RSMSSB Informatics Assistant Typing Test
20 WPM English and 20 WPM Hindi (Mangal/Kruti Dev), both required. 5-minute passage in each language, separate sittings. Conducted by RSMSSB (Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Services Selection Board) for Informatics Assistant posts across state-government departments. This page covers the cutoff, scoring, common mistakes, and a four-week practice plan calibrated to the RSMSSB pattern.
- Speed cutoff
- 20 WPM
- Duration
- 5 min × 2
- Source
- RSMSSB notification
- Languages
- English + Hindi
- Scoring
- Net WPM
Who takes the RSMSSB Informatics Assistant typing test
Rajasthan SMSSB runs the Informatics Assistant cadre across state departments. The typing test is bilingual.
IA / Sahayak Suchana Adhikari
Informatics Assistant is the Rajasthan equivalent of an SSC LDC, with an extra computer-skills layer. Typing test is bilingual: 20 WPM Hindi (Mangal) and 30 WPM English, both qualifying.
Lower Division Clerk
RSMSSB's LDC cadre recruitments use a similar bilingual typing test. Speeds are the same as Informatics Assistant; the difference is in the computer-skills section.
Stenographer / clerical
RPSC's higher-level clerical and stenographer recruitments follow the same Hindi-Mangal layout but with higher speed cutoffs (25–30 WPM Hindi for Steno-Typist).
LDC / Typist
Rajasthan High Court LDC and Typist posts run a similar typing test with state-court-specific notifications. Speeds and accepted fonts can shift cycle to cycle.
The practical Informatics Assistant target is balance — 25 WPM Hindi and 35 WPM English with 95% accuracy. That comfortably clears both cutoffs and gives you a margin for the inevitable nervous-system performance drop on test day. Practise both languages; failing either disqualifies the candidate, regardless of how strongly they cleared the other.
Official typing test pattern
The originating authority for this typing assessment is RSMSSB notification. The test runs at TCS-iON, NSEIT, or an equivalent invigilated examination centre — the vendor varies by cycle but the format does not.
Duration: 5 min × 2 active typing window, with a separate ten-minute pre-test instruction screen that does not count against the candidate's time.
Speed cutoff: 20 WPM. Accuracy must reach 95% independently of speed. A candidate at the WPM cutoff with 92% accuracy fails on the accuracy gate; a candidate above the WPM cutoff with 97% accuracy passes.
Layout: QWERTY, standard issue on centre PCs. External USB keyboards are not permitted; a candidate's practice setup should mirror centre conditions in the final fortnight.
Qualifying only: the typing test score does not feed into the merit ranking. The written-examination total decides the rank order. But a candidate who misses the typing cutoff is removed from the selection pool — written-test performance does not compensate.
How the typing test is scored
For RSMSSB Informatics Assistant, the engine scores speed and accuracy independently and applies both as screen-out floors. The harder of the two depends on the candidate's profile — speed-focused candidates trip on accuracy, accuracy-focused candidates trip on speed. The candidates who clear easily have built tolerance for both.
Gross WPM
Gross WPM is the raw throughput number — every produced character divided by five (the standard word length) divided by elapsed minutes. It is what every commercial typing tutor reports by default, and it routinely overstates how a candidate will perform on the RSMSSB Informatics Assistant test bench.
Net WPM
Net WPM subtracts an error penalty. Each wrong character and each character that should have been typed but was skipped counts as one full error. The error total is divided by elapsed minutes and subtracted from Gross WPM.
Accuracy under fatigue
The scoring engine treats every error equally regardless of when in the window it happened. Forearm tension at the four-minute mark produces the same penalty as a careless first-minute slip. Candidates who track their accuracy across the window often find it falls 2 to 4 percentage points in the final 60 seconds — exactly the band that pushes Net WPM under the cutoff.
Worked example
Gross WPM = (585 + 4) / 5 / 5 = 23.56 WPM
Net WPM = 23.56 − (4 / 5) = 22.76 WPM
Accuracy = 585 / 589 × 100 = 99.32%
Both gates clear: Net WPM of 22.76 sits 2.76 above the 20 WPM floor, and accuracy at 99.32% is comfortably above the 95% requirement. That is the working-margin band serious candidates aim for in mocks — comfortably clear of the cutoff, with room for the centre-day stress that erodes 3 to 5 WPM relative to home practice.
How to use backspace without losing the cutoff
The RSMSSB Informatics Assistant test panel permits backspace but does not reflow the passage — the cursor stays where it is. Fixing a typo five words back means typing backwards through those five words, which costs more time than the original error itself.
Three rules separate RSMSSB Informatics Assistant candidates who clear the cutoff with margin from those who clear it by under one WPM and have no idea whether they'd repeat the result on a different day:
- Never correct mid-word. Finish the word the cursor is on, then backspace to the error if it still needs fixing. Breaking rhythm mid-word costs more than the original mistake.
- Leave the last sixty seconds untouched. In the final minute of the typing window, type through every key — errors included. Partial words at the end count as errors but so do missing words; speed wins in the final stretch.
- Don't switch keyboards in the last week. The keyboard at the centre is whatever the centre has — usually a 1.5-mm-travel full-size USB. Switching from a laptop keyboard at the last minute introduces 5 to 8 WPM of layout shock on test day.
