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How PH or physically handicapped candidates should choose post

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The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has announced the exam date of Common Graduate Level
Examination (CGLE) 2016 to start from 8th of May, 2016 for recruitment to 30 Grade B and Grade
C posts in various Ministries and Departments of Government of India. The last date of application
is 5:00 pm on 10th March 2016 for Part I registration and 5:00 pm on 14th March 2016 for Part II
registration. One of the most important part of completing the Part I registration is filling in your post
preference. This is the order of posts for which you would like to be considered for recruitment, based
on your marks in Tier I and Tier II written exams of this SSC recruitment drive. Thus, the first post
preference code implies that you would like to be considered first for that, and if you clear the cut off,
then be provided recruitment for that post. Thus, if the post that you qualify for is ranked low, then it
may just get filled by other candidates who have ranked it higher. Therefore, this priority ranking of
Posts is a very important factor that needs considerable thought before mentioning. Also, it is to be
noted that once Part I registration has been completed, you will not be able to change this post
preference order.

The scope of this article is to provide constructive information for all the PH category candidates to
help them make a proper decision on post preference. The other categories, for this SSC recruitment
2016, apart from PH, are UR/ General, ST, Ex. Servicemen, OBC, and SC. While deciding for the
same, the following factors are the most important to consider:
1. Job Profile : the job profile includes the position or the post, the department that the post is
attached to and the salary. Of these three, the first two are subjective criteria, and therefore,
these will just be stated as it is. All subjective criteria can be used to re-sort the ranking list
after getting a ranking based on objective criteria. Salary is an objective criteria, where we
assume that the preference should be higher for all candidates, if the salary for the post is
higher. Therefore, salary has been provided a rating from 1 to 5, where 5 is the highest salary,
and 1 the lowest.
2. Availability of Post : this is an important factor to consider as, over the years, the number of
vacancies are not the same for all posts and category of students. There are some which enjoy a
larger proportion of the total vacancies and some which have not had a single vacancy over the
last three years for which the final results are available (SSC CGL 2012 2014). Therefore, it
is always in your interest to figure out the Posts for which there are maximum chances of
vacancies, so that you can keep them at a higher preference, and Posts that have very low
chances or number of vacancies to be kept at the lowest preference. Therefore, the two metrics
we use for this are :
a. Average number of Vacancies (ANuV) : these have been provided a rating from 1 to
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5, where 5 implies the highest average vacancies (> 1000) for years 2012 to 2014 and 1
implies lowest average vacancies (<260). Posts with no vacancies in any of the three
years have not been provided a rating.
b. Frequency of Vacancies (FoV) : is the number of times, between 2012 and 2014, there
have been some vacancies for the Post. This provides us with a higher probability that
the post will again have some vacancies this year, if, it has been having vacancies over
the last few years. This criteria has a rating of 1 to 3, where, 3 implies that there have
been vacancies in each of the three years, and 1 implies the Post has had vacancies in
only one of the three years.
3. Ease of getting recruited (Ease) : is a rating from 1 to 5, where, 5 implies lowest amount of
competition to get recruited for the post and 1 implies highest amount of competition. This is
on the basis of cut offs. The lower the cut off, the higher the ease of recruitment.
The table below provides all the above information in respective columns. Additional information
included is the Post Code (to help you fill your ranking criteria) and the Preference Rank. The
Preference Rank is simply the addition of all the objective rankings discussed in points 1 and 2 above.
Also, the list has been sorted such that the highest ranking is at the top and the lowest ranking is at the
bottom.

