Meghalaya PSC LDA Exam Pattern, Subjects and Marks
Meghalaya PSC LDA has published the syllabus for this recruitment. Download it only from the official website mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in.
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Two stages, and only one of them is written ↑
The Meghalaya Public Service Commission fills the post of Lower Division Assistant under the Heads of Department through two stages: a multiple-choice Screening Test worth 300 marks, and then a Personal Interview. The post is listed as post code 01 in Advt No. 15/Pt-1/2025, issued at Shillong on 15 July 2025, and everything on this page comes from that advertisement or from the Commission's later examination notices.
One line in the advertisement misleads candidates every year. The interview paragraph speaks of those who have passed the "Screening Test/Main Written Examination" — but that wording is drafted to cover several different recruitments. The paragraph that sets out the method of selection for this particular post lists a Screening Test and nothing else. There is no main written paper to prepare for here.
How many candidates are called for the interview is not fixed in the advertisement either. The Commission reserves the ratio to itself and decides it from time to time, which means the number can differ from one recruitment to the next.
| Stage | What the advertisement lays down |
|---|---|
| Screening Test | A multiple-choice paper of 300 marks built from five subjects. It is the only written stage prescribed for this post. |
| Personal Interview | Open only to candidates declared to have passed the Screening Test. The ratio in which they are called is decided by the Commission from time to time. |
| Documents in original | A candidate counts as qualified to be called for the interview only after producing every required original — proof of educational qualification, date of birth, caste and community, and whatever else the Rules demand. |
The paper itself: five subjects and 300 marks ↑
The method-of-selection paragraph, PARA 6.1, is four lines long. It says the Screening Test is made up of the subjects listed below in MCQ pattern, and then prints five subjects with the marks against each. That list is the entire published description of what this paper contains — there is no annexure behind it and no topic breakdown anywhere else on the Commission's website.
The marks column below is reproduced exactly as the advertisement prints it. The third column is ours: a planning note, not part of the official document, and not a syllabus. Nowhere does the Commission split any of these five subjects into topics.
| Subject, as the advertisement names it | Marks | Our planning note — not part of the official document |
|---|---|---|
| English | 100 | The largest single subject and, on its own, a third of the paper. Because no topic list is published, previous LDA question papers are the only honest guide to what is asked here. |
| General Knowledge & Current Affairs | 80 | The second heaviest subject, and the one that decays. Current affairs read a year before the paper is not what the paper asks; the general-knowledge half rewards early, steady work. |
| Aptitude | 30 | The lightest subject in the scheme. Worth finishing, not worth letting it eat the time the two heavy subjects need. |
| Reasoning | 40 | The Commission lists Reasoning as a subject of its own, kept separate from Aptitude. It does not say how the two differ in the paper, so prepare both rather than guessing where the line falls. |
| Basic Computer | 50 | More marks than Aptitude carries, from a subject whose name suggests less. Fifty marks is a fifth of the paper and it is the cheapest fifth to secure. |
| Total | 300 | Printed as the total in the advertisement. The five subject figures add to the same number, which is our own check on the reading, not a second official statement. |
How to split your time across the five subjects ↑
Two figures in this section are ours, not the Commission's, and we mark them as such. English and General Knowledge together account for 180 of the 300 marks, and English alone is a third of the paper. Both come from adding or dividing the printed marks — the advertisement itself prints only the five subject figures and the total.
That derived split is the single most useful thing on this page for someone planning a study week. Three subjects out of five decide sixty marks in every hundred, and the two smallest subjects together are worth less than English alone.
