ESIC Stenographer case studies
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The ESIC Stenographer recruitment exam is the selection process used by the Employees' State Insurance Corporation to fill stenographer posts in its offices across India. It suits candidates who combine solid shorthand speed with a working command of English, elementary reasoning, basic arithmetic and everyday computer operations, since the role involves taking dictation, transcribing it accurately and handling routine office correspondence. The ESIC Stenographer case studies are 5 cases and about 3,626 words.
1The circular that must go up by 4 p.m.
The regional office must put out a one-page circular on revised OPD timings before 4 p.m., when it goes on the notice board and the intranet. Your senior has drafted it and flagged four sentences for you to settle.
679 words, about 3 min2Five days, 4,800 claim files
Your branch has 4,800 pending claim files to be data-entered before close of business on Friday. Work starts on Monday, there are five working days, and no weekend work is authorised.
734 words, about 4 min3The cause list that is not yet determined
Five claim files - P, Q, R, S and T - must be listed for hearing, one per day, from Monday to Friday of the coming week. The listing clerk has recorded four conditions settled by the bench: 1.
766 words, about 4 min4Ten minutes of dictation, fifty minutes of transcription
The recruitment notice for this post states: the dictation is of 10 minutes at 80 words per minute; transcription is allowed 50 minutes for English; and a candidate is treated as failing only if errors exceed 5 per cent of the dictated words. The notice defines an error as a wrongly spelt word, an omitted word or an added word.
728 words, about 4 min5The ten-minute typing test
The typing test for this post is scored by the software as follows: gross speed = characters typed ÷ 5 ÷ minutes; net speed = (characters typed ÷ 5 − uncorrected errors) ÷ minutes. A word left blank counts as one error, and an error that has been corrected is not counted at all.
719 words, about 4 min