The Staff Selection Commission has recently announced that entry for SSC CGL posts will now be done through online written examination. In addition to this the commission has also introduced 4 tiers of examination in order to recruit the candidates and now no interview will be conducted for the recruitment of the candidates.

Online Examination

In an online examination, the questions appear on computer screen rather than on paper. Other things that you will observe are:

• One question will appear on screen at a time. If you are not sure about the answer, then you can skip the question and can mark it for review. You can answer only one question at a time.
• There is a prescribed time limit to complete the examination.
• All the questions are objective type in nature.

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• After completing the test, you have to click the submit button. In case you do not get the time for submitting it, then it will automatically get submitted on the completion of the time period.
• It needs fewer resources in order to produce results.
• Conducting of examination costs less because of less engagement of resources.
• Answers can be altered anytime unlike the OMR sheets in which the answer once marked cannot be changed.
• Certain problems can arise during the examination like power cut, technical problem, hardware problem, etc.
• Candidates are less familiar with this method of examination, so they feel quite uncomfortable.
• In online tests, questions can be marked for review and candidates can change or mark the answer, whenever he or she wants.

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Offline Examination

This is a paper based examination and the candidates and the candidates will observe the following in this type of examination

• It can contain both subjective and objective type questions.
• Aspirants have the access to more than one question at a time and he or she can solve any question as per his or her convenience.
• Candidates have to fill the correct answers in the sheet given. They have to fill the round blocks.
• Answers once marked will not be altered.
• This sort of examination requires lot of paper for conducting the examination and also at the time of producing the results.
• It costs very high in comparison to online examination.
• It involves OMR sheets to mark the answers and hence the answers once marked by the candidates cannot be altered.
• No technical or other problems can arise during the offline examination.
• Candidates find offline examination more comfortable than online examinations.
• The answers once marked by the candidates can be altered.

So, after going through all the above mentioned points, one can see that both modes of examination have some limitation associated with it.

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