One warning, because it costs candidates real months. Coaching sites publish confident topic-wise "Meghalaya LDA syllabus" tables. The Commission has published no such table for this post, so every one of those lists is somebody's reconstruction. Use them as practice material if you like; do not treat them as scope, and never let one of them tell you a subject is out of the paper.
| Where the marks are | What we would actually do |
|---|---|
| English — 100 marks | The biggest return per hour, because the ground is finite: grammar, comprehension, vocabulary and error-spotting at the level of a Class 12 paper. Work it daily rather than in blocks. |
| General Knowledge & Current Affairs — 80 marks | Split it. Keep a running current-affairs habit from the day you apply, and treat Meghalaya and North-East general knowledge as a separate, small, finishable list — a state commission's paper is set by people who live there. |
| Basic Computer — 50 marks | Finish this first. It is the most closed-ended subject in the scheme, and fifty marks of it can be made near-certain in a few weeks. |
| Reasoning — 40 and Aptitude — 30 | Seventy marks between them, and both improve with timed practice rather than reading. Practise against the clock, because in a paper of this size speed is what separates candidates who know the same things. |
Exam day: the Screening Test was held on 22 August 2026 ↑
The Screening Test under this advertisement has already taken place. Three separate notices from the Commission fix it and they agree with one another: a tentative programme on 14 July 2026, a confirmed Programme of Examination on 24 July 2026, and a public notice on 30 July 2026. All three name the same date, and the last two name the same sitting time.
The sitting runs from 11:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — two and a half hours, which is our subtraction of the two printed clock times and not a duration the Commission states anywhere. The number of questions in the paper is not stated in any of these documents.
Call letters carrying the venue, the subjects and the reporting time are published on the Commission's own website. The Commission also states, in both examination notices, that it will not entertain any request to change a candidate's examination centre.
| What was notified | The document that says it |
|---|---|
| Screening Test held on 22 August 2026 | Notice No. MPSC/D-25/1/2025-2026/123 dated 30 July 2026, and the confirmed Programme of Examination dated 24 July 2026. |
| Sitting from 11:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. | The same two documents, which print the identical timing. |
| Centres: Shillong, Tura, Jowai, Nongstoin and Williamnagar | Notice No. MPSC/D-25/1/2025-2026/123 dated 30 July 2026. The advertisement named the same five centres in July 2025. |
| Venue-wise allotment inside each of the five centres | Programme of Examination No. MPSC/EX-C/25/2026/18 dated 24 July 2026. |
| Call letters with venue, subjects and time, from the Commission's website | Notice No. MPSC/D-25/1/2025-2026/123 dated 30 July 2026. |
Who could apply: qualification, age and fee ↑
The eligibility conditions below closed with the application window on 16 August 2025. They are worth reading anyway, for two reasons: the Commission re-advertises this post regularly, and several of these rules — the age reference date, the accepted proof of age, the fee concession — carry forward unchanged from one LDA advertisement to the next.
The educational qualification has a trap in it. It must be held on the last date for submitting the application, and the date a candidate is treated as having acquired it is the date the result of that last examination was declared — not the date of the exam, and not the date the certificate was printed.
