10 minutes·Needed to pass: 35 wpm (10,500 KDPH)·Backspace and arrow keys allowed·English
Time left
10:00
Text to type
I have fairly covered the majority of railway systems during this period. Now and then I have entered into correspondence with the management of the different railways about the defects that have come under my notice. But I think that the time has come when I should invite the press and the public to join in a crusade against a grievance which has too long remained unredressed, though much of it is capable of redress without great difficulty. On the 12th instant I booked at Bombay for Madras by the mail train and paid Rs. 13-9. It was labelled to carry 22 passengers. These could only have seating accommodation. There were no bunks in this carriage whereon passengers could lie with any degree of safety or comfort. There were two nights to be passed in this train before reaching Madras. If not more than 22 passengers found their way into my carriage before we reached Poona, it was because the bolder ones kept the others at bay. With the exception of two or three insistent passengers, all had to find their sleep being seated all the time. After reaching Raichur the pressure became unbearable. The rush of passengers could not be stayed. The fighters among us found the task almost beyond them. The guards or other railway servants came in only to push in more passengers. A defiant Memon merchant protested against this packing of passengers like sardines. In vain did he say that this was his fifth night on the train. The guard insulted him and referred him to the management at the terminus. There were during this night as many as 35 passengers in the carriage during the greater part of it. Some lay on the floor in the midst of dirt and some had to keep standing. A free fight was, at one time, avoided only by the intervention of some of the older passengers who did not want to add to the discomfort by an exhibition of temper.
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Daily goal–
A phone shows the test, but the exam is on a keyboard: practise on one.
About this test
Time
10 minutes. In the exam hall a 10-minute mock and a 10-minute break come first.
Needed to pass
35 words a minute: 10,500 keystrokes an hour, at 5 to a word. The text is about 1,750 keystrokes.
Mistakes
Full mistakes: a word left out, added or typed as another word. Half mistakes: spelling, capital letters, punctuation and spacing. SSC does not publish the allowance for each category, so the result shows both counts.
Editing
Backspace and the arrow keys work, as in the exam.
A practice test to the published rules. Not the official software, and not a certificate.
Questions
How is my speed worked out?
Keystrokes in the time used, five to a word, as SSC counts them. KDPH is the same count for an hour.
Do mistakes I correct count?
No. Only the text in the box when the time is up or you submit is checked, word by word, against the text to type.
How many mistakes are allowed?
SSC sets it for each post and category and publishes it with the results. In CHSL 2025, LDC and JSA allowed 7% for unreserved candidates and 10% for other categories, and DEO 5% and 7%. The result gives your full and half mistakes to check against the notice for your post.
Is this the real SSC software?
No. It follows SSC's published rules so you can practise to them, but it is not the exam's software.
lite-type
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