EMRS JSA study guide
EMRS JSA · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The EMRS Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA) recruitment examination is a multiple-choice selection test used to fill Junior Secretariat Assistant posts in Eklavya Model Residential Schools. The published stages are Tier-I and Tier-II. The EMRS JSA study guide has 6 sections and about 1,954 words.
01General Awareness
The General Awareness part of EMRS JSA rewards breadth with accuracy: Indian polity, geography, history, economy, basic science, and a current-affairs window of roughly the last eight to ten months. Because the post sits in an Eklavya Model Residential School, questions also touch tribal administration and school-education schemes.
354 words, about 2 min02Reasoning
Reasoning in EMRS JSA is speed-based: series, coding–decoding, analogies, blood relations, direction sense, syllogism, seating arrangement, and a few non-verbal items such as mirror images, embedded figures and paper folding. Alphabet position: A=1 … Z=26; EJOTY gives 5, 10, 15, 20, 25; opposite letters sum to 27 (A–Z, B–Y).
305 words, about 2 min03Quantitative Aptitude
Quantitative Aptitude checks arithmetic fundamentals and calculation speed - percentage, ratio and proportion, average, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time–speed–distance, time and work, mensuration, number system, and data interpretation from tables, bar graphs and pie charts. Percentage: every percentage needs a base; a change of a% followed by b% equals a + b + ab/100.
334 words, about 2 min04English Language
English Language at JSA level is practical grammar plus comprehension: a reading passage, cloze test, error spotting, sentence improvement, synonyms and antonyms, one-word substitution, idioms, and active–passive or direct–indirect conversion. Subject–verb agreement: "one of + plural noun + singular verb"; each, every, either, neither and everyone take singular verbs; "the number of" is singular while "a number of" is plural.
302 words, about 2 min05Hindi Language
313 words, about 2 min06Computer Knowledge / Office Procedures
This part covers hardware and software basics, Windows and file management, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, internet and email, plus the paper trail of a government office: receipt and dispatch of dak, file noting, drafting, fair copying, record retention, and e-office practice. Memory: 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB; RAM is volatile, ROM is non-volatile.
346 words, about 2 min