NOTE:
There are some words of caution in using the table below:
1. Please check your eligibility for SSC CGLE 2016 before deciding the priority order for the
posts. Only consider the posts you shall be eligible for.
2. You can (infact, should) use subjectivity in changing the order provided below as per your
preference. For eg. If you are a graduate in Statistics, then you should consider bringing
Statistical Investigator Grade II to the top of your list, or if you feel that you are likely to be
amongst the top students, then you should select the posts with highest salary rating or as per
your job profile preference on the top.
3. There is one post, Assistant Audit Officer, (post code : F), in Indian Audit and Accounts
Department under CAG, that has been introduced for the first time in SSC CGL. This post
commands the highest salary and requires Paper IV, General Studies (Finance & Economics) to
be taken in Tier II exam. We expect the competition to low to mid for this position this year.
Thus, if you have had anything to do with finance or economics like a CA / MBA (Finance) /
M. Com / Masters in Economics, etc, you should definitely put this at the top of your
preference.
4. Another post, Sub Inspector, NIA (post code %) is a new addition by the Staff Selection
Commission in this years CGLE. For this also, only the salary rating has been provided. You
need to judge if and where you wish to put it in your priority.
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5. The rest of the posts not figuring in tables below have been left out as there have been no
vacancies reported for them since CGL 2012 to CGL 2014.

The PH category candidates comprise of OH, HH and VH candidates. A table for each of these
categories is as below:

Table to help choosing post preference for OH candidates of SSC CGL

2016
Rank

Post Code

Post

Department

FoV

ANuV

Ease

Salary
Rating

Auditor

Offices under C&AG

Auditor

Offices under CGDA

Inspector of Income
Tax

CBDT

Inspector, (Central
Excise)

CBEC

Tax Assistant

CBEC

Tax Assistant

CBDT

Accountant / Junior
Accountant

Offices under C&AG

Accountant / Junior
Accountant

Offices under CGA &

others

Assistant Section
Officer

Central Secretariat
Service

10

Inspector
(Preventive Officer)

CBEC

11

Assistant

Other Ministries/

7
8
9

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Departments /
Organizations
12
13

14

15

Q
E

Divisional
Accountant

Offices under CAG

Assistant

Ministry of External
Affairs

Senior Secretariat
Assistant

Central Govt.
Offices / Ministries
other than CSCS
cadres

Assistant

Other Ministries/
Departments /
Organizations

Table to help choosing post preference for HH candidates of SSC CGL

2016
Rank

Post Code

Post

Department

FoV

ANuV

Ease

Salary
Rating

Inspector, (Central
Excise)

CBEC

Auditor

Offices under C&AG

Tax Assistant

CBEC

Tax Assistant

CBDT

Assistant Section
Officer

Central Secretariat
Service

Accountant /

Offices under C&AG

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Junior Accountant
7

Inspector of
Income Tax

Inspector
(Preventive Officer)

CBEC

Inspector
(Examiner)

CBEC

10

Divisional
Accountant

Offices under CAG

11

Auditor

Offices under CGDA

CBDT

12

Assistant

Ministry of External
Affairs

13

Assistant

Ministry of Railway

14

Assistant

AFHQ

15

Accountant /
Junior Accountant

Offices under CGA &

others

Senior Secretariat
Assistant

Central Govt. Offices /

Ministries other than
CSCS cadres

Assistant

Other Ministries/
Departments /
Organizations

16

17

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Table to help choosing post preference for VH candidates of SSC CGL

2016
Post

Department

FoV

ANuV

Ease

Salary
Rating

Tax Assistant

CBEC

Assistant Section
Officer

Central Secretariat
Service

Tax Assistant

CBDT

Inspector of
Income Tax

CBDT

Inspector, (Central
Excise)

CBEC

Accountant /
Junior Accountant

Offices under CGA &

others

Assistant

Ministry of External
Affairs

Assistant

Ministry of Railway

Assistant

AFHQ

Rank
1

Post Code

10

Assistant

Other Ministries/
Departments /
Organizations

11

Auditor

Offices under CGDA

If you are a candidate looking for just the highest probability to secure the best possible post in SSC
CGLE 2016, without using any subjective criteria, like qualification, job profile preference, and / or ,
confidence of your score, just go ahead with the above ranking, after checking the posts you are
eligible to apply for in SSC CGLE 2016. Else, use your subjectivity to make changes to get your final
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post preference order. Once you are done, you can read more on how to apply for SSC CGLE 2016
and start with your application process. Remember, the last date is 10th March 2016 for completing
Part I of the application form for SSC CGL 2016.

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