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Designation : Section Officer
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Section Officer Exam Syllabus :
Section (A) :
General Administration and Finance :
FR/SR, LTC, Leave Rules, Conduct Rules, CCS(CCA) Rules, General Office Procedure, GFR, Pay and Pension Rules, Purchase and Budgeting.
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Section (B):
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.
Section (C) :
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.
Statistical Charts : Use of Tables and Graphs: Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar diagram, Pie-chart.
Section (D):
General Awareness : Questions will be designed to test the ability of the candidate’s 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 everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person.
The test will include questions relating to India, especially pertaining to History, Indian Culture, Sanskrit language and Literature, Traditional knowledge systems of India, Educational systems, Geography, Economic scene, General Politics including Indian Constitution, and Scientific Research etc.
These questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline.
Descriptive Test :
Descriptive Test will consist of two parts i.e. Section A and Section B as shown below :
Section A :
(i) Noting and Drafting, (20 marks) (a minimum of 10 marks (i.e. 50% of 20 marks) will be necessary for being included in the merit list)
(ii) Precis Writing, Letter Writing, General Administration Higher Educational/University Systems and Procedures, Service Matters and Personal Administration, Student Affairs, Reservations and Concessions for SC, ST, OBC, PH etc., The Right to Information Act, 2005, FR/SR, Leave Rules, LTC, Conduct Rules, CCS(CCA) Rules. (40 Marks)
Section B :
GFR, Pay and Pension Rules, Budgeting and accounts matters, Purchase Procedure. (40 Marks)