Revised Pattern and Syllabus – Competitive Examination for Direct Recruitment from Open Market for the posts of MTS / Postman / Mail Guard / Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant

Revised Pattern and Syllabus – Competitive Examination for Direct Recruitment from Open Market for the posts of MTS / Postman / Mail Guard / Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant

Annexure D

Pattern and Syllabus of Examination for Direct Recruitment from Open Market
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I. Pattern of Examination:

SI No	Description	Paper-I	Paper-II	Paper-III
1	Competitive or Qualifying	Competitive	Qualifying	Qualifying
2	Type of Question	Multiple Choice Questions	Subjective	On Computer
3	Number of Questions	As per syllabus	As per syllabus
4	Maximum :marks	100	60	40
5	Duration	90 Minute	45 minutes	30 minutes
6	Language of Question Paper	Bilingual, i.e. Hindi and English (as well as in Local Language, as published under the provisions of Recruitment Rules, where Hindi is not a local language)
7	Language of Answer Paper	Not Applicable as Multiple Choice Questions		As per question paper
8	Minimum Qualifying Mark (Subject to reservation policy of Government)	(a) For SC/ST – 33% in each Paper (b) For OBC – 37% in each Paper (c) For Others -40% in each Paper

 II. Criteria for Selection:-

a) Examination for Paper I will be conducted for all candidates.

b) Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of performance in Paper I for appearing in Paper II and Paper III Depending upon the number of vacancies, number of candidates to be shortlisted will be between 3 to 5 times the number of vacancies.