Assam PSC Combined Competitive Examination

Official exam info

Assam Public Service Commission's Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) — the state's senior administrative-service exam, governed by the CCE (Amendment) Rules, 2019. Prelims has General Studies Paper I (verbatim UPSC Prelims GS1, with 30-35% of questions related to Assam) and CSAT Paper II (qualifying). Mains has an Essay paper, 4 compulsory General Studies papers verbatim-identical to UPSC's own Mains GS1-4 (History/Heritage/Culture/Geography; Governance/Constitution/Polity/Social Justice/IR, with 2 Assam-emphasis clauses on poverty/hunger and e-governance; Technology/Economic Development/Bio-diversity/Environment/Security, with 2 Assam-emphasis clauses on disaster management and border security; Ethics/Integrity/Aptitude), and an ENTIRE sixth paper, the General Subject Paper on Assam, dedicated across 5 sections to the state's own history, geography, polity, economy, and biodiversity/environment/security. Study material reuses UPSC's own extensive GS1-4 citation corpus (culture, modern India, world history, geography, polity, international relations, GS3 economy/tech/security, and the complete GS4 ethics paper), with 5 chapters authored fresh for Assam's own history and cultural heritage (Ahom dynasty administration, Bihu, freedom movement), geography and natural resources (Brahmaputra valley, Kaziranga, tea and petroleum), political and administrative system (Governor, State Assembly, Assam PSC, district administration), economy and welfare schemes, and biodiversity/environment/security/disaster management (Brahmaputra flood management, border security, presented with strict factual neutrality on politically sensitive dimensions).