Railway Accounts Department Examinations

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Showing posts with label objective type questions. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Syllabus for AFA Post - LDCE




 Syllabus for AFA Post - LDCE 




SN

Topic

Marks

Marks

1

General Principles of Government Accounting and Audit with Special reference to Railways

15


2

Books & Budget including Traffic Book

15


3

Traffic Accounts & Statistics

15


4

Establishment

15


5

General Expenditure

15


6

Workshop Accounts

15


7

Stores Accounts

15



Professional Subject

105

105 Marks





9

General Knowledge

25


10

Official Language (Optional)

15

40 Marks


Part II

40 

40 Marks





11

Part III - Management Accounts & Financial Justification for Expenditure

30

30 Marks






Grand Total


175 Marks


  






Comparison of New Pattern with 175 marks with old pattern i.e., 2 Papers with 150 Marks each





Old Pattern

New Pattern


Change

Topic

Marks

Topic

Marks

General Knowledge

25 Marks

General Knowledge

25 Marks

No change

English

25 Marks

English

Nil

Removed English portion. Reduced 25 Marks

Official Language

15 Marks

Official Language

15 Marks

No change

General Principles of Government Accounting and Audit with Special reference to Railways

50 Marks

General Principles of Government Accounting and Audit with Special reference to Railways

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Books & Budget including Traffic Book

50 Marks

Books & Budget including Traffic Book

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Financial Justification for Expenditure

25 Marks

Financial Justification for Expenditure

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

Management Accounting

25 Marks

Management Accounting

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

Traffic Costing

25 Marks

Traffic Costing

Nil

Reduced 25 Marks

Traffic Accounts & Statistics

(optional)

50 Marks

Traffic Accounts & Statistics

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Establishment

(Optional)

50 Marks

Establishment

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 25 Marks

General Expenditure

(Optional)

50 Marks

General Expenditure

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Stores Accounts

(Optional)

25 Marks

Stores Accounts

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

Workshop Accounts

(Optional)

25 Marks

Workshop Accounts

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

 


Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Appendix 2 exam - Major Reform - introduction of MCQ

Major change in the pattern of Appendix 2 Exam


80 % of GRP  - Objective type Questions

20 % of GRP - Descriptive type Question (one Question)


80 % of Optional paper - Objective type Questions

20 % of Optional paper - Descriptive type Question (one Question)


No Negative marks in Appendix 2 exam. 


Click below for Railway Board Letter



Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Objective type questions - Departmental examinations (except Accounts & RPF)




Salient features of Railway Board Letter No.E(NG)I/2018/PM I/4 dated 14.12.2018 – RBE 196 -Objective question paper (multiple choice questions)

·         Applicable to  1) Promotion of staff within Group C by Selection or Non-selection process and 2) Group D to Group C

·         Question paper will be 100 % objective type. That means all the questions will be of multiple choice only.

·         Applicable to all Departments, except Accounts and RPF.

·         Large Question Bank may be created.  Questions can be selected randomly from the Question Bank.

·         Examination may be in CBT (Computer Based Test) or Pen & Paper mode.

·         Negative marks.  1/3rd of marks will be deducted for wrong answers.

·         These new instructions would apply for those selections which are notified after the date of these instructions i.e., from 14.12.2018.

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 Reforms needed for Appendix 3 (IREM) Examination
Herein suggested the following few measures in connection with the Appendix 3 (IREM) examination conducted by the Railway Board. 

v It's time to initiate the reforms by revisit the structure, syllabus, pattern of the Appendix 3 (IREM) examination to suit the changing trends.

v The existing examination pattern, i.e., consists of six papers (descriptive nature) and syllabus areoutdated one.  It should be replaced by the two parts like “Prelims” and “Mains” in Civil Services exams, JEE, or many other competitive exams.

v The Preliminary exam should consists of multiple choice questions.  It is easy to conduct as well as test the basic knowledge of candidates, before allowing them to appear in Mains examination. Tests on English skills, Reasoning skills, computer skills should be included apart from General Rules & Procedures (covering all subjects) for selection of talented supervisors in Accounts Dept.
v The preliminary examination should be conducted online by taking advantage of Information Technology.  Thereby lot of time, expenditure will be saved with good transparency.
v  Removal of "With Books" Examination, because it has not served its purpose.  Instead, it creates confusion in the minds of candidates with the long list of carrying the codes and manuals.

Existing Papers
Proposed Papers
1. General Rules & Procedures – GRP
1. GRP –proposed to be held in multiple choice format instead of descriptive in Prelims stage
2. Advanced Book Keeping
2. Continued
3. Optional one (with Books)
3. To be deleted
4. Optional One (without Books)
4. Continued
5. Optional Two (with Books)
5. To be deleted
6. Optional Two (Without Books)
6. Continued

OVERALL

Existing
Proposed
Six Descriptive papers
One multiple choice Paper and Three Descriptive papers

v Lot of advantages to the Administration, if adopted the pattern as two stages instead of single stage (6 Descriptive papers)

v Example: If 2000 candidates are appearing Appendix -3 exam, the savings to the Administration is as follows.

In One stage (existing)
In Two stages (proposed)
Savings
12,000 Descriptive Answer sheet
3,000 Descriptive Answer sheets
9,000 Descriptive Answer Sheets
(Evaluation of 12,000 Descriptive answer papers i.e., 2000 x 6
(Evaluation of 3,000 Descriptive answer papers i.e., 1000 x 3 (descriptive) –With the assumption of filtration of 50 % candidates only in prelims exam (multiple choice questions)
Almost 3/4th savings - evaluation of 9,000  Descriptive answer papers

v Like other recruiting agencies i.e., UPSC, SSC, Time Table of Appendix-3 examinationto be announced in the beginning of year.  It enables the candidates to plan their preparedness for attempting the examination.

v  It should include a) Examination notification date, Last date for receipt of applications, Examination date, Date of announcement of results.

v Syllabus to be redesigned and made it simple and define clearly to suit the present trends, as the existing one is outmodedSubjects like Accrual accounting/Commercial accounting, costing, Information technology should be added to the syllabus.

v Many more changes may be initiated depending on the present requirements of Indian railways Accounts dept.