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TECHNICAL EXAMINATION, JULY/AUGUST-2021

SHORTHAND (ENGLISH) – HIGH SPEED (SEHS)
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Paper - I (150 W.P.M.)

Time : 5 Minutes for dictation

1 Hour & 15 Minutes for transcription ] [ Maximum Marks : 100

Instructions to the Dictator :

(1) The following passage is to be dictated to the candidates ONCE ONLY in a loud and
distinct voice, no word or phrase being repeated and no punctuation stops

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mentioned.

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(2) The passage is to be dictated at the rate of 150 words per minute. The passage is
marked into portions of one minute duration which again is sub divided into quarters.
The reader will read with a watch in hand with centre seconds and notice every
quarter minute to ensure he is strictly adhering to the time.
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(3) As soon as the dictation is over, the candidates should be told to transcribe into
longhand what they have written, and hand over the answer book and speed note-
book fastened together, to the invigilator immediately after the completion of the time
allowed for transcription.
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(4) Before commencement of the dictation, the candidates should be told to take down
the matter to be dictated in Shorthand only.

(5) The reader should go through the following and get acquainted with words and
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phrases used before actually starting the dictation.

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(6) Immediately after the dictation is over, all the copies of the Shorthand Paper-I
question paper must be sent in a sealed cover after duly signed by the Observer,
Dictator and the Chief Superintendent to the Secretary, State Board of Technical
Education and Training, by name separately (not along with the answer books).

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My dear Countrymen,
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Your ar e al l we ll a war e t hat years, the Government has removed

corruption and nepotism have damaged many top officials. All such people

our country beyond imagination and creating obstacles were told that the

entered into our lives like termites. We are country does not need their services any

continuously trying to weed them out. more and they have been removed. I

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There have been successes / also, but believe that there should / be change in

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the disease is so deeply rooted, the the system, but at the same time, there

disease is so wide spread that we will should be a change in the social fabric.

have to keep putting in more efforts and Along with the change in the social fabric,
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that too at every level, not just at the a change in the mindset and beliefs of the
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government level, and we // need to keep people running // the system is also very

doing it continuously. All work cannot important. Then only the desired results
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done at one go, bad habits are like chronic can be achieved.
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disease. Sometimes it gets cured, but My dear Brothers and Sisters, the

some times it relapses. This too is a country has, in a way, matured after so

disease for which we have /// taken many many years of Independence. We are
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steps, eliminating it by continuous use of going to celebrate /// Seventy Fifth

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technology. Every effort has been made to anniversary of Independence. This

strengthen honesty and transparency at Freedom is as precious to us as our

all levels. ethical values, attitudes and sensitivities.

You must have seen that When ever I hold meetings with officials I

immediately after formation of the would always mention, I do not talk it

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Government and also in the (1) last five publicly but today (2) I feel like speaking
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out. I repeatedly exhort the officials that Today, we have made much
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after so many years of independence, can progress towards “Ease of doing

we not do something about cutting down business:. We aim to reach the Top Five

red tape and reduce the involvement of in the global ranking and for this there will

the Government in the daily / life of the be a need for several / reforms, anybody

common man. wants to set up a small business or

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The meaning of an Independent industry, faces several small and big

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India for me is to create an eco-system issues, such as filling up several forms,

that gradually reduces the involvement of going from pillar to post, he has to make

government in the lives of its people. This visits to offices, but still he // does not get
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will give people the choice // to decide the requisite sanction. We have taken all
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about their own destiny and embark upon the steps that the person who wants to

whichever direction they wish in the start an industry, gets his due rights easily
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national interest, for betterment of their and thus there is need for us to proceed in
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families and in the pursuit of their dreams. that /// direction.

Citizens should not feel pressure of the My dear country men, our nation

government /// but at the same time must march forward, but the country
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during a crisis the Government must not cannot now wait much longer for
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be found wanting. The government should incremental progress, we will have to take

neither be exerting nor wanting, but let us a big leap, we will have to change our

all move forward with our dreams. The thinking. To make (4) India reach the

Government should be always standing Global standards, we need to build

(3) by us, as a companion. modern infrastructure. In this regard, I

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would like to tell one thing here that people who were happy with just getting a
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earlier, if a decision was taken on paper railway stoppage are now asking, it is

that a railway station was going / to be alright but when is the /// airport going to

constructed in a particular area, there open here?

used to be a positive feeling for years My dear brothers & sisters, today

together that a new railway station would the country has a very favourable

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be available somewhere nearby. Times environment for achieving economic

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have changed now. The ordinary citizens success. When there is a stable

are no longer satisfied // with, forth with government, the policies are predictable

ask, When will the airport be ready? That 4 and systems are stable. Jai Hind. (5)

means their thinking has changed. The

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