DSSSB Typing Test 2026: Online Practice for 35 WPM English and 30 WPM Hindi
Your DSSSB typing test language is locked before test day, and English becomes the default if you never choose. Practice here on an exam-accurate interface: 10 minutes, 35 WPM English, 30 WPM Hindi, backspace on, zero error highlighting. Learn as you type.
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DSSSB Typing Test Quick Facts: Speed, Duration and Interface Rules
Specifications above are from the current official notification. Verify the latest details at https://dsssb.delhi.gov.in before your exam.
Short on time? Take the quiz instead.
10-question bilingual MCQ covering speed requirements, backspace policy, the blind-screen rule, OARS language lock, Hindi fonts and eligible posts. Available in English and Hindi.
Which DSSSB Posts Require a Typing Test — and Which Need Shorthand Too
Eight DSSSB clerical posts are called for the typing test: Grade-IV / Junior Assistant, Lower Division Clerk-cum-Typist, Junior Assistant across four departments, Lower Division Clerk, and Assistant Grade-I. Stenographer-category posts do not appear in this test at all — they are called separately for a combined shorthand and typing skill test.
Pay levels are as per the current notification and are subject to revision. Post lists can change between recruitment cycles — verify against the current notification at https://dsssb.delhi.gov.in before applying.
The practical takeaway: if you have applied for any of the eight clerical posts above, one 10-minute test stands between your written score and your appointment. If you applied for a stenographer post, your skill test is a different exam with a different instruction sheet — read the stenographer instructions, not this page's rules.
DSSSB Selection Process and Syllabus — Where the Typing Test Fits
DSSSB selection for these clerical posts runs through two stages: One Tier (General) written examination → Typing Skill Test → document verification and department allotment. The written exam decides your merit position. The typing test is purely qualifying — it adds nothing to your score, but failing it removes you from selection no matter how high you ranked in the written paper.
That asymmetry is why typing preparation cannot be an afterthought. A candidate who scores well above the cut-off and then misses 35 WPM by two words is out, and the seat goes to someone who scored lower and typed faster.
Written Examination Structure
The One Tier (General) paper is a 2-hour computer-based test of 200 objective questions carrying 200 marks, with 0.25 marks deducted for every wrong answer. Marks may be normalised across shifts.
Subject-marks split is as per the current notification and subject to revision — verify the current notification before relying on it.
Minimum qualifying marks in the written stage are 40% for General and EWS, 35% for OBC (Delhi), and 30% for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Ex-servicemen receive a 5% relaxation within their category, subject to a minimum of 30%.
None of this matters if the typing test itself trips you up. Here is exactly what that test requires.
Inside the DSSSB Typing Test Session: 10 Minutes on a TCS iON Screen
Report & Entry. Report at the time printed on your admit card. Entry closes strictly at the stated closing time — no entry is permitted after it under any circumstances.
Verification & Login. Biometric and document verification, seat allotment, and system login.
Instructions Screen. Read the on-screen instructions even if you have practised — this is where any centre-specific note appears.
10-Minute Typing Block. The passage is displayed on screen; you type into the box below it.
Session Ends. The session ends automatically at 10 minutes. You may not type, write or erase after time expires.
Remain Seated. You remain seated until the invigilator has collected and accounted for all material.
Rule: Mobile phones and related gadgets are fully prohibited inside the campus of the test venue, not merely inside the hall.
Official DSSSB Typing Test Rules You Must Know Before Test Day
Speed Requirement
- English: 35 words per minute, equal to 10,500 key depressions per hour.
- Hindi: 30 words per minute, equal to 9,000 key depressions per hour.
- One word is counted as 5 key depressions, spaces included. Speed is judged on accuracy of typing, so the figure that matters is your net speed after mistake deductions, not your raw output.
Session Structure
- Duration is 10 minutes, conducted on computers only.
- Single continuous block — there is no break and no second attempt within the session.
- At 35 WPM you need roughly 350 correct words, which is about 1,750 key depressions in those 10 minutes.
Editing Rules — Backspace Is Allowed
- Backspace is fully enabled in the DSSSB typing test. Unlike several central government typing tests where the key is locked out entirely, you can correct a mistake the moment you notice it.
- There is no penalty event attached to using backspace and no cursor lockout.
- Every correction costs time. A single backspace-and-retype of a five-letter word costs roughly ten keystrokes to recover five — at 35 WPM that is measurable.
- The strategic rule: correct the error you noticed in the last two or three characters, and let older errors go. Hunting backwards through a paragraph to fix a mistake you half-remember is the single most expensive habit in this exam.
