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APSC

Assam Public Service Commission established on Ist April, 1937 in accordance with the provision of the Govt. of India Act, 1935. First chairman of APSC was Shri Kameswar Das. After independence APSC was reframed by government of Assam and on Ist September 1951 new regulation of APSC was declared. Currently the chairman of Assam Public Service Commission is Dr. (Mrs.) Geeta Basumatari and other members of APSC are Shri Rakhal Ch Hari, Md. Shirazul Hussain Saikia, Shri Bhupendra Nath Das, Shri Rakesh Kumar Paul, Dr. Sashadhar Nath Examination conducted by APSC Assam Public Service Commission conduct the Combined Competitive Examination by APSC.

Examinations

The following Examinations are conducted by the APSC:

  1. Combined Competitive Examination
  2. Departmental Examinations

Combined Competitive Examination

As per requisition of the Govt. of Assam for recruitment in various posts to the Civil Services, advertisement is generally published through print media inviting applications in prescribed form. The written examination consists of two stages:

  1. The Preliminary
  2. The Main Examination

 

 

Preliminary Examination

The examination consists of two papers of two hours duration each. This examination is meant to serve as screening test only. The marks obtained in the preliminary examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to Main examination are not counted for determining the final selection. The questions are of multiple choice objective types:

Paper Subject Marks Duration
Paper-I General Studies 200 2 hours
Paper-II One optional subject to be selected from the list of optional subjects 200 2 hours


List of optional subjects-C.C. Exam. (Pre)-(Total-28)

  1. Agriculture
  2. Anthropology
  3. Animal Husbandry & Vety Science
  4. Botany
  5. Chemical Engineering
  6. Civil Engineering
  7. Chemistry
  8. Commerce
  9. Computer Science
  10. Economics
  11. Education
  12. Electrical Engineering
  13. Electronics
  14. Fisheries
  1. Geography
  2. Geology
  3. Indian History
  4. Law
  5. Mathematics
  6. Mechanical Engineering
  7. Medical Science
  8. Philosophy
  9. Physics
  10. Political Science
  11. Psychology
  12. Sociology
  13. Statistics
  14. Zoology

 

Main Examination and Interview

The Main Examination consists of a written Examination and a viva-voce test as below:

Candidates who are declared qualified in the Main Examination shall be summoned for a viva-voce test. The viva-voce test carries 200 marks with no qualifying marks.

The written examination consists of the following papers of 3 hours duration each. The questions of the Main Examination will be conventional essay type:

Paper Subject Marks Duration
Paper-I General English 300 3 hours
Paper-II General Studies 300 3 hours
Paper-III
(a & b)
Any two optional subjects to be selected from the list of optional subject (two papers each) 200 2 hours
200 2 hours
Paper-IV
(a & b)
Any two optional subjects to be selected from the list of optional subject (two papers each) 200 2 hours
200 2 hours

   

Departmental Examinations

The APSC also has to conduct Departmental Examinations in every six month for different categories of Govt. officers including All India Service Officers serving under the Govt. of Assam. For this purpose, APSC advertises seeking applications from the intending candidates through all leading news papers of Assam.

Reservation

The percentage of reservations as prescribed by the Govt. of Assam are as follows:

Serial Category Percentage
1 S.C. 7%
2 STP 10%
3 STH 5%
4 OBC/MOBC 27%
5 Physically Handicapped 3% (subject to condition prescribed by the Govt.)
6 Women 30% (against reserved and unreserved categories)

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Contact details

Assam Public Service Commission

Jawahar Nagar

Guwahati 781022

Tel: 91-361-2365426

Fax: 91-361-2368207

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neerajaa published on Aug 09, 2011, 08.43am IST

nice accompanying the students with high ambition...

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