Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Recruitment 2018

Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination

Closing Date:18.12.2017
Date of Computer Based Examination (Tier-I): 04.03.2018 to 26.03.2018
Date of Tier-II Examination (Descriptive Paper): 08.07.2018

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The Staff Selection Commission will hold an examination for
recruitment to the Posts of Lower Divisional Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant, Postal
Assistant/ Sorting Assistant and Data Entry Operator .The details of the examination are
as under:
1. Pay of the Posts:
Lower Division Clerk (LDC)/ Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA): Pay Band -1 (Rs. 5200-20200), Grade Pay: Rs.
1900 (pre-revised)
Postal Assistant (PA)/ Sorting Assistant (SA): Pay Band -1 (Rs. 5200-20200), Grade Pay: Rs. 2400 (pre-revised)
Data Entry Operator(DEO): Pay Band-1 (Rs. 5200-20200), Grade Pay: Rs. 2400 (pre-revised) and
Data Entry Operator, Grade ‘A’: Pay Band-1 (Rs. 5200-20200), Grade Pay: Rs. 2400 (pre-revised)
2. Vacancies:
Tentative vacancies for the posts of LDC/ JSA, Postal Assistant/ Sorting Assistant and
DEO are 898, 2359, 2 and Data Entry Operator Grade”A”- Nil, respectively.
3. Reservation:
Reservation for SC/ ST/ OBC /ExS/ PwD etc. categories is available as per extant Govt.
Orders.
4. Permissible disabilities for PwD candidates:
Lower Division Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant:
One arm affected (OA), Both legs affected (BL), One leg affected (OL), One arm and
one leg affected (OAL), Blind (B), Low vision (LV) & Hearing handicapped (HH), are
eligible for the posts of Lower Division Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant.
Postal Assistant/ Sorting Assistant:
One leg affected (OL), One arm affected (OA), One arm one leg affected (OAL), Both
legs affected but not Arms (BL), Muscular weakness and limited physical endurance
(MW), Blind (B), Low vision (LV), Hearing handicapped (HH) are eligible for the posts of
Postal Assistant/ Sorting Assistant.
Data Entry Operators (DEOs):
One arm affected (OA), One leg affected (OL), One arm and one leg affected (OAL),
Both Legs affected (BL), Hearing handicapped (HH) and Low Vision (LV) are eligible for
the posts of Data Entry Operators.
5. Nationality/ Citizenship:
A candidate must be either:
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January,1962, with the
intention of permanently settling in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East
African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania(Formerly
Tanganyika and Zanzibar),Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the
intention of permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a
person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of
India.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the
Examination but the offer of appointment will be given only after, the necessary eligibility
certificate has been issued to him/ her by the Government of India.
6. Age Limit: 18-27 years as on 01.08.2018 (Candidates born not before 02-08-1991 and
not later than 01-08-2000).
7. Process of certification and format of certificates:
Candidates who wish to be considered against vacancies reserved/ or seek age-relaxation
must submit requisite certificate from the competent authority, in the prescribed format when
such certificates are sought by concerned Regional/ Sub Regional Offices at the time of Skill
Test/ Document Verification. Otherwise, their claim for SC/ ST /OBC / PwD/ ExS status will
not be entertained and their candidature/ applications will be considered under General (UR)
category. The formats of the certificates are annexed with the Notice of Examination.
Certificates obtained in any other format will not be accepted. A person seeking appointment
on the basis of reservation to OBCs must ensure that he/ she possesses the caste/
community certificate and does not fall in creamy layer on the crucial date. The crucial date for
this purpose will be the closing date for receipt of applications i.e. on 18.12.2017. Candidates
may also note that in respect of the above, their candidature will remain provisional till the
veracity of the concerned document is verified by the Appointing Authority.
Candidates are warned that they may be permanently debarred from the examinations
conducted by the Commission in case they fraudulently claim SC/ ST/ OBC/ExS/ PwD
status.
8. Provision of Compensatory Time and assistance of scribe: The Visually
Handicapped/ cerebral palsy candidates will be allowed compensatory time in the
examination. In addition, the orthopedically handicapped candidates (other than a
candidate afflicted by Cerebral Palsy) who has a locomotor disability (40% or more)
wherein the dominant writing extremity is affected to the extent of slowing down the
performance of the candidate (such deficiency to be indicated in the medical certificate
submitted by the candidate), such candidates can also avail the assistance of a scribe
and a compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour in the examination, subject to such
requests being made in the application form. Persons with visual disability of less than
forty percent will not be considered as visually handicapped persons. One eyed
candidates and partially blind candidates who are able to read the normal Question
Paper set with or without magnifying glass and who wish to write/ indicate the answer
with the help of Magnifying Glass will be allowed to use the same in the Examination
Hall and will not be entitled to a Scribe. Such candidates will have to bring their own
Magnifying Glass to the Examination Hall. Question Papers and Answer Sheets will not
be provided in Braille.
9. Educational Qualification (As on 01.08.2018)
i. Must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board
or University.
ii. For Data Entry Operator in the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India
(C&AG): 12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a
recognized Board or equivalent.
As per Ministry of Human Resource Development Notification dated 10.06.1995 published
in Gazette of India, all the degree/ diplomas/ certificates including technical education
degree/ diploma awarded through Open and Distance Learning mode of education by the
Universities established by an Act of Parliament or State Legislature, Institutions Deemed to
be Universities under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act 1956 and
Institutions of National Importance declared under an Act of Parliament stand automatically
recognized for the purpose of employment to posts and services under the Central
Government provided they have been approved by the Distance Education Bureau,
University Grants Commission.
Candidates who have not yet acquired but will acquire the educational qualification and
produce documentary evidence from the Board/ University in support thereof as on
01.08.2018 will also be eligible.
All candidates who are called for appearing in the Document Verification will be required to
produce the relevant Certificate in Original such as Mark sheets, Provisional Certificate, etc.
as proof of having acquired the minimum educational qualification on or before 01.08.2018
failing which the candidature of such candidate will be cancelled by the Commission. The
candidates who are able to prove, by documentary evidence that the result of the qualifying
examination was declared on or before the cutoff date i.e. 01.08.2018 and he/ she has been
declared passed, will be considered to have the required Educational Qualification.
10. How to apply:
Candidates must apply online through the website http://www.ssconline.nic.in. or 'Click here
to apply' link provided at http://www.ssc.nic.in->Apply->CHSL. Procedure for online
submission of applications is given at Annexure-II.
11. Application fee and mode of fee payment:
Fee payable: Rs. 100/-(Rupees One Hundred only).
Fee can be paid through SBI Challan/ SBI Net Banking or by using Visa/ Mastercard/
Maestro Credit/ Debit card.
Women candidates of all categories and candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste,
Scheduled Tribe, Persons with Disability (PwD) and Ex-servicemen (ExS) eligible for
reservation are exempted from payment of fee. Applications received without the prescribed
fee shall not be considered and summarily rejected. No representation against such
rejection will be entertained. Fee once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances
nor will it be adjusted against any other examination or selection.
Candidates who are not exempted from fee payment must ensure that their fee has been
deposited with SSC. If the fee is not received by SSC, status of Application Form is shown
‘Incomplete’ and this information is printed on the top of the Application Form. Further,
such status can be verified at ‘Check your Application Status Here” tab provided at
http://www.ssconline.nic.in. Such applications which remain incomplete due to non-receipt
of fee will be SUMMARILY REJECTED and no request for consideration of such applications
and fee payment after the period specified in the Notice of Examination shall be entertained.
12. Syllabus:
General Intelligence: It would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal type.
The test will include questions on Semantic Analogy, Symbolic operations, Symbolic/
Number Analogy, Trends, Figural Analogy, Space Orientation ,Semantic Classification, Venn
Diagrams, Symbolic/ Number Classification, Drawing inferences, Figural Classification,
Punched hole/ pattern-folding & unfolding , Semantic Series, Figural Pattern – folding and
completion, Number Series, Embedded figures, Figural Series, Critical Thinking, Problem
Solving, Emotional Intelligence, Word Building, Social Intelligence, Coding and de-coding,
Other sub-topics, if any Numerical operations.
English Language: Spot the Error, Fill in the Blanks, Synonyms/ Homonyms, Antonyms,
Spellings/ Detecting mis-spelt words, Idioms & Phrases, One word substitution,
Improvement of Sentences, Active/ Passive Voice of Verbs, Conversion into Direct/ Indirect
narration, Shuffling of Sentence parts, Shuffling of Sentences in a passage, Cloze Passage,

