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55minutes
In the Staff Selection Commission's 2016 Grade C stenography test, candidates get 10 minutes of dictation in English and 10 in Hindi, then 40 minutes to transcribe the English passage and 55 minutes to transcribe the Hindi passage.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“10 minutes 10 minutes 40 minutes 55 minutes 70 minutes 95 minutes”
Instruction to the Candidates for Stenography Test (on Computer), Stenographers Grade C and D Examination, 2016, Staff Selection Commission (Eastern Region), Kolkata, 2016, Scheme of test table, Stenographer Grade C.
Open the original- What it measures
- The scheme of test sets out the dictation and transcription times for each language in a table. The shorthand test is taken on a computer, and the candidate transcribes on the computer.
- What it does not show
- The table was read from the PDF's extracted text, so the pairing of each number with its column is inferred from the order. The (VH) columns give longer times and are not part of this figure. The notice is for a 2016 central government exam, not a court.