General Information For PCS

Scheme of PSCSCCE-2012

• No candidate who applies for this Examination through any other means but throughOnline Application Form shall be eligible to take this Examination. Candidates whoregister and fill in Online Application Form, would be issued Admit Cards prior to theconduct of Preliminary Competitive Examination on receipt of hard copy of theirapplications as described in the instructions for filling up Online Application Form.
•  How to apply for PSCSCCE-2012
  • The candidate after making himself/herself well acquainted with the General Instructions
  and Instructions for filling Online Application Form may apply for PSCSCCE-2012 using
  Online Application Form.
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  •  Particulars like name of the candidate, father’s name and date of birth etc. should be as
  given in the matriculation or equivalent certificate in the Online Application Form.
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  • 4.3 The candidate must maintain uniformity in the format of signatures affixed at various stages
  of selection process. The signature should be of the usual kind which the candidate uses for
  official purposes. Any attempt to modify or using confusing signature shall be taken as an
  effort on the part of the candidate to impersonate or of using some other ill intent.
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  • 4.4 The candidates are required to pay the examination fee as mentioned below:
  
  
  
  •  The Examination fee must be submitted along with the print out of online application form
  duly signed by the candidate along with a SINGLE Demand Draft in original issued by a
  branch of State Bank of India or State Bank of Patiala, drawn in favour of the Secretary,
  Punjab Public Service Commission, and made payable at Patiala. The applications received
  without a valid Bank Demand Draft or with inadequate examination fee shall be summarily
  rejected. The examination fee is non-refundable.
  
  
  •  Candidate must write his/her Registration Number, name and address in BLOCK
  LETTERS on the reverse of the Bank Demand Draft.
  
  Conditions which may render a candidate ineligible
  The following conditions, among others, shall render the candidates ineligible for the Preliminary Competitive Examination:
  a) Insufficient examination fee;
  
  b) Examination fee deposited by means other than a Bank Demand Draft issued by the State Bank of India or State Bank of Patiala.;
  
  c) Late receipt of print out of online registration form;
  
  d) Wrong/incomplete information given in the application form;
  
  e) Candidates debarred by the PPSC/other Public Service Commissions;
  
  f) Non-fulfillment of any of the eligibility conditions, including those of age and educational qualifications.
  
  Age Limit
  
  • As mandated by Punjab Civil Services Rules 1976, as amended from time to time, the
  candidate should have attained the minimum age of 21 years and should not have attained
  the age of 37 years on the first day of January of the year in which the last day falls for
  submission of application to the Commission. In other words, the candidate should have
  attained the age of 21 years but should not be older than 37 years on 1st January 2012.
  
  Number of Attempts for this and similar Examinations
  
  •  Unless covered by any of the exceptions, which may from time to time be notified by the
  Government in this behalf, every candidate belonging to General Category appearing for the
  examination after the commencement of Punjab State Civil Services (Appointment by
  Combined Competitive Examination) Rules, 2009, shall be permitted to avail upto four
  attempts at the examination.
  
  •  For the purpose of this rule, an appearance of a candidate in the Preliminary Examination,
  shall be deemed to be an attempt at the examination.
  
  •  Ex-servicemen category candidates are permitted only three attempts at the Examination.