New Recuritment Rules for Postal/Sorting Assistants with Pattern of Present Syllabus of Examination

Recruitment Rules Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistants, 2011 

Department of Posts has notified Department of Posts ( Postal Assistants and Sorting Assistants) (Group-C Non-gazetted) Recruitment Rules, 2011. These have been published in Official Gazette on 3.11.2011.

They come into force from the date of publication in Official Gazette

For direct recruitment 10+2 or 12 Standard candidates with atleast 60% marks with English as compulsory subject [ excluding vocational stream], 55% for OBC and 45% for SC/ST will be eligible.

GDS should have obtained 50% marks in +2 or 12th standard and should have put in minimum 5 years service.


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Pattern   of   present  syllabus  for  Postal Assistant  /Sorting  Assistant Examination 

Objective Type question

The topics for the exam are English, mathematics, reasoning ability and numerical ability & general knowledge. The syllabus for the following topics is:

Mathematics

Sets

Relations and Functions

Sets and their Representations

Union, intersection and complements of sets

Algebraic properties of Sets

Equivalence relations

Mappings

Oneone

Into and onto mappings

Composition of mappings

Complex Numbers

Complex numbers in the form a+ib and their representation in a plane

Argand Diagram

Algebra of complex numbers

Modulus and Argument (or amplitude) of a complex number

Square root of a complex number

Cube roots of unity

Triangle inequality

Matrices and Determinants

Reasoning ability

The test will be also having questions from

Analogies

Analysis

Analytical functions

Arithmetical computation

Arithmetical number series

Arithmetical reasoning

Decision making

Discrimination

Judgment

Observation

Problem solving

Relationship concepts

Similarities

Space visualization

Symbols and their relations

Verbal and figure classification

Visual memory

English language

The questions will be based on:

Grammar

Vocabulary

Sentence completion

Synonyms

Antonyms

Comprehension of a passage

Numeric Ability

The questions will be from topics like,

Decimals and fractions

Relationship between numbers

General knowledge and general awareness