Comprehension Passage.
Quantitative Aptitude:
Arithmetic:
Number Systems: Computation of Whole Number, Decimal and Fractions, Relationship
between numbers
Fundamental arithmetical operations: Percentages, Ratio and Proportion, Square roots,
Averages, Interest (Simple and Compound), Profit and Loss, Discount, Partnership
Business, Mixture and Allegation, 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: 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 sin2 + Cos2 =1 etc.,
Statistical Charts : Use of Tables and Graphs: Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bardiagram,
Pie-chart
General Awareness: Questions are designed to test the candidate’s general awareness of
the environment around him and its application to society. Questions are also designed to
test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and
experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of an educated person. The test
will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially
pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General policy and scientific
research.
For VH candidates of 40% and above visual disability and opting for SCRIBES there will be
no component of Maps/ Graphs/ Diagrams/ Statistical Data in the General Intelligence &
Reasoning/ Quantitative Aptitude.
Tier-II (Descriptive Paper)
Tier-II Paper will be a descriptive Paper of 100 Marks in ‘Pen and Paper Mode
The duration of the paper would be for one hour (20 minutes compensatory time will also
be provided to the candidates mentioned in Para 7 above). This paper has been
introduced to assess the writing skills of the candidates which is necessary in Government
jobs. The Paper would comprise writing of an Essay of 200-250 words and Letter/
Application of approximately 150-200 words. The minimum qualifying marks in Tier-II would
be 33 per cent. The performance in Tier II would be included for preparing merit. The paper
will have to be written either in Hindi or in English. Part paper written in Hindi and Part in
English will not be evaluated.
Tier-III Examination
Tier-III of the Examination would be the Skill Test/ Typing Test which would be of qualifying
nature. Skill Test/ Typing Test would be in consonance with the provisions contained in para
12.2 and 12.3 given below. The final merit of the successful candidates would be determined
on the basis of total score obtained by them in Tier-I and Tier-II.