SSC Jr. Hindi Translator Exam 2016 Preparation - Syllabus , Result, Cutoff and Application details

Staff Selection Committee, under the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), set up in the year 1975, is a body that conducts exams and various related activities to recruit man force to equip the various posts held in the government bureaucracy. The commission headquarters is located in New Delhi. The committee conducts nation-wide examinatio see more...

Post Name

Junior/Senior Hindi Translator

Date of Exam

30th November, -0001

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Application Procedure

MODE OF EXAM : Offline

Applicants need to apply in the prescribed format only. Applications are accepted only through online mode. Application fee of Rs. 100/- has to be remitted through SBI Challan/Net banking/credit/debit card or in cash through challan generated online at the branch of State Bank of India. The fee payment is exempted for some such as women and the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Physically Handicapped and Ex-Servicemen.

Eligibility Criteria

Education Qualification

Educational Qualifications

o Junior Hindi Translators –

1. Master’s degree or equivalent degree from a deemed and recognized university in English/Hindi, with a compulsory elective in either of the languages.

2. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent degree from a deemed and recognized university with both English and Hindi as compulsory subjects.

o Hindi Pradhyapak in Central Hindi Training Institutes

1. Master’s degree or equivalent degree from a deemed and recognized university with either or both English/Hindi as the language in which the degree was pursued in.

2. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree from a deemed and recognized university.

3. Two years of teaching experience.

It is also desirable for the candidates to have a degree of translation from English to Hindi and vice versa from a linguistics university. Moreover, it is also desirable for the candidate to have the knowledge of another language other than Hindi at the matriculation level.

o For Junior and Senior Translators –

1. Master’s degree or equivalent degree from a deemed and recognized university in either of the languages, Hindi or English or any other subject, with the proof that the course was pursued in either of the mediums.

2. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree from a deemed and recognized university.

3. Recognized Diploma in translation from Hindi to English and vice versa from Government undertakings or government institutions.

Age Limit

The age of the applicant must not exceed 30 years old.

Selection Process

The applicants are to go through two stages for the selection procedure –

Part 1 – The applicants are first to write the written examination that will carry 400 marks

Par 2 – The applicants that qualify the written exam cutoff marks will proceed to the Personal Interview round. This portion of the procedure will carry 100 marks.

The examination board will have different levels of papers, or in other words the interviews conducted will be subjective in nature, and will be conducted according to the convenience of the interviewer.

Exam Pattern

The following is the exam pattern that will be followed –

Part	Subject	Questions	Marks
I	General English and Hindi Comprehension	N/A	200
II	Translation and Essay	N/A	200

Paper 1 – General English Comprehension (100 marks)

General Hindi Comprehension (100 Marks)

Paper 1 will have multiple choice questions and will be objective in nature. There will be negative marking for every wrong answer by -0.25 marks. The paper would be conducted over a period of 2 hours, in the morning hours from 10 -12 pm.

Paper 2 –

Translation and Essay – This paper will be subjective in nature and as mentioned earlier will have one passage in English for it to be translated to Hindi, and another passage in Hindi for it to be translated into English. This portion of the exam will test the candidate’s ability to precisely translate the passage.

This portion of the exam will also be conducted over a period of 2 hours.

Exam Syllabus

The written examination will consist of two papers which will contain the following format –

Paper 1 – General English comprehension and General Hindi comprehension- This portion of the exam consists of basic language comprehension and is objective type in nature. Therefore this portion of the exam consists of multiple choice questions. Questions will be based on fill in the blanks, editing , omitting , idioms and phrases ,sentence structure , synonyms , antonyms , correct use of words etc.

Paper 2 – Translation and Essay -

This portion of the exam is conventional in nature or in other words is subjective in nature, and will contain one passage in Hindi for translation into English and another passage in of English into Hindi.

S.NO.	EVENT DATE	DETAIL
1	4th April, 2016	Notification Out Date
2	4th April, 2016 - 28th April, 2016	Application Dates Part I
3	15th May, 2016	Admit Card Download Start
4	19th June, 2016	Exam Date
5	30th September, 2016 - 30th September, 2016	Result Date

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