Mukhya Sevika

It selects supervisors for ICDS projects, most often at block level, responsible for guiding Anganwadi Workers, verifying records and reporting to the Child Development Project Officer. Some states use the same paper for promotion of serving Anganwadi Workers, so read whether your advertisement is a direct recruitment or a departmental promotion route.

An objective-type written examination with multiple-choice questions, usually answered on an OMR sheet. The recruiting state decides whether there is negative marking, a sectional cutoff or an interview stage. Confirm all three from the official notification, because they change the risk of guessing and the order in which you should attempt sections.

These vary by state and by year, so no fixed figure can be relied on. The official body publishes the current question count, duration and marking scheme in its notification and on its website. Plan your practice around the published duration once it appears rather than around numbers from previous cycles.

Moderate. Most questions test recall of scheme norms, nutrition facts and supervision practice rather than deep theory. The reasoning and quantitative section is usually Class 10 level. The real difficulty is breadth: candidates who study only child development lose marks in schemes, records and general awareness, which together carry substantial weight.

There is generally no limit on appearing in future recruitment cycles, provided you still meet the age and eligibility conditions in that cycle's advertisement. Retake rules, age relaxation and any attempt limits are set by the recruiting authority, so verify them in the current notification rather than assuming the previous cycle's rules still apply.

Start with child development and early childhood care, then nutrition, health and hygiene, then women and child development schemes. These carry the largest weight and overlap heavily. Add supervision and record keeping next, then pre-school activity planning. Keep reasoning and language as short daily practice rather than a final-week cram.

Three patterns: confusing similar scheme names and their entitlements, mixing up growth-monitoring and supplementary-nutrition norms, and misreading supervision scenarios by choosing the punitive option instead of the corrective one. Another common loss is skipping record-keeping questions because they look clerical. Learn registers by their purpose and the person responsible for each.

It depends on the state. If the notification specifies negative marking, leave uncertain answers blank unless you can eliminate at least two options. If there is none, attempt every question. Do not carry over assumptions from another state's exam; the marking rules differ and are stated plainly in the official instructions.

Revise scheme facts and nutrition norms from your own short notes, then solve full-length timed papers to fix your section order. Review errors by cause, not just by answer. Keep one page of frequently confused figures, such as age limits and service frequencies, and read it daily. Confirm exam-day instructions and language options from the official admit card.