Exam Pattern for JPN Stenographers (Annexure-III)

Part	Subject	No. of Questions	Marks	Time
A	English Language & Comprehension	100	100	150 minutes
B	General Intelligence & Reasoning ability	50	50
C	Quantitative Aptitude & General Knowledge	50	50

Details & Indicative Syllabus
Details	Objective type, +1 & -0.25 pattern of marking.
English Language & Comprehension	Questions to test the candidate's understanding & knowledge of the language and ability to write correctly, precisely & effectively, correct use of words, idioms & phrases, etc.
General Intelligence & Reasoning ability	Verbal & non-verbal type questions on Missing Number, Repeated Series, Analogy, Venn diagram, Logical arrangement of Words, Coding & decoding, Sitting arrangement, Ranking arrangement, Dice, Cube & Cuboid, Calendar, Number Series, Coded equation, Clock, Directions, Counting figures, Problems based on Alphabets, Sequence, Mirror and Water Image etc.
Quantitative Aptitude	Questions on Number System, Percentages, Profit & Loss, Discount, Ratio & Proportion, Mixer & Allegation, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Distance, Time & Work, Pipe & Cistern, Boat & Stream, Partnership, Surds & Indices, LCM & HCF, Simplification, Geometry (Triangles, Circles, Quadrilateral, Lines & Angles etc.), Mensuration (Area, Perimeter, Volume etc.), Trigonometry (Trigonometric Identities, Trigonometric Ratios, Circular measures of Angles, Heights & Distance etc.), Algebra (Factorisation, Coordinate Geometry, Polynomials, Sequence & Series, Algebraic identities, Linear equations etc.), Statistics & Data Interpretation, etc.
General Knowledge	Questions to test the candidate's awareness of the environment around him and its applications to the society, current affairs of National & International importance etc. The test will also include questions on History, Culture, Geography, Science, Polity, Economy, etc.

Skill Test (on Computer) for Assistant/UDC/JPA/Stenographers (Annexure-IV)

Indicative Syllabus
MS Word (for 35 marks)	Opening & Saving files, Editing text documents, Inserting, Deleting, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Find, Search, Replace, Formatting page & setting Margins, Converting files to different formats, Importing & Exporting documents, Using Tool bars, Ruler, Using icons, using help; Formatting documents - Setting font styles, font selection - style, size, colour etc., Type face - Bold, Italic, Underline, Case settings, Highlighting, Special symbols, Setting paragraph style, Alignments, Indents, Line Space, Margins, Bullets & Numbering; Setting Page Style - Formatting Page, Page tab, Margins, Layout settings, Border Shading, Column break and line break, Creating Tables - Table settings, Borders, Alignments, Insertion, Deletion, Merging, Splitting, Sorting and Formula; Drawing - Inserting Clip Arts, Pictures/Files etc.; Tools - Spell Checks, Mail Merge, Templates, Tracking changes, Security; Printing documents; Shortcut Keys, etc.
MS Excel (for 35 marks)	Spreadsheet & Its applications, Opening Spreadsheet, Menus - Main menu, Formula Editing, Formatting, Toolbars, Using help; Working with Spreadsheets - opening, saving files, setting margins; Spreadsheet addressing - rows, columns & cells, referring cells & selecting cells, Short-cut keys; Entering & Deleting Data - Entering data, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, filling continuous rows/columns, highlighting values, find, search & replace, inserting data, insert cell, column/row & sheet, symbol, clipart, pictures, files etc., Inserting functions, manual breaks; Setting formula - finding total in a column/row, using other formulae; Formatting spreadsheets - Labelling columns & rows, formatting cell, row, column & sheet, Category - Alignment, font, border & shading, hiding/unhiding rows/columns, setting row height, column width; Working with sheets - Sorting, Filtering, Validation, Consolidation, Subtotal, creating charts - Drawing; Printing, Error checking, spell checks, etc.
MS PowerPoint	Opening new presentation, different presentation templates, setting backgrounds, selecting presentation layouts; Setting presentation style, adding text to the presentation; Creating a presentation; Formatting a presentation - Adding style, colour, gradient fills, arranging objects, adding header & footer, Slide background, Slide layout; Adding graphics to the presentation - inserting pictures, table etc. to presentation etc.

Stenography Test (Annexure-V)

Stenography Test Details
Shorthand Test	For 300 words @ 60 words per minute (Time: 5 minutes).
Transcription	The passage is to be transcribed on Computer (Time: 30 minutes, with compensation time as applicable to PwBD candidates).
Shorthand Style	Short-hand dictation work, i.e. strokes etc., need to be as per Pittman's short-hand (long hand not permitted), failing which the Transcript will not be evaluated.

Criteria for Evaluation of Transcripts of Stenography Tests
Full Mistakes	(a) Every omission of word or figure. In case a group of words is omitted, as many mistakes as the actual number of words omitted. (b) Every substitution of a word or figure. The number of mistakes will be equal to the number of words/figures dictated which have been replaced/substituted by other word(s)/figure(s). However, if a figure is written correctly either in numeral or in words, both will be acceptable and will not be counted as mistake. (c) Every addition of a word or figure or a group of words/figures not occurring in the dictated passage.
Half Mistakes	(a) Wrong spelling, including transposition of letters in a word and also omission of a letter or letters from a word. Mis-spelling of proper nouns and unfamiliar names are ignored. If the wrongly spelt word occurs more than once in the passage it will be treated as a single half mistake. (b) Using singular or plural and vice versa. (c) Use of small letter at the beginning of a sentence.
Note	(a) More than one error in a single word: All the errors are counted but the total mistakes counted in a single word should not exceed one full mistake. (b) Every passage will be accompanied by a list of words which can be spelt/written in more than one form. All the spellings/forms of words will be acceptable and not counted as error. For example, the word 'Honourable' is written as Hon'ble, Hon., honourable and hon. — all these forms will be treated as correct. (c) Candidates are not penalised for any type of errors or mistakes other than those described above. (d) Method of calculation of mistakes in Stenography Skill Test: Percentage of Errors = (Full Mistakes + Half Mistakes/2) × 100 / Number of words in the master passage. Percentage will be rounded off to two decimal places. For example, 5.009 will be treated as 5.01 and 5.001 will be treated as 5.00.

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