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LGS Various Pathanamthitta, Kasaragode, Cut Off Mark

Kerala PSC had conducted last grade servant exam in Pathanamthitta and Kasaragode on October 25, 2014. The questions in that LGS question paper of those districts included high level questions. It contained unexpected questions also. That is the LGS question paper of Pathanamthitta and Kasaragode was little bit tough. So there is a chance to low cut off mark . It may be in between 70-75. This paper includes many unfamiliar questions from general knowledge topics. Some are following. Music director of the song 'Pambukalkku malamundu'. First evening daily news paper in India. In which language the book 'Hindhswaraj' had written? Who was elected as president of central ---------------- in 1925? Who became the ruler after temporary success of mappila lahala? Where is the birth place of P.N.Panickar? The programme 'Laba Prabha' related to -------- Which is the temperature in Fahrenheit scale that is equal to 35 degree centigrade of Celsius scale? ...

KTET (Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test) Answer Key

Kerala Pareekshabhavan conducted four categories KTET examinations in last 2 months. Pareekshabhavan published the answer keys of all the KTET question papers of 2014. Candidates can compare their answers with these answer keys those published in Pareekshabhavan's website. There is chance for the candidates who attended the KTET exam in 2014 to send their complaints with regard to the answer which had published in the website. Pareekshabhavan will examine the complaints and finalize the answers before the publishing of the result. Only based on the final answer key the marks will calculated. Within the short time after publishing the answer key many complaints had got about the answer keys, especially about the UP section answer key ( of KTET Category 2 exam) Authority informed that they would consider the complaints before preparing the result. The primary conclusion is that the mistake is due to the changing of the question paper codes. The valuation of the KTET answer...

Written Tests and Interviews in Early November

Kerala PSC is going to conduct many written exams and interviews in the first week of November to select the qualified candidates for various posts Brief description of them is following. Written Tests: November 5-  Lecturer in Public Administration Collegiate Education November 6- Tradesman - Information Technology Technical Education November 7-  Tradesman - Textile Technology Technical Education November 8- Last grade Servants - Various Idukky, Kozhikode Interviews: Place: head Office ,  Trivandrum Date: November 5:  1.Lecturer in radiation Physics/Lecturer Grade 2 ( NON Medical Assistant Phisicist-NCA Medical Education 2. Research Officer (SC/ST) State Planning Board Date:November 5- 11: 1.Engineering Assistant (Electronics)/ Overseer Grade 1 (Electronics) Public Work -Electronics Wing 2. Junior Instructor (Draftsman, Civil) Industrial training ...

Kerala TET (Teachers Eligibility Test) Review

Kerala government made compulsory success in the KTET examination for teachers on the basis of educational right that introduced by central government. The teaching candidates should pass the Central Teachers Eligibility Test (CTET) for working in the Schools under central government (CBSE Schools). Following this government of Kerala introduced the KTET exam in the state in the year 2012. The law for educational rights includes the primary schools only. But Kerala government conducts this test for high school also. The first KTET notification published before 2 years. At that time the authority said that the applicants of HSA, UPSA and LPSA PSC examinations should pass the TET in Kerala.  The KTET exam question papers were very tough in the previous years. But many candidates worked hard and passed the test to become a government school teacher in Kerala.  After the first KTET PSC had notified the HSA test. But there was not a demand for a pass in the KTET qualifyi...

SET February 2014 Result

The Kerala High court division bench ordered not to publish the SET result of February 2014 till October 28, 2014. This new order is on the appeal of NSS against the single bench order. The court postponed the case for detail hearing. NSS President filed the case against the decision with regard to the new mark system to pass the SET exam of Kerala. According to this new decision the general category should have 50 % aggregate mark in the particular examination, that for OBC candidates is 45% and for the SC/ST, PH persons is only 40% marks. NSS requested to the high court to examine this new marking scheme.  The last SET exam was conducted in 2014 February 2. The result had not published by the LBS centre Kerala even after the long 8 months. LBS prepared the result after completing the valuation of the OMR answer sheets. But due to the existing case LBS cannot publish the SET result. LBS published the answer keys of the SET exam on time and the all candidates could compar...