| Condition | What the advertisement states |
|---|---|
| Post | Lower Division Assistant under the Heads of Department, listed as post code 01. |
| Pay | Level 6 of the Revised Pay Structure. |
| Essential qualification | Class 12th / HSSLC or an equivalent qualification from any recognised board or university. |
| When the qualification must be held | On the last date fixed for submission of applications. The date of acquiring it is the date the result of the last qualifying examination was declared. |
| Age | 18 to 32 years, calculated with reference to 01.01.2025. |
| Age relaxation | The upper limit is relaxable by 5 years for SC/ST. There is no age bar for a regular Government employee who entered service within the prescribed age limit. |
| Accepted proof of age | Only the Matriculation or Secondary School Leaving Certificate, an equivalent certificate recognised by an Indian university, or a certified extract from the official registers of the Board of School Education. Horoscopes, affidavits, municipal birth extracts and service records are refused. |
| Fee | Rs. 320/-, non-refundable and inclusive of the examination fee. SC/ST candidates who are permanent residents of Meghalaya pay half that rate — Rs. 160 by our arithmetic; the advertisement says "half the rate" and prints no second figure. Persons with benchmark disabilities are exempt on furnishing a disability certificate. |
| How the fee is paid | By e-Challan in cash at any SBI branch, or online through the GRAS payment gateway using net banking or a debit or credit card. The Commission advises the e-Challan route, and warns that bank commission may be charged on top. |
| Application window | Online only, through the Commission's website, up to 17:00 hrs on 16 August 2025. |
At a glance
| Conducting Body | Meghalaya Public Service Commission (MPSC) |
| Post Name | Lower Division Assistant (LDA) |
| Selection Process | Written Examination (stages beyond this not confirmed for the 2026 cycle see note below) |
| Official Website | mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in |
| State | Meghalaya |
The 71 posts, category by category ↑
The vacancy block in this advertisement has two halves, and the difference between them matters. One half is fresh vacancies. The other half is older posts that were advertised in an earlier recruitment, went unfilled, and are being advertised again — the advertisement traces them to a 2020-2021 notice and re-advertises them under Para 2 of Resolution No. PER.222/71/138 dated 12.01.1972, with approval conveyed by the Personnel and A.R. (B) Department's letter No. PER (AR) 47/2022/Pt/16 dated 26.06.2025.
The advertisement prints the grand total as 9 + 62 = 71 posts. The unfilled half is reserved entirely for the categories against which it originally went unfilled, which is why there is no unreserved share in that column at all.
| Category | (a) Unfilled vacancies re-advertised | (b) Fresh vacancies |
|---|---|---|
| UR (unreserved) | — | 11 |
| KJ | 03 | 24 |
| Garo | 05 | 24 |
| OST/SCs | 01 | 03 |
| Total | 09 | 62 |
Age relaxation for persons with disabilities, as the advertisement prints it ↑
The advertisement reproduces the state government's general table of age relaxation for persons with disabilities, notified under No. PER (AR).150/88/560 dated 18 January 2023. It is printed in full below because it is printed in full there.
Read it with one caution. The table is generic — it covers Group A, B, C and D posts across the state's recruitment, and the advertisement does not state which of those groups this post falls in. We are not going to assert a group the document does not assert. A candidate relying on this relaxation should have the position confirmed by the Commission rather than inferring it from a pay level.
| Posts, as the table describes them | Relaxation of the upper age limit |
|---|---|
| Direct recruitment to Group 'C' and 'D' posts | Relaxable by 10 years, and by 15 years for STs/SCs. |
| Direct recruitment to Group 'A' and 'B' posts where recruitment is made other than through an open competitive examination | Relaxable by 5 years, and by 10 years for STs/SCs. |
| Direct recruitment to Group 'A' and 'B' posts where recruitment is made through an open competitive examination | Relaxable by 10 years, and by 15 years for STs/SCs. |
How a candidature is lost, in the Commission's own rules ↑
Four paragraphs of this advertisement are about losing the post rather than winning it, and one of them explains something candidates routinely misread: being called to the Screening Test is not a finding that you are eligible.
The Commission states that it publishes no ineligibility list. Everyone who applies is called to the written stage, eligible or not, and the check happens afterwards — which means an ineligible candidate can sit the paper, pass it, and be rejected at the verification that follows. Checking your own eligibility before applying is not advice here; it is the design of the process.
| Rule | What the advertisement states |
|---|---|
| No ineligibility list | The Commission publishes none. All applicants are called to the Screening Test irrespective of whether they qualify, and a candidate found not qualified at any stage is rejected then. |
| Admission is provisional | Admission to every stage is purely provisional and subject to the prescribed eligibility conditions being satisfied. |
| Eligibility can be tested at the last moment | If an applicant is found not to meet a condition at any stage — up to and including the recommendation stage — the candidature is cancelled automatically and without notice. |
| Category cannot be changed later | A candidate who states a category in the online form and later writes asking to change it will not be entertained. |
| Centre cannot be changed | Requests to change the examination centre are not entertained, so the centre must be chosen carefully at the application stage. Both examination notices repeat this. |
| Debarment | False information, suppression of information, unfair or illegal means during the recruitment process, and impersonation can all lead to being debarred from the Commission's examinations — permanently, in the case of impersonation, and in addition to criminal prosecution. |
There is no topic-wise syllabus for this post — and this is how we checked ↑
This is the part of the page that will disappoint, so it is better said plainly than buried. For the post of Lower Division Assistant, the Meghalaya Public Service Commission has published subject names and marks, and nothing below that level. There is no topic list, no unit breakdown and no syllabus PDF.
