HCS (Executive Branch) & other Allied Services

Paper - I	English (including English Essay)	100 Marks
Paper - II	Hindi (including Hindi Essay) (in Devnagri Script)	100 Marks
Paper - III	General Studies	200 Marks
Paper - IV	One optional subject	200 Marks

List of Compulsory Subjects with their codes for the Main Written Examination is given below.

Sr. No.	Name of the Subject
i	English (including English Essay)
ii	Hindi (including Hindi Essay) in Devnagri script
iii	General Studies

Note 1

The Main written examination shall comprise of four papers of conventional / essay type which shall be of three hours duration each.

Note 2

The candidates shall write their answers in Hindi or English except in language or literature papers. The papers in General Knowledge and Hindi optional subjects unless otherwise directed, shall be answered either in language or in English language depending upon the option exercised by a candidate but no candidates shall u. permitted to answer any one paper partly in Hindi or partly in English. The candidates shall not be allowed the option to answer these papers in any other medium.

Note 3

Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances, they will be allowed the help of a scribe to write answers for them. However, candidates belonging to visually Handicapped Locomotor Disability (OH) whose writing severely effected due to his / her disability, will be allowed to write the examination with the help of a scribe The prior permission of the Commission is required for the same. The eligibility conditions in this regard have been given at Sr. No. 18. Permission of the scribe inside the examination hall and the manner in which and the extent to which he / she can help the candidate in writing the examination shall be decided by the commission only.

Note 4

No candidate shall be called for the viva-voce / personality Test unless he / she obtains at least forty five percent (44%) marks in the aggregate of all written papers and a score of minimum thirty three percent (33%) marks each in Hindi (including Hindi Essay) in Devnagri script and English (including English essay) papers (compulsory papers). The final selection shall be based on the merit list to be prepared on the basis of total marks obtained by the candidates in the Main Written Examination and Personality Test / Viva-voce i.e. out of 675 marks.
If the total marks of Main written Examination and Personality Test / viva-voce obtained by two or more candidates are equal, the candidate securing higher marks in the compulsory papers o-f Main Written Examination shall be considered higher in merit. If the total marks of compulsory papers of such candidates are still equal, then the candidate older in age wilt be considered higher in merit.

Note 5

Candidates are allowed to bring and use their own Non-Programmable Scientific Calculator in Examination Hall for Main written Examination in optional paper only wherever required.