KSRTC Conductor Appointment

Kerala government assured that all the advised candidates will get appointment in KSRTC within 1 year. PSC sent advice memo to 9300 candidates in previous September, 2013. KPSC did that due to the reported vacancies from KSRTC. Later, KSRTC argued that they got a mistake on the number of vacancies. They told that there were only 3808 vacancies of reserve conductors. PSC could give appointment only to 3808 people from the advised 9300 candidates. The remaining 5500 rank holders are waiting with the advice memo from Kerala PSC for the appointment. Among the appointed candidates almost 1470 were not joined in the job and same number NJD vacancies were produced with almost 100 retirement vacancies of reserve conductor post in KSRTC. Now there are about 1600 vacancies of conductor job and KSRTC can give appointment for same number candidates from the Reserve Conductor rank list. KSRTC had got the permission to appoint the advised candidates on these vacant posts from the Kerala Gover...

KPSC Exams and Interviews

Examinations  1. Part time junior language teacher (Sanskrit) Date: October 28, 2014 Sanskrit Education 2. Trades man (Electronics and Instrumentation) Date: October 28, 2014 Technical education 3. Confidential Assistant grade 2 (SR.SC/ST) Date: October 29.2014 Various Departments 4. Trades man Date: October 30, 2014 Technical Education 5. Sewing Teacher (UPS) Date: October 31, 2014 Education 6. Trades man (Computer Engineering) Date: October 31, 2014 Technical Education Interviews in this week 1. Clerk/Cashier (NCA) Part 2 Date: October 29, 2014 Place: Head Office Trivandrum District Co operative bank 2. Drafts man 1/ Overseer grade 1 Date October 29-30, 2014 Place: District PSC office TVM Mechanical, Harbor Engineering 3. Branch Manager Part 1 and 2 Date: October 29-31 ,2014 Place: Trivandrum PSC office District Co  operative bank 4. Scientific Assistant (Biology) Date: October 29- 30, 2014 Place: Trivandrum District Of...

Latest PSC News

PSC Starts Examination centers in Metro cities:   Kerala PSC decided to allow examination centre in Metro cities for attending major PSC tests. According to the PSC authority many people are sending applications for various exams like LD clerk , last grade servants etc.... The lakhs of applicants who are preparing for these exams coming from various places. So PSC had decided to set up exam centers in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata.    This new decision is based on the request of public service commission to the Kerala government to allow the examination centers in these places for helping the Keralite candidates from out of Kerala. Junior Assistant/Cashier (special recruitment for PH) Exam Postponed:   Kerala PSC postponed the examination of junior assistant/cashier (for PH candidates) from 14/10/14 to 27/10/14. The time of the test also changed from 7.30 - 9.15 AM to 10.30 - 12.15 PM.  This new decision is based on the...

Junior Public Health Nurse Interview

Kerala PSC notified the junior public health nurse grade 2 NCA - Muslim (Trivandrum) in 2012. Its category Number is 636/2012. PSC had conducted the exam on 16-08-2013. The short list of junior public health nurse had come in 2014, July.65 candidates were shortlisted. The certificate verification had done on 30-07-14 and 31-07-2014. In the verification process 20 JPN qualified candidates were present. The remaining qualified persons were with Bsc nursing and GNM certificates. The number of candidates who attended the certificate verification was only 35. Now PSC declares the interview date for the all candidates who had placed in the published short list. The interview is on October 23 and 24.  The junior health nurse qualification is JPN. The qualifications like Bsc nursing and GNM will not consider by PSC while choosing right candidates. The rank holders of junior public health nurse short list have the opinion that the certificate verification should be before the examina...

Kerala PSC Advice Memo

The advice memo for appointment means the process of advising a rank holder who has a rank in the PSC list to a reported vacancy to KPSC. This advising process is according to the KS and SSR - 14 to 17 acts. Before sending the advice memos PSC would estimate the reported vacancies from various departments for a particular posts. If there are 20 vacancies it will make into a unit of 20. From those 20 vacancies 10 will go for OC (open competition) and next 10 for BC (backward class). If the number of vacancies is below 20, 50% of the number will go for the OC candidates and other 50% will be for the reserved candidates. The rotation chart which follows for considering candidates for the posts like LD clerk is following. 1 OC 2 Ezhava   3 OC 4 SC 5 OC 6 Muslim 7 OC 8 LC/AI 9 OC 10 OBC 11 OC 12 SC 13 OC 14 Ezhava 15 OC 16 Muslim 17 OC 18 Ezhava 19 OC 20 Viswakarma This order will prepare by PSC. Then select the proper candidates for ...

