HIMACHAL PRADESH BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION
DHARAMSHALA-176213

ADMISSION NOTICE

                                     Application Form                          Admit Card            (PDF Format)              

Application on prescribed proforma, for the competitive written entrance test for admission to two year Junior Basic Training (JBT) Course, to be held on 12.05.2002 are invited so as to reach this office on or before 15.3.2002 alongwith fee prescribed. The district wise allocation of seats is as under:

Sr. No.            Name of District                               No. of Seats
1.                 Bilaspur                                      94
2.                 Chamba                                      Not approved by the NCTE as yet
3.                 Hamirpur                                     85
4.                 Kangra                                       100
5.                 Kinnaur                                       46
6.                 Kullu                                           94
7.                 Lahaul & Spiti                               50
8.                 Mandi                                         120
9.                 Shimla                                        100
10.               Sirmour                                       120
11.               Solan                                          100
12.               Una                                             46

Note: Since the seats for Chamba district have not been approved by the NCTE, therefore, the candidates belonging to Chamba district need not apply.

RESERVATION:
Reservation as prescribed by the H.P. Govt. shall be available to candidates belonging to scheduled caste/scheduled tribe/other backward classes/IRDP/children/grand children of Freedom Fighters/physically handicapped/distinguished sports persons who have excelled at District/State/National Sports/Meets/games/Ex-servicemen OR wards of ex-servicemen including dependents of the family of those defence services personnel who were killed in action or were disabled in action and rendered unfit for civil employment.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERION

1. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: The candidates must possess educational qualification of 10+2 with at least 50% marks for unreserved category candidates and with at least 45% marks for the reserved category  candidates belonging to scheduled caste/scheduled tribe/other backward classes and IRDP.

2. AGE LIMIT: The age of the candidates as on 31.12.2001 must be between 17 to 28 years. The upper age limit shall be relaxable by five years in case of SC/ST/OBC/IRDP category candidates only. There will be no upper age limit in the case of ex-servicemen candidates, however this concession/relaxation of upper age limit will not be admissible to their wards/dependents.

3. FEE FOR ENTRANCE TEST: The applications for entrance test shall be accompanied with crossed postal order/bank draft in the name of the Secretary, H.P. Board of School Education, Dharamshala for the amount of Rs. 250/- in case of Gen. Category candidates and Rs. 150/- in the case of reserved category candidates i.e. SC/ST/OBC/IRDP. The form alongwith fee can also be deposited at the cash counter of the Board at Dharamshala on any working day from 10 am to 2 pm up to 15.3.2002.

4. DISTRICTWISE ALLOCATION OF SEATS: All the seats are reserved for bonafide residents of Himachal Pradesh. The candidates belonging to a particular district shall be eligible to compete for admission to the two year JBT course for seats shown against that district only.

5. HOW TO APPLY:

a) The application form should be strictly in accordance with the format published hereunder, which should either be neatly typed on single side of full scape paper or the candidates may use photocopy of application form published in this newspaper. No application forms will be made available by the Board. Application froms not in accordance with the prescribed format are liable to be rejected.
b) All the columns must be filled up in English only in capital letters in ink.
c) The application form complete in all respects, alongwith (i) two copies of prescribed admission card (20X10 cms), (ii) two self-addressed envelopes (25X12 cms), and (iii) three pass-port sized photographs- one pasted on the right hand side of the application form and one each on the admit cards should be sent under registered cover to the Assistant Secretary, (JBT Cell), HP Board of School Education, Dharamshala-176213 (Kangra), which must reach the Board's office on or before 15.3.2002 alongwith required fee. There is no need to get the form/photographs attested from any authority. Applications received after the last date, without fee or less fee or not in accordance with the prescribed format shall be rejected and no refund of fee in such cases shall be made under any circumstances. The envelope containing application form should be superscribed with words "APPLICATION FORM JBT-2002".
d) Do not fill any information in the box provided on the top of the admission form where 'For Office use only' has been written.
e) Against 'Home District' write your home district to which you belong and against sub-division, write the revenue sub-division to which you belong.
f) Against choice of Centre, mention name of the Revenue sub-division where you would like to appear for the written test. However, the Board reserves the right of allotment of examination centre, List of sub-divisional headquarters/examination centres is as under:

Distt. Bilaspur:1. Bilaspur 2. Ghumarwin
Distt. Hamirpur:1. Badsar 2. Hamirpur 3. Nadaun                                     
Distt. Kangra:1. Baijnath 2. Dehra 3. Dharamshala 4. Jwalai 5. Kangra 6. Nurpur 7. Palampur 8. Jaisinghpur                                   
Distt. Kinnaur:1. Nichar 2. Pooh 3. Reckong Peo                            
Distt. Kullu:1. Anni 2. Banjar 3. Kullu 4. Manali                                      
Distt. Lahaul & Spiti:1. Kaza 2. Keylong 3. Udaipur
Distt. Mandi:1. Gohar 2. Joginder Nagar 3. Karsog 4. Mandi 5. Sarkaghat 6. Sundernagar                             
Distt. Shimla:1. Chopal 2. Rampur 3. Rohru 4. Shimla 5. Theog 6. Dodrakwar                                       
Distt. Sirmour:1. Nahan 2. Paonta Sahib 3. Rajgarh                                       
Distt. Solan:1. Arki 2. Kandaghat 3. Nalagarh 4. Solan                                     
Distt. Una:1. Amb 2. Una
g) To avoid Postal Delays, please mention your PIN Code.
h) Write your date of birth in the application form as recorded in your matric or Hr. Sec. Certificates.
Enclosures with the application form:
1. Demand Draft 2. Two Self addressed envelopes
3. Admit Card (in duplicate)

GENERAL RULES/GUIDELINES FOR JBT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 2002
                                  

1. The candidates appearing in this test will be considered for selection only in the district to which they originally belong. The district-wise/Category wise merit will be prepared by the Board. The successful candidates in this test will be subjected to interview by the selection committee. The final result shall be declared by aggregating the scores of written test and interview. The candidates securing equal marks will be bracketed together. Their inter-se-merit will be determined in accordance with following criteria:
i) A candidate getting higher percentage of marks in the qualifying examination, shall rank higher in the order of merit.
ii) In case of tie in the percentage of marks in the qualifying examination, the candidate senior in age shall rank higher in order of merit.
2. The category/sub-category filled up by the candidate in the application form shall be treated as FINAL and no request for change in category/sub-category, at any stage shall be entertained.
3. The Board proposes to hold this examination at all the district and sub-divisional headquarters in the Pradesh at the Centres to be notified and alloted to the candidates by the Board. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES EXAMINATION CENTRE ONCE ALLOTED SHALL BE ALLOWED TO BE CHANGED.
4. If a candidate fails to appear in the examination for any reason, whatsoever or if his/her application is rejected on any ground including his/her ineligibility to appear in the examination, the examination fee paid should not be refunded. The appearance in the test shall ipso-facto not entitle a candidate to get admission in this course. It will be the entire responsibility of the candidate himself to make sure about him/her eligibility before applying for this entrance test.
5. Incomplete application form will outrightly be rejected and no intimation to this effect will be sent to the candidate. No supplementary correspondence will be entertained in this behalf. The sample of answer-sheet and question paper will be supplied alongwith Admit Card. No candidate will be allowed to take the test without admit card.
6. The HP Board of School Education shall not be held responsible for any postal delays.
7. In-service candidates must route their applications through proper channel. However, they may send advance copy to the Board directly so as to reach in the Board office before the expiry of the last date.
8. The candidates shall be required to answer multiple choice-type questions by marking responses in the answer sheets to be supplied separately in the examination hall.
9. Use of calculators/cell-phones shall not be allowed.
10. Any candidate who creates disturbance of any kind during examination or otherwise misbehaves in or around the exam hall or refuses to obey the instructions of the Centre Supdt./Invigilator of changes his/her seat with any candidate or having in his/her possession paper/books or allowing any other candidate copy his/her answer sheet or using any other unfair means, will be expelled from the examination. Decision of the centre Supdt. to expel a candidate from the examination centre shall be final.
11. If at any stage it is found that a candidate has knowingly or willfully misled or supressed/concealed material information which renders him/her ineligible to take this examination, his/her candidature will be cancelled and he/she will have no claim whatsoever thereafter.
12. The candidate must bring hard card board, HB Pencil, eraser and ball point pen in the examination hall on the day of entrance test.
13. The credential verification of the successful candidates will be made at the time of personal interview.
14. The written test and personal interviews shall be held at sub-divisional headquarters in the State.
15. QUESTION PAPER: There shall be one question paper having questions of multiple choice type, carrying 90 questions of one mark each to be attempted within TWO HOURS. The subjects alongwith the distribution of marks shall be as under:

                         Subjects                                     Marks
I)                  Hindi                                       25
II)                 English                                    20
III)                Numerical Ability                       25
IV)                General Awareness                    20
Total                                                          90
                    Personal Interview                    10
Grand Total:                                                100

NOTE: The question Papers of Hindi, English and Numerical ability shall be of 10+2 standard. The questions of General Awareness will be based mainly on Himachal Pradesh with special emphasis on rural areas.

PERSONAL INTERVIEW
10 (Ten) marks have been assigned to personal interview. Candidates to be called for interview would be three times to the number of Vacancies.

Sd-           
(Vikas Labroo) 
Secretary