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1 Central Silk Board Syllabus 2023 & Exam Pattern

Central Silk Board Syllabus 2023 & Exam Pattern

Applicants of Central Silk Board Assistant Director (A&A), Computer Programmer, Assistant Superintendent (Admin), Assistant Superintendent (Tech.), Stenographer (Grade-I), Library and Information Assistant, Junior Engineer (Electrical), Junior Translator (Hindi), Upper Division Clerk, Stenographer (Grade-II), Field Assistant & Cook posts need to check the CSB Syllabus 2023 & CSB Exam Pattern 2023. The officials of CSB released the Central Silk Board Exam Syllabus for Group A, B, C and Central Silk Board Group A B C Exam Pattern. Well, we have given the direct link to the Central Silk Board Exam Syllabus at the end of the page.

Central Silk Board Syllabus 2023 – Details

Organization Name	Central Silk Board
Post Names	Group A, B, C Posts – Assistant Director (A&A), Computer Programmer, Assistant Superintendent (Admin), Assistant Superintendent (Tech.), Stenographer (Grade-I), Library and Information Assistant, Junior Engineer (Electrical), Junior Translator (Hindi), Upper Division Clerk, Stenographer (Grade-II), Field Assistant & Cook
Advt. No.	CSB/ 09/ 2022
Category	Syllabus
Selection Process	Computer Based Test, Skill Test/ Proficiency Test, Interview (Only for Group A Posts)
Job Location	Across India
Official Site	csb.gov.in

Central Silk Board Exam Pattern 2023

From this article, you can get CSB Post Wise Exam Pattern. For each wrong answer, there will be a negative marking of one-fourth of the mark assigned to that question for all Posts.

Exam Pattern For Assistant Director (Admn.& Accts) – Finance, Accounts, and Audit

Subjects	Questions / Marks	Time Duration (Min)
General Knowledge and Current Affairs	10 / 10	10 Minutes
Communication in English & Vocabulary	10 / 10	10 Minutes
Cash Book & its Maintenance	10 / 10	10 Minutes
General Financial Rules & its application	20 / 20	40 Minutes
Financial, Accts, Bills, Stores Maintenance including construction, establishment/ Administration & Audit	50 / 50	40 Minutes
Total	100 / 100	60 Minutes

Exam Pattern For Computer Programmers

Section	Subject	Max. Marks/Questions	Duration (Min)
Section I	Mental Ability and Quantitative Aptitude	60	60 Minutes
Section II	Technical Test (Software Development)	60	60 Minutes
Total		120 Questions	120 Minutes

Assistant superintendent (Technical), Assistant Superintendent (Admn.), Stenographer (Grade-I), Upper Division Clerk, and Stenographer (Grade-II) Exam Pattern

Subjects	Questions / Marks	Time Duration (Min)
General Intelligence & Reasoning	30	30 Minutes
General Awareness	30	30 Minutes
Numerical Aptitude	30	30 Minutes
English Comprehension	30	30 Minutes
Total	120 Questions	120 Minutes

Exam Pattern For Library and & Information Assistant

Section	Subject	Max. Marks/Questions	Duration (Min)
Paper I	General Awareness & English Language	30	60 Minutes
Paper II	Library Methods and Techniques	60	60 Minutes
Total		120 Questions	120 Minutes

Exam Pattern For Junior Engineers (Electrical) Examination

Section	Subject	Max. Marks/Questions	Duration (Min)
Paper I	General Intelligence and Reasoning & General Awareness	30	60 Minutes
Paper II	General Engineering	60	60 Minutes
Total		120 Questions	120 Minutes

Exam Pattern For Junior Translator (Hindi)

Section	Mode Of Paper	Subject	Max. Marks/Questions	Duration (Min)
Paper I	(Objective Type) Computer Based	General Hindi & General English	40 Questions	60 Minutes	60 Minutes
Paper II	Descriptive	Translation (Hindi to English and English to Hindi)	100 Marks

