Grade ‘C’ Stenographers Limited Departmental Competitive Exam - 2013

Syllabus of the Written Test

The standard of the question papers in Part- A will be approximately that of the matriculation examination

Part -A

(a) General Awareness:- Question will be aimed at testing the candidates General Awareness of the environment around him and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of every day observations and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of any educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economics, Science, General Politic and Scientific research.

(b) Comprehension and Writing Ability of English Language:- Questions will be designed to test the candidates understanding and knowledge of English language, Vocabulary, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, synonyms, antonyms, sentence completion, phrases and idiomatic use of words etc. There will be question on comprehension of a passage also.

Part - B

(i) For General Candidates: - The Stenography/Shorthand test in English will comprise Dictation Test at 100 words per minutes for 10 minutes which the candidates will be required to transcribe in 40 minutes on the Computer.

The Stenography/Shorthand Test in Hindi will comprise Dictation test at 100 words per minutes for 10 minutes which the candidates will be required to transcribe in 55 minutes on the Computer.

(ii) For VH Candidates (with visual disability of 40 percent and above).Visually Handicapped candidates with visual disability for forty percent (40%) and above will be required to transcribe the matter in 70 minutes for English Shorthand test and in 95 minutes for Hindi Shorthand Test.

Passage Dictators will be provided to each of the Visually Handicapped candidates who will read out the materials transcribed on the computer to the Visually Handicapped candidates.

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