Official GSSSB syllabus for Research Assistant and Statistical Assistant, Class-3 (Advt. 457/202627, 41 posts): a 210-mark MCQ-CBRT exam in Gujarati and English, with Part A general subjects (90) and Part B Statistics, Official Statistics, Mathematics and Economics (120).
GSSSB Advertisement No. 457/202627 is for Research Assistant and Statistical Assistant, Class-3 in the office of the Director of Economics and Statistics, Gandhinagar (General Administration Department). The advertisement lists 41 posts. Online applications ran from 9 to 23 September 2026 on OJAS and are now closed.
GSSSB published the detailed syllabus on 8 September 2026. The exam is MCQ-CBRT and will be set in both Gujarati and English. GSSSB has not announced the exam date yet.
| Detail / વિગત | Official figure / સત્તાવાર વિગત |
|---|---|
| Questions / પ્રશ્નો | 210 (Part A 90 + Part B 120) |
| Marks / ગુણ | 210 |
| Time / સમય | 3 hours (180 minutes) for both parts together |
| Negative marking / નેગેટિવ માર્કિંગ | 1/4 of the marks for that question for each wrong answer |
| Mode / પદ્ધતિ | MCQ-CBRT |
| Section / વિભાગ | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning and Data Interpretation | 30 | 30 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 30 | 30 |
| Constitution of India | 10 | 10 |
| Current Affairs | 10 | 10 |
| Comprehension (Gujarati 5 + English 5) | 10 | 10 |
| No. | Subject | Marks | Main topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Statistics | 30 | Data collection and presentation, central tendency and dispersion, moments, skewness and kurtosis, probability, discrete and continuous distributions, the normal distribution, the central limit theorem, sampling theory |
| 2 | Official Statistics | 30 | NSSO and CSO; National Statistical Commission; Acts and Rules on collection of statistics; sector-wise statistics, surveys and census; state and national accounts |
| 3 | Mathematics | 30 | Rapid calculation, binary system, logarithms, equations, functions and graphs, progressions, limits and derivatives, binomial expansion, determinants and matrices, interpolation and extrapolation, permutations and combinations |
| 4 | Economics | 30 | Micro and macro basics, demand, supply and elasticity, cost and revenue, market structures, growth and development, national income, HDI, sustainable development and NITI Aayog, poverty and unemployment, public finance and GST, Socio-Economic Review of Gujarat, banking, RBI and inflation |
The Part A topic lists for Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude are the same as in GSSSB’s other Class-3 syllabi: coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense, data interpretation and sufficiency, number system, percentages, interest, time and work, mensuration and so on. The Constitution section covers the Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles, the union and state governments, local self-government and elections.
જાહેરાત ક્રમાંક ૪૫૭/૨૦૨૬૨૭ – સંશોધન મદદનીશ અને આંકડા મદદનીશ, વર્ગ-૩ (નિયામકશ્રી, અર્થશાસ્ત્ર અને આંકડાશાસ્ત્ર કચેરી). કુલ ૪૧ જગ્યાઓ. ઓનલાઇન અરજી ૦૯/૦૯/૨૦૨૬ થી ૨૩/૦૯/૨૦૨૬ સુધી હતી.
Open GSSSB’s syllabus page / GSSSB અભ્યાસક્રમ પેજ ખોલો
Go to gsssb.gujarat.gov.in → જાહેરાતો → અભ્યાસક્રમ અને યોજનાઓ (https://gsssb.gujarat.gov.in/SyllabusSchemes).
Search by advertisement number / જાહેરાત ક્રમાંકથી શોધો
Type the advertisement number in the search box, for example 378 or 457.
Open the newest file / સૌથી નવી ફાઈલ ખોલો
Click View on the row with the latest date. GSSSB sometimes republishes a syllabus with more detail, so check the date.
210 marks: 90 questions in Part A and 120 in Part B, with 3 hours for both parts together.
Yes. The advertisement says 1/4 of the marks for that question is deducted for each wrong answer.
Statistics, Official Statistics, Mathematics and Economics, with 30 marks each.
GSSSB has not announced it yet. It will publish the date and call letter schedule on its website.
મંડળે પરીક્ષા ગુજરાતી અને અંગ્રેજી બંને ભાષામાં લેવાનો નિર્ણય કર્યો છે.