Exam Pattern For Field Assistant Examination

Subjects	Questions / Marks	Time Duration (Min)
General Intelligence & Reasoning	25	30 Minutes
General Awareness	25	30 Minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	25	30 Minutes
English Comprehension	25	30 Minutes
Total	100 Questions	120 Minutes

Exam Pattern For Cook Examination

Subjects	Questions / Marks	Time Duration (Min)
General Intelligence & Reasoning	25	30 Minutes
General Awareness	25	30 Minutes
General English	25	30 Minutes
Numerical Aptitude	25	30 Minutes
Total	100 Questions	120 Minutes

Central Silk Board Post Wise Syllabus 2023

Syllabus For Assistant superintendent (Technical), Assistant Superintendent (Admn.), Stenographer (Grade-I), Upper Division Clerk, and Stenographer (Grade-II)

General Intelligence & Reasoning: It would include questions of both verbal and nonverbal types. This component may include questions on analogies, similarities and differences, spatial visualization, spatial orientation, problem-solving, analysis, judgment, decision-making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning, and figural classification, arithmetic number series, non-verbal series, coding and decoding, statement conclusion, syllogistic reasoning, etc.

General Awareness: Questions in this component will be aimed at testing the candidate’s general awareness of the environment around him and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observations and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of any educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to sports, History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity, Indian Constitution, scientific Research, etc. These Questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline.

Numerical Aptitude: The questions will be designed to test the ability to appropriately use numbers and number sense of the candidate. The scope of the test will be the computation of whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and relationships between numbers. It will test the sense of order among numbers, ability to translate from one name to another, sense or order of magnitude, estimation or prediction of the outcome of computation, selection of an appropriate operation for the solution of real-life problems, and knowledge of alternative computation procedures to find answers. The questions would also be based on arithmetical concepts and relationships between numbers and not on complicated arithmetical computation (The standard of the questions will be of 10+2 level).

English Comprehension: Candidates’ ability to understand correct English, basic comprehension, etc. would be tested.

Syllabus For Library and & Information Assistant

Details Of Paper-I:

General Awareness: Questions shall aim at testing the candidate’s awareness of current events and the environment around him/her besides testing the knowledge of Everyday Science, Scientific Research, Sports, Indian Culture, Indian History, Indian Geography, Economics, Indian Polity, Indian Constitution, etc.

English Language: Questions in this component are designed to test the candidate’s understanding, correct usage, and knowledge of the English Language and will be based on error recognition, fill-in-the-blanks (using Verbs, Prepositions, etc.), vocabulary, spellings, grammar, sentence structure, synonyms, antonyms, sentence completion, phrases, and idioms, etc.

Details Of Paper-II:

Library Methods and Techniques: Library and Society: Laws of Library Science; Types of Libraries; Library Associations, systems, and Programmes; Library Movement and Library Legislation in India; Organizations and Institutions involved in the development of Library and Information Services–UNESCO, IFLA, FID, INIS, NISSAT, etc.;

Library Management: Collection development –Types of Documents and Selection Principles, Acquisition Procedure, Acquisition of Journals and Periodicals, Preparation of Documents for use; Library Personnel and Library Committee, Library Rules and Regulations; Library Finance and Budget; Principles of Library Management, Library Organisation, and Structure; Use and Maintenance of the Library –Circulation, Maintenance, Shelving, Stock Verification, Binding and Preservation, Weeding out, etc.;

Library Classification Theory and Practice: Canons and Principles, Library Classification Schemes – DDC, CC, UDC;

Library Cataloguing Theory and Practice: Canons and Principles; Library Cataloguing Codes – CCC and AACR;

Reference and Information Sources: Bibliography and Reference Sources–Types of Bibliography; Reference Sources–Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Ready Reference Sources, etc.; Sources of Information– Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Documentary, Non-Documentary; E-Documents, EBooks, E-Journals, etc.;

