Assam PSC announces recruitment for Excise Inspector post every year.
Candidates who fulfill the eligibility criteria can apply online at the official website www.apsc.nic.in
Educational Qualification :
Graduate in any discipline from a recognised university or equivalent thereof.
How to Apply :
Candidates should go through the detailed instructions regarding the exam and read the instructions very carefully.
Once understood clearly all the things, only then go further and apply online following the steps mentioned along with the advertisement.
There are three phases in the Selection Process :
- Preliminary
- Mains
and
- Interview
1. Prelims Exam :
Prelims Exam is like a screening test only as the score achieved in this first round will not be considered while calculating the final scores. But it is important to clear this stage to proceed further.
Prelims test will have two MCQ papers, whose combined duration is 4 hours (120 minutes each).
All questions will be MCQs.
Candidates will be provided with an Optical Mark Recognition answer sheet.
Candidates are supposed to use only a black or blue color ball pen.
For each wrong attempt, ¼ score will be deducted from the total marks scored.
Candidates clicking on more than one answer will result in negative marking.
The General Studies II paper will be qualifying in nature and one needs to get at least 33% marks.
Paper-I (General Studies I)
Paper-II (General Studies II)
2. Mains Exam :
Only those who cleared the first stage will be considered to give the next round test. The questions asked in the mains exam will be of conventional type. The marks secured in these levels will not be considered at the time of final merit list. However, the minimum qualifying marks obtained in Paper ‘A’ and Paper ‘B’ is 25%.
The detailed exam pattern of Mains is mentioned below.
Qualifying Language Papers :
Paper A :
(Total Marks 300 )
and,
(Total Time - 180 minutes)
Candidates can opt any one of the languages from Assamese, Bengali, Bodo languages.
Candidates belonging to DimaHasao, Karbi Angong, and West Karbi Anglong districts who don’t know these languages and did not study the same in their school will get an exemption from giving Paper A.
Paper B
English
(Total Marks - 300)
and
(Total Time - 180 minutes)
Papers to be counted for the order of merit from Written Examination :
Paper 1 Essay
Paper 2 to 6 General Studies
Paper 7 Paper I (Optional)
Paper 8 Paper II (Optional)
3. Interview :
The board will conduct an interview for the candidates those qualified the preliminary and mains written exams.
Candidates qualifying the Main exam will be called for an interview test.
Then merit list will be finalized based on the overall marks obtained.
