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The Subordinate Audit/Account Services (SAS) Examination is a departmental examination conducted for the post of Assistant Audit/Accounts Officer (Group-B, Gazetted Officer). The SAS Examination is to be conducted twice in a year w.e.f. 2021:- Examination-l and Examination-2. The cut-off dates for determining the eligibility of the officials for SAS/RA/I/CPD Examinations will be Ist March for Examination-l and lst September for Examination-2 of the year, unless otherwise notified by the competent authority in a particular year.

The SAS examination is conducted as follows:

1. Preliminary Examination conducted by the respective field offices (not necessary in the case of qualified Divisional Accountants who have passed the Divisional Accountants Grade Examination).
2. Main Examination conducted by the Headquarters office in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode.

Eligibility criteria for appearing in the SAS examination:

Only persons who have put in minimum of 3 years (presently 2 years) continuous service in one or more of the following capacities in a particular field office of IA&AD and who had successfully completed their probation period are eligible to appear for the examination:

1. As a Clerk (Pay Level 2)/ Accountant (Pay Level 5)/ Sr. Accountant (Pay Level 6) in an Accounts Office.
2. As a Clerk (Pay Level 2)/ Auditor (Pay Level 5)/ Sr. Auditor (Pay Level 6) in an Audit Office.
3. As a Data Entry Operator Grade ‘A’ (Pay Level 4) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
4. As a Data Entry Operator Grade ‘B’ (Pay Level 5) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
5. As a Data Entry Operator Grade ‘D’ (Pay Level 6) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
6. As a Stenographer Grade-II (Pay Level 4) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
7. As a Stenographer Grade-I (Pay Level 6) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
8. As a Private Secretary (PS) (Pay Level 7) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
9. As a Divisional Accountant (Pay Level 6) and Divisional Accounts Officer Grade II (Pay Level 7) under the administrative control of a Principal Accountant General/Accountant General(A&E).
10. As a Junior Translator (Pay Level 6) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
11. As a Senior Translator (Pay Level 7) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.
12. As a Supervisor (Pay Level 8) in an Accounts Office/ Audit Office.

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SSC CGL 2022 New Exam Pattern And Changed Exam Process

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SSC CGL is the most prestigious exam conducted by the Staff selection commission (SSC) for graduate level candidates for the posts of Grade ‘B’ and Grade ‘C’ officers in various ministries, departments and organisations with the government.This exam is highly competitive and 15-30 lakh students apply for it each year. From this year 2022 SSC has changed major changes in Exam Pattern and Exam Process in recent notifiation which Information has been given below-

Changes in Exam Process
The process of CGL is a long standing one and can last 2-3 years from the date of notification to the date of final marks/result declaration. But the process which has been introduced will take less time in comparison to the last SSC Exam Process.

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Scheme and Pattern

Tier 1

• Tier-I will consist of Objective Type, Multiple choice questions. The questions will be set both in English & Hindi except for English Comprehension.

• Test will be conducted in online mode.

• There will be negative marking of 0.50 for each wrong answer.

• Total time allowed will be 1 hour

• Tier 1 will be Qualifying In Nature.

Tier 2

• Tier-II will include conducting of Paper-I, Paper-II and Paper-III in separate shift(s)/ day(s).
• Paper-I is compulsory for all the posts
• Paper-II will be for only those candidates who apply for the posts of Junior Statistical Officer (JSO) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and who are shortlisted in Tier-I for these Posts.
• Paper-III will be for only those candidates who are shortlisted in Tier-I for Paper-III i.e. for the posts of Assistant Audit Officer/ Assistant Accounts Officer.

Paper-I will include following three sections having two modules each-

Section-I

• Module-I: Mathematical Abilities
• Module-II: Reasoning and General Intelligence

Section-II

• Module-I: English Language and Comprehension
• Module-II: General Awareness

Section-III

• Module-I: Computer Knowledge Test
• Module-II: Data Entry Speed Test

It will be mandatory for the candidates to qualify all the sections of Paper-I.

• There will be negative marking of 1 mark (1/3rd) for each wrong answer in Section-I, Section-II and Module-I of Section-III of Paper-I .
• There will be negative marking of 0.50 marks for each wrong answer in Paper-II and Paper-III.

  Paper	Session	Subject	No. of Question	Maximum Marks	Time
  1.	Session-I (2 hours and 15 Minutes)	Section-I:			1 hour (for each section) (1 hours and 20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe)
  		Module-I: Mathematical Abilities Module	30
  		Module-II: Reasoning and General Intelligence.	30
  		Total =	60	603 = 180
  		Section-II:			1 hour (for each section) (1 hours and 20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe)
  		Module-I: English Language and Comprehension Module	45
  		Module-II: General Awareness	25
  		Total=	70	70*3= 210
  		Section-III:			15 Minutes (for each module) (20 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe )
  		Module-I: Computer Knowledge Module	20	203 = 60
  	Session-II (15 minutes)	Module-II: Data Entry Speed Test Module	One Data Entry Task
  2.		Statistics	100	1002 = 200	2 hour (2 hours and 40 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe)
  3.		General Studies (Finance and Economics)	100	100*2 = 200	2 hour (2 hours and 40 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribe)

  Syllabus

Changes in Indicative syllabus for tier 2

Added Topic in Mathematical Abilities:

Statistics and probability

• Use of Tables and Graphs
• Histogram,
• Frequency polygon
• Bar-diagram
• Pie-chart
• Measures of central tendency
• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Standard deviation
• Calculation of simple probabilities.

Computer Proficiency

• Organization of a computer
• Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• Input/ output devices
• Computer memory
• Memory organization
• Back- up devices
• PORTs
• Windows Explorer
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Windows Operating system
• Microsoft Office
• MS word
• MS Excel
• Power Point
• Web Browsing & Searching
• Downloading & Uploading
• Managing an E-mail Account
• E-Banking
• Networking devices and protocols
• Network and information security threats (like hacking, virus, worms, Trojan etc.) and preventive measures