Information Services: Concept and need for Information; Types of Documents; Nature and organization of Information Services, Abstracting and Indexing Services; Computer-based Information Services– CAS, SDI;

Information Technology: Basics Introduction to Computers; Use of computers in Library housekeeping, Library Automation; Software and software packages; Networks–DELNET, NICNET, etc.; National and International Information Systems – NISSAT, NASSDOC, INSDOC, DESIDOC, etc

Syllabus For Cook Examination

General Intelligence & Reasoning: will be of 10th standard and would include questions of non-verbal type. The test may include questions on analogies, similarities, and differences, space visualization, problem-solving, analysis, judgment, decision making visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, figure classification, arithmetical number series, and non-verbal series. The test will also include questions designed to test the candidate’s abilities to deal with abstract ideas and symbols and their relationship to arithmetical computation and other analytical functions.

General Awareness: The questions will be of the 10th standard. The questions will be designed to test the ability of a candidate’s general awareness of the environment around him/her and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of a 10th/12th standard educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to Sports, History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity including Indian Constitution, Scientific Research, etc. These questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline.

General English: The questions will be of 10th standard. Candidates’ understanding of the basics of the English Language, its vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, synonyms, antonyms, correct usage, etc. his/her writing ability would also be tested.

Numerical Aptitude: This paper will include questions on problems relating to Number Systems, Computation of Whole Numbers, Decimals and Fractions and relationship between Numbers, Fundamental Arithmetical Operations, Percentages, Ratio and Proportion, Averages, Interest, Profit & loss, Discount, use of Table and Graphs, Mensuration, Time and Distance, Ratio and Time, Time and Work, etc.

Syllabus For Field Assistant Examination

General Intelligence & Reasoning: It would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal types. This component may include questions on analogies, similarities and differences, space visualization, spatial orientation, problem-solving, analysis, judgment, decision making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning and figural classification, arithmetic number series, non-verbal series, coding and decoding, statement conclusion, syllogistic reasoning etc. The topics are, Semantic Analogy, Symbolic/ Number Analogy, Figural Analogy, Semantic Classification, Symbolic/ Number Classification, Figural Classification, Semantic Series, Number Series, Figural Series, Problem Solving, Word Building, Coding & decoding, Numerical Operations, symbolic Operations, Trends, Space Orientation, Space Visualization, Venn Diagrams, Drawing inferences, Punched hole/ pattern- folding & un-folding, Figural Pattern-folding and completion, Indexing, Address matching, Date & city matching, Classification of center codes/ roll numbers, Small & Capital letters/ numbers coding, decoding and classification, Embedded Figures, Critical thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence.

General Awareness: Questions in this component will be aimed at testing the candidates’ general awareness of the environment around them and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observations and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of any educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy & Scientific Research.

Quantitative Aptitude: The questions will be designed to test the ability to appropriately use numbers and number sense of the candidate. The scope of the test will be the computation of whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and relationships between numbers, Percentages. Ratio & Proportion, Square roots, Averages, Interest, Profit and Loss, Discount, Partnership Business, Mixture and Alligation, Time and distance, Time & Work, Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra & Elementary surds, Graphs of Linear Equations, Triangle and its various kinds of centers, Congruence and similarity of triangles, Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles, Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped, Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base, Trigonometric ratio, Degree and Radian Measures, Standard Identities, Complementary angles, Heights and Distances, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar diagram & Pie chart.

English Comprehension: Questions in this component will be designed to test the candidate’s understanding and knowledge of the English Language and will be based on spotting the error, filling in the blanks, synonyms, antonyms, spelling/ detecting misspelled words, idioms & phrases, one-word substitution, improvement of sentences, active/ passive voice of verbs, conversion into direct! indirect narration, shuffling of sentence parts, shuffling of sentences in a passage, cloze passage & comprehension passage.

Syllabus For Junior Translator (Hindi)

Paper-I: will consist of Objective Type Multiple choice questions only.

