DRDO exam 2022

Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has announced the notification of CEPTAM-10 for the recruitment of senior technical assistant and technician on various posts (Group B and Group C). Read complete article for the detailed information about this exam.

Important date

Notification out	23 August 2022
Application start date	03 September 2022
Last date for apply	23 September 2022
Exam date TireI	Notified soon
Exam date TireII	Notified soon

Other information

Application fees	General/ OBC/EWS: 100/- ST SC/PH: 0/- All category female: 0/-
Minimum age	18 years
Maximum age	28 years
Number of vacancy	1901
Mode of application	online
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Age relaxation extra as per DRDO CEPTAM-10 recruitment rules

Post wise other details

1. SENIOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANT-B (STA-B): Group 'B'

PAY SCALE: Pay matrix Level 6 (35400-112400) as per 7 CPC Pay Matrix and other benefits/allowances as per extant Govt. of India rules.

AGE LIMIT AS ON CRUCIAL DATE OF ELIGIBILITY: Candidate must be between 18 and 28 Years of age (Relaxable for SC/ST/OBc-NCL/ESM/PwBD/Widows/Divorced Women/Women judicially separated from their husbands who are not remarried, Departmental Candidates with three years continuous service in Central Government, Disabled Defence Services Personnel, Persons Domiciled in J&K State during the period from 01-01-1980 to 31-12-1989 as per extant Govt. of India rules).

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT (EQR): candidate must have Bachelor's degree in Science Or Diploma in Engineering or Technology or Computer Science or Allied Subjects, recognised by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in the required Discipline. Candidates must have acquired the EQR as on crucial date of eligibility for the posts they are applying. Candidates whose results of the final examination awaiting as on crucial date of eligibility for the prescribed qualification are NOT eligible and hence should not apply. B.Sc. Candidates must have read the required subject for at least 02 years in the course of B.Sc. Programme. Please note that the candidates possessing higher qualification, viz., M.Sc. Or B.Tech. Or B.E. or Ph.D. Degree etc, as on crucial date of eligibility, shall NOT be considered for the recruitment. Mere fulfilment of the minimum eligibility does not entitle any candidate to claim his/her candidature for selection to any post.

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2 TECHNICIAN-A (TECH-A): Group 'C'

PAY SCALE: Pay matrix Level-2 ( 19900-63200) as per 7 CPC Pay Matrix and other benefits/allowances as per extant Govt. of India rules.

AGE LIMIT AS ON CRUCIAL DATE OF ELIGIBILITY: Candidate must be between 18 and 28 Years of age (Relaxable for SC/ST/OBC-NCL/ESH/PWBD/Widows/Divorced Women/Women judicially separated from their husbands who are not remarried, Departmental Candidates with three years continuous service in Central Government, Disabled Defence Services Personnel, Persons Domiciled in J&K State during the period from 01-01-1980 to 31-12-1989 as per extant Govt. of India rules),

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT (EQR): (i) Xth Class pass or equivalent from a recognised Board or Institute; and (ii) Certificate from a recognised Industrial Training Institute in the required discipline; Or Certificate of minimum one year duration from a recognised Institution in the required discipline if the Industrial Training Institutes do not award Certificate in that discipline Or National Trade Certificate in the required discipline; Or National Apprenticeship Certificate in the required discipline.

Description of vacancies for technician-a (tech-a): click here

EXAMINATION CITIES FOR TIER-I (CBT): Candidates are advised to choose any three different cities from the following list in order priority for Tier-1 examination. The option/preference once given by the candidate will be treated as final and irreversible.

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Agra	Gorakhpur	Kanpur	Port Blair
Ahmedabad	Guwahati	Kochi	Pune
Bengaluru	Gwalior	Kolkata	Raipur
Bhopal	Hyderabad	Leh	Ranchi
Bhubaneswar	Imphal	Lucknow	Siliguri
Chandigarh	Itanagar	Mumbai	Thiruvananthapuram
Chennai	Jabalpur	Nagpur	Varanasi
Coimbatore	Jaipur	Nasik	Vijayawada
Dehradun	Jammu	Panaji	Visakhapatnam
Delhi NCR	jodhpur	Patna

SELECTION PROCESS: 

1.For the post of STA-B: The selection process will consist of Tier-1 (Screening) and Tier II (Final Selection) as described in Table1)

• Tier-1 and Tier-II will be conducted in Computer Best Test (CBT) mode.
• The Score of Tier-1 (CBT) may be normalized as per requirement.
• The Tier-1 and Tier-ll will consist of objective type multiple choice questions only.
• Tier-1 examination is for screening and Tier-2 is for final selection.

