ESIC Exam Pattern 2023: Marking Scheme, Negative Marking

Rajalakshmi BK
Rajalakshmi BK

Updated on - Dec 6, 2023

ESIC Exam Pattern 2023 is prescribed by the conducting body. Candidates preparing for the recruitment exam must have a clear idea about the ESIC 2023 exam pattern in terms of types of questions, exam duration, marking scheme, sectional timing etc. Knowing the ESIC 2023 Exam Pattern will help the candidates secure better marks in the exam. The detailed pattern of ESIC 2023 exam is discussed below.

ESIC Syllabus 2023 ESIC Admit Card 2023

ESIC Exam Pattern 2023

ESIC has notified us about the current recruitments for Junior Engineer and Insurance Medical Officers, along with various details of the application and syllabus. Below mentioned are the exam patterns for various posts:

ESIC Exam Pattern 2023 for Insurance Medical Officers (IMO) Grade-II

  • Mode:  The exam will be conducted in Offline mode.
  • Type of Questions: Multiple Choice Objective Questions will be asked.
  • Qualifying Marks: Qualifying marks for the written exam will be 45% for the Unreserved category, 40% for the OBC category, 35% for SC/ST and 30% for PwD Category.

Part-I: Written Examination

ESIC Exam Pattern 2023 - Part 1
Section name Syllabus Marks per Question No. of Questions
Section I: General Medicine & Paediatrics (100 Marks) 1.General Medicine 1 80
2. Paediatrics 1 20
Section II: Surgery, Gynaecology & Obstetrics & Preventive & Social Medicine (100 Marks) 1. Surgery 1 34
2. Gynaecology & Obstetrics 1 33
3. Preventive & Social Medicine 1 33
Total 200 200

Part-II: Interview

  • Candidates who clear the Written examination will have to attend Interview, which will be of 50 marks.
  • List of final selected candidates will be made on Written Exam and Interview (total 250 marks).
  • Shortlisting ratio for Interview will be as follows:
ESIC Exam Pattern 2023 - Part 2
No. of Vacancies No. of Candidates to be shortlisted for interview
1 5 times the number of vacancies
2 8 times the number of vacancies
3 3 times the number of vacancies

ESIC Exam Pattern 2023 for Junior Engineer

Mode: Exam will be conducted in Offline mode.

Type of Questions: Multiple Choice Objective Questions will be asked.

Negative Marking: 0.25 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer.

ESIC 2023 Junior Engineer Exam Pattern
Subject Syllabus Maximum Marks Duration
Paper I - Objective Type General Intelligence & Reasoning. 50 2 hours
General Awareness 50
Paper II - Objective Type General Engineering (Civil or Electrical) 100

ESIC Exam Pattern 2023 for Multi Tasking Staff

There will be two papers in the exam on the following major topics:

Paper I: It will have objective type multiple choice based questions on the following topics:

Marks

  • Numerical Ability - 50 Marks
  • General Awareness - 50 Marks
  • English Language - 50 Marks
  • General Intelligence - 50 Marks
  • Total Marks Allotted - 200

Duration

  • Duration of Exam - 2 hours
  • Time of Exam - 10:00 am to 12 noon

Negative Marking: For each wrong answers, 0.25 marks will be deducted.

ESIC 2023 Exam Pattern for Multi Tasking Staff Paper I
Subject Syllabus Marks Duration
Paper-1 Numerical Ability 50 2 Hours
General Awareness 50
English Language 50
General Intelligence 50
Total 200

Paper II: This paper constitutes the skill test in Computer Operations which includes the following questions:

Marks

  • Preparing PowerPoint Presentation - 10 Marks;
  • Typing skill in MS Word - 20 Marks
  • Preparing a Table/ Database in the MS Excel - 20 Marks respectively
  • Total Marks Allotted - 50

Duration

  • Duration of Exam - 30 Minutes
  • Total Exam Duration - 30 Minutes
ESIC 2023 Exam Pattern for Multi Tasking Staff Paper II
Subject Syllabus Marks Duration
Paper-2 Preparing PowerPoint Presentation 10 30 Minutes
Typing skill in MS Word 20
Preparing a Table/ Database in the MS Excel 20
Total 50  

ESIC 2023 Interview

  • The ESIC committee will decide the candidates qualifying for the next round depending on the examination marks. The candidates who qualify in both the papers of the written exam he/she shall be called for the interview.
ESIC 2023 Interview Weightage
Interview Weightage of Marks

20%

ESIC 2023 Weightage of Marks

  • Written Exam and Skill Test: 80%
  • Interview: 20%

Distribution of Marks

  • Written Exam: 80% (70% weightage)
  • Computer Skill Test: 30% Weightage respectively.

ESIC 2023 Cut Off for Various Post

ESIC declares notification for recruitment in all regions. The scheme of exam and selection process are given elaborately in the notification. We have mentioned details about selection for each post below here.

Stenographer: There are three components based on which final selection will be made by ESIC for the post of stenographer namely-

  • Part-I: Written test for which qualifying marks is 33% for UR candidates and 30% for SC/ST/ OBC/ PWD/ EXSM candidates.
  • Part-II: Stenography test, for which qualifying marks are passing marks decided by ESIC.
  • Part III: Computer skill test or objective test to assess working knowledge of computers, for which qualifying marks is 17 out of 50 for all candidates.

Upper Division Clerk (UDC)

  • Part I: Written test, for which qualifying marks is 40% for UR candidates and 35% for reserved category candidates.
  • Part II: Computer skill test or objective test to assess working knowledge of computers, for which qualifying marks is 17 out of 50 for all candidates.

Multi Tasking Staff (MTS): Written test, for which qualifying marks is 40% for UR candidates and 35% for reserved category candidates.

  • ESIC MTS Result 2016 of written examination indicates the candidates who have cleared cut-offs of the exam and provisionally selected for recruitment.

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