Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) has released notification for JSSC CGL 2019. The recruitment is officially titled Jharkhand General Graduate level combined competitive examination 2019. However it is popularly referred to as JSSC CGL.
Domicile candidates of Jharkhand are invited to apply online for the exam from September 18, 2019, 11 am to October 17, 2019, midnight. The complete process of applying including registration, filling up the application form, will be online.
The commission will keep the link to pay application fee open until October 21, 2019. And the facility to upload the photograph and signature will be available until October 23, 2019. Candidates must submit the online form based on fulfillment of eligibility criteria and vacancies.
JSSC CGL 2019 recruitment is for 1,140 vacancies. The vacancy distribution is provided in the brochure. The posts and vacancies are: assistant administrative officer – 362, block supply officer – 223, block welfare officer – 139, zone inspector cum law – 170, co-operative extension officer – 241, and planning assistant – 5.
For all the posts, the educational qualification requirement is graduation. Minimum age limit for all posts is 21 years. Upper age limit is 35 years for unreserved candidates, 37 years for EBC, BC, 38 years for females, and 40 years for ST. However for post wise age limits, the brochure must be referred.
JSSC recruitment 2019 notification related advertisement as well as brochure have been published online at jssc.nic.in. However soon after the two were uploaded, the site started facing some technical issues. As Jharkhand’s combined graduate level exam is popular among government job aspirants, a number of candidates have most probably tried to access the website as soon as the news spread that JSSC CGL 2019 notification is out. Due to which, candidates are at time not immediately able to access the advertisement and brochure. Nevertheless after refreshing the pages a few times, they are opening.
Click here to download the brochure for Jharkhand General Graduate level combined competitive examination 2019.
Both the documents are in PDF file format. To download them, aspirants can visit jssc.nic.in. There they will see what’s new section where they will see two links – one says “advertisement of Jharkhand General Graduate level combined competitive Examination – 2019”, and the other reads “brochure of Jharkhand General Graduate level combined competitive Examination – 2019”. These links open up to web pages where the advertisement and brochure are provided. Click on the direct links there to download them. The brochure is titled as JGGLCCE-2019, for advertisement 03/2019.
The application fee is Rs 1,000. However SC, ST candidates need to pay Rs 250. Application form correction facility will be available for three days from October 24, 2019, to October 26, 2019.
JSSC CGL 2019 selection process will consist of a preliminary exam and then a mains exam. There will be multiple choice questions in both the exams. In both, questions will be of 3 marks, and negative marking will be 1 mark for incorrect answers.
In the prelims, there will be five sections, to be attempted in two hours. General studies with 30 questions, general science with 20, mathematics with 20 questions, mental ability with 20 questions, and Jharkhand related topics with 30 questions. In total there will be 120 questions. Syllabus of the exam is given in the brochure.
Mains exam for the Jharkhand General Graduate level combined competitive examination 2019 will have two papers. Paper 1 will have 60 questions on Hindi, and 60 on English. It will be of two hours. Whereas paper 2 will be on regional language with 100 questions to be done in two hours.