No Error Highlighting — You Are Typing Blind
- The DSSSB typing screen does not mark your errors while you type, and it does not highlight the word you are currently on.
- The screen looks exactly the same whether you have typed 400 words perfectly or made forty mistakes.
- This is why candidates who score 40 WPM on tools that colour errors red often score in the high twenties on the day — the drop is not skill, it is the sudden loss of a feedback loop they had trained on.
- Your accuracy must come from reading the source passage carefully, not from watching your own output for red marks.
Language and Font
- You type in one language only — the one locked to your application. There is no mid-test switch.
- Hindi candidates choose their font and keyboard layout; the three routes are KrutiDev, Mangal with Inscript, and Mangal with Remington GAIL.
- The three Hindi layouts are mutually incompatible. Practising on the wrong one is functionally the same as not practising.
Qualifying Criteria
- The typing test is qualifying only. Clearing it does not improve your rank; failing it ends your candidature for the post.
- Your merit position comes entirely from the One Tier (General) written examination.
- Candidature at the skill test remains provisional and subject to eligibility verification at document stage.
Building raw speed matters, but a lot of DSSSB candidates plateau on technique rather than fingers — see our English typing practice for government exams for structured speed-building drills.
English or Hindi: How DSSSB Locks Your Typing Test Language Before Test Day
DSSSB requires shortlisted candidates to exercise their typing test language option — English or Hindi — in advance through the OARS portal, not on the day of the test. A separate link is made live on the portal, and the schedule for exercising the option is notified through the DSSSB website, the OARS portal, registered e-mail and SMS.
Two consequences follow, and both have ended candidatures:
If you do not exercise the option within the prescribed period, English is treated as the default language for your typing test. A Hindi-medium candidate who misses the window sits an English test.
Once the language is finalised — whether you chose it or it defaulted — it is final and binding. DSSSB does not entertain any request for a change of typing test language thereafter, under any circumstances.
So the practical checklist is short and unforgiving: keep your registered mobile number and e-mail address current on the OARS portal, check the portal regularly during the shortlisting period, exercise the option the day the link opens rather than the day it closes, and then practise only in the language you locked.
This rule is also the reason a lot of Hindi-medium aspirants end up needing English practice at short notice. If you have already defaulted to English, do not spend the remaining days mourning it — English at 35 WPM on QWERTY is a more tractable target in two weeks than Hindi at 30 WPM on an unfamiliar layout.
Hindi Fonts for the DSSSB Typing Test: KrutiDev 010, Mangal Inscript and Remington GAIL
Which One Should You Pick?
If you have any prior Remington muscle memory, take KrutiDev 010 Hindi typing lessons or Mangal Remington GAIL — relearning INSCRIPT from scratch weeks before a skill test is a losing trade. If you are starting fresh with no Hindi typing background, take Mangal Inscript Hindi typing lessons: it is the layout you will reuse across the largest number of other government exams, so the investment compounds beyond this one test.
TypingWale's Remington GAIL Hindi typing course is built against the GAIL key map specifically, not against generic Hindi typing. The distinction matters: a generic Hindi course teaches you Devanagari; a GAIL course teaches you where the exam expects each character to sit under your fingers. Once you know your locked font, jump straight into Hindi typing test practice in that exact layout.
Why DSSSB Accuracy Decides Your Result — Not Just Raw Speed
Two candidates can type identical volumes and get opposite results. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Worked Example 1 — Clears the Test
Key depressions in 10 min: 1,900 → gross words = 1,900 ÷ 5 = 380 → gross speed 38 WPM.
Mistakes: 8 full + 10 half. 10 half ÷ 2 = 5 full-equivalents. Total deduction = 13 words.
Net words = 380 − 13 = 367 → net speed = 36.7 WPM.
Result: clears the 35 WPM requirement, with error load at roughly 3.4% of words typed.
Worked Example 2 — Fails Despite Similar Output
Key depressions: 1,800 → gross words = 360 → gross speed 36 WPM. Looks like a pass on a generic tool.
Mistakes: 15 full + 14 half → 15 + 7 = 22 words deducted.
Net words = 360 − 22 = 338 → net speed = 33.8 WPM.
Result: below 35 WPM. The candidate typed enough and still did not qualify.
The gap between those two candidates is 14 mistakes. That is the entire exam.
This is why practising for accuracy, not just speed, determines your result in the DSSSB typing test. On TypingWale, every DSSSB-mode session trains both simultaneously — the screen stays blind exactly like the real test, and the full error breakdown arrives only after you submit.
