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🏫 Exam-hall sounds
Practise with the sounds of a real exam hall. Use headphones and press “Sound check” to hear them.Background sound level
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- Keep your shorthand notebook and pencil ready. Use headphones.
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About this dictation
| Exam | SSC Stenographer Grade C & D 2023 (held on 04.01.2024) |
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| Grade / speed | Grade C · 100 words per minute |
| Length | 1003 words · 10 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Matter | Union Budget speech |
| Voice | RBE teacher, cleaned and timed to exactly 100 words every minute |
The passage text and shorthand outlines are shown only after you submit, so you cannot see them before the test.
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RBE courseStenography (Shorthand) Complete Course
- Complete course videos – English & Hindi shorthand from basics
- 130+ dictation videos at different speeds for practice
- Books suggested for practice
- By RBE – Revolution by Education
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.