 A very good evening aspirants welcome to another special video brought to you by Shankar IAS Academy. In this special video we are going to see about the notification for SSA EPFO 2023. See a few days ago we saw about the notification for the recruitment of enforcement officer and assistant provident fund commissioner in employee provident fund organization. Now in this special video we are going to see about the notification for the recruitment of SSA. It is expanded as social security assistant in EPFO. See those who want a government job don't miss this opportunity ok. This is a wonderful opportunity. Now let us straight away get into the details of this notification that you should know before applying for this post ok. First of all let us see the basic details for applying for the post of social security assistant. As you already said the post name is SSA EPFO and the important detail here is the vacancy. The total vacancy announced is 2674. The detailed vacancy position in the cadre of SSA is given here in this table you just go through it ok. In this table category wise and state wise vacancy is given and like I already said the total vacancy is 2674. The pay scale for this post is level 5. See if you want to apply for the post of SSA then you can do it through online mode only. You should fill the application form through online mode only. And the application date that is the window time period that is given to you for applying for this examination is from 27th March 2023 to 26th April 2023. So the last date for applying for this examination is 26th April 2023. Don't forget this apply for this examination before this date itself ok. And now about the examination date. See till now the examination date has not been announced. It will be announced later through public notice on the official website. I have given here the official website and the website in which you have to download the admit card ok. Keep this for your reference. Now let us move on to see about the eligibility criteria. First of all let us see the educational qualification. See if you want to apply for this examination you should possess a bachelor's degree from a recognized university as only closing date for online registration of application that is before 26th April 2023 you should have a bachelor's degree in your hand. One important thing that you should know here is that those who are avoiding results for the final examination of your graduation should not apply for this examination. Say you have written your last semester in your bachelor's degree and you are waiting for your results then you are not eligible for this examination. Before 26th April 2023 you should have a bachelor's degree in your hand ok. And this is regarding the educational qualification. Now there is this other qualification which requires a typing speed of 35 words per minute in English or 30 words per minute in Hindi on computer. See I will tell you about this particular qualification later in this video ok. For now let us move on to the next eligibility criteria which is the age limit. See people who are between 18 years to 27 years as on the closing date of online application they are eligible for SSA post. You know that age relaxation is also there. I have given here the information about age relaxation for each and every category. For SCs, STs, OBC, ex-servicemen, persons with benchmark disabilities you just go through it. And finally the most important part which is the scheme of examination. See this SSA examination it will be conducted in two stages. One is computer based examination it is the phase one and the other one is computer typing test it is the phase two. Now let us see how the computer based examination will be. The phase one examination they are all objective type tests. The first one is general aptitude it will contain 30 questions and the total marks allotted for this section is 120. And then there is general knowledge and general awareness it will also contain 30 questions and the allotted marks is 120. And then there is quantitative ability it will contain 30 questions and 120 marks. And the fourth section is general English with comprehension it will contain 50 questions and for this section 200 marks will be allotted. And the final section is computer literacy it will contain 10 questions and the total marks is 40 for this section. See there will be 150 questions and the total marks is 600. The duration that will be given to you for attempting all these questions that is 150 questions is 2 hours and 30 minutes that is totally 150 minutes. See 150 questions and 600 marks means each question carries 4 marks ok. And the marks obtained in phase one will be considered for final selection. So you have to score as much as possible in phase one. For your information negative marking is there for this examination for each wrong answer one fourth of the mark will be detected. Now let us move on to phase two. See phase two is about computer skill test. In this skill test candidates are assessed based on their speed and accuracy for data entry work. See earlier in the video we saw about other qualifications right here only the other qualification becomes relevant. So while you are tested for your speed and accuracy you have to maintain a typing speed of 35 words per minute in English or 30 words per minute in Hindi on computer. See this computer skill test is a qualifying test. You have to pass this test to be considered for the final selection. It is like CSAT and the UPSC civil services examination. It does not matter whether you clear GS paper one or not. You have to clear the CSAT paper then only you will be considered for the final selection. Like that only here also only if you clear the computer skill test you will be considered for the final selection. So each and every day practice typing at least 40 words per minute in English ok. If you are a person who is going to opt for Hindi try at least 35 words per minute in Hindi on computer. Then it will be very easy for you to clear this test ok. It is like the saying practice makes a man perfect so practice a lot and you will definitely clear this computer skill test. Now finally let us see about what books to refer. See regarding general aptitude and quantitative ability you can refer RS Agarwal book quantitative aptitude. And for general English with comprehension you can refer objective general English by SP Bakshi. For computer literacy you can refer computer awareness by Arihant. And for general knowledge and general awareness you have to read newspaper and you have to cover the basic parts like quality, economy, history, general science, environment etc. See these are only needed for clearing this examination. But don't think twice apply for this examination study all these books and refer the current affairs make a plan stick to it and you will definitely is the examination. Don't forget to come and share and like and most importantly don't forget to subscribe to Shankar Reyes Academy's YouTube channel to get more updates like this. Thank you.