How DSSSB Counts Full and Half Mistakes in the Typing Test
Full Mistakes — 1 Point Each
- Wrong word typed
- Word omitted from the passage
- Extra word added that is not in the passage
- Spelling mistake
- Word repeated
- Incomplete or half-typed word
Half Mistakes — 0.5 Points Each
- Spacing errors — extra space or missing space
- Wrong capitalisation
- Punctuation errors
- Transposition — two words typed in the wrong order
The calculation runs in four steps:
- 1Count total key depressions typed, spaces included.
- 2Gross words = total key depressions ÷ 5.
- 3Convert half mistakes to full-mistake equivalents by dividing by two, then add them to the full mistakes.
- 4Net speed = (gross words − total mistake equivalents) ÷ 10 minutes.
Net Speed = (Gross Words − Full Mistakes − Half Mistakes ÷ 2) ÷ 10
Strategy that falls out of the formula: at exactly 350 words — the bare minimum for 35 WPM — your error buffer is zero. Every single mistake pushes you below the line. Type 400 words and you can absorb 50 mistake-equivalents before dropping under 35 WPM. Type 420 and the buffer is 70. Volume is not vanity here; it is the only thing that makes accuracy survivable.
DASS Grade-IV and LDC Officers Type Most of Their Working Day — Here Is Why the Bar Is Set at 35
A Junior Assistant or Lower Division Clerk in a Delhi government department spends roughly 60 to 70 percent of the working day at a keyboard. The 35 WPM threshold is not an arbitrary hurdle — it is close to the minimum sustainable throughput for the volume of documentation these desks carry.
The daily output is specific to the department. In the Services Department a Grade-IV Assistant handles establishment files, service-book entries, seniority lists and inter-departmental references. At DUSIB an LDC-cum-Typist produces allotment records, shelter and rehabilitation case files, and correspondence with field offices. At the Delhi Pollution Control Committee a Junior Assistant types consent-to-operate paperwork, inspection notes and statutory replies. At SCERT the work is academic administration — training schedules, circulars to schools, and examination correspondence. At the Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation an Assistant Grade-I handles ration distribution records, godown registers and supply-chain returns.
Weak typing in these roles does not look like slowness. It looks like a service-book entry with a wrong date, a consent order with a transposed registration number, or an allotment file where a name is misspelled and has to be re-issued. Each of those is a correction cycle: the file goes back, a superior re-signs, and a citizen waits another week. In a department clearing hundreds of files a month, one clerk's error rate becomes the whole section's backlog.
This is exactly why the exam is built the way it is. Backspace is allowed because in real office work you do correct as you go. Errors are not highlighted because no file tells you when you have typed a wrong figure — you catch it by reading the source document carefully, or you do not catch it at all. And the score is net rather than gross because an office does not care how fast you produced a page it has to send back.
Practice DSSSB Typing Test Online on TypingWale — Learn While You Type
TypingWale is a government exam preparation platform built around a Learn While You Type approach. It is not a typing tutor with exam names attached to it.
Learn While You Type
Every practice passage on TypingWale is real exam material: syllabus-wise and chapter-wise content, daily current affairs, previous year passages, daily GK, computer awareness chapters, and English and Hindi grammar. An hour of DSSSB typing practice is an hour of syllabus covered. You are not spending your preparation time on paragraphs about pangolins.
Syllabus-Wise Typing Paragraphs
Passages are organised against the six sections of the One Tier (General) paper — General Awareness, Mental Ability and Reasoning, Numerical Ability and Data Interpretation, Hindi Language, English Language, and Computers and Office Automation. The computer awareness overlap is the highest-yield of the six: the subject you are revising and the skill being tested are the same subject.
PYQ-Based Practice Sets
Previous year passages are organised by session, so you practise the actual vocabulary and register this conducting body uses — administrative Hindi and formal official English, not conversational text. Government passages have a distinctive density of long compound words and official terminology, and that density is what breaks unprepared candidates at minute seven.
Real Exam Interface Simulation
The DSSSB mode replicates the confirmed rules of this specific test: backspace enabled, no error highlighting, no current-word highlighting, screen-to-screen passage delivery, a 10-minute timer, and evaluation against 35 WPM English or 30 WPM Hindi. Interfaces are replicated to match the real exam screen, including TCS iON and other examination-body interfaces, verified against official notifications where published and cross-checked with candidates who have appeared for the exam where the interface is not publicly documented.
Exam-Accurate Hindi Typing
All three DSSSB Hindi routes are supported as separate practice modes — KrutiDev 010, Mangal Inscript and Mangal Remington GAIL — with a 36-lesson scientific Hindi course running from home row to exam-ready. You practise the layout you locked, not a generic Devanagari approximation of it.
