UPSC SO/Steno LDCE
Result outUPSC Combined Section Officers' and Stenographers' Limited Departmental Competitive Examination
Dates & Timeline
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Eligibility
Restricted to serving departmental candidates in the participating cadres who meet the qualifying-service requirement laid down in the relevant Recruitment Rules. Not open to external applicants. .
Selection Process
Written Examination
Held over two days. Paper-I is common; Paper-II covers Procedure and Practice for the candidate's category (categories I-XI are grouped into separate question papers); Paper-III is Noting, Drafting and Precis Writing. The Stenographers' stream additionally sits dictation tests in Hindi and English.
About UPSC SO/Steno LDCE
A promotion exam, not an entry route. UPSC conducts it on behalf of participating central government departments to fill Section Officer (Grade 'B') and Stenographer (Grade 'B' / Grade 'I') posts from among their own serving staff — Assistants, Stenographers and equivalent grades who meet the department's service-length requirement.
Listed here because UPSC publishes it alongside its open exams and the scraper sees it on the active-exams page. **Members of the public cannot apply**; eligibility is departmental and defined by each participating cadre's rules, so no age or education gate is recorded below.