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OPSC Asst Section Officer Syllabus 2021 – Details

OPSC Asst Section Officer Exam Pattern 2021

OPSC Asst Section Officer Syllabus 2021

ENGLISH:-

This section is designed to test the language abilities and understanding of English Grammar. Questions shall be asked mainly from the following categories –

• Verb
• Preposition
• Adverb
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Error Correction/Recognition
• Tenses
• Sentence Rearrangement
• Fill in the Blanks with Articles etc.
• Comprehension
•  Answering Questions based on Unseen Passages
• Vocabulary
• Synonyms
• Antonyms

MATHEMATICS:-

This section tests the quantitative and Mathematical Skills of the candidate. Question will be asked mainly from the following categories. Questions shall be of Secondary School Standard –

• Arithmetic
• Algebra
• Mensuration (2D & 3D)
• Statistics & Probability

ESSAY: –

There will be two Essays, one each in English and Odia.

GENERAL AWARENESS: –

This section checks whether the candidate keeps himself/herself up-to-date about the world around them. Questions will be asked mainly from the following categories. Questions will be such that they do not require any special study of any discipline.

• Current Affairs (National & International)
• Major financial/economic news
• Budget & Five-year plans
• Who’s Who
• Sports
• Books and Authors
• Awards and Honours
• General Science
• Abbreviations
• Important days
• International & National Organizations
• History
• Geography
• Civics
• Culture

TEST OF REASONING AND MENTAL ABILITY: –

This section usually tries to test the reasoning abilities and mental aptitude of the candidate. Questions will be asked mainly from the following categories –

A. VERBAL

• Number Series
• Alphabet Series
• Test of Direction Sense
• Coding-decoding
• Number Ranking
• Arithmetic Reasoning
• The problem of Age Calculation
• Analogy
• Decision Making etc.

B: NON-VERBAL

• Non-verbal series
• Mirror Images
• Cubes & Dice
• Grouping Identical Figures
• Embedded figures, etc.

COMPUTER APPLICATION:-

A: Computer Fundamentals

B: Windows (MS-Windows)

• Different features of Windows XP
• Different features of Windows-7 ii.

C: MS-OFFICE

• Different features of & operations of MS-Word
• Different features of & operations of MS-Excel
• Different features of & operations of MS-PowerPoint
• Different features of & operations of MS-Access

D: Usage of internet services available on the Internet

• Different types of browsers & search engines
• Different usage of e-mail like sending/receiving email, file attaching, file uploading/downloading, etc.
• URL, definition & various types of URL, WWW
• Introduction to IP addresses

E: Communication Technology, Networking Concepts.

• LAN/MAN/WAN/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
• Network devices like a network switch, Router, Modem, Firewall
• Introduction to network topology like star, ring, bus, mesh, complete

7. The test on each subject shall be of one-hour duration.

8. The questions shall be of multiple choice type. All the questions shall be compulsory without any negative marking.

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