Staff Selection Commission – Combined Graduate Level Examination – 2025

Staff Selection Commission has announced the schedule for recruitment of Group B and Group C posts in different Ministries/ Departments/ Organizations of Government of India and various Constitutional Bodies/Statutory Bodies/ Tribunals, etc.

Important Dates

Women Candidates :

GOVERNMENT STRIVES TO HAVE A WORKFORCE WHICH REFLECTS GENDER BALANCE AND WOMEN CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Details of the Posts:

Following are the likely posts that will be filled up through this Examination:

Essential Educational Qualifications :

• Bachelor‟s Degree from a recognized University or equivalent.
• The candidates who have appeared in their final year of their graduation can also apply, however they must possess Essential qualification as on 01-08-2025.

Application Fee:

Fee payable: ₹100/- (Rs one hundred only).

Women candidates and candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) and Ex-servicemen (ESM) eligible for reservation are exempted from payment of fee.

Scheme of the Examination:

The Computer Based Examination will be conducted in two tiers

• Tier-I
• Tier-II

Tier – I :

Tier-I will consist of Objective Type, Multiple choice questions. The questions will be set both in English & Hindi except for English Comprehension. There will be negative marking of 0.50 marks for each wrong answer

Tier II :

Tier-II has two papers Paper-I & Paper-II  which may be held in separate shift(s)/ day(s). It is compulsory for all the posts and has the following four sections as under:

Section-I: A) Mathematical Abilities B) Reasoning and General Intelligence.

Section-II: A) English Language and Comprehension B) General Awareness

Section-III: Computer Knowledge Test

Section-IV: Data Entry Speed Test

Tier II – Paper-I will be conducted in two Sessions ie, Session-I & Session II, on the same day.

Session-I consists of three sections , Section-I, Section-II and Section-III.

Therefore, duration of Session-I will be 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Section-I has two Parts viz. A (Mathematical Abilities) and B (Reasoning and General Intelligence). The candidates will get one hour to complete this section. On completion of one hour, this section will get automatically closed.

Immediately after completion of Section-I, the two Parts of Section-II viz. A (English Language and Comprehension) and B (General Awareness), will start. Section-II will also be for one hour and immediately on completion of one hour, this section will get automatically closed.

Section-III viz. Computer Knowledge Test will commence immediately after completion of Section-II and will be for a duration of 15 minutes. On completion of Section-III, Session-I will come to an end.

After the completion of Session-I, the candidates will get a break for re-registration for Session-II.

Session-II will include conducting of Section-IV of Paper-I i.e. Data Entry Speed Test.

Therefore, duration of Session-II will be 15 minutes only. After completion of Session-II, Paper-I will come to an end.

It will be mandatory for the candidates to qualify all the Sections of Tier II -Paper-I separately

There will be negative marking of 1 mark for each wrong answer in Section-I, Section-II and Section-III of Paper-I and of 0.50 marks for each wrong answer in Paper-II.

Section-III of Paper-I i.e. Computer Knowledge Test is mandatory but qualifying in nature.

DEST :

Section-IV of Paper-I i.e. Data Entry Speed Test (DEST):

It involves conducting of a Data Entry Speed Test (DEST) for a duration of 15 minutes in Session-II on the same day. The “Data Entry Speed Test” (DEST) Skill Test will be conducted for a passage of about 2000 (two thousand) key depressions for a duration of 15 (fifteen) minutes. Detailed instructions regarding Skill Test will be provided by the Regional Offices of the Commission .

DEST will be mandatory for all the posts; however, it will be qualifying in nature.