Dhirendra Ku Sethy
Desk Officer
NH&LA Section, Works Department
31st January, 2019
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Thursday, 31 January 2019
Cut Off Marks : ASO Exam 2018-19
The much awaited Odisha Assistant Section Officer (ASO) exam was successfully conducted by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) on 20th January in 30 districts of the State. OPSC will shortlist candidates for filling up 500 vacancies in Assistant Section Officer in Odisha Secretariat Service under Home Department. OPSC had notified the recruitment in 2018 and near about 2 lakh candidates have participated in the recruitment drive.
Summary
33 Zones * 484 Centres * 198555 Candidates
Many of us are quite excited to know the expected Cut-off and analysis of the ASO Exam. This article will take you through the overall analysis and expection from the recently concluded ASO exam.
The Scheme of Examination was as follows.
The General Awareness paper was of Moderate to Difficult Level. General Awareness questions were asked from all aspects of GA. The major area of focus this year was on General Awareness questions in the field of Polity, Modern History, Current Affairs and Geography. The Subject-wise break-up of the questions asked in the General Awareness Paper are given below.
💢General Awareness
- Polity & Governance – 14 Questions
- Modern History – 13 Questions (No questions from Ancient/Medieval History)
- Current Affairs & Government Schemes – 25 Questions
- Science & Tech + Defence – 6 Questions
- Geography – 17 Questions
- Economy – 7 Questions
- Books & Authors – 3 Questions
- Important Days – 2 Questions
- Odisha G.K. – 1 Question
- Miscellaneous G.K. (Defence / Sports / International Organisations, etc.) – 12 Questions
The questions asked this year were within the boundaries of the prescribed syllabus. Also we can see that 1/4th of the questions were from the Current Affairs portion (this was un-expected).
Given the above sectional analysis, I this average score in this section would be around 40 to 50 marks.
💢Test of Reasoning & Mental Ability and Mathematics
The Mathematics, Reasoning & Mental Ability paper was of Easy to Moderate Level. The questions in this paper were not very difficult to answer, but students would have to invest few extra seconds in order to attempt all the questions within the given time limit of 90 minutes. The overall level of difficulty was Moderate, with the majority of questions asked being a bit of a task to solve. But, there were a few easy ones too.
So, I think the average score in this section should be around 55 to 65 marks out of 100.
💢English Language
The English Language paper was of Easy to Moderate Level. Particular sections like Fill In the Blanks, Sentence Improvement, Idioms and Phrases, Error Detection could be attempted with an average preparation and those like Synonyms, Antonyms and simultaneously Active Passive, Direct Indirect and Phrase Substitution questions demanded preparation.
The average score in this section should go around 70 to 80 marks out of 100.
💢Odia Language
The questions in Odia Language Paper were of Moderate to Difficult Level. Odia Language section surprised candidates with twisted questions and arduous language. Though the questions were not of high difficulty level, it surely demanded better preparation from the candidates. This section might have been little easier for those hailing from Odia medium schools.
The average score in this section might be around 35 to 45 marks out of 100.
So as per personal review the average marks may be within 200-240 out of 400.
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Cabinet Decision on Data Entry Operator
#Odisha Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik approved Secretariat Data Entry Operators Amendment Rules 2019 to ensure promotional avenues for them. Assistant Data Processing Officer & Data Processing Officer have been created abolishing vacant posts of Senior Data Entry Operators.
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Saturday, 26 January 2019
Friday, 25 January 2019
Sad demise of Section Officer, Works Dept.
REST in PEACE
Sri Prasant Kumar Panda
Section Officer
Works Department
About
A punctual and corruption free employee (46yrs) of OSS cadre. Died of Liver Cancer detected just before 4 months. When he knew about his short life span, he closed up all loan accounts immediately not to carry this borden to his family members. Also applied for VRS.
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Concurrence of Draft OSS Amendment Rules
Concurrence of Draft
Odisha Secretariat Service
(Method of Recruitment & Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Rules, 2018
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Sunday, 20 January 2019
Friday, 18 January 2019
ASO Exam : HC refuses to intervene
With the court’s refusal for interference into the issue, the Assistant Section Officer (ASO) examination will be held on the scheduled date on January 20.
As other competitive examinations — ALP and IBPS — are scheduled on Jan 20, the applicants for appearing in those tests along with the ASO examination conducted by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) had moved the High Court seeking to postpone of the exam on the scheduled date.
Earlier, the OPSC had postponed the exam date for the ASO posts and rescheduled it for Jan 20. The exam was scheduled to be held on Dec 23, 2018.
Monday, 14 January 2019
Sunday, 13 January 2019
Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Monday, 7 January 2019
Friday, 4 January 2019
Thursday, 3 January 2019
ASO examination : NOTICE
Examination Programme Notice
Recruitment to the Post of Assistant Section Officer
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Wednesday, 2 January 2019
Tuesday, 1 January 2019
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