That is not an assumption. The Commission keeps a syllabus page of its own, and we read it on 2 September 2026: it carries 26 syllabus documents — Meghalaya Civil Service, Stenographer, Law Officer, Assistant Auditor, Junior Administrative Assistant of the High Court, Forest Ranger, the Assistant Engineer papers and others — and not one of them is for Lower Division Assistant. The count of 26 is ours, from that page; the absence is the Commission's.
So the useful question changes. Instead of hunting a syllabus PDF that does not exist, work from what the Commission does publish for this post: five subject names, the marks against each, and its own past papers and provisional answer keys.
| What candidates go looking for | What the Commission has actually published |
|---|---|
| A topic-wise LDA syllabus PDF | Nothing. The Commission's syllabus page lists syllabus documents for a range of other posts and has no Lower Division Assistant entry at all. |
| Subject names and marks | Printed in the advertisement itself, at PARA 6.1: five subjects and a 300-mark total. |
| Past papers and answer keys | For earlier Lower Division Assistant screening tests the Commission published provisional answer keys on its notice page and invited objections against them. Nothing is promised for this cycle — the same notice page is where it would appear. |
What these documents do not state — and what we will not invent ↑
An advertisement defines a recruitment; it does not answer every question a candidate has. Below is what these documents genuinely leave open. Anyone who fills these gaps with a confident number is guessing, and a guess about a syllabus costs somebody a year.
The primary documents are the advertisement at mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in › Advt15July2025a.pdf and the notices on the Commission's website at mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in — its syllabus index sits at mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in › syllabus.html. Those are the only sources worth trusting for this post.
- The result of the Screening Test held on 22 August 2026, and the interview programme that follows it: the Commission's own results and notice pages.
- The topic scope of any of the five subjects: nothing official exists. Previous Lower Division Assistant papers and the Commission's provisional answer keys are the closest honest substitute.
- The ratio in which candidates are called for the Personal Interview: decided by the Commission from time to time, and announced with the interview programme.
- Whether this post is re-advertised: the advertisements page of mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in, which is where Advt No. 15/Pt-1/2025 itself appeared.
| The question | What the official documents actually say |
|---|---|
| How many questions are in the paper? | Not stated. The advertisement gives marks per subject, never a question count. |
| Is there negative marking? | Not stated. Negative marking is not mentioned anywhere in this advertisement, so neither its presence nor its absence can be claimed from this document. |
| How long is the paper? | Not stated as a duration. The examination notices fix the sitting from 11:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.; the two-and-a-half-hour figure elsewhere on this page is our subtraction. |
| What language is the paper set in? | Not stated in the advertisement or in the examination notices. |
| What are the qualifying or cut-off marks? | Not stated. No qualifying percentage is printed for the Screening Test, and cut-offs are published only after a recruitment, if at all. |
| Do Screening Test marks count towards the final merit? | Not stated. The advertisement says only that the final selection is made through the Screening Test and the Personal Interview; it does not print a weighting between them. |
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FAQ — Your Questions, Answered
Which body conducts this exam?
Meghalaya Public Service Commission (MPSC)
Which post is this for?
Lower Division Assistant (LDA)
What is the selection process?
Written Examination (stages beyond this not confirmed for the 2026 cycle see note below)
What is the official website for this recruitment?
mpsc.meghalaya.gov.in
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