HPPSC Shimla Section Officer HPF&AS Exam Syllabus & Pattern
||HPPSC Shimla Section Officer HPF&AS Exam Syllabus ||HPPSC Shimla Section Officer HPF&AS Exam Pattern||
Subjects and Syllabus for the Entrance Examination(s): The subjects and syllabus for the candidates appearing in preliminary Himachal Pradesh Finance and Accounts Service Examination shall be as under:-
(a) Preliminary Examination.: There will be 120 multiple choice questions as specified below on the basis of syllabus prescribed for main examination. The duration of the test will be of two hours. The marks obtained by the candidates who are declared qualified for written examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be admitted to the main examination will be ten (10) times of the number of vacancies to be filled:—
- English & Hindi 40 questions
- Omnibus Accounts 40 questions
- FRSR & HPFR, 2009 40 questions
Note: -There will be negative marking for incorrect answers (as detailed below) for all questions:
a) There are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one fourth (0.25) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty.
b) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as wrong answer even if one of the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question
c) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
d) Where there will be two correct answers instead of one correct answer out of four options of a question, all those candidates who will encode any one of these two correct answers will be awarded marks allotted to that question.
NOTE:- “In case of wrong encoding of either Application Number, Roll Number or both by the candidate, the OMR sheet shall not be evaluated and shall be rejected straight away.
Main (Entrance) Examination: The Syllabus for main entrance examination will be as under:-
- Paper-I English and Hindi:- Precis, letter writing, noting and drafting and other general questions to test the candidate’s ability to write correct English/Hindi. The questions from English/Hindi will carry 75 marks each.
- Paper-II Omnibus Accounts :-Questions will be on Rules relating to Pay Fixation, Pension, T.A., LTC, Leave and GPF
- Paper-III FR, SR and Himachal Pradesh Financial Rules (HPFR), 2009. :-Questions will be on Fundamental Rules & Supplementary Rules and Himachal Pradesh Financial Rules, 2009
Note 1: The standard of English Paper shall be similar to that of the Degree of any recognized Indian University and Standard of Hindi Paper shall be similar to that of 10+2 examination of any recognized Board of School Education.
Note 2: Each Paper shall carry 150 marks and will be of three hours duration. Note 3: The medium of examination shall be English except for Paper I for which the medium of examination shall be both English and Hindi part wise.
Number of chances for appearing in Entrance Examination:
(i) No employee shall be allowed more than five chances to sit in the entrance examination.
(ii) The candidates who have finally been declared unsuccessful in Himachal Pradesh Finance and Accounts Service Examination held after completion of training will not be eligible to sit in the entrance examination again
Education Qualification:-
Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized University with 03 (three) years regular service in the Department/ Board/ Corporation/ Autonomous Body/ University/ Co-operative Bank of the State of Himachal Pradesh
