Syllabus for the post of Junior Assistant

List of Topics
1. Computer Literacy (20 Marks)
- Basic Computers Skills.
- MS Office. Word (Operations in letter typing etc), Excel (Report Formatting Futures etc),
Power Point Presentations, Outlook Express or email handlings, MS Access or Data Base
Basic Concepts, emails, Operating system, Application packages etc
2. Basic Maths (PUC Level) Quantitate aptitude (30 Marks)
- Number System
- Decimals
- Fractions
- Simplifications
- HCF& LCM
- Ratio & Proportion
- Percentage
- Partnership
- Average
- Profit & Loss
- Simple Interest & Compound Interest
- Time & Work
- Time & Distance
- Data Interpretation (Graphs and Tables)
- Square Root & Cube Root
- Basic Algebra
3. General Knowledge & Current Affairs (25 Marks)
4. General English (PUC Level) (25 Marks)
- English grammar
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Power to understand and comprehend English language and ability to discriminate between
correct and incorrect usage

Sample Questions for the post of Junior Assistant

1. Which of the following would you use for creating a presentation?
a. MS Word
b. MS Excel
c. MS Powerpoint
d. MS Outlook
Answer c
2. Which of the following triangles has two lines of symmetry?
a. Equilateral
b. Isosceles
c. Scalene
d. None of the above
Answer b
3. Which is the one word that means present everywhere?
a. Omnipresent
b. Omnipotent
c. Omniscient
d. Omnibus
Answer a
4. The capital of Meghalaya is
a. Guwahati
b. Kohima
c. Itanagar
d. Shillong
Answer a
5. The interest on a sum of money at the end of 2.5 years is 80% of the sum. What is the rate of
interest? You can assume simple interest.
a. 30%
b. 32%
c. 36%
d. 96%
Answer b
6. Which of the following alternates should be used to complete the sentence: When I saw her,
she _______.
a. Dance
b. Dances
c. Was dancing
d. Would dance
Answer c

7. Consider a right angled triangle ABC such that the angle BAC = 45; angle BCA = 90. Further,
the length of side AC = 8. What is the length of side BC?
a. 8
b. Square root of 8
c. Square root of 128
d. None of the above
Answer a
8. The average age of 30 soldiers is 25 years. The average age of the first fifteen of them is 24
years and the average of the last 14 of them is 26 years. What is the age of the sixteenth
soldier?
a. 24 years
b. 25 years
c. 26 years
d. None of them
Answer c
9. How can one change the margins of a document created in MS Word?
a. Manipulate the ruler bar
b. Choose File and the Margins
c. Choose View and then Margins
d. All of the above
Answer a
10. Raman travelled to another town such that he covered 240 km by car going at a rate of 60 km
per hour. Then he covered 80 km by a train travelling at 100 km per hour. Finally, he covered
the rest of the 200 km by bus at a speed of 50 km per hour. What was his average speed
during the whole journey?
a. 55.23 km per hour
b. 59.09 km per hour $
c. 61.37 km per hour
d. 67.13 km per hour
Answer b