The advertisements for receipt of online applications for recruitment to the post of UDC, MTS and Steno were released by the different EMPLOYEES’ STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION (ESIC) Regions/Office in the month of December 2015.
The ONLINE EXAMINATION for the above said advertisements are scheduled from 18th March, 2016 to 26th March, 2016.
The written exam includes 4 sections – General Intelligence, Numerical Ability, General Awareness, and General English/English Language. There is a penalty of 1/4 for the wrong answer.
Number of questions and maximum marks in each section are described in the table below:
| S.No. | Section | No. of Questions | Max. Marks | Total Time |
| 1 | Quant | 50 | 50 | Composite Time of 120 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | |
| 3 | General Awareness | 50 | 50 | |
| 4 | English | 50 | 50 | |
| Total | 200 | 200 |
The Syllabus for the exam as provided by the ESIC:
Numerical Ability:
- Number Systems.
- Computation of Whole Numbers.
- Decimals and Fractions.
- The relationship between Numbers.
- Fundamental arithmetical operations.
- Percentages.
- Ratio and Proportion.
- Averages.
- Interest.
- Profit and Loss.
- Discount.
- Use of Tables and Graphs.
- Mensuration.
- Time and Distance.
- Ratio and Time.
- Time and Work.
General Intelligence:
- Similarities and Differences.
- Analysis.
- Space Visualization.
- Decision Making.
- Problem Solving.
- Observation.
- Judgment.
- Figure Classification.
- Visual Memory.
- Number Series.
- Relationship Concepts.
- Non‐Verbal Series.
- Arithmetical Computation.
- Analytical Functions etc.
General English/English Language:
- Spot the error.
- Fill in the blanks.
- Synonyms/ Homonyms.
- Antonyms.
- Spellings.
- Detecting Mis‐spelt words.
- Idioms and phrases.
- One word substitutions.
- Improvement.
- Shuffling of sentence parts.
- Shuffling of Sentences in a passage.
- Cloze passage.
- Comprehension passage.
General Awareness:
- Indian Constitution.
- Awards and Honors.
- Books.
- Culture.
- General Politics.
- Current events.
- Economic Scene.
- Geography.
- History.
- Sports and Games.
