6 questions about SSC Assistant Section Officer — Limited Departmental Competitive Exam
It is the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for the post of Assistant Section Officer. Being an LDCE, it is a promotion examination written by serving government employees rather than an open-market recruitment exam. On RankRacer the exam is mapped to 6 subjects and 29 topics covering service rules, financial rules, office procedure, the RTI Act, and the Constitution and Parliament.
Six: Service Rules (7 topics), Financial Rules (6 topics), Office Procedure (5 topics), RTI Act (5 topics), Constitution & Parliament (6 topics), and General English. General English is listed as a subject for this exam but has no topic breakdown mapped yet.
Service Rules covers the CCS (Pension) Rules 2021, CCS (Leave) Rules 1972, CCS (Conduct) Rules 1964, CCS (CCA) Rules 1965, CCS (LTC) Rules, the Fundamental Rules & Supplementary Rules, and the POSH Act 2013. Financial Rules covers the General Financial Rules 2017, the Delegation of Financial Powers Rules 2024, the Suspense Manual, the Manual of Goods Procurement, the CPWD Works Manual, and the Make in India Order 2017.
Five topics: the Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedure (CSMOP), Record Management, the Allocation of Business Rules, the Transaction of Business Rules, and e-Office Procedure. These are the working manuals of the Central Secretariat rather than a general-studies syllabus, which is what most distinguishes a departmental exam from an open recruitment exam.
No. The map is a study index — it lists the subjects and rule-books RankRacer organises practice around. The notified syllabus, the number of papers, and the marking scheme are set by the conducting authority in each cycle's notification. Where the two differ, the official notification governs.
In the official notification issued for the cycle you intend to apply to. Eligibility (feeder grade, qualifying service, age), the number and marking of papers, and the exam calendar are all set there and change from cycle to cycle. This page covers only the syllabus map — RankRacer publishes a date or a marking rule only when it can cite an official notification for it.