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The Typing Tests You Will Face: SSC, Railway and Delhi Police Standards for 2026-27

This chapter sets out, from the official notices, what each central government typing and data-entry test demands: speed or key-depression rate, duration, passage size, error cut-off or marks, exemptions, and whether the test qualifies or adds to merit. Your post's standard decides your practice: 35 words per minute for SSC LDC/JSA, 30 for Railway and Delhi Police, or a key-depression rate for data entry. The chapter also records the 2026 removal of the Railway typing test for Graduate typist posts.

KarmSakha preparation topics covered

• Copy typing on a computer: qualifying and scored tests, medium, w.p.m. and KDPH
• SSC CHSL 2026: DEO Skill Test (Parts A and B) and LDC/JSA Typing Test (Part C)
• Cut-offs on percentage of mistakes fixed for CHSLE 2024 and 2025
• SSC CGL 2026 Data Entry Speed Test: error limits, higher-standard posts, exemptions
• Delhi Police Head Constable (Ministerial): marks bands, formatting test, merit
• Railway NTPC Typing Skill Test and its removal for Graduate posts in CEN 06/2026
• SSC Stenographer Grade 'C' and 'D': dictation and transcription times
• A checklist for reading any typing-test notice

What a Government Typing Test Actually Measures

Every test in this book is a copy-typing test on a computer. You reproduce a printed passage, which in SSC data entry tests may also be shown on screen, or, for stenographers, a dictation transcribed on computer. The software records what you key in within a fixed time. The examiner counts how much you entered and how many entries differ from the copy. Style and meaning are not judged, and a fast but careless script can fail as surely as a slow one.

Next, decide whether the test qualifies or scores. The SSC LDC/JSA typing test, the SSC Skill Test for Data Entry Operators, the Data Entry Speed Test (DEST) in CGL Tier-II, the Railway Computer Based Typing Skill Test and the stenography skill test are qualifying: you must reach the standard, but speed adds nothing to merit. The Delhi Police Head Constable (Ministerial) typing test is the exception. Its marks, up to 25, are added to the Computer Based Examination score in the final merit.

The medium is fixed when you apply. The CHSL 2026 notice makes the Hindi or English choice in the application final (para 13.9.13.7(ii)). SSC's evaluation instructions give no credit for a medium you did not opt for, the Delhi Police form asks for the medium, and English is the Railway default. The Hindi standard is 5 words per minute below English in the SSC LDC/JSA, Railway and Delhi Police tests. Switching late to chase that lower figure is not allowed, so practise in the medium you will sit.

Two units appear in the notices. Clerical tests state words per minute (w.p.m.). Data entry tests state key depressions per hour (KDPH). The notices do not define a key depression; this book counts one for each press of a letter, figure, punctuation mark or the space bar. A standard word of five key depressions links the two, which is how the CHSL 2026 notice equates 35 w.p.m. with about 10,500 key depressions per hour and 30 w.p.m. with about 9,000 (para 13.9.13.7(iii)). How each board counts words and mistakes is the subject of Chapter 2.

SSC CHSL 2026: The LDC/JSA Typing Test and the DEO Skill Test

The CHSL 2026 notice (uploaded 7 September 2026) holds Tier-II in two sessions on one day. Session-II, after a re-registration break, holds Section-IV, the Skill Test or Typing Test (paras 13.9.2, 13.9.7, 13.9.8). Part A is for DEO and DEO Grade 'A' posts in the three offices of para 8.1: the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, the Staff Selection Commission and the Ministry of Culture. Those posts also need 12th pass in Science with Mathematics. Part B covers DEO posts elsewhere. Part C is the LDC/JSA typing test, which needs 12th pass (para 8.2).

Parts A and B are judged 'on the basis of the correct entry of words/key depressions as per the given passage' (para 13.9.13.6(ii)-(iii)). At 15,000 key depressions per hour a candidate enters 250 a minute, or 3,750 in 15 minutes, inside the 3,700-4,000 range for Part A. At 8,000 an hour the 15-minute figure is 2,000, the bottom of the 2,000-2,200 range for Part B. A typist exactly at the standard finishes about one passage, and every wrong entry pulls the correct count below the line. Both passages are in English and may also be shown on screen.