General Hindi: Grammatical Topics i.e. Samas, Sandhi, Kriya, Visheshan, etc, Hindi Synonyms, Hindi Paragraphs, Hindi Proverbs, Hindi Antonyms, Hindi Phrases/ Muhavare, Hindi Comprehension, Knowledge of Hindi.

General English: Fill in the Blanks, Error Recognition, Articles, Verbs, Preposition, Spelling Test, Vocabulary, Grammar, Synonyms, Sentence Structure, Antonyms, Sentence Completion, Correct use of words, Phrases, and Idioms.

Paper-II Syllabus

Two passages for translation one passage for translation from Hindi to English and one passage for translation from English to Hindi.

An Essay each in Hindi and English.

Syllabus For Junior Engineers (Electrical) Examination

Details Of Paper-I:

(i) General Intelligence & Reasoning: The Syllabus for General Intelligence would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal types. The test may include questions on analogies, similarities, differences, space visualization, problem-solving, analysis, judgment, decision-making, visual memory, discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning, verbal and figure classification, arithmetical number series, etc. The test will also include questions designed to test the candidate’s abilities to deal with abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships, arithmetical computations, and other analytical functions.

(ii) General Awareness: Questions will be aimed at testing the candidate’s general awareness of the environment around him/her and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observations and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of any educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries, especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity and Scientific Research, etc. These questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline.

(iii) General Engineering (Electrical): Basic concepts, Circuit law, Magnetic Circuit, AC Fundamentals, Measurement and Measuring instruments, Electrical Machines, Fractional Kilowatt Motors, and single phase induction Motors, Synchronous Machines, Generation, Transmission, and Distribution, Estimation and Costing, Utilization and Electrical Energy, Basic Electronics.

Syllabus For Computer Programmer

Details Of Section I: The test will contain questions on three abilities or skills;

Analytical Reasoning Skills.

Quantitative Skills: Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, Commonly known concepts of Geometry.

Verbal Skills: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction, and Sentence Completion.

Details Of Section II: The test will contain questions on the following concepts or skills;

a. Digital Logic: Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Minimization. Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).

b. Computer Organization and Architecture: Machine instructions and addressing modes. ALU, data path, and control unit. Instruction pipelining. Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory, and secondary storage; I/O interface (interrupt and DMA mode).

c. Programming and Data Structures: Programming in C. Recursion. Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.

d. Algorithms: Searching, sorting, hashing. Asymptotic worst-case time and space complexity. Algorithm design techniques: greedy, dynamic programming, and divide-and-conquer. Graph search, minimum spanning trees, and shortest paths.

e. Operating System: Processes, threads, inter‐process communication, concurrency, and synchronization. Deadlock. CPU scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory. File systems. UNIX, Linux, Windows XP.

f. Databases: ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL. Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees). Transactions and concurrency control.

g. Computer Networks: Concept of layering. LAN technologies (Ethernet). Flow and error control techniques, switching. IPv4/ IPv6, routers, and routing algorithms (distance vector, link state). TCP/ UDP and sockets, congestion control. Application layer protocols (DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP). Basics of Wi-Fi. Network security: authentication, basics of public key and private key cryptography, digital signatures and certificates, firewalls.

Syllabus For Assistant Director (Admn.& Accts) – Finance, Accounts, and Audit

General Knowledge and Current Affairs: The Indian Union and International Affairs including Current Affairs, Personnel Management, and Industrial Relations Page 24 of 48, General Mental Ability/ Quantitative aptitude, Logical Reasoning, Interpretation of graphs, charts and tables/ Statistical methods, General Science/ General Awareness, Computer Awareness & Basic knowledge of office automation software such as Word/Excel/ Access/ PowerPoint/ Internet/ Tally Package/Office Management and procedure., Mathematical knowledge such as simple and compound interest calculation, Area, Volume, annuity, etc.

