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SSC Scientific Assistant Exam: About

SSC conducts examination for the recruitment of Scientific Assistant in the Indian Meteorological Department. The exam is held in two parts. The candidate can apply for the application through the official website. The recruitment for the year 2017 has been commenced to date.

► The Basic Salary for an IMD Scientific Assistant is Rs. 35400 and with the special allowances and other perks the final salary for the post becomes Rs. 48912. The salary gets varied with the job location:

• X Class Cities – Rs. 48912
• Y Class Cities – Rs. 46082
• Z Class Cities – Rs. 41448

► A  Scientific Assistant in IMD has multiple job roles such as:
1. To offer support to the scientist in R&D matter 
2. To assist the scientist in running of various researches at IMD
3. To accomplish researches related to weather calculating, flood Projecting and development.
4. To complete the administrative responsibilities linked with the job.
5. To co-ordinate different studies of the effective achievement of the research task.

► Any aspirant willing to appear in the exam must have a minimum educational qualification of B.Sc. Degree with 60% marks from any recognized university, physics should be on the list of the main subject.
The age bar is 18 - 30 years.

► The exam conducted for the recruitment of this post will be an online computer-based test with a duration of 2 hours for both papers respectively.
Paper I and Paper II will have 100 questions carrying 1 mark.

► The General Category final cut-off goes up to 138,
For ​OBC category - 128
For SC - 114
For ST - 101
For OH - 91