Part C sets 35 words per minute in English or 30 in Hindi, adjudged on the accuracy of a passage typed in 10 minutes (para 13.9.13.7(iii)-(iv)). The notice gives no Part C passage size, so practise on passages you cannot finish early, such as the 400-450-word passages of Chapter 5. Hindi candidates must type in Mangal font only, and any other font means non-qualification (para 13.9.13.7(viii)). Scribe-eligible candidates under paras 7.1 to 7.3 get 5 extra minutes in each part (paras 13.9.13.6(iv), 13.9.13.7(v)), and in the Part C typing test visually handicapped candidates who opted for a scribe get a passage dictator (para 13.9.13.7(vi)).

Exemptions and the Cut-offs Fixed Each Cycle

Exemption exists only for LDC/JSA. The DEO Skill Test is mandatory, and 'no candidate is exempted' (para 13.9.13.6(i)). For the Typing Test, a PwD candidate certified by a Civil Surgeon of a Government health care institution as unable to type (Annexure-XIII) may be exempted, but only where a physical disability permanently prevents typing. Visually and hearing handicapped candidates are not covered (para 13.9.13.7(vii)). Section-IV is qualifying, errors are calculated to two decimal places (para 13.9.13.4), and merit is drawn on Sections I and II, subject to qualifying Sections III and IV (paras 17.6, 17.9).

The percentage of mistakes that decides the pass is fixed for each cycle and printed with the result. The CHSLE 2024 final result (17 February 2025) and the CHSLE 2025 First Round of Tentative Allocation (17 August 2026) set identical cut-offs, shown below. Treat them as the standard for those cycles, not as permanent rules, and note how much stricter the DEO Grade 'A' figure is.

SSC CGL 2026: The Data Entry Speed Test in Tier-II

In the CGL 2026 notice (uploaded 21 May 2026), typing appears as the Data Entry Speed Test (DEST), Section-IV of Paper-I. Session-II, on the same day after Session-I and a re-registration break, is the DEST alone: 15 minutes on a passage of about 2,000 key depressions (paras 13.9.5.6, 13.9.10.1-13.9.10.2). The notice prints no hourly rate, but 2,000 in 15 minutes is 8,000 an hour, the CHSL Part B rate. Unlike CHSL, the CGL notice prints its error limits: para 16.2 allows 20% for UR, 25% for OBC and EWS, and 30% for all other categories. DEST is mandatory but qualifying (para 13.9.10.3).

These limits are far looser than the DEO Grade 'A' cut-offs of 5% and 7%, and both tests are easily confused, being 15-minute tests of about 2,000 key depressions. A UR candidate with 6% errors is far inside the CGL limit yet would fail the CHSL DEO Grade 'A' cut-off. Two groups face a higher, unprinted standard. DEST-prescribed posts are Tax Assistant in CBIC and CBDT and UDC/SSA in the Central Bureau of Narcotics (para 13.9.10.4). Computer-proficiency posts include Assistant Section Officer in CSS, MEA and AFHQ and Postal/Sorting Assistant (paras 13.9.9(b), 16.6); their Computer Knowledge Test is set higher too.

DEST adds no marks to merit; it is a gate. Merit is drawn on Sections I and II of Paper-I, subject to qualifying the Computer Knowledge Test and DEST at the applicable standards (paras 16.12 to 16.14). JSO and Statistical Investigator Grade-II posts also count Paper-II, and AAO/AAccO posts count Paper-III (para 16.11). A candidate who clears the normal DEST standard but not the higher one stays in contention for ordinary posts but drops out of Tax Assistant and computer-proficiency posts, however high the written score. The PwBD-OH exemption (Annexure-XIV) does not reach computer-proficiency or DEST-prescribed posts, except Tax Assistant in CBDT (para 13.9.10.6).

Scribe-eligible candidates get 5 extra minutes, which makes the DEST 20 minutes for them (para 13.9.10.7). For a typist working at 8,000 KDPH, those five minutes are worth about 667 key depressions (8,000 × 5 ÷ 60), roughly a third of the passage, so they are the margin a slower typist needs to reach the end. Visually handicapped candidates who opted for a scribe in the written examination also get a passage reader.

Head Constable (Ministerial) in Delhi Police: A Typing Test That Carries 25 Marks