ADRE — Assam Direct Recruitment Examination — is the Government of Assam's combined, state-wide hiring drive for Grade III (Class III) and Grade IV (Class IV) posts across departments: clerks, junior assistants, drivers, peons, lab attendants and dozens of similar roles that used to be advertised department by department. Since 2022 they are bundled into one recruitment cycle, one written exam calendar and one commission — which is why "ADRE" is one of the most searched job terms in Assam and stays evergreen between cycles. This page explains what ADRE actually is, the law it runs under, what happened in ADRE 1.0 and ADRE 2.0, where ADRE 3.0 stands right now, the official websites to trust, and how the process works — checked against the Assam Gazette notification, the Gauhati High Court's record of the Act, and the Government of Assam's own recruitment announcements, not an aggregator's summary of them.
What ADRE stands for and what it actually is
ADRE stands for Assam Direct Recruitment Examination. It is not a single job or a single department — it is the mechanism the State Level Recruitment Commission (SLRC) uses to fill Grade III and Grade IV vacancies across many Government of Assam departments at once, through one application window, one syllabus track per grade, and one exam calendar, instead of each department running its own separate hiring.
Official ADRE links, before anything else:
- Grade III portal — slrcg3.sebaonline.org
- Grade IV portal — slrcg4.sebaonline.org
- SEBA (parent site) — sebaonline.org
- AHSEC — ahsec.assam.gov.in
- Government of Assam — assam.gov.in
Bookmark these five. Everything an ADRE cycle publishes — the notification, the admit card, the result, the appointment letter — is genuine only on one of them; what each one is specifically for is explained below.
Before ADRE, a Grade III or Grade IV vacancy in, say, the Revenue Department or the Health Department was advertised and filled by that department alone, on its own timeline. ADRE replaced that with a single commission-run process covering the same category of posts across dozens of departments together — the reason a single ADRE notification can carry vacancy numbers in the thousands.
The law behind ADRE
ADRE is not an informal drive — it runs under specific legislation:
- The Assam Direct Recruitment Commissions for Analogous Posts in Class-III and Class-IV Act, 2021 — this is the Act that created the recruitment commission structure. It received the Governor's assent on 24 January 2022 and was published in the Assam Gazette on 27 January 2022.
- The Assam Direct Recruitment for Class-III and Class-IV Analogous Posts Rules, 2022 — the rules that set out the selection process in detail, published in the Assam Gazette, Extraordinary, dated 7 March 2022.
- An amendment — The Assam Direct Recruitment Commissions for Analogous Posts in Class-III and Class-IV (Amendment) Act, 2022 — followed later the same year.
Under this framework, the State Level Recruitment Commission is the body that actually conducts the exam, and the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) and the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) provide the examination infrastructure — which is why ADRE notices, admit cards and results appear on SEBA's domain rather than on a standalone SLRC site. Knowing this saves a search: if you are looking for "SLRC official website", the working site is a SEBA-hosted subdomain, not a separate government department page.
Official websites for ADRE — where to actually check
This is the part that costs job seekers the most time, because aggregator sites routinely outrank the real portals and even print their own domain as if it were official. These are the genuine government sources for ADRE:
| What you need | Official website |
|---|---|
| SLRC Grade III recruitment (notices, admit card, result) | slrcg3.sebaonline.org |
| SLRC Grade IV recruitment (notices, admit card, result) | slrcg4.sebaonline.org |
| Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) — parent site | sebaonline.org |
| Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) | ahsec.assam.gov.in |
| Government of Assam's own announcement page for major recruitments, including ADRE | assam.gov.in |
A rule of thumb that holds for ADRE and every other Assam recruitment: the domain ends in .gov.in, .nic.in, or a recognised education-body domain like sebaonline.org — never a .com, a "helper" site, or a link that routes through a WhatsApp channel to "apply". Aggregator sites that rank for "ADRE 3.0" are not wrong to exist, but the notification PDF, the admit card and the result are only ever genuine on the domains in the table above. See the full official websites for Assam government jobs guide for the same check applied to every other recruiter.
ADRE 1.0 and ADRE 2.0 — what actually happened
ADRE has run twice so far, and the real numbers from both cycles are worth knowing because they are what ADRE 3.0 will be measured against.
ADRE 1.0 (2022)
The first cycle, conducted under the newly notified Act and Rules, advertised recruitment to Grade III and Grade IV posts across departments — the drive that introduced most job seekers in Assam to the name "ADRE" and to a single combined written exam replacing dozens of separate department-level ones.
ADRE 2.0 (2024–2026)
The second cycle notified 12,673 posts — 7,650 under Grade III and 5,023 under Grade IV — and drew an application volume in the tens of lakhs, reflecting how large the pool of eligible candidates in Assam is for a single combined drive. The Commission completed the written examination, followed by skill tests, driving tests and oral tests for the posts that required them, and declared results in October 2025: Grade III results on 10 October 2025 and Grade IV results on 15 October 2025.
