Paper II of Postal / Sorting Assistant Examination is conducted to evaluate your typing skill. It is called as DEST - Data Entry Skill Test. This gets more importance because it is a must needed skill for day to day works in Post office as all the post offices are computerized and the postal assistant's work is always on computer.
This test is of qualifying in nature i.e, you have to fulfill the minimum qualification in this test and final merit will be prepared based on the marks secured in Aptitude test only. But if you can't qualify typing/data entry and even if you get full 100 marks in Aptitude test you will be disqualified for selection.
Computer Typing Test Information :
Total Duration : 15 minutes
You have to type the given paragraph text (Number of words differes based on the exam you appear.) in system.
So you have to practice for speed of 35 wpm. If time remains, it can be utilized for error checking.
Speed & accuracy is important.
Typing Exam - Process:
- Fill up your Name, Roll No & Category as appears in the Hall Ticket
- Read the instructions, when the Hall Supervisor anounces to start exam, put the tick mark on the Confirm check box and click Start button
- Once, you clicked the Start button count down timer will be started and the application will be stopped automatically after 15 minutes.
- Type the sentence as exactly provided in the top screen
- One sentence only appear at a time, after typing the sentence, i.e, you enter full stop, the next sentence button will be enabled. You have to leave a space after full stop and start typing the next sentence
- Only one paragraph will be given, so you do not need to use Enter key
- After typing all sentences, Review Paragraph button will appear. Now you can click Review and Recheck all the lines. You can make corrections also if you want. Backspace will not work. You have to move the cursor to the word where do you want to correct, then use delete button and type the correct word / letter.
- Make sure everything appears as the paragraph given in the top screen. You are fully allowed to correct in the review screen. Using Enter (new line) and unnessary spaces may leed to multiple errors.
Tips for success:
- Type carefully and fast, practice well.
- Spaces, fullstops, comma, special symbols etc., also count for error. i.e, if you have added extra space or left a fullstop or comma, this also will be considered as mistakes. So type exactly as given.
- If you have finished earlier, thoroughly check for mistakes in the review screen.
Click here to Download the Practice Tool provided by Department of Posts For PA/SA Examination
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Click here to start practicing Online Typing Test
Updated - August 2024
Comments
Sir are you sure, there will be only softcopy only ahh?
I'm going for typing test for warehouse corperation. please reply to my email [email protected]
Thank you for your feedback, The information given here are shared by the candidate who already passed and now working as Postal Assistant.
Exam pattern and method may change every year.
If you have attended Typing test exam, Pls share your experience with us. We'll update the same. It'll be helpful to others.
with due respect, sir please do not provide wrong information......there will be no printed copy, neither in typing skill test nor in data entry test.......typing test will be on a software like the "Typing Master" and the same goes for "Data Entry test" as well...
In typing test the computer screen will have two windows..one will display the subject to be typed and you have to type the same in the blank window located just below the passage window...
In data entry test there will be two windows one will display certain fields like Name,Address,Amount and Date and you have to just fill up the exact details in the window provided below.....
"There will be no PRINTED COPY as mentioned in the post"
Yes, you are right, it has been changed in the recent years, I will update the post.
Thanks for your valuable feedback.