APPSC Assistant Chemical Examiner 2026 — Official 100-Mark Computer Proficiency Test (CPT) and Practical Syllabus

Notification 35/2026 | Official brief Annexure, pages 9–13 | 100 marks, 60 minutes | CPT date not declared.

The APPSC Assistant Chemical Examiner brief includes a full Proficiency in Office Automation with usage of Computers and Associated Software examination scheme, drawn from the cited G.O.Ms.No.26 dated 24 February 2023. It is a practical-type test with category-wise minimum scores and five published assessment components. The printed test is separate from the two-paper 300-mark CBRT; the brief is not an announcement of an extra 100 written-merit marks.

Published 100-mark scheme

The references to PBD and other brackets are CPT qualifying thresholds, not the nine-seat horizontal/vertical reservation roster. The actual distribution of Assistant Chemical Examiner vacancies is not disclosed by the uploaded brief.

Part A — Fundamentals of computers, networking and digital work

The Commission lists computer system components and peripherals, input/output devices, RAM/ROM, processing components and the ALU, system versus application software, embedded/proprietary/open-source packages, and operating systems. Familiarity with graphical interfaces is required: Windows GUI and file management; Linux/Mac basic concepts; files, folders, directories, permissions and attached devices.

Internet basics include browsers, hardware/software requirements, Internet Protocol addresses, uploading/downloading, and using email effectively. The World Wide Web section includes navigation and searching. These are named syllabus subjects; the brief does not release a stand-alone question paper or say each subtopic has fixed marks.

Part B — Actual Office Automation tasks

Word processing / equivalents: create, open, edit and save a document, manage page setup and print view, use paragraphs, formatting, tables, lists, columns, headers/footers and references; work with images, WordArt, styles, find/replace and mail merge. The assessment explicitly mentions typing speed, formatting and inserting objects.

Spreadsheets: data entry and editing, cell addresses, relative/formula references, functions, sorting and filtering, row/column operations, charts, formula-based calculations and conditional formatting. The syllabus includes graphs, so skills must include producing charts from actual numeric data; being able to name spreadsheet buttons alone is insufficient.

Presentations: choose slide layouts/themes, insert and position text and graphics, handle slide order and templates, create tables and other multimedia, set animations and transitions and prepare a coherent slideshow. The annexure allows common office suites, including open-source equivalents; it does not require candidates to purchase a named commercial product to study the concepts.

Five-pillar official assessment pattern

📊 CPT marks distribution across the five named skills

The phrase “test may be designed” in the annexure means the precise live tasks are not guaranteed in advance. This table is the published assessment model, not a claim to know future exam questions. The five values total 100. The text mentions typing being made mandatory under applicable norms, but does not specify a fixed words-per-minute threshold for this recruitment; no such invented typing speed is supplied.

Example skill rehearsal (preparation, not an official sample paper)

Prepare a one-page letter with a heading, two-column table, footer and inserted image; save and print-preview. Enter a small numerical dataset into a spreadsheet, calculate a total and average, apply conditional formatting and insert a labelled graph. Create a short presentation using the same data and a coherent layout. This combines the areas expressly named by the Commission without pretending to reproduce an unpublished test task. Rehearse rapid keyboard navigation and file naming, because the entire practical assessment lasts 60 minutes.

What is not announced

The 13 October notification supplies no CPT date, venue, hall-ticket link, candidate roll list or result for Notification 35/2026. A CPT scheduled for a different APPSC service or an older April 2026 CPT session is not a confirmed exam event for this recruitment. The relevant new notice must explicitly name Notification 35/2026 before it is attributed here.