34.55 lakh unemployed people from across the country have applied for the Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) Exam 2024, one of the most prominent recruitments of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC). The special thing is that with the increase in the posts of Babus in various ministries, departments and offices of the Central Government, the number of applicants has increased. In 2023, 32.17 lakh candidates had applied for 1762 posts. 34.55 lakh have applied for 3712 vacant posts in 2024. However, this year also the number of applicants is less as compared to 2021. During the Corona period, a record more than 38 lakh candidates had applied in 2021.
For this recruitment, recruitment is done on the posts of Lower Division Clerk (LDC) / Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA), (Postal Assistant) / (Sorting Assistant), (Data Entry Operator) in various ministries, offices and departments of the Central Government. . The Commission has informed in the information sought under the Right to Information Act that 34,55,669 candidates have applied for CHSL 2024. These include 6,01,165 candidates from unreserved category, Other Backward Class (OBC) 11,69,589, Scheduled Caste (SC) 6,97,478, Scheduled Tribe (ST) 2,37,949, Economically Backward Class (EWS) 2,02,782. 14,686 ex-servicemen and 40,205 disabled candidates have also applied.
Year wise number of posts and candidates
year post candidate
2024 3712 34,55,669
2023 1762 32,17,442
2022 4522 32,35,474
2021 6013 38,05,359
Tier-1 examination will be conducted in June-July 2024. The timing of Tier-2 will be told later.
If we talk about the selection process, first there will be a Tier-I (Computer Based Examination) exam. Candidates who pass in this will be called for Tier-II (Computer Based Examination). The Tier-I paper will have 4 parts, each containing 25 questions from various subjects. All questions will be objective type multiple choice. Subjects include English Language, General Intelligence, Quantitative Aptitude (Basic Arithmetic Skills) and General Awareness. The exam will have objective type multiple choice questions with negative marking of 0.50 marks for each wrong response. A total of 60 minutes will be given to the candidates to write the Tier-1 paper. Candidates who pass Tier-1 will be called for Tier-2.
There will be two sessions in Tier-2 in which the first session will be of written examination and the second will be of skill test/typing test (as per the post).
If the exam is held in multiple shifts then the marks will be normalized. The result will be released based on the normalized marks only.
Negative Marking- There will be negative marking of 0.50 marks for each wrong answer in SSC CHSL exam.