Recent KPSC Examination Hall Tickets

Junior Assistant: Category No : 59/2014 Junior Assistant/ Cashier (special Recruitment for PH) Exam Date : 14/10/2014 Time : 7.30 to 9.15 Syllabus : Objective OMR test according to the qualification Topics : Quantitative Aptitude Mental Ability and Reasoning General Science Current Affairs Facts about India Facts about Kerala Constitution of India and civil rights General English Social Welfare Programs and legislature Information Technology and Cyber law Question Paper : In English Hall ticket : Available in KPSC website from September 23, 2014 Male Warder: Category No : 345/2013 Male Warder in the prison department (Trivandrum, Thrissur, Kannur units) Examination Date : 14/10/2014 Time : 7.20- 9.15 Syllabus : General knowledge Current Affairs History of Kerala General English Simple Arithmetic Mental Ability Question Paper : In Malayalam/ Tamil/ Kannada Hall Ticket : Available in the Kerala PSC Official webs...

Last Grade Alappuzha, Palakkad Cut Off

Kerala PSC conducted last grade examination in Alapuzha and Palakkad districts on October 11. 2014. The questions in the LGS question paper were very simple and familiar to the candidates. So the expected cut off mark of the LGS test of Alappuzha and Palakkad districts is 80- 85. Majority of the questions are from previous question papers. The question paper contains many questions from current affairs. For example in which political party Narendra Modi is a member?, the political party formed by Aravindh Kejriwal?, the Malayalam actor who won the national award for the best actor in 2013?... The candidates who have a habit of reading news paper daily can attain a good mark in this topic. The questions from the Indian history are also present in a good number. For instance the duration of the Indian national anthem. Many repeated questions had been seen in this question booklet. The questions from the general science category are also very simple and many expected questions ...

Assistant Grade 2

Assistant grade 2 examination is a major test held by Kerala PSC. This post is similar to the LD clerk post in government department. PSC conducts this examination to select qualified candidates for the assistant grade 2 post of government owned company/board/corporations . Kerala PSC usually conducts this test separately to Beverages corporation and housing board. Assistant Grade 2 Notification: PSC would call for the assistant grade 2 notification about in an interval of 3-5 years. The last notification of assistant grade 2 was in 2012. There is a chance to notify new application in the last months of 2015. The notification will publish by Kerala PSC through their official website. Candidates can also get information about it from various weeklies like Thozhilveedhi or Thozhilvartha and through the sites like www.keralastatepsc.com . Pay Scale of Assistant Grade in Kerala: Salary for this post as per the norms of various companies/corporations/boards those are ...

KPSC will Include Register Number In Answer Sheets

PSC decided to print the register number of each candidate in their answer sheets. Many candidates were disqualified due to the incorrect marking of the register number while they bubbling that in the OMR answer sheets. Almost 14000 candidates were disqualified in the last LDC examination only because the wrong entry of the register number. Thousands of candidates are losing their chance to get a government job due to this mistake. While the scanning of the OMR answer sheets, those which contain wrong information will not consider. The rejected candidates may get high marks in the test. But they will not get a place in the rank list due to the small but major mistake. Sometimes they would wait for the advice memo and appointment from Kerala PSC without realizing their mistake. KPSC is going to launch the new system that to include the register number of each candidate in the answer sheet to overcome this difficulty of the candidates. In earlier times the candidates should enter t...

LP UP School Assistant (LPSA, UPSA) Appointment

Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) had notified LPSA and UPSA notification in September 2014.The candidates can apply through KPSC official website after completing the one time registration. Many people are happy with this notification because they get a good chance to enter into the Kerala Government service as a school teacher. But in the mind of the rank holders of existing LPSA and UPSA rank lists there is high level of tension. Their thinking is now in a different direction. Majority of them are disappointed about the speed of appointment from these rank lists. Only a few candidates were appointed from these lists in different Government schools as LP/UP assistants. The number of appointments within the last 3 years is below 2000; it is the total appointments entire districts of Kerala. 1292 candidates were appointed as LPSA and 704 as UPSA from these lists. Some of these lists will get the benefit of the decision of PSC to increasing the validity of the rank lists. T...