2. For the post of Tech-A: The selection process will consist of Tier-1 (CBT) and Tier-1 (Trade Test) as described in Table-2)

• The Score of Tier-1 (CBT) may be normalized as per requirement.
• The Tier-1 (CBT) will consist of objective type-multiple choice questions only.
• Tier-I examination is for Provisional selection and Ties-II (Trade Test) is qualifying in nature.
• Trade test will be of ITI level in the related trade, to test the practical skills of the candidates. The test may be of about one to two hours duration.
• The mode of selection may change depending upon the organization requirement/govt of india policy for both Sta-B and tech- A posts.

EXAM PATTERN:

• There will be no negative marking for wrong answer.
• The syllabus of the examinations will be commensurate to essential qualification required for the post.
• The medium for examination will be Hindi and English.

Table 1 (for the post of STA-B)
Tire	Mode of Examination	Scope of Examination	No of questions	Maximum marks	Duration of exam(mins.)
I	CBT for Screening	Quantitative aptitude, general intelligence and reasoning ability, general awareness, English language basic knowledge, general science	120	120	90
II	CBT for provisional selection	Test specified to subject of post code	100	100	90

 

SCREENING CRITERIA: Tier-1 exam is for screening. The minimum qualifying marks for Tier-1 is 40% for UR/OBC candidate and 35% for SC/ST candidates. Candidates will be provisionally shortlisted based on Tier-1 examination merit in a ratio of 1:8 (No. of vacancy: No. of shortlisted candidates) provided they secure the minimum qualifying marks in examination. However, this ratio may increase or decrease depending upon the organizational requirements. The last candidate securing equal marks in the bracket will also be included. These provisionally shortlisted candidates will be called for Tier-1 examination

 

PROVISIONAL SELECTION CRITERIA: The provisional selection will be based on the order of menit obtained in Tier-1 examination depending upon the post/category/sub-category of the candidate. The minimum qualifying marks for Tier-II is 40% for UR/OBC candidate and 35% for SC/ST candidates.

 

Table 2 (for the post of Tech-A)
Tire	Mode of Examination	Scope of Examination	No of questions	Maximum marks	Duration of exam(mins.)
I	CBT(provisional selection)	Section- A: quantitative ability/aptitude, general intelligence and reasoning ability, general awareness, English language basic knowledge, Section-B: specific to trade/ discipline of post code	40 (section-A) And 80 (section-B)	120	90
II	Trade test (qualifying in nature)	Specific to trade/ discipline of post code (trade test will be of ITI level in the related trade to test the practical skill of the candidate)	The trade test may be of about one to two hours duration.

PROVISIONAL SELECTION CRITERIA: The provisional selection will be based on the merit battened in Tier-1 examination depending upon the post/category/sub-category of the candidate. The minimum qualifying marks for Tier-1 is 40% for UR/OBC candidates and 35% for SC/ST candidates.

TRADE TEST CRITERIA: Candidates will be provisionally shortlisted based on Tier-1 examination merit in a ratio of 1:8 (No. of vacancy shortlisted candidates) provided they secure the minimum qualifying marks in examination. However, this ratio may increase or decrease upon organizational requirements. The last candidate securing equal marks in the bracket will also be included. Provisionally shortlisted Tier-1 will be called for Tier-1 (Trade Test). It is mandatory to quality Tier-1 (Trade Test) for final selection.

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NOTE: 

• SC, ST, OBC, EWS, ESM, MSP and PWBD candidates (wherever applicable), who are selected on their own merit without re will be considered against the unreserved vacancies is per Govt. of India orders, 
• The reserved vacancies will be filled up separately the eligible SC, ST, OBC, EVIS, ESM, MSP and PWED candidates (wherever applicable).

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