Appointment letters for ADRE 2.0 were formally handed over at ceremonial events in Guwahati, with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma presiding — Grade IV appointments on 9 January 2026 and Grade III appointments on 10 January 2026, with a further round on 12 January 2026, taking the total distributed close to the full 12,673 notified. Selected candidates could download their appointment letters from the official portal from the evening of each date, and joining was set for January 2026.
ADRE 3.0 — the current status
As of this page's last check, ADRE 3.0 has not been officially notified. Coaching sites and aggregators have circulated expected vacancy figures — commonly cited in the 12,000 to 15,000 range across departments including education, health, taxation, finance and transport — but until the Commission or the Government of Assam publishes a signed notification with an advertisement number, those are estimates, not facts, and this page will not present them as more than that.
What is confirmed is the general shape the next cycle is expected to take, based on how ADRE 1.0 and 2.0 ran: a combined written exam, separate question papers by grade and qualification level (roughly, Class 8-level and HSLC-level papers for Grade IV; HSSLC, Graduate and Driver-level papers for Grade III), followed by a skill or driving test for the posts that need one, then document verification. The exact exam pattern, marks and syllabus for ADRE 3.0 will only be certain once the official notification is out — a job seeker preparing now should treat ADRE 2.0's pattern as a guide to the shape of the exam, not as ADRE 3.0's confirmed pattern.
The one thing to actually do while waiting: keep your Employment Exchange registration current, since ADRE application forms ask for it, and make sure your certificates — caste certificate, EWS certificate — are ready rather than something to rush once the notification lands, since the police and revenue verification behind those can take weeks.
Who is generally eligible for ADRE
Eligibility is set fresh in each cycle's official notification and differs post by post, but the broad shape has held across ADRE 1.0 and 2.0:
| Grade | Typical qualification | Examples of posts |
|---|---|---|
| Grade IV | Class 8 pass or HSLC (Class 10) pass, depending on the post | Peon, Class IV attendant, Night Guard, Lab Attendant |
| Grade III | HSSLC (Class 12), a graduate degree, or a specific qualification such as a driving licence for driver posts | Junior Assistant, Lower Division Assistant, Junior Clerk, Driver |
Age limits, relaxations for reserved categories, and the exact document list are set by the notification for each cycle and should be read from the signed PDF rather than assumed to repeat unchanged — the safest way to check your own eligibility against whatever ADRE 3.0 eventually asks for is the eligibility checker, and your exact age on the cut-off date the notice states with the age calculator.
How the ADRE selection process generally works
- Online application. A single window on the SLRC/SEBA portal for the whole state, department preferences chosen inside the form.
- Admit card. Issued ahead of the exam date, downloaded from the same portal with your application number.
- Written examination. A separate paper track by grade and qualification level, held on a common date across exam centres statewide — this is the stage the large application numbers make logistically heavy, and it is usually where a cycle's timeline stretches.
- Skill test or driving test. For posts that specifically need one — typing, computer proficiency, or driving for Driver posts.
- Document verification. Originals checked against what was declared in the application — the stage where a certificate applied for too late becomes a real problem.
- Result and merit list. Published on the SLRC/SEBA portal, department-wise.
- Appointment letter. Distributed once verification is complete, downloadable from the portal.
Fee, documents and forms an ADRE application needs
The exact fee is set by each cycle's notification and has differed by category (general/OBC-MOBC pay more than SC/ST/BPL/PwD categories in past cycles), so treat any figure quoted ahead of ADRE 3.0's own notice as provisional. What has stayed constant across cycles is the document list an application needs ready: age and qualification proof, a recent passport-size photograph, a signature scan, your Employment Exchange registration number, and — where you are claiming a reserved category — a caste or EWS certificate. If a scan comes back over the size an ADRE form accepts, compress PDF and resize image bring it down in your browser, with nothing uploaded; the passport photo tool makes a plain-background photo to the size these forms want.
The downloads page carries the Standard Form of Application some departments still ask for outside the ADRE portal itself, and the fee is usually paid online at the end of the form — a few older notices asked for a treasury challan instead, also on that page.
Common mistakes that have cost candidates an ADRE cycle
- Trusting an aggregator's "apply now" button over the official portal. Always open the application from slrcg3.sebaonline.org or slrcg4.sebaonline.org directly, not through a link embedded in a third-party page.
- Applying without an Employment Exchange number. The form asks for it; register ahead rather than during a narrow application window.
- Leaving a caste or EWS certificate for after the notification. The verification behind both takes weeks — the notification's own window is often shorter than that.
- Assuming the exam pattern repeats exactly. ADRE 2.0's paper structure is a reasonable guide to what to expect, but ADRE 3.0's own notification is the only source that fixes it for that cycle.
- Missing the correct grade's site. Grade III and Grade IV run on separate subdomains — check the one that matches the post you are applying for.
Our ADRE coverage
Every ADRE notice, admit card and result we publish, most recent first: