If you wish to join the Central Services with lesser competition, the Staff Selection Commission’s Stenographer recruitment will be a great start. But to succeed in this recruitment you should know Pitman’s Shorthand script. Since the screening process is based on the candidate’s performance in the Computer Based Test and the Stenography skill test one must prepare well for both. While the skill test is only of qualifying nature, one must score high marks in the Computer Based Test to be on the safer side. Here we are giving you some SSC stenographer preparation tips, and trying to answer the question How to Prepare for SSC Stenographer Exam 2021.
How to Prepare for SSC Stenographer Exam 2021
The Staff Selection Commission’s Stenographer Grade ‘C’ and Grade ‘D’ is an annual recruitment event to select assistants to various central government departments. This non-gazetted Personal Assistant position has a pay scale of Rs. 9,300-34,800 for Grade ‘C’ and Rs. 5,200-20,200 for Grade ‘D’ respectively making this an alluring position for anybody with senior secondary school qualification. For the selection, the commission conducts Computer Based Test followed by the Stenographic skill tests.
The SSC Stenographer’s Computer Based Test pattern is as follows:
| Topic/ Subject | Number of
Questions |
Maximum
Marks |
Exam
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Awareness | 50 | 50 | 2 Hours |
| English Language and Comprehension | 100 | 100 | |
| General Intelligence and Reasoning | 50 | 50 | |
| Total Marks | 200 | 200 |
The pattern for the Skill test for both Stenographer Grade ‘D’ and ‘C’:
| Post | Language of
Skill Test |
Time
Duration (in minutes) |
|
Stenographer Grade ‘D’
|
English | 50 |
| Hindi | 65 | |
|
Stenographer Grade ‘C’
|
English | 40 |
| Hindi | 55 |
- Applicants who opt to take the Stenography Skill Test in English will be required to learn Hindi Stenography and vice versa after their appointment, failing which the candidate’s probation may not be cleared by appointing organizations.
- The stenography skill test will be of qualifying nature and the SSC will fix the qualifying standards for candidates belonging to various communities.
- During the skill test, the examinees will be given one dictation for 10 minutes in Hindi/ English at the speed of 100 w.p.m. for the post of Stenographer Grade ‘C’ and for the post of Stenographer Grade ‘D,’ the dictation speed is 80 w.p.m.
- After the dictation, the candidates are expected to be transcribed on the computer within the given period. The transcription time is as follows:-
- For Stenographer Grade ‘D’: 50 minutes (English), and 65 minutes (Hindi)
- For Stenographer Grade ‘C’: 40 minutes (English), and 55 Minutes (Hindi)
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SSC Stenographer Preparation
Like all other Staff Selection Commission exams, success in the preliminary stage Computer Based Test is mandatory for the SSC Stenographer selection too. Since the Stenography skill test is of a qualifying nature only, the final selection will be purely based on the candidate’s performance in the CBT. To excel in CBT, one must spend hours learning the shortcuts and tips required for the SSC’s CBT. Since almost all of the SSC’s exams have a similar pattern if you are preparing for any other Staff Selection Commission exam like CGL, CHSL, Selection Post, etc you can also appear for the SSC Stenographer CBT. But you must have the required Stenography skill test to succeed in the SSC Stenography. If you are proficient in Pitman shorthand script and preparing for any of the competitive exams then you are good to appear in this recruitment cycle.
Since the SSC Stenographer’s CBT questions are of easy to moderate difficulty range, with a couple of months of preparations you can succeed in the exam. One of the best SSC Stenographer preparation strategies is by learning the Stenography skills and CBT’s syllabus content side by side. To prepare for the CBT you can rely on the previous year question papers and NCERT textbooks. Candidates can also use the below-given books to prepare for the Computer Based Tests:
- Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning: Dr RS Aggarwal
- Kiran Prakashan’s Competitive General English – Hindi by Think Tank
- S.P. Bakshi’s Objective General English
- NCERT Science and Social Science (History, Geography, Political Science) Textbooks of Class VI to Class XII
- Manorama Year Book (You can use other yearbooks also)
- Fasttrack Objective Arithmetic- Arihant Publications
- Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations- R.S. Agarwal
- Fasttrack Objective Arithmetic- Arihant Publications
- Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations- R.S. Agarwal
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