My name is Shiv kumar and we all belong to postal family .

GDS TO MTS has two papers: Paper I and Paper II

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Syllabus  for Paper I

Duration: 60 Minutes

Total no. of questions: 50

Maximum Mark: 100

Each question carries 2 marks

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Post Office Guide Part 1 ( 23 Questions )

• Organization of Department

• Type of Post Offices

• Business Hours

• Payment of postage, stamps, and stationery

• General rules as to packing, sealing, and posting, manner of affixing postage stamps

• Methods of address

• Post boxes and Post bags

• Duties of Letter Box peon

• Official postal articles

• Prohibited postal articles

• Products and Services: Mail, Banking & Remittances, Insurance, Stamps and Business  (Reference: India Post website)

Postal Manual Volume V

( 7 Questions )

•    Definitions 

 General Awareness / Knowledge

(10 Questions)

• Indian Geography

• Civics

• General Knowledge

• Indian culture & freedom

• struggle

• Ethics and moral study

Basic Arithmetic 

(10 Questions)

• BODMAS (Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition ,Subtraction)

• Percentage

• Profit & Loss

• Simple Interest

• Average

• Time and Work

• Time and Distance

• Unitary methods

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Syllabus  for Paper II

Topic: Knowledge of local language 

Duration:60 Minutes

Maximum Marks: 50

• Translation of words from English to Local language (Multiple choice question) (15 questions of 1  mark each)

• Translation of words from  Local language to English (Multiple choice question) (15 questions of 1  mark each)

• Letter writing in local language in 40 to 50 words (1 question to be attempted out of 3 question) (10 Marks)

• Paragraph  /Short esay in local language of 40 to 50 words (1 question to be attempted out of 3 question) (10 Marks)