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Category No: 454/2025Notification No: 454/2025

Assistant

Applications are invited Online only from qualified candidates for appointment in the under mentioned post in various Universities in Kerala. Before applying for the post the candidates should register as per the One Time Registration through the official website of Kerala Public Service Commission. Candidates who have already registered can apply through their profile.

Notification Details & Specifications

Category No
454/2025
Official PDF Document
Gazette Date
2025-11-28
Last Date
2025-12-30
Department
Universities in Kerala
Name of Post
Assistant
Scale of pay
₹ 39,300 – 83,000 /-
Number of vacancies
Anticipated vacancies
Method of appointment
Direct Recruitment
Age Limit
18-36, Only candidates born between 02.01.1989 and 01.01.2007 (both dates included) are eligible to apply for this post with usual relaxation to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Communities. (For conditions regarding the age relaxation please see Part II Para 2 of the General Conditions). Note : For concessions allowed in upper age limit, subject to the condition that the maximum age limit shall in no case exceed 50 years, please see para (2) of the General Conditions under Part II of this Notification.
Qualifications
A Degree in any faculty from a recognised University or its equivalent. Note :- 1. Rule 10 a (ii) of Part II of KS&SSR is applicable.
Notes
i) This notification will be applicable to selection to the above mentioned post in all the Universities mentioned in Rule 2a (i to xiii) of the Kerala Public Service Commission (Additional Functions as respects the Service under the Universities) Act 2015 and of the Universities added in this Act as per law in due course. ii) A common ranked list will be published in pursuance of this notification for all the Universities and candidates will be advised from that list against all the vacancies reported for the post from all the Universities mentioned above. As such, a candidate need send only one application. Candidates will be advised for recruitment to each University according to the order in which vacancies are reported from each University and in accordance with the ranks secured by them subject to the rules of reservation and rotation in force. Once advised his/her turn will be over and he/she will have no further claim for being considered for appointment from the ranked list to another University. As common ranked list is prepared for more than one University on the basis of a common examination, a candidate appointed in a University and relieved for want of vacancy can register his/her name in the office of Kerala Public Service Commission and in such case he/she will be advised for appointment against the next vacancy reported from any of the above mentioned University. His/her service in the former University will be counted for probation in the latter University. For reappointment in the present University itself, no registration is necessary but one has to wait till vacancy arises in that University. Candidates will have no right to claim initial appointment to any particular University. iii) 4% of the total vacancies reported shall be reserved for eligible Differently Abled Candidates, as specified in G.O.(P) No. 19/2020/SJD dated 25.08.2020. Probation :- The candidates selected to post shall be on probation for a peroid of two years on duty within a continuous period of three years during which the candidates selected shall pass Secretariat Manual and Accounts Test.
Curriculum & Exam PatternMatched by Cat No: 454/2025

Prescribed Exam Syllabus

Year: 2026Cat: 454/2025Examination Programme Syllabus

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Official syllabus for the post of Assistant – Direct Recruitment in (Preliminary Examination) (Category No: 454/2025) for year 2026. • Section/Category Title: Examination Programme Syllabus • Examination Year: 2026 • Download Link: https://www.keralapsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/inline-files/HSST-Mathematics_1.pdf

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