The Staff Selection Commission Combined Higher Secondary Level (SSC CHSL) exam for the year 2022 will be held sometime in May 2022. The online portal for the application form will be open from February 1 and will close on March 7, 2022. Candidates who are planning to appear for the exam should keep an eye on the official website ssc.nic.in for timely and regular updates.
The SSC CHSL exam is conducted in three tiers. Tier I is an online exam consisting of objective questions only. It has five sections namely, English, General Knowledge, General Intelligence, and Quantitative Aptitude. Each section carries 50 marks for 25 questions and is held for a duration of 1 hour. Tier II is a descriptive exam that consists of two sections i.e. letter writing and essay writing respectively. Both these questions carry 50 marks each. Tier III is a practical exam for typing speed. For the post of Data Entry, a minimum typing speed of 8000 words per minute is required whereas, for higher posts, the requirement gets higher.
Candidates have to clear all three tiers to qualify for the exam and be eligible for recruitment. Those who clear Tier I will be able to sit for Tier II and those who clear Tier II will be eligible for Tier III. The candidates appearing for the exam have to keep an eye on the official website in order to check the results for each tier.
Last year, a total of 4726 vacancies were announced by the commission. In 2019, 4755 vacancies were announced. Similarly, the year before in 2018, a total of 5649 vacancies were announced. It can be observed that the number of vacancies has slightly dropped over the years. Subsequently, the competitiveness in the SSC CHSL exam has steadily increased.
The SSC CHSL is a recruitment exam conducted by the Government of India in order to employ higher secondary qualified students into various departments and offices within the government. The posts include data entry operator, Joint Secretary Assistant, Junior Division Clerk, Sorting Assistant, Postal Assistant, etc.