Result Calculated on the Exam's Own Formula
Every result uses the evaluation formula of the exam it prepares for, with full and half mistakes classified the way the exam classifies them, and category-wise cutoffs for UR, OBC, SC, ST, EWS and PwBD candidates. A number that is calculated differently from the exam is not a practice score, it is a guess.
Progress Analytics
Speed trend across sessions, character-level error breakdown, most-mistyped words, per-finger accuracy, and daily streak tracking. Because the test screen stays blind, the analytics after submission are where the learning actually happens.
Live Exam Anxiety Simulation™
Recreates the real government exam hall — keyboard noise, fan sounds, student movement, invigilator ambience and timer pressure — so test day is not the first time you type in that environment. Optional and disabled by default to keep practice authentic; enable it when you want the pressure.
Hidden Typing Area Mode
Hides the live typing area entirely to train focus and memory typing. For this exam it is unusually relevant: since DSSSB shows you nothing about your errors anyway, learning to trust the source passage instead of your own output is the exact skill being tested. Optional and disabled by default.
Smart Hint Hover
Shows Hindi and Marathi character guidance, key mapping suggestions and Alt-code hints while you type — useful while you are still learning a layout. Optional and disabled by default so that practice stays true to exam conditions.
Optional Dark Mode
Reduces eye strain across long practice sessions. Optional and disabled by default.
Offline Windows App, Website and Android
Practise in the browser, on the Windows app offline when the connection drops, or on Android between other work — built for Tier-2 and Tier-3 city students who do not have uninterrupted computer access.
TypingWale vs Standard Typing Tools for DSSSB Typing Test Practice
The same interface-first approach carries across the site — see how it plays out on SSC typing test practice, SSC CHSL typing test, and MP CPCT typing test practice.
30-Day DSSSB Typing Test Preparation Plan: From 35 WPM to a Safe 45
Daily time: 1 to 1.5 hours, split into two focused sessions rather than one long one. Typing accuracy degrades sharply after about 45 minutes of continuous practice. See our guide on how to increase typing speed for technique-level drills that compound across all four weeks below.
Mistakes That Cause Failure in the DSSSB Typing Test
- Targeting exactly 35 WPM. At the minimum you have no error buffer at all — one mistake puts you under. Build the cushion in practice, not on test day.
- Practising on a tool that highlights errors. You are training a feedback loop the exam removes. The score drop on test day is almost always blind-mode shock rather than a real skill gap.
- Practising the wrong Hindi layout. KrutiDev, Inscript and Remington GAIL are mutually incompatible key maps. Four weeks on the wrong one is four weeks lost.
- Over-using backspace because it is allowed. Correcting an error from three words back costs more keystrokes than the deduction would have. Fix what is under the cursor; leave the rest.
- Missing the OARS language window. Defaulting into English when you prepared in Hindi is the most avoidable failure on this list, and it happens every cycle.
- Practising only in short bursts. A 2-minute test tells you nothing about minute eight, which is where accuracy collapses.
TypingWale Pro Tip for DSSSB
Because DSSSB allows backspace but shows you nothing, the highest-value drill for this specific exam is a 10-minute PYQ passage run with Hidden Typing Area switched on and backspace left enabled. You keep the exam's real editing freedom, but you strip away the one crutch the exam also strips away — the ability to look at what you produced. Do this three times a week from Week 2. Candidates who train this way stop losing the 4 to 6 WPM that the blind screen usually takes on test day, and that recovered margin is almost exactly the error buffer this exam demands.
Best Typing Software for DSSSB— Practice & Download
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DSSSB Typing Test 2026 — Frequently Asked Questions
How much typing speed is required for the DSSSB typing test?
The DSSSB typing test requires 35 words per minute in English or 30 words per minute in Hindi on a computer, equal to 10,500 and 9,000 key depressions per hour respectively. One word is counted as five key depressions including spaces. The test runs for 10 minutes, so 35 WPM works out to roughly 350 correct words.
Is backspace allowed in the DSSSB typing test?
Yes, backspace is fully allowed in the DSSSB typing test. Unlike several central government typing tests where the key is disabled entirely, candidates can correct mistakes while typing. Each correction still costs time, so the practical approach is to fix errors under the cursor and leave older ones alone.
Does the DSSSB typing test show errors while you type?
No. The DSSSB typing screen does not highlight errors and does not highlight the word you are currently typing. The screen looks identical whether you are typing accurately or not, and mistakes are revealed only after evaluation. Accuracy has to come from reading the source passage carefully rather than watching your own output.
Which posts require the DSSSB typing test?