Communication in English and Vocabulary: Vocabulary, Fill in the blanks, Grammar, Spot the Error, Antonyms, Synonyms/Homonyms, Sentence structure, Spellings, Detecting Mis-spelt words, word substitutions, Idioms and phrases, Improvement, Passage, Verbal Comprehension passage, etc., Verbs, Adjectives, Clauses.

Cash Book & its Maintenance: Maintenance of double entry Cash book., Closing of cash book, Bank reconciliation Statement.

General Financial Rules and their application: Preparation of various forms including GRE/ PV/ JV /stock entry etc., Conditions to be adhered to for incurring the expenditure, Procedures to be followed for sanction of any advances, Stores purchase/service procedure, award of contract in case of civil construction, Procedure to be followed for purchasing the capital assets, Steps to be taken for the construction related capital works, Maintenance of Asset/Dead Stock/Perishable, etc., registers, Disposable of DSA and Assets, Hiring of equipment, building, personnel, vehicle, etc., Consultancy.

Finance, Accounts, Bills, Stores, Maintenance including construction, Establishment/Admin. & Audit: Corporate Accounts & Accounting Standards, Depreciation, Provision and Reserves, Ledger posting, Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Income & Expenditure Statement, Profit & Loss Account, Asset Accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Management Information System, Management by Objective, Social Responsibility Accounting, Accounting of Royalties, Hire purchase and installment systems, Ratio Analysis, Working capital, Fund Flow & Cash Fl1ow, ROI, Foreign Exchange Management, etc., Indirect & Direct – Tax Management – Income Tax, Sales Tax, Service Tax, Customs duty, Import duty, Excise duty, etc., Cost & Management Accounting, Costing Techniques, Cost Audit, Financial Management, Foreign Exchange and Risk Management, Capital Market Analysis, Computer Applications in Business, Management Control System, Principles of Accounting, Double Entry System, Journal, Ledger, Cash Book and Trial Balance, Provisions, Reserves, Depreciation accounting, final accounts with including Accounting Standards;, Income Tax – Corporate Taxation, Personal Taxation Service Tax, CST, VAT, Delhi Sales Tax., Auditing – MAOCARO, Internal Audit, Tax Audit., Costing-concepts and classification of Cost, Methods and Techniques of Costing, Managerial Costing and Break even Analysis, Standard Costing and variance Analysis, Cost Records and Cost Audit; Marginal Costing, Material Management, Decision Making, Enterprise Resource Planning, Project Management Techniques, Cost Accounting Standard, Emerging concepts in Cost and Management Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Companies Act 1956 – provisions relating to formation and financing of Joint Stock Companies, Management of Share Capital;, Financial planning, Sources of long term finance, optimum capital structure, Fund Flow Analysis, Cash Flow Analysis, Ratio Analysis, Budget Preparation and Control, Capital Budget, Working Capital Management, dividend policy;, Project Evaluation- Objectives, Types, Methods of Projects Evaluation, Appraisal Criteria – Net Present Value, Benefit cost ratio, Internal Rate of Return, Payback Period;, Investment Management, Alternative forms of Investment, Investment Process, Market for Securities and Taxes, Valuation of securities;, Credit Rating- Meaning of Credit and Rating Symbols by CRISIL,ICRA and CARE., Foreign Exchange, Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting Risk- Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates Risk and their management, Political Risk and its management, Inflation risk, and its impact, Financial Swaps – Interest Rate Swaps and Currency Swaps., Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules, CCS(Pension) Rules & New Pension Scheme, TA Rules & LTC Rules, Medical Attendance Rules, Provident Fund Rules, Delegation of Financial powers, Civil Accounts Manual, Central Treasury Rules, Disciplinary procedures, Fixation of pay /wage fixation, Outsourcing of maintenance activities/Review of Estimates in regard to Capital/Civil works., Cadre Review, Fundamental of Audit, Internal Check and Internal Control system, Vouching and verification of records, Audit of transactions and Accounting thereon, Investigation and Loss analysis Risk Analysis.