For an ADRE or SLRC written exam in Assam, the scribe request does not go to the exam board. It goes on paper to the District Commissioner of the district you live in, with two forms, and you and your scribe both appear in person before the Additional District Commissioner. In 2024 the forms came out on 13 August and the first written exam was on 15 September, so there was about a month to get a hospital certificate and a DC office signature.
This guide follows the State Level Recruitment Commission's notice of 12 August 2024 for the last ADRE round. A new round may bring a fresh notice, so read it when it comes. The current SLRC recruitment for 72 Field Assistant (Statistics) posts says only that scribe terms will be notified later.
Who Can Ask for a Scribe in an SLRC Exam
The 2024 notice is for candidates under Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) who are eligible for a scribe or reader under the law. Benchmark disability means 40% or more, as shown on your disability certificate.
The Two Forms
Both are on our downloads page, copied unchanged from the SLRC website.
Appendix I: certificate that you cannot write
- Signed by the Chief Medical Officer, Civil Surgeon or Medical Superintendent of a government hospital or health centre.
- The doctor should be a specialist for your disability: an ophthalmologist for visual impairment, an orthopaedic or PMR specialist for locomotor disability.
- Your photo goes on the form, with the doctor's seal and signature across both the photo and the form.
- It asks for the nature and percentage of disability as written on your disability certificate, so carry that certificate to the hospital.
Appendix II: application and undertaking
- Addressed to the District Commissioner of your district, and submitted in duplicate.
- You tick one choice. Either you ask the DC to provide a scribe, or you name your own.
- If you bring your own scribe, their qualification must be one step below yours. A graduate's scribe should be Class 12 pass, for example.
- You sign an undertaking on your scribe's qualification. If it later turns out to be higher than you declared, you lose your right to the post.
- Passport photos of you and of the scribe (if you bring one), with the officer's seal across each.
Step by Step
- Get your admit card, because Appendix II asks for your roll number and exam centre.
- Take Appendix I and your disability certificate to the Civil Surgeon's office or the government hospital, and get it signed.
- Fill two copies of Appendix II.
- Go to the DC office in person, with your scribe if you are bringing one. The Additional District Commissioner checks both forms and signs the office-use section.
- On exam day, carry your PwBD certificate and the signed scribe papers. SLRC's instructions for the September 2024 exam list them among the few things allowed into the hall.
The notice does not say how many days before the exam the DC office needs the forms. Go as soon as you have your admit card. A hospital certificate can take a few visits.
Central Exams Follow Different Rules
SSC, banks, railways and other central recruiters follow the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities guidelines, and the recruiter's notice prints its own forms.
- For blindness, locomotor disability affecting both arms, and cerebral palsy, a scribe is given if you ask.
- For other benchmark disabilities, you need a certificate of physical limitation to write, in the same format as Appendix I.
- Since the office memorandum of 10 August 2022, people with less than 40% disability who have difficulty writing can also get a scribe. They need a different certificate, valid for up to six months.
- Anyone eligible for a scribe gets 20 minutes extra per hour of exam, whether or not they use one. A two-hour paper becomes two hours forty minutes.
The SLRC notices we read do not mention extra time or the under-40% rule. Do not assume either applies to an ADRE exam until SLRC says so.