ASRB Administrative Officer Exam Pattern

Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board AO Recruitment Exam Pattern

Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board Administrative Officer Selection will be based on Three Tier Exam. The details are given below –

ASRB Administrative Officer Tier I Exam – Objective multiple choice paper of 200 questions of one mark each of three hours duration containing the following section –
Section A – General Knowledge – 50 questions
Section B – General Intelligence & Reasoning Ability – 50 questions
Section C – Arithmetical & Numerical Ability – 50 questions
Section D – Language Comprehension (Hindi or English) – 50 questions

Each wrong answer will attract a penalty of one third of the marks originally assigned to that question. This paper will be qualifying in nature and marks scored in it will not be carried forward. The ASRB will prepare the list of candidates to be qualified for Tier II Examination, based on the criterion of minimum qualifying marks, as may be dteremined by the Board and twenty top socring candidates for one vacancy shall be declared qualified for Tier II Exam from each category under which vacancy(ies) are available.

ASRB Administrative Officer Tier II (Descriptive) Exam (Each Paper will be of 3 hours duration) –
Paper I – General Awareness of Development of Economic, Social, Scientific & Cultural Fields, History & Geography of India and the World – 150 marks.
Paper II – Constitution of India, Polity, Governance, Social Justice – 150 marks
Paper III – Essay Writing – I – 75 Marks, Essay Writing II – 75 marks – Total 150 marks
Paper IV – Thics, Integrity, Aptitude – 150 marks
Total marks for Tier II – 600 Marks

Candidates from Tier II exam will be qualified for Tier-III viz. Structured interview in the ratio of 5 candidates for each vacancy (category-wise) on the basis of their merit in Tier-II.

ASRB AO Tier III (Interview) Exam –
Structured Interview – 100 marks.
Final merit will be prepapred based on the aggregate of marks ( 700 marks) i.e. marks scored by the candidates in Tier II exam (Out of maximum 600 marks) as well as Structured Interview (Out of maximum 100 marks).

Structured Interview/ Personality Test for Administrative Officers in ASRB

The candidates who qualify in the written examination will be called for structured interview/ personality test. The marks allotted for interview/ personality test are 100. Interview Board has, therefore, to award marks to candidates out of 100 marks only. Keeping in view of the functions and traits required to perform efficiently the duties attached to the post for which recruitment is being made, these 100 marks for interview/ personality test have been divided under the following seven heads –
(1) (a) Essential Educational Qualifications (Total) – 05 (Maximum )
(i) 60% and above – 05
(ii) 55% and above but below 60% – 04
(b) Highet or Desriable Academic/ Professional Qualification/ Experience – 05

(2) Extra Curricular Acitivies – 05
(3) General Awareness/ General Knowledge – 10
(4) In-depth knowledge of the subject studies – 20
(5) Personality – 20
(6) Working Knowledge of computers – 20
(7) Aptitude and Suitability – 15