SI New Rank List within One Month

KPSC had decided to modify the police sub inspector rank list . This modification is to obey the order of administrative tribunal. Due to this latest decision, some of the candidates who are in training will lose their chance to become a sub inspector of Kerala police. KPSC had not estimated the number of such appointments and cancellations. So there is no clear data about the candidates who can get the job or lose the job. There is a probability to publish new rank list within one month.  The primary calculations said that PSC will reject the advice memos of almost 46 people. They will consider for including in supplementary rank list of reservation categories. After starting new rotation chart 25 candidates of the above 46 may get appointment again. The remaining candidates should wait for next advice memo or new SI notification from Kerala PSC. The candidates from same community will consider for the vacant posts produced by rejecting the 46 candidates from the present lis...

LD Clerk 2014 Shortlist

LDC shortlist will publish by Kerala PSC in the mid of October 2014. Previous decision was to publish them on September 15, and then PSC postponed it to September 30. But KPSC could not make it practical because on September 30 the lists of all the districts had not completed. Now also some of the lists are preparing by the related PSC offices. So the new information from KPSC is the decision is that the new LD clerk shortlists will publish in 2014 October. This time PSC planning to publish whole, 14 LDC shortlists at same day. It may be in between October 10 and 20. PSC will include all eligible and qualified candidates in these shortlists. The cut off marks of LDC exam will be on the basis of toughness of the question paper, performance of the candidates, the number of candidates which planned by PSC to include in the rank list. It will be according to the future vacancies of LD clerk post in various departments of government of Kerala.  The certificate verification of ...

Company/Board/Corporation Last Grade Appointment Started

Kerala PSC had done its great service by sending advice memos for the post of Last Grade Servants in Government owned companies/boards/corporations. PSC had started to send advises to the rank holders of LGS rank list. In the first chance 959 candidates will get appointment. The procedures will start in nearest future. KPSC had decided to send the memos firstly to the different companies, boards and corporations. Then it starts to make advice for the rank holders. On the first time Kerala PSC consider the first ranked candidates for appointing in the Handicraft Development Corporation. In this week the advises for the companies like KSFE will send to the candidates. These advice memos are preparing in the Calicut PSC offices. Kerala PSC had conducted the Last Grade Examination for selecting the last grade servants for various companies, boards and corporations in Kerala which are under the ownership of Kerala Government. They include KSFE, KSEB, KSRTC , Handicraft Developmen...

PSC Increased the Rank List Duration up to 2015 March 31

Kerala PSC recognized the demand of Kerala Government to increase the duration of all PSC rank lists up to next 6 months, that is up to 2015, March 31. All the KPSC rank list which are valid on 2014, September 30 and have not completed 4 years and 6 months will get this benefit. All these lists will be valid up to March 31, 2015. If PSC would publish a new rank list for a particular post, the validity of the existing rank list will automatically finish. The uniform posts like police, excise etc.... Which need training would not consider for this new rule. PSC authority had told that almost 800 KPSC rank lists will get this chance. Now the duration of validity of the PSC rank lists is 3 years. This 3 years now changed into 4 1/2 years by the pretense of Kerala government. All the PSC members had accepted this demand. The major rank lists like last grade servants , LD Clerk, HSST, HSA, UPSA etc.... will get more benefit of this decision. Many of the candidates can enter into the ...

Last Grade Servants Cut Off Mark

Last Grade Servant (LGS) examination had conducted by Kerala PSC in Trivandrum and Wayanad on 20-09-2014 with same LGS question paper. The cut off mark of the last grade exam of Trivandrum and Wayanad may be almost near to 75-82. KPSC had conducted LGS test in each district with different question papers till the previous year. But now PSC changes its habit. The tests of the 2 districts were by using same paper. The question paper pattern of LGS exam of Trivandrum and Wayanad included questions from general knowledge, current affairs, Kerala development, General science.... Usually Kerala PSC including 90 questions from the above topic in the recent years' LGS question papers. Remaining 10 questions would be from simple arithmetic's and mental ability. But in this time PSC had changed this system of question pattern. The Trivandrum, Wayanad LGS paper contains 19 questions from Mathematics. In last grade servant syllabus, there is no Malayalam grammar. But the TVM, WYD q...