The most common silent failure mode is over-correction in the early minutes. A candidate spots a typo at the 50-second mark, backspaces 10 characters, loses 5 seconds, and the Net WPM drops below the 20 WPM cutoff by the end of the window. Treat backspace as a tool for the immediately preceding word only.
Six mistakes that cost aspirants the test
Patterns from RSMSSB Informatics Assistant candidates who failed one cycle and cleared the next. The fixes are individually small; together they produce the WPM cushion that turns a marginal pass into a comfortable one.
Sprinting in the first thirty seconds
Candidates who open at maximum speed hit a forearm-tension wall around the 45-second mark. Accuracy collapses, the correction budget blows up, and Net WPM lands below the 20 cutoff by the end.
Start at sustainable rhythm for the first minute. Ramp into target speed by minute two. Hold through minute four. Push the final minute only if accuracy is holding.Never sitting a full-length mock under exam conditions
Practice broken into 30-second drills trains throughput but not stamina. The actual 5-minute window rewards a different skill — the ability to hold rhythm and accuracy across that whole window. Candidates who have not sat a full mock often seize in the last minute.
Three full 5-minute mocks in the final week. Same time of day as the scheduled test. Same chair, same posture, same external keyboard.Ignoring the accuracy floor while chasing WPM
A candidate who reaches 40 WPM gross but slides to 88% accuracy fails the accuracy gate even though the headline speed looks excellent. The two cutoffs are independent.
Set accuracy targets first — 96% sustained over a full 5-minute window — then push speed on top of that floor.Mis-reading the language printed on the admit card
An aspirant who selected the regional-language stream and practised English for three months arrives at the centre to face an unfamiliar layout. Re-selection is not possible; the only options are to attempt the test cold or accept the cycle as lost.
Read the language and layout fields on the admit card the day it releases. Switch practice immediately if the chosen stream does not match the practice corpus.Skipping the final 60-second cooldown after each mock
Stopping cold at the end of a mock trains the body to associate the final minute with stress. A two-minute cooldown of slow accurate typing after each mock reframes the final minute as recovery, not panic, and that mental shift transfers to the centre.
Two minutes of slow accurate typing after each timed mock. Same passage style, half-speed.Practising on text that doesn't match the test corpus
The actual passages are drawn from administrative correspondence, briefing notes, and government plain-language documents — not literature, not technical text. Practising on Project Gutenberg novels builds general typing skill but not test-specific reflex.
Source practice passages from the conducting authority's own publications — recruitment notifications, departmental annual reports, public press releases.A four-week practice plan that actually works
Tuned to the RSMSSB Informatics Assistant format. Thirty focused minutes a day, six days a week. Already-fast candidates can compress; below-baseline candidates should extend week one before progressing.
Accuracy foundation
- Home-row drills, no look-down, five minutes daily
- Two 5-minute passages a day at comfortable speed
- Source passages from the conducting authority's own publications
- Reject any drill that drops accuracy below 95%
Cadence + rhythm
- Metronome at 60 BPM for the first session of the week
- Match typing rhythm to the metronome
- Three 5-minute timed runs per session
- Track Net WPM trajectory across the week
Test-condition replication
- Same time of day as the scheduled assessment for every mock
- Quiet room — replicate centre conditions
- Full 5-minute mocks on alternate days
- Review error patterns at session end
Edge cases + edge minutes
- Drill the final 60 seconds of mocks separately at full speed
- Practise typing through visible errors without backspacing
- Two full mocks per day, alternate keyboards
- Final 48 hours: rest, hydration, no screens after 9pm
Live mock with the 5-minute timer + Net WPM scoring
Free mock of the RSMSSB Informatics Assistant skill test — 5 minutes, exam-style passage, Net WPM with accuracy gate. Result card shows which side (speed or accuracy) caused any cutoff miss. Runs entirely in the browser; no data leaves the device.
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Quick-reference answers to the questions candidates send in. All figures referenced against RSMSSB notification as of the current recruitment window.
20 WPM English and 20 WPM Hindi (Mangal or Kruti Dev) in recent RSMSSB notifications. Both languages are required, not either-or. Some older cycles asked 15 WPM. Always check the specific notification PDF on rsmssb.rajasthan.gov.in before fixing a practice plan.
Informatics Assistant (IA) posts across Rajasthan state government departments — most major Rajasthan ministries fill IA vacancies through RSMSSB cycles. Some Junior Assistant and computer-operator state posts use the same typing pattern.
The RSMSSB software at TCS-iON or NSEIT centres typically allows backspace, in line with most modern central and state typing panels. Older state-specific systems sometimes disable it. Verify in the admit card or notification.
Recent RSMSSB Informatics Assistant cycles have used Mangal (Unicode Devanagari) on InScript or Remington layout. Some district-level recruitments still allow Kruti Dev. Practice both — the layout matters more than the font name.
Net WPM = Gross WPM − (errors / minutes). Both English and Hindi are independent qualifying tests — failing either disqualifies. RSMSSB counts wrong, missing, and extra characters as full errors.
Five minutes for English, five minutes for Hindi — separate sittings. Each passage is around 500-600 key depressions, tuned so a candidate typing right at the cutoff finishes typing in the same moment the clock reads zero.
From 12 WPM to 20 WPM in either language: three to four weeks of thirty focused minutes a day. Below 8 WPM: six to eight weeks. RSMSSB rewards accuracy heavily — drill 98% accuracy first, then push speed in the final fortnight.