OSSSC: District Cadre Jr. Clerk Examination (2018) - Complete Syllabus Download

The following is detailed syllabus and examination scheme for upcoming District / Range Cadre Junior Clerk examination under Odisha Sub-Ordinate Staff Selection Commission (OSSSC) [See Advertisement No. No.IIE-40/2017-1125(C)/OSSSC Dt.28.07.2017]

Detailed Syllabus for the recruitment examination of District Cadre and Circle/Range Cadre posts of Junior Clerk under different Departments of the Government

PLAN OF EXAMINATION

There shall be a Written Examination for 385 marks and Practical Skill Test of 65 marks as detailed below: (NOTE: The standard of examination shall be equivalent to that of Secondary School.)

The Candidates who qualify in the Written Test shall only be called for the Practical Skill Test which shall comprise of tests on 

(1) Essay & Letter writing and 

(2) Computer Basic Skills. 

Based on marks secured in Written Test, Candidates 5 times the vacancies shall only be deemed to be qualified in the Written Test and called for the Practical Skill Test.

The Practical Skill Test of item No.2, i.e., Basic Computer Skills carrying 50 marks shall be of qualifying nature. A candidate securing minimum 40% marks in it will only be deemed to be qualified but this score shall not be added to the total marks of recruitment examination. However, the marks secured in Essay and Letter writing shall be added to the total marks secured in the Written Test for preparation of final Merit Lists.

SYLLABUS OF EXAMINATION

1) Language Test (English and Odia) - 85 MARKS

A. English Language Test - 50 marks
(i) Verbs, Tenses, Active and Passive voice, Subject-verb Agreement,
(ii) Connectors, Types of sentences, Direct and Indirect speech, Comparison.
(iii) Articles, Noun, Pronouns, Prepositions
(iv) Unseen passage (400-450 words in length) with a variety of comprehension questions.

B. Odia Language Test - 35 Marks
(i) Grammar
(ii) Translation (One English passage of around 100 words to be translated into Odia):
(iii) Comprehension of an unseen prose passage (5 x 2) = Five short questions to be asked

2) Objective General knowledge - 100 Marks

In this category, there should be a series of matching questions of different categories like:
(i) Matching Historical events with dates, personalities and places, Geographical facts with places,
(ii) States, Countries and institutions with headquarters,
(iii) Books and authors,
(iv) Scientific facts and discoveries with dates, persons and uses,
(v) Current events with places and personalities, and,
(vi) Matching questions of miscellaneous type.

3) Objective Mathematics - 100 Marks

(i) Number System
(ii) HCF and LCM
(iii) Squares and Square Roots
(iv) Cubes and Cube Roots
(v) Percentage and Averages
(vi) Simple Interest and Compound Interest.
(vii) Profit, Loss and Discount
(viii) Partnership
(ix) Ratio and Proportion
Under this, there will be a series of questions in Practical Mathematics required for day-to-day use. The questions would be such as to test candidate's ability to work out with quickness and accuracy.

4) Basic Computer Knowledge (Objective) - 100 Marks

(i) MS Windows: Introduction of Windows
(ii) MS Office: MS Word, MS Power Point and MS Excel

5) Practical Skill Test: - 100 Marks

A. Essay & Letter Writing in Odia- 15 Marks

(i) Essay writing on familiar topics (within 250 words)
(ii) Letter Writing (Personal letter, Applications, Business or Official) (within 150 words)

B. Basic Computer Skills- 50 marks

I. WINDOWS operating system: To test some of the following basic system operations on file/folder(s): -
Create, Rename, Copy/Cut/Paste, Delete

II. MS Word: A Paragraph in MS Word incorporating some of the tools given below:-
Editing and formatting text and paragraph
Page and Paragraph Setup

III. MS Power Point: A Power Point presentation with 2/3 slides using the tools given below: -
Editing and formatting slides

IV. MS Excel: A problem in spreadsheet related to some of the tools given below:-
Formatting cells and data
Functions
**Printouts of the documents(s) should be attached with the answer sheet.

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