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The Union Public Service Commission has officially confirmed that the advertisement for recruitment of Personal Assistant in Employees Provident Fund Organization is released officially on March 7. Candidates who meet certain eligibility criteria is able to apply by visiting the official website on or before 27 March, 2024.

UPSC EPFO Personal Assistant Syllabus 2024 and Exam Pattern

It can be expected that the selection process for UPSC EPFO Personal Assistant 2024 includes the following stages

• Written Examination

• Document Verification

• Medical Examination

UPSC EPFO Personal Assistant Exam Pattern 2024

The EPFO Personal Assistant Exam Pattern includes a written examination. The mentioned scheme of  UPSC EPFO Personal Assistant Exam Pattern 2024 is anticipated as per the previous notification. The Scheme of written examination is as follows.

• The written Test will be an objective type
• The test would be bilingual (except English)
• The test will have 200 questions each carrying 1 mark
• The duration of the test shall be 2 hours
• There shall be a negative marking of one-third (1/3) for each answer marked wrong

UPSC EPFO Syllabus for Personal Assistant 2024

The UPSC EPFO syllabus for Personal assistants has various sections from which questions may appear in the exam. The written test widely covers these sections/topics

• General Studies
• History of India
• Indian Freedom Struggle
• Indian Polity (Constitution of India)
• Economy
• General Science
• Computer
• English Language
• Social Security in India
• New Social Schemes in India
• The situation of Social Security in India
• Social Security schemes for the unorganised sector
  Organisations related to Social Security like EPFO, ESIC, etc.
• Current Affairs/ Developmental Issues
• Quantitative Aptitude
• Reasoning

UPSC EPFO 2023 Recruitment details

As per the short notice released, a total of 577 vacancies shall be filled for 2023. Out of the total, 418 vacancies are for the post of Enforcement Officers (EO)/ Accounts Officer (AO), and the remaining 159 vacancies are for Assistant Provident Fund Commissioners (APFC). But there has been no official announcement yet.

UPSC EPFO registration will start on 25 February 2023 and the last date for application would be 17 March 2023, as per a short notice.

UPSC EPFO APFC 2023 Exam Notification pdf

EPFO APFC Exam Pattern

UPSC EPFO APFC Exam 2023 Syllabus

The written Exam expected date - 02.07.2023 (SUNDAY)

UPSC EPFO APFC Eligibility Criteria 2023

All the candidates must ensure that they have gone through the UPSC EPFO eligibility criteria 2023 to know about the educational qualification, age limit, nationality, etc. Candidates will not be able to proceed to submit the UPSC EPFO application form if they do not fulfill the eligibility criteria. The eligibility criteria for UPSC EPFO 2023 recruitment are as follows:

Nationality for UPSC EPFO Exam

The interested candidate must mandatorily be a citizen of India in order to be eligible for this post. If not, the candidate can be still considered eligible if he/she is either:

1. a subject of Nepal/Bhutan
2. a Tibetan refugee settled permanently in India (since 1962).
3. a person of Indian origin settled permanently in India from countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Vietnam, and other East African countries.

UPSC EPFO Educational Qualification

Candidates must have a Bachelor’s Degree in any stream from any recognized university.

Desirable Qualification for UPSC EPFO APFC Post

If a candidate has the following qualification, then it will be advantageous. 

• Diploma in Company Law/Labour Laws/Public Administration. 

UPSC EPFO Age Limit

The age limit for UPSC EPFO for EO/AO and APFC posts vary as given below in the table. 

The candidates are also given age relaxation as per their category. The age relaxation criteria has been mentioned below. 

UPSC EPFO APFC Exam Pattern 2023

1. The UPSC EPFO APFC written exam is an objective type with multiple-choice questions.

2. The duration of the exam is 2 hours with the exam medium of both English and Hindi.

3. There shall be negative marking for the exam.

4. For every incorrect answer, 1/3rd mark shall be deducted.

Note- Weightage in the ratio of 75:25 will be accorded for marks in Recruitment Test and for marks in Interview for determining the final merit in the instant recruitment case.

The syllabus of the Test broadly comprises the following topics :

EPFO APFC Exam revised syllabus pdf downoad

Weightage: Recruitment Test (RT) and Interview carry weightage in the ratio of 75:25 for the candidates shortlisted based on Recruitment Test (RT) and qualify in the interview.