OPSC 2019 : Admit Card, Syllabus, Exam Date, Result

The State Government of Odisha conducts the Odisha Public Service Commission Examination every year. The Odisha Public Service Commission is also referred to as OPSC. Orissa PSC is a state agency located in the State Of Odisha has authorized to recruit the candidates to the various Civil Services of Odisha.

The main responsibility of the OPSC is to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments. The fact is the Odisha Public Service Commission releases employment notifications every year to offer the career opportunities to the competent and eligible candidates. Moreover, the candidates get the recruitment in the posts like Veterinary Assistant Surgeon, Medical Officer (Assistant Surgeon), Public Prosecutor, and Assistant Director.

In this article, the interested candidates for this civil service exam 2019 will get all the essential information about the exam process as for how will they able to apply for the same. Thus, in the following post, you will able to look at the information about the Odisha Public Service Commission exam’ application form, admit card, eligibility criteria, pattern, syllabus, selection process, and the important dates.

OPSC 2019 Exam Dates

OPSC Exam 2019 Eligibilities

To become eligible for the Odisha PSC 2019, the eligible candidates can check the following Eligibility Criteria issued by the Odisha Public Service Commission. If they consider themselves eligible for this exam, then they can move to the succeeding step, i.e. filling up of an OPSC 2019 application form:

Nationality 

• The candidate must be a citizen of India.

Age

• The age of eligible candidates should be between 21 years and should not exceed 32 years. Moreover, the candidates with the reserved category can get relaxation in their upper age.
• For SC (Scheduled Caste) and ST (Scheduled Tribes, SEBC/ Women/ Ex-Service Man/ Women category, there will be an upper age relaxation of 5 years.
• For OBC (Other Backward Class) category, there will be an upper age relaxation of 3 years.
• The candidates coming into the physically handicapped category will get the upper age relaxation for 10 years.
• A candidate, who has more than one spouse/husband residing or in the case of a woman candidate, if married to a person having one wife living, will not considered be eligible for appearing in the OPSC examination, unless he provides that such marriage is permissible under the Personal Law applicable to such person or there are other grounds for doing so.
• All government Servants, whether temporary or permanent, are eligible to appear in the Examination, provided they should have the requisite qualification and are within the specified age limit as well.

Education Qualification

• The candidates may have a Bachelor degree any other equivalent three-year degree from any recognized college or University.
• Candidates should have MBBS or equivalent Degree from Medical College Institution recognized by the Medical Council of India along with valid registration certificates under the Odisha Medical Registration Rules 1965 as well as required conservation certificates recognized by Medical Council of India (MCI) if the candidates have their degree from University of Foreign Countries.

OPSC 2019 Application Form 

Once candidates consider themselves eligible for the OPSC exam 2019, then the following steps should be done to fill up the application form for the same.

For filling up the application form, the candidates have to take the help of the official web portal of Odisha Public Service Commission, i.e. www.opsc.gov.in. From this web portal, they will able to download their application forms only after getting registration for the same.

Once they get the application form, fill all of the information requested within the form such as personal information, about educational qualifications, instructional info and so on. Kindly note, incomplete or wrong info within the application form will not consider it for the future process. Hence, the candidates are requested to check everything before submitting their application form.

Once finished with all the basic information, the next step will upload your latest photograph and signature. After this, submit the application form along with paying the application fee.

Moreover, Kindly note that the successful submission of an OPSC application form is essential to get your’ admit cards. In some cases, the candidates are in a hurry which endows them unable to check whether the application form is submitted successfully or not.

In such circumstances, due to an error, an application form may get struck which resulting in non-submission of the same. Thus, until you get a notification for the same don’t proceed further or consider you have done your application process.

The application fee for Odisha Service Commission Exam

As mentioned above, the application fee to attempt Odisha Public service Commission exam 2019 is compulsory as per category, otherwise, their application form will be considered incomplete.

The only reserved category is exempted from payment of OPSC Recruitment application fee. The rest will pay the application fee for the amount of Rs. 300/- by using Debit Cards (RuPay/Visa/MasterCard/Maestro), Credit Cards, Internet Banking, and other methods.

Hence, getting the acknowledgement for the successful payment will like the successful submission of your application form.

OPSC Admit Card 2019

Once filled up the application form for OPSC exam 2019, the candidates need to download their admit card that’s a mandatory one. This document is highly needed to at the time of coming into the exam corridor else you may not be eligible to attempt your Odisha Civil Services exam.

Moreover, when an application might have submitted within the right manner, only then, admit card might be issued by means of Odisha Civil Services Commission. Kindly note that there will be distinctive admit cards for Preliminary and Main OPSC exam 2019.

In brief, the candidates should need to bring the admit card on the time of getting into the exam hall, else they will become unable to attempt the same.

OPSC Exam Pattern

This civil service exam will have three rounds like other exams. The candidates have to participate in all three to get recruited in the Odisha PSC civil service exam.
These three stages will be

1. Preliminary Examination, (Objective Type-Multiple Choice Questions)
2. Main Examination
3. Personality Test or Interview

Preliminary Examination

The Prelim exam will be the initial round and will have two question papers of objective type. The Paper 1 will be of General Studies consisting of 200 marks and Paper 2: Optional Subject again will have 200 marks. Moreover, it will be a screening test only and the marks scored from this exam will not be added in the final ranking of the candidates.

Main Examination

The Main exam will be the second one and it will have a descriptive nature. There will be 9 papers for this exam.

Paper 1: Oriya Language (300 marks),

Paper 2: English (300 marks),

Paper 3: English Essay (200 marks),

Paper 4: General Studies-I (300 marks),

Paper 5: General Studies-II (300 marks), and Paper 6, 7, 8, and 9- It will of any two subjects that you would have selected from the list of optional subjects set.

Each subject will have two papers (300 marks for each paper). Kindly note that marks obtained in this exam will be added while assembling the total marks for a final result.

Personality Test/ Interview

This will be the last round of OPSC exam 2019. There will be a panel of interviewers to test candidates’ suitable for the job through the oral conversation. In this, the recruiters appointed by this commission will judge the candidates’ decision-making ability. At last, the marks obtained in the Main examination and Interview will be added to get the final output. Kindly note, that candidates must bring all their certificates while coming for the interview.

Odisha PSC Syllabus

To download the syllabus, kindly check the official web portal of OPSC. It should be noted that concentrate on the only syllabus mentioned in this portal.

OPSC Result 2019

The candidates will get the result once completed with the interview process. The candidates will get the result of the examination on the official web portal of OPSC only. First, they will get the result of pre-exam, if cleared, then attempt the main exam and interview and later on can check their results.

Hence, if you will thoroughly read this article, you would able to know about all the eligibilities and other factors required cracking this exam. In case of any query, you can either check the official portal of OPSC or put your query in the following comment box.

Good Luck!