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SSC Stenographer previous-year dictations
SSC Stenographer 2023 Grade C – English Dictation (100 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2023 · 1003 words · 10 minutes · Union Budget speech
SSC Stenographer 2023 Grade D – English Dictation (80 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2023 · 800 words · 10 minutes · Unemployment and rural employment
SSC Stenographer 2022 Grade C – English Dictation (100 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2022 · 994 words · 9.9 minutes · Failure of monsoon and food situation
SSC Stenographer 2022 Grade D – English Dictation (80 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2022 · 817 words · 10.2 minutes · Unemployment and rural development
SSC Stenographer 2022 Grade D (Re-Test) – English Dictation (80 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2022 · 796 words · 10 minutes · Fall in cotton production
SSC Stenographer 2020 Grade C – English Dictation (100 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2020 · 999 words · 10 minutes · Education and health allocation
SSC Stenographer 2019 Grade C – English Dictation (100 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2019 · 1001 words · 10 minutes · Tax proposals
SSC Stenographer 2019 Grade D – English Dictation (80 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2019 · 802 words · 10 minutes · Making Delhi a global city
SSC Stenographer 2018 Grade C – English Dictation (100 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2018 · 943 words · 9.4 minutes · Reply to Interim Budget debate
SSC Stenographer 2018 Grade D – English Dictation (80 wpm)SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2018 · 797 words · 10 minutes · Farmers' welfare
SSC Stenographer skill test rules
| Grade C | Grade D | |
|---|---|---|
| Dictation speed | 100 wpm (1,000 words) | 80 wpm (800 words) |
| Transcription time – English | 40 min (PwD with scribe 55) | 50 min (PwD with scribe 70) |
| Transcription time – Hindi | 55 min (PwD with scribe 75) | 65 min (PwD with scribe 90) |
| Mistakes allowed – UR | 5% | 7% |
| Mistakes allowed – OBC, SC, ST, EWS, ESM, PwD | 7% | 10% |
As per the SSC Stenographer notice – always check the notice of your year.
How mistakes are counted
Full mistake (1)
- Every word left out (omission)
- Wrong word (substitution) or extra word
- Repeated word, incomplete word
- Abbreviation for a full word (Govt. for Government) or the reverse
- Word typed in ALL CAPITALS
Half mistake (½)
- Spelling mistake
- Singular / plural
- Full stop missing at the end of a sentence or put at a wrong place
- Wrong capital / small letter
Not counted: commas and other punctuation, line breaks, extra spaces, figures for words (70 = seventy), hyphen typed as space, British / American spelling.
Error % = (full mistakes + ½ × half mistakes) ÷ words in the passage × 100.
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