• Please note that candidates will not be permitted to appear for the online examination without the following documents:
  
  1) Valid Call letter for the respective date and session of Examination
  2) Photo Identity proof (as specified) in original bearing the same name as it appears on the call letter/ application form and
  3) Photo copy of photo identity proof.


• Candidates reporting late i.e. after the reporting time specified on the call letter for examination will not be permitted to take the examination.


• The reporting time mentioned on the call letter is prior to the start of the examination. Candidates may be required to be at the venue for about three hours or more including the time required for completing various formalities such as verification and collection of various requisite documents, Biometric data capture, logging in, giving instructions etc.


• For Main examination, the candidates may be required to be at the venue for about four hours or more including the time required for completing various formalities such as verification and collection of various requisite documents, Biometric data capture, logging in, giving instructions etc.

• Any stationery item like textual material (printed or written), pens/ Pencils, bits of papers, Geometry/ Pencil Box, Plastic Pouch, Calculator, Scale, Writing Pad, Pen Drives, Log Table, Electronic Pen/Scanner.


• Any communication device like Mobile Phone, Bluetooth, Earphones, Microphone, Pager, Health Band etc.


• Other items like Goggles, Handbags, Hairpin, Hairband, Belt, Cap, Any watch/Wrist Watch, Camera, Any metallic item, Any eatable item opened or packed, water bottle.


• Any other item which could be used for unfair means for hiding communication devices like camera, blue tooth devices etc.

• You are not allowed to communicate by word of mouth or otherwise with other candidates (this includes the time when answer scripts are being collected).


• Please raise your hand if you wish to communicate with an invigilator.


• Unless granted permission by an invigilator, you are not allowed to leave your seat.


• Once you have entered the examination hall, you will not be allowed to leave the hall until one hour after the examination has commenced.


• If, for any reason, you are given permission to leave the hall temporarily, you must be accompanied by an invigilator throughout your absence from the examination hall. You are required to leave your handphone on your desk when you leave the hall temporarily.


• Solutions or any other materials written on the blank pages will not be counted.


• Do not write on, mark, highlight or deface any reference materials provided for the examination. If found doing so, the reference materials will be removed from your use for the rest of the examination and you will be made to pay for the cost of the materials that have to be replaced.

• You are NOT allowed to leave the examination hall during the last 15 minutes of the examination. All candidates must remain seated throughout this period for invigilators to properly account for all answer scripts to be collected.


• No papers, used or unused, may be removed from the examination hall.


• You are to stay in the examination hall until the Chief Invigilator has given the permission to leave. Do NOT talk until you are outside of the examination hall.


• You are responsible to ensure that your answer scripts are submitted at the end of the examination. If you are present for the examination and do not submit your answer script, you will be deemed to have sat for and failed the examination concerned. Any unauthorised removal of answer script or part of answer script from the examination hall would deem the answer script as null and void.


• Once dismissed, you should leave the examination hall quickly and quietly, and remember to take your personal belongings with you.

The facility of scribe shall be given only to persons with benchmark disabilities in the category of blindness, locomotors disability (both arm affected-BA) and cerebral palsy, if so desired by the person. For other category of persons with benchmark disabilities, the provision of scribe can be allowed on production of a certificate to the effect that the person concerned has physical limitation to write, and scribe is essential to write examination on his behalf, from the Chief Medical Officer/Civil Surgeon/Medical Superintendent of a Government health care institution as per prescribed proforma appended at Annexure – E [Click Here]. In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

(i) In accordance with Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) O.M. No. 34-02/2015-DD-III dated 29th August, 2018 on the subject - Guidelines for conducting written examination for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities, the PwD candidates eligible for Scribe has discretion of opting for his own Scribe or request the Examination body for the same.
(ii) In case the candidate has opted to bring his own Scribe, the qualification of the scribe should be one step below the minimum qualification criteria for the post.
(iii) In case, subsequently it is found that the qualification of Scribe is not one step below the minimum qualification criteria for the post, the candidature of the candidate shall liable to be summarily rejected.
(iv) Accordingly, PWD candidates who are eligible for scribe can make a request to the concerned ESIC Regional Office for providing Scribe. The contact details of concerned Regional Directors will be uploaded on ESIC website at the time of holding Examination.
(v) For eligible PWD candidates using their own Scribe in the above examination are required to submit “Scribe Declaration Form” on the day of examination at Examination Venue.
(vi) The candidates eligible for scribe will be allowed compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour in the examination. However, PWD candidates other than having disability of blindness, locomotors disability (both arm affected-BA) and cerebral palsy shall have to produce requisite certificate at the time of Examination as given in Annexure-E [Click Here] for availing assistance of Scribe and/or compensatory time.
(vii) The candidate will have to arrange his/her own scribe at his/her own cost or they may make a request in the online application for providing of scribe by ESIC.
(viii) The scribe arranged by the candidate should not be a candidate for the same examination. If violation of the above is detected at any stage of the process, candidature of both the candidate and the scribe will be cancelled. Candidates eligible for and who wish to use the services of a scribe in the examination should invariably carefully indicate the same in the online application form. Any subsequent request may not be favorably entertained.
(ix) A person acting as a scribe for one candidate cannot be a scribe for another candidate.
(x) Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe mentioned above. Further in case it later transpires that he/she did not fulfill any laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the online examination.
(xi) Scribe should not answer on his/her own. Any such behavior observed will result in cancellation of candidature.
(xii) Only candidates registered for compensatory time will be allowed such concessions since compensatory time given to candidates shall be system based, it shall not be possible for the test conducting agency to allow such time if he / she is not registered for the same. Candidates not registered for compensatory time shall not be allowed such concessions.

Guidelines for Visually Impaired candidates:

• Visually Impaired candidates (who suffer from not less than 40% of disability) may opt to view the contents of the test in magnified font and all such candidates will be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour or otherwise advised of examination.


• The facility of viewing the contents of the test in magnifying font will not be available to Visually Impaired candidates who use the services of a Scribe for the examination.

These guidelines are subject to change in terms of GOI guidelines/ clarifications, if any, from time to time.

Candidates are advised in their own interest that they should not furnish any particulars that are false, tampered with or fabricated and should not suppress any material information while submitting online application. At the time of examination, interview or in a subsequent selection procedure, if a candidate is (or has been) found guilty of –

(i) Using unfair means or
(ii) Impersonating or procuring impersonation by any person or
(iii) Misbehaving in the examination/ interview hall or disclosing, publishing, reproducing, transmitting, storing or facilitating transmission and storage of contents of the test(s) or any information therein in whole or part thereof in any form or by any means, verbal or written, electronically or mechanically for any purpose or
(iv) Resorting to any irregular or improper means in connection with his/ her candidature or
(v) Obtaining support for his/ her candidature by unfair means, or
(vi) Carrying mobile phones or similar electronic devices of communication in the examination hall, such a candidate may, in addition to rendering himself/ herself liable to criminal prosecution, be liable:

(a) To be disqualified from the examination for which he/ she is a candidate
(b) To be debarred either permanently or for a specified period from any examination conducted by ESIC
(c) for termination of service, if he/ she has already joined the ESIC

(vii) Submitting fabricated documents or documents which have been tampered with.
(viii)Making statements which are incorrect or false or suppressing material information.
(ix) Intimidating or causing bodily harm to the staff employed by the ESIC for the conduct of examination.
(x) To be ineligible for the Examination by not fulfilling the eligibility conditions mentioned in the Notice.
(xi) Candidature can also be cancelled at any stage of the recruitment for any other ground which the ESIC considers to be sufficient cause for cancellation of candidature.