Eight clerical posts are called for the DSSSB typing test: Grade-IV / Junior Assistant in Services, Lower Division Clerk-cum-Typist in DUSIB, Junior Assistant in SCERT, DTTDC, DPCC and MAIDS, Lower Division Clerk in DAMB, and Assistant Grade-I in the Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation. Stenographer posts sit in a separate shorthand and typing skill test.
How is typing speed calculated in the DSSSB typing test?
Speed is evaluated as net words per minute. Gross words are total key depressions divided by five; full mistakes are deducted at one word each and half mistakes at half a word each; the remainder is divided by ten minutes. Because evaluation is net rather than gross, a high raw output with poor accuracy can still fall below the qualifying speed.
What counts as a full mistake and a half mistake?
Full mistakes are wrong words, omitted words, extra words, spelling errors, repeated words and incomplete words. Half mistakes are spacing errors, wrong capitalisation, punctuation errors and transposed word order. Two half mistakes are treated as one full mistake. This is the standard government evaluation framework — confirm the exact classification in the instructions issued for your post code.
Which Hindi font is used in the DSSSB typing test?
Hindi candidates are given a choice between KrutiDev and Mangal, and Mangal is offered with either the Inscript or the Remington GAIL keyboard layout. The three are mutually incompatible key maps, so practice must be done on the exact layout you will use. Confirm the font options in the General Instructions issued for your post code.
Can I change my typing test language from English to Hindi?
No. The typing test language is exercised in advance through the OARS portal, and once finalised it is final and binding. DSSSB does not entertain any request for a change of language afterwards under any circumstances. If a candidate fails to exercise the option within the prescribed period, English is treated as the default language.
Are DSSSB typing test marks added to the merit list?
No. The DSSSB typing test is qualifying in nature. Your merit position is determined entirely by the One Tier (General) written examination, and the typing test is pass or fail. Clearing it does not raise your rank, but failing it removes you from selection regardless of your written score.
What happens if I fail the DSSSB typing test?
Failing the typing test ends your candidature for that post in that recruitment cycle, no matter how far above the cut-off you scored in the written examination. There is no re-test within the same cycle and no compensating weightage from the written paper. The next opportunity is the next recruitment.
Can I retype the passage in the DSSSB typing test?
Earlier DSSSB skill-test instructions have permitted candidates who finish the passage before time to restart the same passage from the beginning and continue typing until the stop signal. Because that instruction was issued for an earlier post code, confirm it against the General Instructions for your own post code before relying on it in your strategy.
Is the DSSSB typing test conducted on paper or on screen?
The DSSSB typing test is screen-to-screen. The passage appears on the computer screen and you type into a box below it — there is no printed passage to read from. The test runs on the TCS iON examination platform and is conducted on computers supplied at the centre.
How long is the DSSSB typing test?
The DSSSB typing test is 10 minutes long, conducted in a single continuous block on a computer. Your allotted shift at the centre is longer than that because it covers reporting, verification and system login, but the typing itself is one 10-minute session with no break and no second attempt.
How to practice the DSSSB typing test online?
Practise in the exact language and font you locked through the OARS portal, on a 10-minute timer, with error highlighting switched off. TypingWale's DSSSB mode runs the confirmed interface rules — backspace enabled, no highlighting, screen-to-screen, evaluated on the exam's own net-speed formula — and every passage is drawn from exam syllabus content rather than random text.
Are previous year DSSSB typing passages available for practice?
Yes. TypingWale maintains PYQ-based practice sets organised by session, so candidates practise the administrative Hindi and formal official English register that this conducting body actually uses. Government passages carry a distinctive density of long compound words and official terminology, and that density is what breaks unprepared candidates in the final minutes.
What is the best way to prepare for the DSSSB typing test?
Build a speed cushion rather than aiming at the minimum — target 43 to 45 WPM in English or 37 to 38 in Hindi — and always practise blind, with error highlighting off, on full 10-minute runs. Using TypingWale's Learn While You Type passages means the same hour also covers General Awareness, computer awareness and language syllabus, so typing practice is not time taken away from written preparation.
What is the syllabus and selection process for these DSSSB posts?
Selection runs through a One Tier (General) written examination followed by the typing skill test and document verification. The written paper is 200 objective questions worth 200 marks in two hours, covering General Awareness, Mental Ability and Reasoning, Numerical Ability and Data Interpretation, Hindi Language, English Language, and computer and office automation familiarity, with 0.25 negative marking. The written exam decides merit; the typing test only decides whether you stay in the race.
Official Sources for DSSSB Typing Test Rules
Exam queries: DSSSB, FC-18, Institutional Area, Karkardooma, Delhi-110092 · Phone +91-11-22378382 · Office hours 09:30 AM to 06:00 PM on working days.
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