The Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) has updated its official website with the new amended Assam Public Services Combined Competitive Examination (Amendment) Rules, 2019. The CCE syllabus has been updated to reflect this change.
The Assam government has added a few new clauses and amended the Assam Public Services Combined Competitive Examination Rules, 1989.
Syllabus & Exam Pattern for APSC CCE
The primary examination will consist of a written test and an interview. The written test will consist of one Essay Paper, five General Studies papers, and two optional subjects papers. Two qualifying papers will be administered to assess candidates' language communication skills. The marks acquired by candidates in the main examination (both written and oral) will determine their ultimate ranking.
Schemes and Subjects for the APSC's Preliminary Examinations
1. General Studies I 200 Marks 2 Hours
2. General Studies II 200 Marks 2 Hours
400 Marks in total
The Commission may set the total qualifying marks for Paper-I General Studies I of the Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination.
The First Assignment: General Studies I will be structured in such a way that 30% to 35% of questions will be mandatory Assamese-related.
Paper 2: General Studies II requires a minimum qualifying score of 33%.
The APSC Main Examination Schemes and Subjects
The Main Examination will be composed of two components: a written examination and an interview.
The written tests will consist of eight essays in the normal essay format/objective format with limited word limits and two qualifying language essays (in the level of Class X). The marks received in the Interview for the Preliminary Test will be used to determine ranking.
Specifications of the Main Examination Papers:
Paper 1
Paper Type: 250 marks for essay
3 hours in duration
ii) Papers 2–6
General Studies
250 points for each paper
3 hours for each paper
(iii) Paper 7
Paper Type: Elective Subject, Paper I Marks: 250
3 hours in duration
iv) Paper 8
Paper Type: Elective Subject, Paper 2 Marks: 250
3 hours in duration
(v) Interview Examination (After qualifying in written test)
275 points
Total Number of Points: 2275
Qualifying Papers (at the Class X level):
1. Paper A (300 marks - 3 hours duration) – Any of the Assamese, Bengali, or Bodo languages. Candidates from Dima Hasao, Karbi Anglong, and West Karbi Anglong districts who did not study any of these languages in school would be excluded from appearing in the qualifying language examinations.
2. English Paper B (300 Marks - 3 Hours Duration)
CCE Optional Papers for the APSC
The following is a list of possible optional subjects for the Main Examination:
(The optional subjects' standards and syllabi are comparable to those of universities' degree-level courses.)
1. Agriculture
2. Anthropology
3. Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
4. Botany
5. Chemistry
6. Civil Engineering
7. Commerce and Accountancy
8. Economics
9. Electrical Engineering
10. Geography
11. Geology
12. History
13. Law
14. Literature of any one of the following languages Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Hindi, Sanskrit, English
15. Management
16. Mathematics
17. Mechanical Engineering
18. Medical Science
19. Philosophy
20. Physics
21. Political Science and International Relations
22. Psychology
23. Public Administration
24. Sociology
25. Statistics
26. Zoology
5. Marks shall not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.
6. Candidates must apply online at www.apsc.nic.in. The online applications may be completed up to the Commission's specified deadline for submission. Three weeks prior to the examination's start, qualifying candidates will get an e-Admission Certificate. Candidates will be able to download the e-Admission Certificate from the Commission's website. There will be no postal delivery of Admission Certificates.
Negative Marking in APSC CCE Exam
(a) The Commission may impose a penalty (negative marking) for incorrect responses marked by candidates on Multiple Choice Question Papers. There will be negative marking for erroneous responses (as explained below) on all questions except for a few that have built-in negative marking in the form of differing marks being assigned to the most appropriate and least appropriate responses.
(a) Each question in the Preliminary Examination will have four possible responses. Each time a candidate provides an incorrect answer, one-fourth (0.25) of the marks awarded to that question will be deducted as penalty.
(c) If a candidate provides more than one response, it will be viewed as a wrong response even if one of the provided responses is valid, and the candidate will face the same penalty as described above for that question.
8. The Commission will make public the candidates' scores (as determined by the Written Examination and Interview/Personality Test) via public portals. The disclosure will be limited to those candidates who will appear in the Civil Service Examination Interview/Personality Test but are not ultimately recommended for appointment.
Other public and commercial recruitment agencies may use the information given through this disclosure scheme about non-recommended candidates to recruit appropriate individuals based on the information made available in the public portal. A candidate may also opt out of the scheme, in which case the Commission will not publish his or her information.
Notification:
Old Official Notification: Click Here .
New official Notification: Click Here .
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination:
General Studies-I
General Studies-II
Main Examination:
Paper-1
Paper-2
Paper-3
Paper-4
Paper-5
Paper-6
Qualifying Paper (Paper-7)
Qualifying Paper (Paper-8)
Model Questions:
General Studies-I: Set-I | Set-II
General Studies-II: Set-I | Set-II
Optional Subjects for Paper 7 & 8:
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